Russia has clearly taken giant steps in the wrong direction, at a time when China has taken steps, however small, in the right direction.

Afghanistan has made great strides in its efforts towards nation building.

The ICC has made enormous strides in the period under review.

The United Nations has made immense strides in promoting peace and universal values throughout the world.

The functional commissions had made great strides in revising their methods of work in accordance with the guidance provided by the Economic and Social Council, as exemplified by the fact that

In collaboration with its partners, the Partnership has made great strides with respect to assisting country efforts in designing, implementing and monitoring national strategies for the development of statistics.

Despite the energy, resources and efforts diverted from development in order to preserve democracy, Nicaragua has made major strides towards fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals.

Over the three years which have elapsed since it gained independence in May 2002, Timor Leste has made remarkable strides towards the threshold of self sufficiency.

Mr. Castillero Hoyos said that, although Mauritius had made significant positive strides in human rights legislation, some concerns remained.

The parliament undertook substantial steps toward securing the democratic evolution of Czechoslovakia.

Every small step helps, and the combination of small steps adds up to large strides.

This means that three large steps are taken in between all of the hurdles.

This year has witnessed major strides towards sustainable peace in the Sudan.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

Disengagement was a significant step towards implementing the road map, and positive steps had been taken on both sides.

Governor Sarah Palin strode onto the national stage, rhetorical guns blazing.

Africa had recently made considerable strides towards maintaining peace on the continent.

Yet it is clear that substantial and specific steps will need to be taken to realize the goals of ending poverty and ensuring a life of dignity for all our peoples.

Where countries have, with our help, taken the first steps out of conflict, we cannot leave them on their own.

The IMF is making strides in the right direction, but emerging markets will have to remain in the lead.

My country believes that the Declaration is a starting point towards taking major steps to protect human dignity and prevent its violation under any kind of interpretation.

At this juncture, concrete actions would do much to restore confidence between the sides and advance negotiations on the priority areas.

If they want to open the door to final status, they will have to make significant strides in implementation of the standards in the weeks and months to come.

Thus, the Commission was taking an important step, which would considerably improve the status of refugees and stateless persons.

State authority has been restored throughout Sierra Leone and significant strides have been made towards re establishing the Government's control over the country's diamond mining sector.

HIV AIDS was a major public health problem, and her Government had taken steps to reduce the price of medicine for people infected with the disease.

I'm also very hopeful that in the next decades, we will make big strides on reducing that death rate that has been so challenging in this disease.

Measurement is still largely limited to a number of industrialized countries, although steps are now being taken in a few developing countries to produce statistical data.

Most G8 countries seem incapable of achieving the political consensus required to take necessary steps such as raising the retirement age or significantly cutting the indexation of benefits to inflation.

With regard to education, the section in the Government of Togo's programme of action devoted to social development includes significant steps that should guarantee a quality education for all of Togo's young people.

By imposing them, Europe would finally take a real step towards stopping the killing in Darfur and extending meaningful help to its people.

Turkey, the ECHR went one step further and envisaged the possibility of temporary control of territory.

With the support of UNAMSIL and development partners, the Government of Sierra Leone has advanced towards accomplishing the benchmarks for stabilization in the country and for the withdrawal of the residual UNAMSIL presence.

Egypt has taken significant steps in that direction on the basis of plurality and increased participation in the decision making process efforts that culminated in the holding of open presidential elections a few days ago, in which the candidates from 10 political parties competed, for the first time in Egypt's history, to win the confidence of the people.

Europe s Next Steps

General steps

The Government of Nova Scotia has made some important strides in addressing child poverty as part of the National Child Benefit (NCB) (see Introduction to the present report).

We need to take concrete steps now so that we are prepared to implement a no fly zone immediately if Qaddafi starts using his airpower to kill large numbers of civilians.

Development has been slow.

Those were welcome first steps.

Long steps. So a lot of milongueros the tango dancers will use very short steps.

Small Steps to European Growth

Europe s Small Steps and Giant Leaps

There are clear steps that can be taken.