Meanwhile, civic education efforts are under way to familiarize Afghans with the voting procedures.

Young finance professionals need to familiarize themselves with the history of banking, and recognize that it is at its best when it serves ever broadening spheres of society.

In connection with the existing Constitutional review, the Government appealed to the population to familiarize themselves with the Constitution and to participate in the discussion of the proposed changes.

National study days have also been organized for maritime and port administration managers and personnel in order to acquaint and familiarize them with the new measures introduced by the ISPS Code.

In 1983, the Secretary of State for the Advancement of Women had toured the country in order to familiarize the people with the provisions of the Convention, distributing material on it in various vernacular languages.

It is important to encourage the exchange of media materials that can familiarize their users with the cultures of peoples and promote the learning of languages and translation activities, so as to break down cultural barriers.

It was aware that the documentation was voluminous but felt that, at a minimum, the reports themselves should be translated into all the official languages, so that the authorities in the respective capitals could familiarize themselves with their content.

All you need to do is to take 10 minutes out a day to step back, to familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.

The objective of the workshop was to help familiarize the newly elected members with the practice, procedure and working methods of the Council so that they might hit the ground running when they joined the Council on 1 January 2005.

The Council also asks members in turn to specify their States' plans for signature and ratification within a set time frame, and the Directorate General of Legal Affairs holds regular seminars in the capitals to familiarize ministers with the main European instruments.

The high levels of illiteracy among indigenous and rural women contributed to their marginalization and made it difficult for them to familiarize themselves with their rights under the Convention, especially when the Convention was not available in Guaraní, even though the latter was an official language.

So that's what led me to Alzheimer's. I started reading about Alzheimer's and tried to familiarize myself with the research, and at the same time when I was in the I was reading in the medical library one day, and I read this article about something called purine derivatives.

Mr. Rodríguez Araque (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) (spoke in Spanish) The delegation of Venezuela has been truly astonished at the surprising manner in which a document of 35 pages provided only in English, thereby making it impossible to familiarize oneself with its contents in any other language has been adopted.

For I find it hard not to say impossible to believe that the countries that were not part of the select group with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with and discuss the document, or to propose, bracket, delete and add language to it in fact had sufficient time to pass judgement on it.

National level input was collected through the widespread distribution of a booklet entitled Making commitments matter a toolkit for young people to evaluate national youth policy , published in English, French and Spanish.3 This toolkit was developed to familiarize young people with the proposals for action contained in the World Programme of Action for Youth and to solicit their engagement in its 10 year review.