The old maid's a respectable institution.

It just happens that Eileen and the inexperienced... frustrated, spinsterish Ruth Sherwood... are one and the same.

Why is our assessment of a divorced or unmarried candidate different to that who is married?

It kind of knows how stripes should run, how it should be shaded.

People of every race and every walk of life the world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us

The thylacine looks a bit, to most people, like a dog, or maybe like a tiger, because it has stripes.

Each time I look at that flag, I'm reminded that our destiny is stitched together

It knows where the backbone is, where the spine, the limbs are, how stripes should run, how it should be shaded.

It was agreed to continue and expand the involvement of parliamentarians of different backgrounds in the meetings organized under the auspices of the Committee.

Dan level belts are invariably black, with some schools using stripes to denote various ranks of black belt.

What is urgently needed is a concerted effort to persuade the Government of Tajikistan and all major tendencies in the opposition to accept the need for a political solution and to participate in a negotiating process.

He had also met with people in all walks of life and had asked them about their participation in the referendum held on the Constitution, promulgated subsequently, on 22 March 2005.

On February 22, Algerians from various backgrounds gathered in front of the University of Algiers in Bouzareah , a suburb and a district in the capital.

Its greatest strength lay in the fact that above all it consisted of ordinary people from all walks of life who were determined to play their part in ridding the world of apartheid.

The strident and damaging dogmatism of fundamentalists of every stripe has a common feature a truculent sense of grievance, rooted in fear and resentment of modernity.

So even before that impact was known, even before scientists in general came to an agreement over the theory of evolution, scientists and natural historians of all kinds of stripes actually had divided Earth's life's history into these two episodes Mesozoic, the middle life, and the Cenozoic, the recent life.

There has clearly been no specific coordination among the many initiatives taken within the framework of the dialogue but, equally clearly, the call was perceived by many, across many divides, as one that had to be heeded.

Lebanese politicians from different backgrounds expressed to the Mission their fear that Lebanon could be caught in a possible showdown between the Syrian Arab Republic and the international community, with devastating consequences for Lebanese peace and security.

86. The international community has responded generously in providing humanitarian assistance to Rwanda. It is encouraging that nations in all parts of the world, individuals near and far and from all walks of life, and small and large NGOs have contributed to this effort.

Under Napoleon I, the proportions were changed to make the stripes' width equal, but by a regulation dated 17 May 1853, the navy went back to using the 30 33 37 proportions, which it continues to use, as the flapping of the flag makes portions farther from the halyard seem smaller.