Complete general secondary education is compulsory in the state schools which constitute the overwhelming majority.

Narrow, individual interests cannot hinder the efforts of a large majority of countries.

This system of political alienation is accepted by an overwhelming majority of Russians.

But the vast majority of Kosovo Serbs are moving about freely.

We sadly note that, yet again, the victims have been civilians and that the vast majority have been Palestinian.

That is not what Merkel or the overwhelming majority of Germans stand for.

Now is the time for a major shift to an alliance with the region s overwhelming Sunni majority.

Their predicament has been compounded by economic policies that have prevented the vast majority from improving their livelihoods.

Development remains the highest priority for the vast majority of Member States.

But it is the firm belief of our delegation that the overwhelming majority of Ivorians do.

The vast majority of these NGOs and associations have been set up since 1990.

I believe that the majority the vast majority has the right to express itself and to promote the items it considers fundamental to its interests, and the First Committee is the only body that will permit that.

Let us not think of strengthening it when multilateralism is being weakened and fragmented and when the great majority is relegated to ostracism.

78 percent of the votes, and to give you an idea of the landslide, the next highest name pulled in three. Okay?

In today s China, the overwhelming majority of bureaucrats like the status quo and have enough resources to protect themselves.

In short, an overwhelming majority of Americans are insured, with government a major financer of health care.

There was a noticeable amount of white malae (foreigner) women, but overwhelmingly the women were brown.

The overwhelming majority of those votes were cast in Kirkuk Province, where the ITF won more than 10 of the total.

As we have all witnessed at the current session of the General Assembly, an overwhelming majority shares a sense of urgency for reforming the Security Council.

China s stability hinges critically on its government s ability to deliver steady economic gains to the vast majority of the population.

Gaining favourable reviews, the album went on to sell over 10 million copies in Europe, Canada, and the United Statescombined, and 20 million copies worldwide.

The overwhelming majority had been killed while sleeping in their homes, playing in the street or sitting in their classrooms.

Women comprise the vast majority of the teachers at the basic education level, but their participation decreases at the higher levels, which enjoy greater status.

The vast majority of users, however, still endure the screeches of a dial up modem due to the country's weak broadband infrastructure.

Still, an overwhelming majority of German (and possibly Dutch and Finnish) economists seem to favor keeping the ECB on the sidelines in the eurozone crisis.

In addition, the vast majority of people in need of treatment lack access to affordable antiretroviral drugs.

While the majority of the bloggers, and the most well known ones, are found in Mexico City, we also expect participation from bloggers in cities like Guadalajra, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Ciudad Juárez and many others.

Asia, in particular China and South East Asian countries, accounted for the overwhelming majority of manufacturing, commerce and real estate investments from Singapore in 1996 (figure 1).

Indeed, there is some evidence that the overwhelming majority of multi millionaires in China are relatives of high ranking Communist Party officials.

It is essential to bear in mind that the vast majority of the populations in the developing countries, in fact an overwhelming proportion of them in the poorest countries, depend on the agricultural sector for their livelihood.

The independent expert found that almost everywhere he went a large majority of the politicians, NGO representatives and government officials he spoke to were men.

For quite some time now an overwhelming majority of Member States if not all have supported General Assembly resolutions on the convening of SSOD IV.

Mr. Seger (Switzerland) welcomed the progress achieved by the Working Group on the Scope of Legal Protection under the Convention, which had been possible thanks to the constructive attitude shown by the vast majority of delegations.

But the vast majority of modern writers on international law have abandoned this standpoint, and the opinion is pretty general that war by no means annuls every treaty.

An overwhelmingly young population is being exposed to the outside world and communicating with peers in the region through travel, satellite TV, and the Internet as never before.

It believes that operational military capability is a condition of power a view that is not shared by the overwhelming majority of European states, which continue to display a collective aversion to war.

In the First Committee, the overwhelming majority of speakers supported the strengthening of existing multilateral agreements the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention and their universalization.

It has been the will of the overwhelming majority of the Assembly to decide every year to extend the mandates of those important Committees and programmes until a just solution to the question of Palestine can be found on the basis of the will of the international community.

Sometimes they consist of conscientious organizations seeking to improve the living conditions of the populations they assist, but most of the time, the vast majority are engines of the machinery.

Israel has traditionally strived to forge alliances with the region s minorities Kurds, Persians, Maronites, and others. Now is the time for a major shift to an alliance with the region s overwhelming Sunni majority.

We believe that the vast majority of Member States can rally around the proposed improvements in the Council's working methods as set out in subparagraphs (a) to (i) of paragraph 8 of document A 59 L.64.

Nearly every general officer of note from either army during the Civil War was a graduate of West Point and a West Point graduate commanded the forces of one or both sides in every one of the 60 major battles of the war.

In the great majority of regions featuring arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas, one of the major weaknesses of the monitoring evaluation systems is that they are not always designed to make optimum use of the existing equipment.

Expressing concern that women and children account for the vast majority of those adversely affected by natural disasters and their aftermath, including the recent tsunami disaster, and that those living in poverty are most affected,

Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north, especially in the capital, Caracas, which is also the largest city in Venezuela.