Most analysts forecast that GDP will contract in the first half of 2008 and recover in the second half of the year.

The Western Zhou period (1046 771 BC) was the first half of the Zhou dynasty of ancient China.

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)

Ten Bosnia and Herzegovina indictees were transferred to The Hague during the first half of the year.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

He lived in the first half of the 6th century.

Since 1970, Germany s business cycles have been surprisingly regular a downswing in the first half of each decade, followed by an upswing in the second half.

While it is true that the first half of the last century was a favourable period for Uruguay, it is also true that due to a combination of external circumstances and domestic structural weaknesses the last fifty years were a period of economic deterioration, impoverishment and even an institutional breakdown in 1973.

But the first half growth rate looks set to come in closer to 1.5 at best, even below 2011 s dismal 1.7 .

By contrast, the latest data suggest that the US economy is performing as sluggishly now as it was in the first half of the year.

Malmö continued to grow through the first half of the 20th century.

Its first half is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia.

The second was in the first half of the 20th century, during development of modernism.

First semi annual report of the Secretary General to the Security Council on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004) (S 2005 272).

The remaining work is expected to be completed during the first half of 2006.

Fixed asset investment in India rose by only 2.3 in the first half of 2012, compared to 9 in the year earlier period.

For these purposes, the High Commissioner invites the Procurator General and the Ombudsman to present in a timely fashion, during the first half of 2005, a plan for their expanded territorial presence.

Data collection for those items will take place during the first half of 2006.

Many Roman Catholic missionaries arrived in the first half of the 20th century.

With European and trans Atlantic integration, we have drawn the lessons of the tragic first half of the twentieth century.

During the month of August, the situation remained broadly stable.

Boutsianis, who scored the first goal of the first half, scored the first goal of the second half in the 50th minute.

Last year s 600 billion QE2 and 1 trillion in tax cuts and transfers delivered growth of barely 3 for one quarter.

In 2015 Latvia hold the presidency of Council of the European Union.

The positive trend continued during the first half of 2008, but the rate of increase slackened.

The E190 E2 is expected to enter service in the first half of 2018.

In the western Pacific, the first half of the eclipse occurred before moonrise.

The unification of Mostar continued to progress in the first half of 2005.

Subject to availability of resources,5 the secretariat plans to offer the courses online in the first half of 2006.

Yet the AKP s electoral victory heralds two specific dangers for the future of Turkey s democracy. The first is the persistence of intense political polarization in the run up to the presidential election in August and the parliamentary election in the first half of 2015.

From 2006 through 2008, the first half of the tournament took place in the Mexican city of Morelia.

During the first part of 2005, about 680 persons, including some 50 children, fled their homes.

The diamond exports amounted to some 82 million in the first half of 2005.

Normally, the bulk of peacekeeping assessments for the first half of 2004 would have been issued during the second half of 2003.

The city also expanded in the first half of the 20th century under the Mandatory Palestine.

The next week, Janković reached the final of the Ordina Open in the Netherlands and became the first player since Chris Evert in 1974 to win 50 matches in the first half of a year.

Her grandfather, a certain Marwan al Safedi, had been a wealthy merchant as well as local religious leader during the first half of the twentieth century.

Armstrong Siddeley was a British engineering group that operated during the first half of the 20th century.

The High Commissioner requests that the updated timetable for implementation of the recommendations be published during the first half of 2005.

Violence increased in the first half of 2005, particularly attacks against indigenous communities.

The first half of the text is a history of the study of electricity to 1766 the second and more influential half is a description of contemporary theories about electricity and suggestions for future research.

At the time of the Secretary General's report in December 2004 (ibid.), the Court had anticipated completion of its trial activity by 31 December 2005.

Between the months of July and December in 2015 Russian government agencies submitted 1,735 requests to remove content from Twitter more than 25 times the number submitted in the first half of 2015, and 19 times more than during the same period in 2014.

The biological half life (the average time it takes for the human body to eliminate half the amount in the body) for uranium is about 15 days.

Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in Spain and China in the first half of the 20th century.