Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era.

A technological breakthrough the steam engine, computers, the Internet may play a leading role.

Steven E. Jones has been a leading academic voice of the proponents of demolition theories.

The government took a leading role in supporting Islamic institutions and in worldwide proselytizing on behalf of Islam.

At the global level, the State of Qatar has been a leading advocate of the need to promote dialogue among civilizations.

Transparency is a leading example and one that is indeed embraced by effective Governments around the world.

Awarded since 2005 and named after Dr. Stephen Smith, who was a pioneer in public health.

A leading legal theorist, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Terms of reference have been developed for a human resources task force, which has a lead role in developing strategy proposals for the Commissioner General and the Management Committee.

The office of the Director of Operational Support will take the lead in the preparation of those policies and procedures with the active participation of the Budget Division as required.

Trade unions have provided leadership to community campaigns in support of quality public service, calling on Governments to provide the financial and regulatory support that is required for their upkeep.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented a pilot activity that integrated gender concerns into agricultural statistical data collection.

PSI has taken the lead, with national affiliates, in information and organizational campaigns to build awareness and expose the fallacies associated with the privatization and downgrading of services.

He pioneered new analytical methods in many different fields, and I have been fortunate to visit some of his constructed projects more than once.

Japan has taken the lead in assisting the Afghan efforts for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), in conjunction with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).

History Its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Société Pathé Frères was founded by Charles Pathé and his brothers, who pioneered the development of the moving image.

Thus, the NGO developed a pilot project for 2003 and 2004, training a group of girls and young women, in the 14 to 20 year age group.

In its resolution 1546 (2004) of 8 June 2004, the Security Council decided that the United Nations should play a leading role in advising and supporting the Iraqi electoral process.

UNEP has taken the lead in this programme area, having focused on biosafety by promoting the protection of the environment through the safe application of biotechnology and its products.

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union pioneered the use of titanium in military and submarine applications (Alfa class and Mike class) as part of programs related to the Cold War.

In addition, since 2003 the Ministry of Education has run a pilot project for research and action in some states aimed at promoting the access of young Afro Brazilians to higher level education.

Although the Gambia's current statistics looked deficient, in the mid seventies his country had been a pioneer in family planning, involving a grass roots approach with training of village health workers.

It also brought a new crew member , a German made manipulator robot named Robotics Component Verification on ISS (Rokviss).

These investment vehicles would utilize a number of the same tactics and target the same type of companies as more traditional leveraged buyouts and in many ways could be considered a forerunner of the later private equity firms.

UNICEF and the World Bank collaborated to better link UNGEI (where UNICEF is a designated lead agency) with the Education For All Fast Track Initiative (where the World Bank takes a lead role).

The Office also conducted evaluations of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (E CN.4 2005 55) and a pilot thematic evaluation, which focused on Headquarters field linkages for poverty eradication (E AC.51 2005 2).

We also believe there is an important indeed, leading role for African countries to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe, and we encourage them to work with the United Nations and the international community to engage the Government of Zimbabwe in a constructive dialogue.

Among our international partners, the United States plays a lead role in supporting the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Abuja talks, providing life saving humanitarian assistance in Darfur and southern Sudan, and spearheading efforts to end the violence in Darfur and to hold accountable those responsible for atrocities.

The Agency's Marine Environment Laboratory in Monaco has become a world leader in the use of radionuclides to track ocean currents, as well as in using isotopes to track carbon dioxide absorption in the ocean's surface, an important technique in the study of climate change.

(c) Positive communication among Commission on Sustainable Development major groups. National governance for change has been most effective where it is supported by dialogue and change within civil society, led by local government.

Follow up activities have revealed that for countries that have received the training, national capacity to implement human rights treaty body recommendations has been strengthened through the enhancement of national protection systems with NHRIs playing a lead role.

He introduced the concept of diseasome, or disease network, showing how diseases link to each other through shared genes and pioneered the use of large patient data to explore disease comorbidity, linking it to molecular network data.

In Bolivia, WFP pioneered drafting of a CPAP as part of an inter agency exercise to test the new format in the ExCom agencies WFP Niger finalized its CPAP.

Cited by the recent World Economic Forum, NEPAD and Commission for Africa reports as a ground breaking contribution to the business and development landscape, I look to its continued growth in inspiring innovative business approaches to advance the Millennium Development Goals.

The United Nations system plays a leading role in the dialogue among civilizations because of its diversity.

But, as Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets points out, when pressure mounts and a crisis seems around the corner, banks will face great pressure to bring such subsidiaries back onto their balance sheet. This is exactly what happened in the last crisis, with Citigroup being a leading example.