It also included sharp criticism of Prime Minister's Gordan Brown's stance towards the draft.

The biggest challenge will be to change our society's culture and its stance towards such elections.

Well known Zaidi scholars and religious centers have been divided on their stance towards the Houthis.

One critical step is to ensure zero tolerance towards those who promote extremism.

By and large, the survey indicated that the domestic violence investigators have a more positive stance towards battered women than the patrol officers.

Israel s two most irreconcilable enemies, Iran and Syria, are in fact among the most vocal supporters of Turkey s hard line stance towards the Kurds.

No doubt Maliki s hard line stance on the need for a firm timetable for the withdrawal of US troops was critical to Iran s decision to throw its weight behind him.

The eurozone, now under severe stress, could emerge stronger from its current crisis, but it would have to depart from its traditionally neutral stance towards internationalization.

The survey also compared the current survey to a survey held in 1993, measuring up police officers stance towards battered women to that of social workers.

Several of these countries appeared to be moving towards an abolitionist stance, among them Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Zambia (except in its Northern provinces).

Japan adopted a similar stance.

That is an unconvincing stance.

That they share the same life stance and membership in a life stance organization does not change this situation.

In a series of tweets , Egyptian analyst Ezzedine Fishere explained the need for a transparent policy highlighting that a much clearer stance towards both Israel and Palestine has to be adopted.

Britain s stance holds lessons for today.

Yet this stance has become untenable.

It is critical, therefore, that the EU demonstrate its commitment to the Iranian people through actions, rather than words a complaint that many Iranians level against Western powers by taking a tougher stance against the regime.

Other American politicians took the same stance.

This stance is perplexing and possibly dangerous.

The US stance has been entirely different.

San Marino commends Prime Minister Sharon for his political courage and steady commitment to disengagement and President Abbas for his tough stance towards terrorist groups and for pursuing a solution through peaceful negotiations.

When food is scarce, they divert nutrients towards the really critical organ, the brain, and away from other organs like the heart and liver.

When should this stance change if not now?

This stance conveniently avoided rows with oil dictators.

As for the Church's stance, the blogger notes

Additionally, the United Nations Programme on Youth is working towards increasing an understanding of the critical role of young people in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and is supporting inter agency collaboration and other efforts towards this end.

2.2 At the same time, pupils so exempted had the right to participate in a non denominational alternative life stance subject life stance knowledge .

Despite the more conciliatory stance of the AE led Government towards the Kanak population, industrial disputes and strikes, which are sometimes accompanied by violence, will remain a feature of the economic and political scene.28

Today's open debate comes at a most critical juncture on the long and difficult road towards achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region.

Not surprisingly, that stance has further inflamed Korean emotions.

There is a third explanation for Germany s particular stance.

But neither diplomatic stance is likely to continue indefinitely.

Catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina have reinforced this stance.

Of course, my book cannot be the Mexican stance.

Our memories will forever behold his sayings and stance.

To be fair, there have been exceptions to this stance.

Bahraini blogger emoodz discusses his country's stance on the environment.

Tunisian writer Gilbert Naccache also criticized the proclaimed democrats' stance

In those challenges and responsibilities civil society must be not only a demanding and critical partner, but also one that shares the objectives towards which we are striving.

Noting with deep concern the failure to provide the United Nations development system with a critical mass of the core resources required to enable long term development cooperation towards attaining development goals and targets and towards providing a more integrated development support,

The regional analyses also confirm that trade, investment and resources flows, including debt servicing, must be mutually supportive in order to lead to a critical breakthrough towards sustained development.

Growing awareness of socially responsible investments and the stance of the United Nations towards such issues have made it necessary for the Investment Management Service to carefully analyse the issues and develop an investment policy that particularly addresses them.

America s stance on military aid to Indonesia is but one example.

Google s adamant stance on Chinese censorship may have been well intentioned.

By the way, I don t have a particular stance on the issue.