China is second only to Japan in its holdings of US Treasury bills.

He came second to Manuel Zelaya with 46 of the vote in the 2005 general election.

Omar said that the number of Palestinian visitors to the Al Jazeera Talk blog comes in second place after Egypt.

Iran's monitoring technology is believed to be among the most sophisticated in the world, perhaps only second to China.

Through these efforts Germany was second to Britain in trading and shipping in China by 1896.

But Milton Friedman ran a close second.

In that war, among United States territories, Puerto Rico had ranked second (after the Hawaiian Islands) in terms of deaths and third in terms of other casualties.

Indeed, India stands only behind Iraq in the number of people killed each year in terrorist attacks.

Trade with China alone is worth more than 1 billion per day, second only to trade with the US.

Preservation of evidence, while vital to the success of any investigation, is secondary to the preservation of life and to the recovery of bodies.

This places the tubercle bacillus second only to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the list of top microbial killers.

By 2020, it is likely to rank second, behind heart disease.

The fisheries Aquatic biodiversity in the Mekong river system is the second highest in the world after the Amazon.

Botswana is ranked second only to South Africa among sub Saharan Africa countries in the 2009 International Property Rights Index.

The Georgetown University Law Center of Washington, D.C., United States, was placed second and the National Law School of Bangalore University, India, third. The Eilene M.

Indeed, Nigeria s film industry is the world s third largest, after the US and India, and is second only to oil production in terms of its economic significance to the country.

In second place isThe Myths of Argentine History, Volume One.

The limiting factors must be considered in the context of the poverty or extreme poverty in which a large percentage of the population lives, including a disproportionate number of women.

In the 1960 s, the British pound was the world s second reserve currency.

The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan was in second place with some 26 of the vote.

Both projects continue to co exist, but the Spanish Wikipedia is by far the more active of the two.

The country topped the US in auto production in 2009, and remains second only to South Korea in shipbuilding, with 36 of global capacity.

2nd place In a group of craftswomen Carmen found the strength to leave her abusive partner.

The silver medal (which represents second place) is made up of 92.5 percent silver, with the remainder copper.

Turin is ranked third in Italy, after Milan and Rome, for economic strength.

It has now emerged as a significant donor to developing countries in Africa and Asia, second only to China in the range and quantity of development assistance given by countries of the global South.

But Obama has other priorities. His foreign policy challenges, with the exception of Iran s nuclear enrichment program and Israel s reaction to it, come second to the US economy s health, and its impact on his re election.

It was the single most common cause of maternal mortality, accounting for about half of all deaths related to childbirth, and was second only to tuberculosis in killing women of childbearing age.

And the mathematicians and scientists in the crowd will recognize these two progressions as a first order discrete differential equation and a second order discrete differential equation, derived by six year olds.

The electromagnetic force is very strong, second only in strength to the strong interaction, but unlike that force it operates over all distances.

Malign neoplasm ranks second (18 per cent) and their number increased in last decades.

If it were a U.S. state, Long Island would rank 13th in population (after Virginia) and first in population density.

Its prime objective remains price stability, with real economy factors relegated to the second order of importance.

A second priority will be to decide the fate of Nepal s centuries old monarchy.

India has one of the largest higher education systems in the world, and ranks second in terms of student enrollment.

It is also the world s top exporter of merchandise and the second largest exporter of goods and services.

He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.

Malign neoplasm is in second place with 18 per cent and its number increased in the last few decades.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the second largest source of OFDI from developing regions.

In this view, factors such as gender, race ethnicity, economic background, social networks, or neighborhoods geography are secondary to hard work and education or are altogether irrelevant in the pursuit of success.

Japan s high tech industries remain competitive, and the country is still the world s second largest exporter. It retains a highly innovative economy, which registers more new patents each year than all European countries combined second only to the US and eons ahead of China and India.

Peru was at a close second, receiving 9.4 million (up from 1.6 million in 2003).

It is particularly difficult to start a business in China (151st), pay taxes (122nd), obtain construction permits (179th), and get electricity (115th).

For instance, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the capital, Kinshasa, is more than eight times larger than the second largest city, Lubumbashi.

In this study the Internet was used the most, while libraries were the next most used resource for conducting class research.