He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history.

Efforts made by Africa to stand as a solid counterpart to its development partners were emphasized.

And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea, National Marine Sanctuaries.

There were frequent references to her equally transformational American counterpart, Ronald Reagan.

The board would constitute the fiscal counterpart of the European Central Bank it would also be the European counterpart of the International Monetary Fund.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hugs counterpart Ilham Aliyev at a meeting this year.

In Spain, the counterpart to the current account deficit was private sector borrowing.

This political entity is a precise counterpart in the political world to a well known physical phenomenon of splintering or fissuring.

When Europeans play and relax, they produce a counterpart of their financial and economic struggles.

There, Bond joins forces with his CIA counterpart, Felix Leiter.

However, every women's NGO had a fundamentalist counterpart, which meant that progress was slow and difficult.

Enunciations of principles and adherence to values have a necessary counterpart in the collective responsibility to undertake concrete and action oriented measures.

The recipient, moreover, had to put up matching ( counterpart ) funds for each and every project.

An effort has been made to cultivate the League of Arab States as a counterpart institution, but results have been mixed.

Indeed, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer himself, invited his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, to commemorate that tragedy together.

The absence of strong regional institutions has made it difficult for the regional programme to find a clear counterpart for its inter country operations.

That is to say, a female worker of the same age and same amount of responsibility would earn only 80.8 of her male counterpart.

A telling manifestation of this was seen recently in a live discussion on CNNTurk, the Turkish counterpart of the international news channel.

Compared with the strong arm tactics employed by his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderón, Colom seems resigned to defeat.

A similar high level meeting has been held in Latin America and an Asian counterpart has been called for 2006.

The Agency has signed a comprehensive memorandum of understanding with its main law enforcement counterpart, State Investigation and Protection Agency.

It is expected that a national counterpart will be appointed shortly to the post of Director of the Treasury, currently filled by an UNMISET adviser.

The Obama administration, struggling to fulfill its own promises of change, should be more understanding of its Japanese counterpart.

For the counterpart of the US debt build up was the relocation of much American manufacturing capacity to China.

Presumably, the eurobonds would be under the control of the eurozone finance ministers. The board would constitute the fiscal counterpart of the European Central Bank it would also be the European counterpart of the International Monetary Fund.

Iran s political elite sees the United States, rather than Europe, as their appropriate international counterpart.

China and South Korea both cancelled meetings of their foreign ministers with their Japanese counterpart.

Removing national governments ability to run large deficits and borrow at will is the necessary counterpart to a joint guarantee of sovereign debts and easy borrowing terms today.

The counterpart to these claims were the GIPS liabilities, which had grown to about 340 billion by the end of last year.

Just as Smith s minimal capitalism was transformed into Keynes mixed economy, we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart.

This arrangement is unthinkable without an extremely robust counterpart for example, prior scrutiny of national budgets.

Perhaps the biggest challenge is to find a regional institution that can serve, not so much as a counterpart, but as a sounding board and mechanism for validation of UNDP regional efforts.

Like its British counterpart, DChG sought to foster the communication of new ideas and facts throughout Germany and across international borders.

In recent years, China also got hooked on a large trade surplus vis à vis the US the counterpart of its undervalued currency.

These colors, although they are on the border of the gamut, have no counterpart in monochromatic light.

There is no Chinese counterpart to the Development Assistance Committee, which publishes annual reports on global aid flows from OECD member countries.

As time went on, I came to love the incredible precision of the formal language, and the inventive flexibility its colloquial counterpart.

To my mind, though, the greatest risk is geopolitical instability. By and large, China has been a far more constructive counterpart to the US than the former Soviet Union ever was.

The declaration adds that parliaments should increase their international work in partnership with the IPU, which they consider to be a unique global parliamentary counterpart of the United Nations.

The point of such a post would be to give leadership to efforts to promote democratic change and to create an effective interlocutor for his her American counterpart so that a joint transatlantic strategy will take shape.

There is no clear counterpart for Regional Programmes in member governments or focal points in UNDP country offices.

In a February meeting, the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan asked her Chinese counterpart about reports that China had offered to pay Kyrgyzstan 3 billion if the Kyrgyz shut down the American base.

If you do not see humanity in your counterpart, you will not talk to him. You will either use him or kill him.

Moreover, the BRN makes clear it does not trust the Thai government and demands the Malaysian counterpart to mediate in the peace talks.

UNIDO administers the remainder of the budget in consultation with the centres to recruit counterpart institution staff as well as other international experts.