My dried bones are prized as a sort of ivory.

What's your father's word compared to Odin's will?

And they learn it about as well as the leading language learning software.

Economic rights are as important as political and civil rights.

The verbal declarations would have to match the facts.

Conditions of extreme overcrowding are equivalent to cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment.

But these distributions are also affected by policies and investments that focus on the supply side, and that produce education and skills that match (or don t match) a rapidly evolving global structure of labor demand.

Our country just barely averted a crisis which could have been comparable to the one in Rwanda.

On the contrary, they would compare favorably with the bonds of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

Rapidly matching donation offers with needs is one of the greatest challenges.

The French government expects budget revenues to match all spending except debt service by 2014.

Indians like to think we can hold our own against the best in the world in any field our Kalidasa can stand up to their Shakespeare, our Ramanujan to their Einstein, our Bollywood to their Hollywood and, these days, our Infosys to their Microsoft.

But Russia is no match for the US militarily and no match for China economically, and its soft power is virtually non existent.

Some developing countries are set to match the economic size and growth, demographics, patterns of global demand and currency movements of the developed economies of today.

(g) Development of rules for procurement for United Nations OPS that match or improve its current arrangements

What this means is, even if you covered the whole of the United Kingdom with energy crops, you couldn't match today's energy consumption.

Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.

To take an extreme example, labor productivity in Malawi s mining sector matches that of the United States economy as a whole.

I hoped that the resulting Declaration of Commitment (resolution S 26 2, annex) would herald the emergence of a response to match the scale of the epidemic.

From these studies it would appear that in both developed and developing countries there are crops that match or exceed the level of return from tobacco.

This compared with 70 per cent of responding States in the second reporting period and 49 per cent in the first.

The value added in trans shipment, handling and processing can in some cases rival the value of the fish harvested in economic importance.

38. According to the administering Power, the insurance rates in the Territory are among the highest within the United States and its dependent Territories.

Banks have bought only short term assets, mainly with maturities of about three years (to match their liabilities with the ECB).

Surprisingly, Eurobonds issued by a Germany less Eurozone would still compare favorably with those of the US, UK, and Japanese bonds.

What applies to the US is even truer for the European Union, whose soft power is no match for its lack of local credibility.

Moreover, income growth has contributed to improved education. Adult literacy rates in South Asia match the global norm.

The result was that the colonization of the New World was catastrophic native peoples were no match for European technology, ruthlessness, or their diseases which decimated the indigenous population.

As important to the Marshall Islands as potential terrorist threats are the social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities that we continue to face and endure.

The archiving and accessibility of ozone and UV data are as important as the measurements themselves.

New vehicle emission standards meet the most stringent equivalent European standards, and are higher than in the United States.

Not surprisingly, Turkey s capacity to attract foreign direct investment is now comparable to other fast growing emerging market economies.

A number of other delegations were of the view that the increase proposed was inadequate and would not match the increased workload of the Centre.

But given the initial, overwhelmingly dominant role of inter republic trade in the total, total trade fell more or less in line with the fall in inter republic trade.

Bush was portrayed as facing down a new Hitler with Churchillian resolve, and advocates of containment were accused of appeasement.

Though these figures compare favorably with global averages, they fall short of levels in developed nations and in 2006, Argentina ranked fourth in Latin America.

In addition, the Government has signed and ratified the Ottawa Mine Ban Convention and SPLM has signed a deed of commitment in Geneva, matching the obligations underlined in the Ottawa Convention.

It was stated that such a proposal would weaken the comparative importance of other United Nations bodies dealing with issues of similar importance, particularly with regard to developing countries.

A European political union could also make Europe a power comparable to the United States, and thereby give France, with its sophisticated foreign service, an important role in European and world affairs.

We are all capable of delivering eloquent speeches with apparent moral force, but we do not all have the same political will, courage or raw power to match our words.

Such burdens manifest themselves in both physical and psychological ways, reaching such extreme levels that many respondents claim they are comparable to forms of cruel and inhuman degrading treatment.

Some of the US counties with a high proportion of vacation homes are seeing price increases that rival, if not outstrip, the booming metropolitan areas.

As we work to complete quot An Agenda for Development quot so as to match it with quot An Agenda for Peace quot , we are actually etching the fine details of our common vision of a better and more unified world.

Despite the dollar s instant credibility, however, it took more than a decade for America s currency to match Britain s as an international medium of exchange. Payment habits melt at a glacier s pace.

A number of charitable associations offer children a range of health, social, residential, educational and cultural programmes, including full guardianship in accordance with the conditions laid down in the regulation on guardianship of orphans.