That was a noticeable improvement that gave us time to reflect on the amendments.

He had gone to the forest long before to meditate.

It was also intended to offer members of the Council an opportunity to reflect on their work in an informal setting.

NEW YORK The recent death of Norman Borlaug provides an opportune moment to reflect on basic values and on our economic system.

But it must also be a time of reflection on how we can better fulfil our duties and responsibilities.

The recent death of James M. Buchanan, the father of public choice economics, is reason to reflect on his sage warnings.

Each year the delivery of the IAEA's annual report to the General Assembly is a time for reflection, but today perhaps more than usual.

The world recognized the need for the United Nations, not only as a means of curbing the dangers of our modem world but also as a forum for reflection.

The breakdown of the Cancun talks may yet provide an opportunity for deeper reflection.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires timeless poetry and cherished music elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

It is a period for a country in war to peace transition to reflect on the past and to cultivate attitudes that will facilitate the avoidance of the mistakes that culminated in the conflict.

Sometimes multilateral solutions seem impossibly difficult, but from time to time it pays to step back and see how far we have come.

The anniversary provides a reason to reflect on some of the country s achievements and failings, especially in the field of education the key to economic opportunity and professionalization of the public sector.

The theme illustrated in the tagline Cancer Did you know? offers an opportunity to reflect on cancer s true consequences and enhance global prevention and treatment efforts.

Nevertheless, for China s part, now seems to be a good time to reflect on how to increase its exports value added, as well as focusing on environmental protection and sustainability.

And yet we still lack the basic skills of reflecting on such information, of sifting through the dirt to find the worthy nuggets.

Instead, it should be an occasion for reflection on the role of ideological groupthink among economists, including Bernanke, in contributing to the global economic and financial crisis.

But there is time to figure that out, and Syria s own 2014 election might offer a face saving way out of that conundrum.

Even for non Catholics like myself, this is an occasion to ponder what the world will lose when the Pope s body finally succumbs to his ailments.

The WTO Ministerial Conference later this month will provide an occasion to consider the best ways to generate growth and alleviate poverty in these countries.

And it's a scary thing as well. Because when we start looking at the collective appetite for our lifestyles, and what we're doing to that landscape that, to me, is something that is a very sobering moment for me to contemplate.

This year, the 400th anniversary of Galileo s first use of a telescope, has been declared the International Year of Astronomy, so this seems a good time to ponder Kant s first source of awe and reverence.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA The death of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore s founding father, offers an occasion to reflect on his legacy and, perhaps more importantly, on whether that legacy has been correctly understood.

Informal consultations had been held on 20 June 2005 to reflect further on the recommendations relating to human rights contained in the report, with a view to contributing to the deliberations on the proposed reform of the United Nations at the General Assembly.

At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids got built this way.

Because if we look at the Earth the way it should be, it would be something like this very inspiring image where darkness is for our imagination and for contemplation and to help us to relate to everything.

PRAGUE The fifteenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, is an opportunity to ponder the meaning of moral behavior and free action.

The sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations this year a time of reflection and renewal presents DPI with an excellent opportunity to tell the United Nations story in a more dynamic way to more people around the world than ever before.

Kenyatta assumes power a half century after his father, Jomo Kenyatta, led Kenya to independence. The anniversary provides a reason to reflect on some of the country s achievements and failings, especially in the field of education 160 the key to economic opportunity and professionalization of the public sector.

Once again Pope John Paul II has returned to hospital, gravely ill. Even for non Catholics like myself, this is an occasion to ponder what the world will lose when the Pope s body finally succumbs to his ailments.

NEW YORK The recent death of Norman Borlaug provides an opportune moment to reflect on basic values and on our economic system. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in bringing about the green revolution, which saved hundreds of millions from hunger and changed the global economic landscape.

GENEVA This year, World Cancer Day will focus on dispelling damaging myths about the disease. The theme illustrated in the tagline Cancer Did you know? offers an opportunity to reflect on cancer s true consequences and enhance global prevention and treatment efforts.