Their entire camp, every item of gear, was ferried 885 miles from McMurdo Station, the main U.S. supply base on the coast of Antarctica.

It had three wheels as landing gear.

Therefore, regardless of the worm's size (sensible engineering limits notwithstanding), the gear ratio is the size of the worm gear to 1 .

One, carbon dioxide reduction (CDR), involves removing from the atmosphere the main gas that is causing global warming.

Lost and abandoned fishing gear and related debris

One of the main focus areas of the Task Force would be strengthening capacity and coordination for risk reduction.

His bloodied camera gear was found at the scene

In the middle we have a motor, and we also have a gear in it, and we use the gear to transfer the circulation of the motor.

The main driver of Pakistan s dramatic reduction in polio cases over the last two decades has been leadership at all levels.

This made generalization difficult. The main drivers of OFDI included system escape, the search for market and efficiency, and cost reduction.

Gear cutting machines came into use in the 18th century.

Local police stations assembled approximately 150 officers in riot gear.

Recalling that the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction has been serving as the main forum within the United Nations system for devising strategies and policies for disaster reduction and ensuring complementarity of action by agencies involved in disaster reduction, mitigation and preparedness,

Recalling that the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction has been serving as the main forum within the United Nations system for devising strategies and policies for disaster reduction and ensuring complementarity of action by agencies involved in disaster reduction, mitigation and preparedness,

Recognizing also the need for appropriate measures to address lost or abandoned gear, including catches by derelict fishing gear, which adversely affects, inter alia, fish stocks and habitats,

Recognizing also the need for appropriate measures to address lost or abandoned gear, including catches by derelict fishing gear, which adversely affect inter alia fish stocks and habitats,

(b) It is important to emphasize that poverty reduction is becoming the main force driving the reforms of United Nations development assistance.

Thomas Cowan (Director, Northwest Straits Commission) explained how the derelict fishing gear removal project of the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative addressed the location and removal of such gear.

The commercial fishers comprise about 300 boats, with 50 per cent of the fishers owning their fishing gear and the remainder acting as helpers or employees of the gear owners.

The primary contributors to the fund should be development and relief organizations and those who would be the main beneficiaries of disaster reduction

The main sea based sources of marine litter are merchant shipping, ferries and cruise liners, fishing vessels (mainly as a source of abandoned or lost fishing gear), military fleets, research vessels, pleasure craft, offshore oil and gas platforms and aquaculture installations.

Fishing gear can inflict lethal cuts and wounds on fish and marine wildlife.

Derelict fishing gear was identified as the most harmful debris to ocean life.

In Brasil, President Luiz Ignacio da Silva Lula s main issue, demand and hope was for a reduction or elimination in the US tariff on ethanol imports.

In this connection the Ministry commissioned a detailed gender analysis of Government of Pakistan's main policy document on combating poverty, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).

Moreover, officers with their military gear would camp for months at the university entrance.

Lately, lost and abandoned fishing gear has increasingly become a worldwide high profile nuisance.

With spur gears, a gear of 12 teeth (the smallest size permissible, if designed to good engineering practices) would have to be matched with a 240 tooth gear to achieve the same ratio of 20 1.

The main change was a large reduction in interest rates, in line with an inflation targeting framework, which has led to a more competitive exchange rate policy.

63. Calls upon States, where relevant, to establish systems for retrieving lost gear and nets

In addition to nonviolent activities, Palestinian state building efforts have been put in high gear.

On the contrary, for the Provisional Institutions it should mean shifting into a higher gear.

Ghost fishing by lost or abandoned fishing gear has been found in the ROPME region.

No regular regional or national scientific data is available on lost or discarded fishing gear.

Ilse Kiessling (National Oceans Office of Australia) highlighted the importance of addressing root causes for lost fishing gear and described how her country was dealing with the problem of derelict fishing gear at the national and regional levels.

Maybe offer to spearhead a fundraiser to buy new gear which brings us to suit up.

It is of utmost importance that the United Nations system gear itself to accomplish these objectives.

He called for a preliminary meeting on Friday 29th to gear up for the Mad Graffiti Weekend.

The fish detection equipment present on board also changes according to which fishing gear is being used.

As 75 per cent of the world's poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the main stay of the economy, raising agricultural productivity has real impact on poverty reduction.

One delegation suggested the establishment of inventories of net types and other gear used in fishing within national jurisdictions or a clearing house mechanism to facilitate the sharing of information on fishing net types and other gear used in fisheries around the world.

So it was right to start planning for a change of gear when the recovery started to materialize.

Very heavy trucks, such as those used to carry aggregates, often use a worm gear differential for strength.

Once discarded or lost, the fishing gear remains in the marine environment, with negative economic and environmental impacts.

(d) Regular, long term collection, collation and dissemination of information on derelict fishing gear found within national jurisdictions