First, Baghdad had been transformed into a Shiite dominated city.

She specialized in the topic of female sexuality during a time when the literary world was dominated by men.

Last year, women made up 60 of all students passing university exams, and women have done well in traditionally male dominated disciplines like engineering.

Dominated by amateur investors, home markets do not turn on a dime.

The police force was not dominated by people from a particular ethnic group.

The purpose of the Regulation respecting pay equity in enterprises where there are no predominantly male job classes is to provide two job classes that are typically male dominated to companies where no such classes exist, so they can complete their pay equity exercise.

Therefore, the Commission was mandated to adopt regulations on how to proceed in companies with no job classes that are predominantly male.

Indeed, China s North Korea policy is dominated by inertia rather than sensitivity to its own national interests.

More generally, Egypt is concerned that Gaza is becoming politically radicalized and may be transformed into Hamastan.

In addition, the culture of Ireland's male dominated political life must be made more female friendly.

On the one hand, it would condemn hundreds of millions to live in repressive Iranian or Taliban style theocracies.

If a Sunni controlled government replaces the current leadership, its decision to protect minorities rights would be particularly encouraging.

In 2003, Denmark s universities were turned into self governing institutions run by governing boards dominated by external representatives.

The results of the Italian general election of 1876 resulted in only four representatives from the right being elected, allowing the government to be dominated by Depretis.

But, despite all this diplomatic friction, Wen s entourage for his visit is dominated by a large business delegation.

Electorates in constituencies where Labour is usually dominant are smaller, and district boundaries take insufficient account of population shifts.

Now the elections in Iraq are about to be converted into a civil war between a Shi a Kurd dominated government and a Sunni insurrection.

The political landscape is dominated by two major parties and many smaller parties, many of which are driven by individual leaders more than ideologies.

Ms. Simms said that the report stated that the Gambia was male dominated that was true not only of the Gambia, but of the entire world.

Niger society is a society where the man predominates.

The promotion of Yellen and Flug is a good start now the doors of these fusty male dominated clubs must be flung wide open.

With Shia dominated Iran providing weapons, money, troops, and training for Assad s forces, the conflict s sectarian dimension has taken on greater significance.

With South Sudan s independence,the rest of Arab dominated Sudan could face further division, with Darfur leaving next.

The most likely post war scenario is a partition of Afghanistan, with the Taliban calling the shots in the Pashtun dominated south and east, and the non Pashtun northern and western regions retaining their current de facto autonomy.

In areas where the work force is predominantly female, the legislator recognized that the absence of predominantly male job classes did not mean there was no gender based salary discrimination.

But, in just the last few weeks, parts of the Sunni north have erupted in armed defiance of Hezbollah and the government that it dominates, and are openly supporting the Syrian rebels.

Even in the best of times, Lebanon muddles through with a politically dysfunctional government and an army that operates in the shadow of a large Shia dominated militant organization.

As a result, the question that dominates Israeli discourse nowadays is whether or not to invade Hamas controlled Gaza.

Ironically, it is China s rulers who are now scrambling to resurrect Confucius as a moral anchor in a culture dominated by the pursuit of money.

More and more, indigenous women, living as they did in sexist, male dominated societies, were demanding their rights, and their problem was the concern of all three branches of the Government.

Christians are dominant in the southern and central region in Nigeria.

The US invasion and occupation of Iraq, for example, created a major opening for Al Qaeda, whose affiliates now represent the Sunni struggle against the Shia dominated government.

This parliament governed the English dominated part of Ireland, which at first was limited to Dublin and surrounding cities, but later grew to include the entire island.

More generally, Egypt is concerned that Gaza is becoming politically radicalized and may be transformed into Hamastan. This, Egypt fears, would give a boost to its own Islamic radicals, against which the government has long fought.

Finally, China s leadership is mindful of the risks implied by its own macroeconomic imbalances and of the role that its export led growth and dollar based foreign exchange accumulation plays in perpetuating those imbalances.

Once that occurs, its absence dominates all else.

Millions of men, women and children, citizens of many nations, saw their lives engulfed and crushed by the horrific machinery of war.

And the third is the experience from the mountain, which is really dominated by the view shed of the spring valley there behind Danny, and if you look off to the right, out there, 15 miles across to the Schell Creek range.

Lastly, he wanted to know the measures that the Government had taken to increase the ethnic mix of the police force, which was heavily dominated by people of Indian descent.

Members agree that the General Assembly could consider allocating country specific items of a predominantly political nature to the Fourth Committee after consultations with the co sponsors of resolutions pertaining to these items.

But the assault on freedom is perceived as such only when it begins to apply to men.

China recognizes that it no longer makes sense to stay with its current growth strategy one that relies heavily on a combination of exports and a massive buffer of dollar denominated foreign exchange reserves.

The Bush administration has been disastrously anti scientific. It has been staffed with ideologues who reject or neglect climate science, and who set the US on a dangerous and irresponsible path.

Most revolutionaries who did not want an Islamist dominated Egypt were alienated as well. Their votes went to Hamadi Sabbahi, from the left leaning Nasserist camp, who surprised observers by winning 5.4 million votes.

The real winner from the recent appointment of the conservative dominated, seven member Politburo Standing Committee is the PLA, whose rising clout has underpinned China s increasingly assertive foreign policy.