Within that incredibly broad swath, there are a couple of areas that I m excited about focusing on.

We all realize how great and complex are the challenges facing the United Nations in the maintenance of peace and security.

The reason for the large carry over is that almost all funds are paid in advance, and some projects may extend over several years.

For its part, the Security Council is fully aware of the great responsibility that the international community must assume in helping the Sudanese parties to remain on their chosen path.

And if you look at the height of it and you compare it to Mount Everest, you see, it'll give you an idea of how large that Mount Olympus, you know, is, relative to Mount Everest.

Each column is 22 meters (66 ft) high and 2 meters (7.5 ft) in diameter, hinting at the temple's enormous size in the time of the Roman Empire .

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The enormous death toll is only part of the burden.

As astronomic as those figures are, they seem no longer to move us.

The scale of that achievement seems to have been missed by some.

Why France and Britain and not Germany or Japan, two much larger economies? Or India and Brazil, two huge countries?

Is the West ready? In an article in the Financial Times in July 2004, Standard Chartered CEO Mervyn Davies wrote, westerners are realizing how big Asia s corporate ambitions are.

Noting the great economic and social challenges facing the Palestinian people and their leadership,

Noting the great economic and social challenges facing the Palestinian people and their leadership,

These trees are the tallest and one of the most massive tree species on Earth.

The largest cost of this mismanaged war has been borne by Iraq.

The differences in price for many other consumer goods is even larger.

The magnitude of this agenda must be seen against the region s depressing legacy.

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He acknowledged that there were some minor problems with the electoral process, but said they did not diminish the magnitude of the accomplishment.

The Indian stove is clearly a work in progress it is too bulky and not durable enough to survive the rigors of an African village.

(h) The magnitude of the problem of abduction of children by the Lord's Resistance Army, in particular in northern Uganda

With so much work to do in one year, I propose that we start with an accountability pact.

One can assume that next year s total spending on military affairs will be even bigger.

International inequalities, while large three decades ago, have worsened ever since.

We know the challenge is great, but the prize is worth the struggle, and Europe should know that this is our goal.

And the bigger they are, the safer creditors become you see where this goes.

It is as if his personality had become the biggest obstacle to his determination to break with the past.

But the two largest advanced economies the US and Japan have not yet started along this path.

However large our efforts to assist victims have been over the past 60 years, we are aware of the impossibility of compensating for the enormity of that suffering.

The low priority given to energy is due to the major basic investments required and the unsuitability at times of new techniques in relation to local customs.

The magnitude of the loss of human life and the destruction impacting such a huge number of people is beyond the realm of understanding.

The health advantages of providing networked water supplies are less dramatic than is often assumed.

Due to the large mass of a boson, weak decay is much more unlikely than strong or electromagnetic decay, and hence occurs less rapidly.

As on previous occasions, I am awed by the responsibility that you have entrusted to me, and I hope to be able to carry it out.

But a slow exit risks creating a credit and asset bubble as large as the previous one, if not larger.

Furthermore, ample worldwide liquidity and the rise of other commodity prices induced market speculators to buy into oil futures.

Even where reception systems may be strained by large numbers of illegal arrivals, it remains essential that proper procedures are in place to assess status.

In view of the magnitude of the project and of the difficulties involved in the preparation of the draft instrument, it had been agreed that 2007 would be a desirable completion date.

The COP recognized the advantage of Parties exercising discipline when requesting the secretariat to prepare documents, bearing in mind the considerable resources required for the preparation of documentation.

Deeply concerned about the rising trend in and magnitude of illicit production of opiates in Afghanistan and the trafficking of those opiates to Europe and other parts of the world,

These economic and social challenges are made, as the Secretary General's report reminds us, all the greater by the political insecurity that is the defining reality of today's world.

Our despair over the enormity of this disaster must be channelled into motivation to ensure much better preparedness next time nature strikes.

It was at that moment, in that very small town of 30,000 or so, that I truly appreciated the vastness of the universe and the searching we might do in it.

And the projected fiscal deficits imply that the additional debt that will be issued during the next decade will be as large as the total stock of debt today.