For the ancient Egyptians the lap was a platform upon which to place the earthly possessions of the dead 30 cubits from foot to knee.

This is what I understand from my faith tradition, and this is what I understand from my studies of other faith traditions, and this is the common platform on which we must all stand, and when we stand on this platform as such, I am convinced that we can make a wonderful world.

That would be a fitting achievement to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations and a platform from which to do even more in the years ahead.

Her delegation supported the Organization's long term vision, which constituted a good platform for future action.

Platform, Beacon and Connect On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook.

The Java platform consists of several programs, each of which provides a portion of its overall capabilities.

Similar to Free Pascal s run time library, Lazarus provides a cross platform application framework called the Lazarus Component Library (LCL), which provides a single, unified interface for programmers, with different platform specific implementations.

The range rises just inland from the coast and trends generally in an easterly direction until it reaches the Arabian Platform, where it arcs around the northern side of the platform.

Speaking from a platform for justice, the 1955 Conference strengthened resolve for the battle against colonialism.

A gadget is an application users could participate with, many of which are built on Google s OpenSocial platform.

Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform.

The Fourth World Conference of Women of 1995 produced the Beijing Platform for Action (Platform), which continues today to serve as an agenda for women's empowerment. Strategic Objective D of the Platform deals specifically with violence against women, and contains a subsection focusing on the elimination of trafficking in women.

Together, Latin America s economic groupings can provide an important platform from which to improve domestic economic stability, increase competitiveness, bolster regional integration, and gain a greater role in the global economy.

In its next stage, the platform will be accessible from smartphones and tablets using a mobile app.

A huati , topical discussion, was even set up on the platform, which soon had more than 3469 conversation threads.

An on line communication platform will be developed, which will provide a meeting place for virtual thematic working groups.

The civil uprising phase created the platform for emergence of militant opposition movements and massive defections from the Syrian Army, which gradually transformed the conflict from a civil uprising to an armed rebellion, and later a civil war.

Platform 6 is now closed.

Twitter user wildwong displayed a screen capture image of the aggressive comments from popular social media platform Weibo

In the past, Ambriz had an oil and gas platform assembly yard (PETROMAR), which was destroyed as result in 1992.

The exchanges which took place during CRIC on the thematic issues under review provided an analytical platform for experience sharing.

This path might leave a retirement with few resources for him and his family, little in the way of prestige or a platform from which to speak, and perhaps persecution by his successors.

Attitude and orbit control This function is performed by the attitude control computer (ACC) which is the platform for the ACMS.

The Public Forum, which offered a platform for information exchange with the public, welcomed some 40,000 participants and hosted 66 workshops.

In Djibouti, the installation of the Investment Gateway, which is an Internet based interactive platform for investment promotion, is under way.

Recalling the Bishkek Mountain Platform, the outcome document of the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, held at Bishkek from 28 October to 1 November 2002, which was the concluding event of the International Year of Mountains,

Noting also the Bishkek Mountain Platform, the outcome document of the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, held at Bishkek from 28 October to 1 November 2002, which was the concluding event of the International Year of Mountains,

Noting also the Bishkek Mountain Platform, the outcome document of the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, held at Bishkek from 28 October to 1 November 2002, which was the concluding event of the International Year of Mountains,

The global economy is now their platform.

Screenshot of Mexico's new National Transparency Platform.

a physical computing platform by Blue Melon.

Asunción Platform for the Doha Development Round

We have shouted it from every platform in the country end corruption and abuse of power for personal and partisan gain.

I'm going to put them on a movable platform, which is the Guide to Graduate Study at Cornell. Okay? So here it is.

Mideast Youth has launched a new project Mideast Tunes which is dedicated to providing a platform for emerging musicians in the Middle East.

Taking note of the Bishkek Mountain Platform, the outcome document of the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, held at Bishkek from 28 October to 1 November 2002, which was the concluding event of the International Year of Mountains,

Although Java programs are cross platform or platform independent, the code of the Java Virtual Machines (JVM) that execute these programs is not.

Every supported operating platform has its own JVM.

The platform also contains a visual debugging capability.

Platform one policy development, research, dialogue and mainstreaming

But not equally necessary is the enduring uncertainty about the common political platform upon which Europe s voice in foreign policy will have to rely.

The single window concept is a particularly important trade facilitation measure, as it provides a platform on which to build further trade facilitation programs.

Storage area network (SAN) technology provides a platform for storing large amounts of information which is centrally managed and accessible over high speed networks.

Don t Block The Blog reported that access to the popular blogging platform blogspot.com, which is owned by Google Inc, has been blocked again in Pakistan

There is room for moderation in both sides positions, but their leaders must be given the right platform on which to make the needed adjustments.