Besides, three counterparts agree on salary levels Government, employer and union.

In all other circumstances women employees in government service have identical leave entitlements as their male counterparts.

Why do US fiscal conservatives care so little about government debt, relative to their counterparts in other countries?

This patent and its foreign counterparts have been assigned to the Government of the United States of America.

ARC has continued to engage partner agencies, Government counterparts and refugees in identifying and addressing child protection issues in field operations.

Separate meetings were held with both Government and private sector representatives from the British Virgin Islands and their counterparts from the region.9

Under an agreement between the United Nations and Cambodia s government, 13 foreign judges and prosecutors have now been chosen to serve alongside 17 Cambodian counterparts.

His Palestinian counterparts are hardly in a better position.

As long as Wilders and his European counterparts stay out of government, they have no incentive to temper their illiberal rhetoric and stop stoking up hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities.

They had also shared information with their counterparts in other countries.

In that regard, we were happy to hear Mr. Guéhenno report that gender units in peacekeeping operations have been supporting the capacity development of national counterparts in Government and non governmental sectors.

Yet today, universities in the United States easily outperform their European counterparts.

The mechanical counterparts of these properties are, respectively, mass, stiffness and damping.

Like its counterparts in other countries, it is a non governmental organization.

Local counterparts include the PFESP and the Palestinian Federation of Industries (PFI).

Wherever they live, women face greater obstacles and frustrations than their male counterparts.

Bloggers and activists taking part in the meeting didn't forget their Palestinian counterparts.

Israeli judges, members of Parliament and company directors far outnumbered their Palestinian counterparts.

UNICEF has initiated measures in the sphere of capacity building with its counterparts.

They will, therefore, modulate their assistance depending on the requirement of their Government counterparts, and how smoothly the transfer of policy, management and coordination responsibilities from United Nations agencies to Government structures can be effected, on an as needed basis, where this has not been done already.

They were worried about the EU s future certainly more so than their Western counterparts.

In some cases, ideas banks can be more humor oriented than their serious counterparts.

In theory, women have same access to health care services as their male counterparts.

For poor regions, investment in equipment and training would have to come from wealthier counterparts.

In many cases, these cultures expanded at a later date than their Old World counterparts.

Quite frequently, women's formal education is neglected in favor of that of their male counterparts.

Although the French government, unlike its Spanish and Italian counterparts, has not yet had any difficulty financing itself at low interest rates, currency appreciation as the economy slides into recession is like fuel poured onto an unlit bonfire.

Their leader outshines his Conservative and Labour counterparts in television debates and on the campaign trail.

But Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya then consulted his counterparts in Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam.

In the US, the far right shares many of the characteristics of its populist European counterparts.

Such collaborative efforts among developing countries ultimately foster closer cooperation between them and their developed counterparts.

With fewer firm specific skills than their German counterparts, American workers are more susceptible to layoffs.

The Financial Intelligence Unit shares information with overseas counterparts, both directly and through law enforcement channels.

The Regional Director said that discussions with national counterparts to finalize the CPD had already started.

First, democratic States now outnumber their non democratic counterparts, establishing a significant precedent in world history.

African banks, meanwhile, are rock solid compared to their debt heavy counterparts in the US and Europe.

As a result, Chinese commercial banks can operate longer with a higher RRR than their counterparts elsewhere.

But Milosevic s Croatian and Bosniak counterparts, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, respectively, remained unindicted when they died.

In Warsaw, too, students were protesting, but their cause was not the same as their Western counterparts.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts.

She knows how similar those arguments are to the lines she hears daily from her male counterparts

This should embrace the units funded through the support account and their functional counterparts in the missions.

Many civil society elements in the Muslim world have turned their backs on possible partnerships with Israeli counterparts.

The primacy of the papacy a term Catholic theologians use when talking with their Protestant counterparts remains sacrosanct.

In contrast with their developed counterparts, many universities in developing countries lack such mutually beneficial linkages with industry.