The Chinese have never been eager to discuss with their US counterparts what the two countries should do in the event of a North Korean implosion.

There are two main aspects first, the cooperation and coordination between the military components in the mission and second, the cooperation and coordination with civilian counterparts.

His Palestinian counterparts are hardly in a better position.

They had also shared information with their counterparts in other countries.

Besides, three counterparts agree on salary levels Government, employer and union.

Yet today, universities in the United States easily outperform their European counterparts.

The mechanical counterparts of these properties are, respectively, mass, stiffness and damping.

Like its counterparts in other countries, it is a non governmental organization.

Local counterparts include the PFESP and the Palestinian Federation of Industries (PFI).

As described more fully below, the transition strategy employed during the Mission's final two years involved sharing Mission know how with national counterparts to improve their capacity to promote peace accords implementation in the future.

Wherever they live, women face greater obstacles and frustrations than their male counterparts.

Bloggers and activists taking part in the meeting didn't forget their Palestinian counterparts.

Israeli judges, members of Parliament and company directors far outnumbered their Palestinian counterparts.

UNICEF has initiated measures in the sphere of capacity building with its counterparts.

They were worried about the EU s future certainly more so than their Western counterparts.

In some cases, ideas banks can be more humor oriented than their serious counterparts.

In theory, women have same access to health care services as their male counterparts.

For poor regions, investment in equipment and training would have to come from wealthier counterparts.

In many cases, these cultures expanded at a later date than their Old World counterparts.

Quite frequently, women's formal education is neglected in favor of that of their male counterparts.

Their leader outshines his Conservative and Labour counterparts in television debates and on the campaign trail.

But Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya then consulted his counterparts in Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam.

In the US, the far right shares many of the characteristics of its populist European counterparts.

Such collaborative efforts among developing countries ultimately foster closer cooperation between them and their developed counterparts.

With fewer firm specific skills than their German counterparts, American workers are more susceptible to layoffs.

The Financial Intelligence Unit shares information with overseas counterparts, both directly and through law enforcement channels.

The Regional Director said that discussions with national counterparts to finalize the CPD had already started.

First, democratic States now outnumber their non democratic counterparts, establishing a significant precedent in world history.

African banks, meanwhile, are rock solid compared to their debt heavy counterparts in the US and Europe.

As a result, Chinese commercial banks can operate longer with a higher RRR than their counterparts elsewhere.

But Milosevic s Croatian and Bosniak counterparts, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, respectively, remained unindicted when they died.

In Warsaw, too, students were protesting, but their cause was not the same as their Western counterparts.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts.

She knows how similar those arguments are to the lines she hears daily from her male counterparts

This should embrace the units funded through the support account and their functional counterparts in the missions.

In all other circumstances women employees in government service have identical leave entitlements as their male counterparts.

The difference between the two principles is most clearly apparent in their implications for the relationship between science and technology. Precautionary policymakers invoke scientific uncertainty to curb technological innovation, whereas their proactionary counterparts encourage innovation as an extension of scientific hypothesis testing.

Why do US fiscal conservatives care so little about government debt, relative to their counterparts in other countries?

Many civil society elements in the Muslim world have turned their backs on possible partnerships with Israeli counterparts.

The primacy of the papacy a term Catholic theologians use when talking with their Protestant counterparts remains sacrosanct.

This patent and its foreign counterparts have been assigned to the Government of the United States of America.

In contrast with their developed counterparts, many universities in developing countries lack such mutually beneficial linkages with industry.

This breeds arrogance and a sense of smug superiority over their counterparts policymakers who must balance multiple, complicated agendas.

Urban workers per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he spent more time consulting his Chinese counterparts than those in any other country.