Indeed, the National Endowment for Democracy in the US describes some countries as electoral dictatorships.

In 1997, Khan received the National Endowment for the Arts' prestigious National Heritage Fellowship, the United States' highest honour in the traditional arts.

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In October 2008, she was one of the recipients of the first Opera Honors given by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ronald Reagan pioneered a wave of policy and propaganda in the United States in the 1980 s that demonized the National Endowment for the Arts.

So Texas decided to devote its oil money to an educational endowment.

Richard Thaler, a contemporary economist, spoke in 1980 of an endowment effect.

We have also launched several new initiatives to make education more widely accessible. One such initiative is the National Endowment Scholarships for Talent, which finances the education of poor students.

Australia is lucky to have a rich endowment of natural resources, including iron ore.

The Harvard endowment, under Jack Meyer, earned a 15.2 average annual return over the last ten years, compared to Swensen s 17.2 average, while the Princeton endowment, under Andrew Golden, earned an average of 15.6 per year.

Whereas the US now spends nearly 400 billion on defense, the National Endowment for Democracy lives on a budget of some 40 million, a fraction of which is spent in the Greater Middle East.

Today, that endowment is roughly equal to that of Harvard University and spread over 15 universities.

Yale University, where I teach, has entrusted its endowment portfolio to one man, David Swensen, for over 20 years.

James Acton for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace suggested a more subtle approach of shifting the focus from denuclearization to nonproliferation.

See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

The Ontario Council on Graduate Studies will administer a 3.625 million endowment fund to support the Academic Chair and graduate fellowships.

See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

Climatic, geographic, demographic and land use profiles, natural resources endowment, energy mix and economic structures are among the most important aspects of national circumstance affecting the profile of a country's GHG emissions, its vulnerabilities to climate change and other challenges it is facing.

In general, a higher percentage of alumni on the board is associated with a higher ranking, increased selectivity, and a larger endowment.

Special attention is being given to sustainable development as a way for the region to capitalize on its unique natural resource endowment.

McIntyre, supra note 7, at 19 (citing Lectures Sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace International Law, Power, and Policy 152 (1952)).

At its seventeenth session, the Tribunal expressed its gratitude to the Korea International Cooperation Agency for its generous endowment which established the KOICA Grant.

Myanmar possesses considerable development potential, given its fertile agricultural land, a rich endowment of other natural resources and potential as a locus of regional trade.

13. Invites the international community to make voluntary contributions to the University, including its research and training centres and programmes, and in particular to its Endowment Fund.

Details on a further proposal to establish an endowment fund from the fees paid to the Authority by the contractors would also be presented to the twelfth session.

But I believe that the problem could easily be solved by, say, giving the World Bank an endowment of rich country bonds and permitting it to expend the interest.

Poland s initiative to create a European Endowment for Democracy could play a leading role here, and with Europe s own unfinished business of democratization in Belarus and elsewhere, like backsliding Ukraine.

Since Bell was becoming increasingly affluent, he used his prize money to create endowment funds (the 'Volta Fund') and institutions in and around the United States capital of Washington, D.C..

And we basically founded the park on the idea of an endowment that would pay the equivalent lost fishing license fees to this very poor country to keep the area intact.

In our globalized world, a country s optimal industrial structure in which all industries are consistent with the country s comparative advantages and are competitive in domestic and international markets is determined by its endowment structure.

Most importantly, the Nigerians are taking measures to ensure that the fruits of this endowment are invested, so that as the country's natural resources are depleted, its real wealth fixed and human capital is increased.

Small island developing countries, including Tonga, face many unique challenges because of our small populations, remoteness and dispersed locations, narrow resource endowment and vulnerability to external shocks, including from international market fluctuations and natural disasters.

Richard Thaler, a contemporary economist, spoke in 1980 of an endowment effect. Even though people may admire other things, they act as if they are mostly happy enough with whatever they already have, and lack the will to consider real change.

A video recently emerged of Alaa al Moussawi, head of Iraq's Shia Endowment Fund (a government funded organization to maintain religious sites), seeming to call for Iraq's Christians and Jews to convert to Islam, be killed, or pay jizya, a religious tax on non Muslims.

10. Invites the international community to make voluntary contributions to the University, including its research and training centres and programmes, in particular to its Endowment Fund, as a means of consolidating the distinctive identity of the University in the United Nations system and the international scientific community

The religious endowment ministry, which influences the country s main Islamic institution, al Azhar, went to another of the Brothers allies, Talaat Afifi, the deputy head of the Islamic Legal Body for Rights and Reform, which comprises more than a hundred of Egypt s leading Islamist scholars and activists.

In general, a higher percentage of alumni on the board is associated with a higher ranking, increased selectivity, and a larger endowment. After all, no group cares more about a university s prestige than its alumni, who gain or lose esteem as their alma mater s ranking rises or falls.

Latvia's national parks are Gauja National Park in Vidzeme (since 1973), Ķemeri National Park in Zemgale (1997), Slītere National Park in Kurzeme (1999), and Rāzna National Park in Latgale (2007).

The current oil price boom represents an opportunity for reform and for greater financial and economic development it could resolve the region's long term crisis with respect to employment and low growth and provide opportunities for appropriate conservation schemes for the region's natural resources and its latent endowment of wealth.

a Includes national officers and national General Service staff.

c Includes national officers and national General Service staff.

a Includes national officers and national General Service staff.

a Includes national officers and national General Service staff.