There was little point in merely reproducing past agreements.

At that point, we'll start romanticizing the future again, instead of the nasty, brutish past.

Those proceedings have been a focal point for the Tribunal in the past six months.

Data from past livestock censuses may provide a starting point for the allocation of rights.

That leaves a higher than 50 probability of the world s climate moving past its tipping point.

Of course, this was an option that was open to her brain at no point in the past.

Indeed, a lot has been said over the past 10 years or so, the Razali paper being just one case in point.

Amazon Watch reports that the current rate of deforestation threatens to push the Amazon past a tipping point from which it cannot recover.

Over the past century, ethnic distinctions have diminished to the point where there is no significant inter ethnic friction, although regional divisions still occur.

And at some point in the past, a sub group of Africans left the African continent to go out and populate the rest of the world.

But Syrians under siege are far past that point. When you are hungry, there is no psychological barrier regarding anything that can be eaten.

And debt can drive booms and busts in the price of existing assets the UK housing market over the past few decades is a case in point.

As an example, Hamas leaders point out that in the past year, with the moderate Mahmoud Abbas in power, the Israelis have not even negotiated with him.

Although some initiatives taken in the past several years point to some improvements in this area, as will be seen below, more remains to be done.

His point was that Iran no longer feels the deep inequality with the US that it did in the past, and that it may be time to try engagement.

The three percentage point difference implies that the real inflation adjusted renminbi dollar exchange rate rose 9 over the past year (i.e., 6 nominal appreciation plus the 3 inflation difference.)

In the past, concern for the environment was viewed as a luxury today, it is a necessity a point grasped by some, but by no means all, economic architects yet.

Point K critical point.

Khrushchev s self eulogizing flatly contradicted his earlier de Stalinization campaign, the point of which was that Stalin betrayed communism by doing all that he could to resemble the royals of the past.

During this year, the planet was moving past the point along its orbit where it was nearest to the Sun (a perihelic opposition), which made this a particularly close approach to the Earth.

That recommendation was formulated to address the need for an administrative focal point within the United Nations Secretariat specifically to oversee the resolution of the acute problems experienced by INSTRAW over the past decade.

Moreover, an unfunded liability path, once taken, is hard to leave, because at the point of departure, some generation is paying for past commitments and at least beginning to fund future ones.

As the more than 1.1 percentage point increase in 10 year Treasury yields over the past year indicates, markets have an uncanny knack for discounting glacial events in a short period of time.

The boiling point cannot be increased beyond the critical point.

Only then can the past truly be past.

The recently enacted 12th Five Year Plan could well be a strategic turning point ushering in a shift from the highly successful producer model of the past 30 years to a flourishing consumer society.

In geometry, the Fermat point of a triangle, also called the Torricelli point or Fermat Torricelli point, is a point such that the total distance from the three vertices of the triangle to the point is the minimum possible.

Why was Shiller wrong? We can point to three factors, each of which can take roughly one third of the credit for annual real returns of 6 , rather than zero, over the past decade

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

And in the first video, you'll see the robot going from point A to point B through an intermediate point.

In sum, while there was a perilous turn back to the abyss in the past month or so, there have been some glimmers, particularly in the last week, that may point to a new beginning.

We would like also to point out that the inability of the Disarmament Commission to generate consensus on either procedural or substantive issues over the past five years warrants a review of the Commission's working methods.

In their own defense, eurozone ministers point to the raft of reforms that they have introduced over the past 30 months, which will promote economic modernization, the restoration of sound government finances, and closer economic coordination.

At this point, I should say that, from my point of view, events in the international system during the past several months indeed, since the end of the work of the fifty ninth session of the First Committee, which of course deals with disarmament and international security indicate that disarmament is once again at a crossroads.

When animals are going to make a point, they make the point.

The rights from point one to point 7 are of general interest.

one entry point and one exit point in Mauritius at the Port.

one entry point and one exit point in Mauritius at the Airport.

These units have operated with limited resources over the past years and have reached a point at which a risk of major disruptions in regard to payments and accounting is of serious concern to management.

The past is the past. There's nothing you can do about it.

There, the takeoff point for joining Asia s great production chains was not just the country s low wages, but a decision to redress past government omissions trade liberalization, creation of a more favorable investment climate, and infrastructure improvements.

But there is a more important point while there are many gaps between the intent and consequences of legislation, legislators do seem ultimately to care more about their less moneyed constituents than they did in the past.

In such a point group, for every point (x, y, z) in the unit cell there is an indistinguishable point ( x, y, z).

Gibraltar Our Lady of Europe at Europa Point, the southernmost point in Western Europe.

The direct or indirect discharge of pollutants, whether from point or non point sources