Hardly a week passes without the Chinese ambassador giving eloquent speeches for different audiences.

As a few countries emerge as major economic superpowers and important trade partners, such as China and India, the impact across developing countries may be uneven.

When the 4GL was first introduced, a disparate mix of hardware and operating systems mandated custom application development support that was specific to the system in order to ensure sales.

Ms. García (Paraguay) said that the main thrust of the work under way in the Women's Bureau was to draw together the threads of programmes which in the past had always been tackled in a disparate fashion.

Establishing the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration is an attempt to bring together a diverse but complementary group of agencies with a common commitment to reducing road traffic injuries.

The UNITAR Programme of Correspondence Instruction in Peacekeeping Operations (UNITAR POCI) was established to provide standard distance training on peacekeeping that would be universally available at low cost to a large population of students of diverse geographical distribution.

On the No side a disparate coalition drawn from both the far right and the far left, including ultra Catholics and unreconstructed Marxists, has sought to whip up hysteria about supposed threats ranging from military conscription to euthanasia and abortion.