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

Honduras is taking firm steps towards building a more inclusive democracy.

In addition, export expectations for German manufacturing are heading south.

Speaking about discrimination, injustice, violence is the first step toward change.

The G8 can take four steps towards these ends.

Partly as a result of that agreement, the Balkan countries have taken major steps forward.

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

Even President U Thein Sein s government listened to the wishes of the people the new government shouldn t continue it, he added, saying that the NLD government should take decisive steps toward terminating the project.

However, this decrease owes more to a rise in the world s population than it does to the slight reduction in the actual number of hungry people (from about 980 million to 852 million today).

The biggest number of accidents happened in 1996, and since then the tendency has been to decrease.

The convergence of magnetic field lines towards the Earth that creates a magnetic mirror turns back many of the downward flowing electrons as the field strength increases.

It is surprising that America s stock market hasn t crashed yet, since all other indicators are pointing downward.

Yet, as China takes minuscule steps forward, Russia takes giant steps backward.

Identifying objectives and strategies towards achieving these objectives are concrete steps towards the achievement of the group's overall goal.

We are hoping for similar steps by other States towards that goal.

Despite that, they have courageously taken steps towards the restoration of full democracy and the control of their own destiny.

UNICEF agrees and has taken steps to update the job descriptions of its senior staff.

These are steps toward the unification of a state and nation, and not attempts to gain revenge or break up Russia.

The reforms have been lauded as a crucial step towards a more stable two party system.

In other words, will the elevated asset values caused by low discount rates suddenly reset downward at some point? No one knows.

China s leaders need to make several concrete moves in order to move beyond rhetoric.

In recent weeks and months, the Palestinian Authority continued to take specific steps towards reforming the structure of the security services.

Society was moving in the direction of liberalization, and further reforms would surely be forthcoming in due course.

Likewise, increasing the interest rates paid on bank deposits would enable savings to decline without loss of income.

That is why, after more than two years, interest rates are rising, not falling, in countries crushed by onerous austerity measures.

In the middle of 2009, the annual drop of the GDP for 2009 was estimated around 3 or 4.3 , a relatively modest decrease.

The most significant decline occurred during the period from 1987 to 1995, after which the rate has tended to stabilize.

With its remarkable ability to adapt, China is making strides to accommodate the rising power of its markets and people.

Since the Chief Prosecutor's last report, the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities have undertaken positive steps towards improving cooperation with the ICTY.

It would thus be advisable to make some perhaps small but constructive steps towards meeting each other's expectations and rebuilding mutual confidence.

In the two decades that followed, America s debt usually was around 3 trillion, rising or falling with the exchange rate of the dollar.

That could be a turning point, provided it is adequately reinforced with additional steps toward greater integration.

Steps have been taken towards implementation of an anti corruption strategy including an information campaign and workshops to draft an action plan.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the budget deficit is declining, and the primary surplus (net revenues minus interest payments) is growing.

The good news is that household debt is coming down through a combination of repayments and write offs.

By buying government bonds for cash, a central bank can satisfy demand and push down the price of cash.

Early steps toward interest rate liberalization and hints of reform of the antiquated hukou (residential permit) system are also encouraging.

Israel would like to have seen the language of these resolutions reflect more comprehensively the Israeli Palestinian conflict and offer more productive steps.

Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence building measures or, in the case of the long dead Road Map, through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.

It cannot wait to inject capital into the banks. It must take immediate steps toward debt mutualization.

For many years, Japan has been taking very cautious steps into this area, but substantial changes have occurred recently.

Russian authorities may be advancing that goal by taking initial steps toward improving corporate governance in state owned companies.

About 100 meters to the left from the top of the Spanish Steps, there is a bronze monument of Giovanni holding the dying Enrico in his arm.

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.

Ignoring Puerto Rico's aspirations for self determination and independence, the United States refused to take steps toward genuine decolonization.