Although women were still relatively underrepresented in top posts, significant strides had been made.

This institution has made significant strides for the sake of world peace, security and development.

Significant strides in health care can be made through existing drinking water systems and generic drug manufacturing.

Mr. Castillero Hoyos said that, although Mauritius had made significant positive strides in human rights legislation, some concerns remained.

The forum has made significant strides in establishing strong working relations with key civil society organizations over the last three years.

During the reporting period, the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities made significant strides towards implementing a single set of tax rules, applicable throughout the country.

State authority has been restored throughout Sierra Leone and significant strides have been made towards re establishing the Government's control over the country's diamond mining sector.

Pakistan s trans community has made some strides in recent years.

For it is only when all nations are treated as equal partners in the international community that we can expect significant strides to be made in our collective efforts.

In Myanmar, we have made great strides in fostering gender equality.

Further strides have been made in decentralizing Government authority and services.

Afghanistan has made great strides in its efforts towards nation building.

The ICC has made enormous strides in the period under review.

Significant and persistent health inequality indicates that, by raising the health levels of those with lower incomes or less education, massive strides could be made in improving populations overall health.

Yet Turkey has made remarkable strides in the midst of regional upheavals.

Africa had recently made considerable strides towards maintaining peace on the continent.

In the last decade, Uribe s government made great strides in weakening the FARC.

It hoped that that Committee would take note of the significant strides it had made and would continue to help harmonize its domestic legislation and procure technical assistance in the financial and regulatory fields.

China has already made some great strides in the areas of the environment and clean energy.

The United Nations has made immense strides in promoting peace and universal values throughout the world.

The international community has already made great strides in elaborating many international instruments to combat it.

Some strides have been made in fulfilling the conditions for admission to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

The Ministers noted that although the objectives of the NWICO have yet to be fully realised, some Member Countries have, individually, made significant strides towards attaining a balanced flow of two way information among themselves and with non Member Countries.

SADC fully aligns itself with the statement made by Namibia on behalf of the African Group, which outlines the significant strides Africa, in partnership with the international community, is making in the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1400) made early strides in the analysis of trigonometric functions in terms of infinite series.

There is no doubt that the United Nations and the international community have made important strides in addressing impunity.

In the decades that followed, huge strides have been made in lemur studies and many new species have been discovered.

UNHCR had made significant strides towards that goal in 2004 and its collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) had served to highlight the critical link between forced population displacement and international peace and security.

Ongoing regional processes have made great strides in developing criteria and indicators that contribute to defining and assessing sustainable forest management.

Two forums are making great strides.

If they want to open the door to final status, they will have to make significant strides in implementation of the standards in the weeks and months to come.

It would be counterproductive to penalize countries like Costa Rica that had made significant strides towards disarmament, respect for human rights, a fair labour system and protection of the environment, by excluding them from cooperation programmes and restricting the entry of their products to developed countries' markets.

This is a classic example of what I call block thinking, which seems to have made huge strides in Europe in recent years.

However, in the five remaining months of the period, the Office of the Prosecutor made great strides to further reduce the vacancy rate.

As the 90th anniversary approaches, China has made great strides in science, but still has a long way to go in terms of democracy.

The decentralization process, which provides a framework for the devolution of power and responsibilities between the central and local governments, has made further strides.

Despite the great strides that Burma has made in the last two years, the specter of ethnic conflict continues to haunt the transition to democracy.

Despite the energy, resources and efforts diverted from development in order to preserve democracy, Nicaragua has made major strides towards fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals.

The meeting, among other things, will hear of strides made in our region in preventing and punishing illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons.

The Chiang Mai Initiative has made significant progress.

Where there is consensus, let us take big strides.

Over the three years which have elapsed since it gained independence in May 2002, Timor Leste has made remarkable strides towards the threshold of self sufficiency.

At the same time, significant inroads have been made.

Education. China has taken enormous strides in building human capital.

Despite the strides made recently against malnutrition, millions more people will be undernourished than would have been the case in the absence of official support for biofuels.