The two degree target is the primary point of reference for today s climate debate.

Similarly, we need to use more comprehensive wealth accounts as a reference point for decision making.

It will serve as a useful reference point in our deliberations.

With regard to the proposals for the agenda, Mr. Alfonso Martínez, noted that the reference to situations in his point 2 was not a reference to monitoring.

They serve as a framework and reference point for the work of OHCHR on the issue of trafficking.

Over the years, the day of infamy has become a classic reference point for galvanizing patriotic sentiment in America.

The mandates would then become a reference point for structuring the objectives over the short, medium and long term.

Thus, it is the velocity of a reference point fixed to the body.

The ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy was mentioned as a reference point for the debate.

A fair system will require agreement on the quality and quantity of information used as the reference point for the review.

Kenya embraces the principles of the Charter, which serve as a basic reference point for the reform of the United Nations.

It could also function as a reference point for donors, promotion agencies and other international agencies in their dialogue with Governments.

Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, though a very interesting reference point for analysts of the Arab revolutions, is not an appropriate reference point, because the region s new domestic and foreign order resulted from the change in external conditions stemming from the collapse of Soviet power.

The objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to which we fully subscribe, are a point of reference for developmental strategies and for assessing progress.

Today, however, the EU is the last point of reference as far as prosperity is concerned.

The Netanyahu government has refused to agree to any such clear reference point before talks begin.

Almost every contemporary use of the depression analogy takes the year 1929 as a reference point.

Their insights about relative performance require a reference point from other time periods or similar firms.

Point of problem assistance may be offered by moveable reference kiosks near conference and meeting areas, as well as by telephone and virtual reference help desk teams.

But the most serious thing is that the report, if approved, would further accentuate the imbalances that serve as its reference point and its starting point.

To this day, the Universal Declaration remains the single most important reference point for discussion of ethical values across national, ideological, and cultural divides.

Their point of reference is the 1973 war, which helped to bring about peace between Egypt and Israel.

We begin this debate taking the model presented by the group of four as our point of reference.

It is an essential tool for planning and evaluating public policies for women and strengthens the SPM as a point of reference for gender issues and data about women in Brazil.

It will be a reference point for all those nations that seek to develop similar electronic solutions to facilitate and ensure the right of access to information.

This annex is intended to be a useful point of reference during the Committee's consideration of the UK's national report.

The curriculum framework forms a reference point for educational actions to be implemented in all of the Police Academies in the country, in compliance with the National Plan for Public Security.

Ending the construction and dismantling those settlements are obligations under the road map, which is and remains the indisputable point of reference for carrying out the peace process.

The post WWII period stands as a reference point in America s collective memory, but it was in all likelihood an aberration.

Mother country is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony.

As I had no reference point for my body, I began to ask other women about their bodies in particular, their vaginas, because I thought vaginas were kind of important.

The report of the Secretary General In larger freedom towards development, security and human rights for all (A 59 2005) provided a well noted point of reference in that regard.

MINUGUA verification reports were an important reference point for participants in the 2002 2003 Consultative Group meetings, which focused national and international attention on the implementation of the peace agreements.

Previously, timeliness had been measured against the starting date of the session, whereas, under the slotting system, the reference point was the date on which documents were due for consideration.

Point in the project activity lifetime at which reference values are to be applied (decision 17 CP.7, paragraph 6 (c), (i), (ii) and (iii))

Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) reaffirmed her delegation's view regarding the timeliness of drafting an international convention which used the draft articles on State responsibility for internationally wrongful acts as a point of reference.

In keeping with that approach, she recalled that as provided for in the Commission's terms of reference, its mandate was not only to formulate guidelines which would serve as a point of reference for Member States, but also and especially to promote the progressive development and codification of international law through the drafting of international conventions.

The instruction of African heads of State is to ask that the draft resolution be submitted with a view to serving as a reference point for negotiation with other Member States and interested groups.

Hollande s reference point seems to be the post war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.

On point 4, Mr. Alfonso Martínez stated that he could not see the problem with the reference to remedies as it was a reference to the identification of appropriate remedies in the case of specific violations, but was open to alternative wording.

Almost every contemporary use of the depression analogy takes the year 1929 as a reference point. But two completely different pathologies were manifest in the Great Depression each called for different diagnoses and different cures.

Such a mindset naturally puts a huge premium on close and harmonious transatlantic relations, to the point that, for Europeans, closeness and harmony become the objective itself, without reference to what ends they might serve.

The second reference point was selected as the reading of the thermometer when it was placed in still water when ice was just forming on the surface.

For the set formula_3, the point 0 is an isolated point.

Although the Madrid Agenda is obviously binding only upon the members of the Madrid Club, it nonetheless constitutes a point of reference which will, we hope, prove very useful for the Member States of the Organization.