By June 2006, this effort was paying off.

Prepayments involve paying off at par the outstanding stock of debt.

That is, start with one person paying full attention to another for 15 minutes.

When the East Bloc unraveled, India had to start paying for imports in hard cash.

To be sure, Iran s longstanding support for regional Shiite groups is paying off.

Efforts to reduce poverty and improve the lot of women were paying off.

What a shame that a tragedy has to happen in order for people to start paying attention!

The courage and audacity of the US government and its army was finally paying off.

They each do their own thing, flashing on and off, paying no attention to their neighbors.

I'm going to start off by playing a video for you.

I mean, as girls, we start off feisty Yeah, who says?

They start off like 17 camels no way to resolve it.

Italians are in the habit of thinking that tax increases necessarily go only to paying off rich investors, rather than to paying for government services like better roads and schools.

I believe that what's mostly missing for nonviolence to grow is not for Palestinians to start adopting nonviolence, but for us to start paying attention to those who already are.

Right this minute, we can turn off TV, log off the Internet, get up and start to do something.

Things got off to a poor start in 2005, when the China National Off Shore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) tried to buy Unocal.

And she said, Listen. The cut off date to start kindergarten was September 15.

Activities preparatory to the start of the negotiations on a fissile material cut off treaty

A half century of working together, plus a decade and a half of adapting to new threats and demands, is paying off.

Psychologists have known this for decades, and it's time for policymakers to start paying attention and listen to psychologists a little bit, instead of economists.

In this sense, 2013 got off to a good start in Europe and the United States.

In the midst of a financial crisis, it seems unbelievable that European citizens will bear the financial burden of paying off China and India.

Japanese leaders also need to act with sensitivity. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is off to an uneven start.

The world needs to start acting soon very soon if it is to head off the major threats.

From its side, Iraq made a commitment to start paying its contribution to the budget of the OIC and its subsidiary organs starting from the financial year 2005 2006.

In fact, maybe this experiment was the reason that Silicon Valley got off to its great start with innovation.

In this narrative, Thaksin masterminded the siege by hiring a small group of rogue army officers, and by paying the poor to go to Bangkok to start a civil war.

Paying for Productivity

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They perceive an underclass that they believe receives benefits denied to them and a thriving economy in the developing world that siphons off well paying blue collar jobs.

Research by the International Labour Organization indicates that young entrepreneurs have a significantly higher than average success rate and a positive track record in paying off microcredit loans.

Mr. Al Battawi (Iraq) said that multi year payment plans were a good method of paying off arrears and securing fulfilment of Member States' obligations to the Organization.

This time I'm paying.

Stop Paying the Polluters

And he looked at me, you know, as if to say, This is how you're going to start this thing, right off?

The reconstruction and rehabilitation of Aceh got off to an early start as the emergency relief phase was completed ahead of schedule.

Of equal importance was the start of negotiations on a fissile material cut off treaty which would include a robust verification regime.

Each time I travel, there are a few formalities a bit of paperwork, exchanging or paying a few euros, and last of all getting a vaccination and then it's off and away!

Sami wasn't paying attention in class.

CB All right, so Leo and Cookie might have gotten off to a little bit of a rough start, but they get along great now.

And so, gradually over these three days, you start off kind of trying to figure out, Why am I listening to all this irrelevant stuff?

But such moments are crucial for getting children off to a healthy start in life, and for advancing progress on global health and development goals.

Several members of the Gulf Cooperation Council have already expressed an interest in working together with NATO, so we are off to a good start.

We should mainstream the concept throughout the United Nations system and start off by ensuring in particular that the United Nations itself respects the concept.

In reality, however, losing a high paying job may be a lifetime event, and the supposed retraining that wage insurance would encourage for a laid off 50 year old worker often may be ineffective.