(ii) Coordinated Universal Time as the time reference for the date of launch

Of course, finding a peaceful, comprehensive and lasting solution takes time.

Instead Haitians found themselves in the midst of the kind of violent political unrest that has dominated Haiti for too long.

1980 The longest running court case in U.S. history, the Sioux Nation v. the United States, was ruled upon by the U.S. Supreme Court.

This long running pernicious conflict cannot quickly or easily be dispatched to history.

(The solar eclipse of January 4, 1992, was longer, at 11 minutes, 41 seconds, occurring in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Unless decisions were taken by consensus, Member States would not support or trust the new body, and negotiations would be protracted.

In many cases, such persons had spent a long time in a State other than that of their nationality, or had even become nationals of another State.

The Open ended Working Group has been in existence for eleven and a half years and, through detailed and time consuming discussions that have taken place there and elsewhere, everyone knows the basic views of most other Member States on those matters.

Interventions will continue to occur, though they are now more likely to be shorter, involve smaller scale forces, and rely on technologies that permit action at greater distance.

Thanks in no small part to the African owned agenda that NEPAD lays out, Africa is creating for itself a time of opportunity, the like of which we have not seen for a generation.

As the half life of 129I is comparatively short on a cosmological time scale, only 16 million years, this demonstrated that only a short time had passed between the supernova and the time the meteorites had solidified and trapped the 129I.

So, we had this place, we rented it, the landlord was all for it. We did this mural, that's a Chris Ware mural, that basically explains the entire history of the printed word, in mural form it takes a long time to digest and you have to stand in the middle of the road.

As part of the efforts to develop a more systematic and timely system of reporting on key protection concerns in armed conflict situations, in June 2004 UNHCR convened an Experts Meeting on maintaining the civilian and humanitarian character of asylum.

I should like to begin by saying that the report of the Secretary General (A 59 2005) attempts to establish a new approach to organizing international life, one which relegates to a secondary level the current foundation of the role of the United Nations under its Charter, using the argument that we are now living in a qualitatively different time.