There is a difference between the height of the mizzen fore and aft spar in the contemporary painting by Luny (below) and its position on the replica in the photographs, compared to the height of the lowest spars on the fore and mainmasts.

Government in the lead?

And it mushroomed slightly. Afghanistan and Iraq mushroomed now to 3,000 billion.

Libyan blogger and programmer Abderrazak al Dokaly Assary (better known as Jad) has been missing since mid August.

So protectionism is taking pride of place.

Turkey also held a record in that regard.

Four issues were central in discussions of development.

But now America has returned firmly to center stage.

A year or two ago, six main risks stood at center stage

Indeed, national interests and nationalistic egos have now moved to center stage.

Improving safety on our roads became a top priority for the Government of Oman.

The question of the relevance of the United Nations was at the centre of deliberations.

Pension, investment, and hedge funds have taken the lead in this revolution.

NEW YORK The financial crisis has been uppermost in the minds of most world leaders.

Among the mechanisms developed to help us reduce emissions, carbon trading once took pride of place.

Integrity, by requiring that the public interest be paramount, provides the basis for transparency and accountability.

PARIS In the debates raging over the future of the European Union and the eurozone, Germany always takes center stage.

Even as a personal sidearm, the sword began to lose its preeminence in the early 19th century, reflecting the development of reliable handguns.

The company is challenging the dominant Android in China and is also looking to expand into Western markets.

Under Paraguayan law, the Constitution was paramount, and was followed in turn by ratified conventions, special laws, resolutions and acts, or decrees.

The agency has given Brazil a role in space in Latin America and technically made Brazil a partner for cooperation in the International Space Station.

Men predominate in construction, transport, agro forestry fisheries, gas and electricity, manufacturing and public administration.

The financial sector continues to spearhead Singapore's OFDI.

With 15 million retail outlets, India has the highest retail outlet density in the world.

For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

In 1797 the College of Arms granted official arms to Liverpool, which depicts the bird in pride of place.

We were pleased to hear from the Committee's Chair that that issue is a high priority for the CTC.

Women are in the lead in conflict resolution, in reconciliation, and in drafting the legal and constitutional framework to secure peace and prevent abuses.

It reached number 1 in its eighth week on the Hot 100 and spent two weeks at the top of the chart, from March 3 to March 16, 1991.

Mr. Kau (Fiji) said that global partnerships were at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals and the work of the United Nations.

Owing to the variance between the top recipient and the other fourteen, figure 5 shows Iraq in relation to the entire pool of system expenditure, while figure 6 expounds on the make up of the remaining 14 recipients

Aung, Figure is difficult to read in black and white Can we improve legibility?

Thanks to several development forums, the case for investing in young people has been made clearer, and today youth has come to occupy the centre stage of international development.

It appears, however, that security has taken centre stage and that development is seen from the angle of security, thus giving it a secondary role.

Training of advisers in the law of armed conflict is regarded as ongoing training special workshops are therefore organized in response to specific or topical issues.

Those basic child rights remained central to the UNICEF mission, and were underscored by the new MTSP.

Likewise, the US continues to lead in entrepreneurship, research and development, higher education, and technological innovation.

Mass media could report few big stories in which a few big actors took center stage.

Once upon a time, Cold War enemies, white supremacists, and evil geniuses reigned supreme as Hollywood s favorite bad guys.

And given the advanced state of Islamization in Mauritania, he will soon have to hire bodyguards to ensure his safety if a fatwa hasn't already been issued on him.

The Soviet Union took the lead in the post war Space Race, launching the first satellite, the first man and the first woman into orbit.

Because the Millennium Development Goals focus on children, issues relating to children are now high on the international agenda.

Excluding the Cayman Islands and the Virgin Islands, which are offshore tax havens, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Chile (in that order) are the dominant investors in the region.

The nonprofit company Grameen Shakti currently leads the world in the installation of solar panels for the rural poor.

In a world of asymmetric threats, we should follow the US defense department s field manual in counterinsurgency, politics require primacy.