It snowed more this year than last.

Earth Hour was fun this year.

He resigned this post the following year.

Requests the Secretary General to implement the present resolution.

And it makes him very dangerous at this time of year.

Many of the other themes flowed from this general conclusion.

Requests the Secretary General to follow up the implementation of this resolution.

There's been a lot of rain this year.

We did it with smallpox, which has now been eradicated, and we are doing it with polio (with less than 100 cases worldwide this year).

Firstly, for many years the Conference has not been attended by so many ministers of foreign affairs as this year.

Here is a selection of photos from this year's Notting Hill Carnival posted on Flickr.

China s growth rate last year was 8.7 , and more than 10 in the past two quarters.

We look forward to further proposals from the Secretary General in this respect.

It is still intended to hold the elections before the end of this year.

This hotel was built last year.

I'm not taking a vacation this year.

This year was no different.

But this year is different.

This year is no exception.

In this regard we wish to refer to the letter of the United Nations Secretary General contained in document CD 1746 of 24 January this year.

Last year, the external energy deficit was more than 3 billion, and this year it is expected to double.

We did so this year in Haiti and other Caribbean nations hit by hurricanes.

He was traveling in the Philippines this time last year.

This year s round of annual general meetings has been different.

The public discourse is poorer for this.

Afghanistan faces an election later this year.

Happy Eid from Syria pic.twitter.com Fwqo0C9ozI Racan ( Racanarchy) October 15, 2013 However, there is an embedded message that could be understood from such art, and that is Syria's hardship is throttling what remains of the nation and it needs help.

The Law on Witness Protection was adopted in May this year.

Let's toss a coin and see what happens this year.

Sami is going to college this year.

Accordingly, the public mood is optimistic.

Two other journalists in the group were killed earlier this year.

However, many landlocked countries were not benefiting from this general trend.

In this atmosphere of public silence, the virtually vacant public space is filled with odd voices that are not intended for public consumption.

In 2000, she was named Greatest Woman Achiever of the Century award by the International Women of the Year Association.

Further, the European Union also welcomes the recent initiative of the Alliance of Civilizations, announced by the Secretary General in July this year.

Finally, this year, a number of reports, including one by the Secretary General himself, seem to have spurred all of us to action.

This decline in confidence is fundamentally related to the chaos in the financial markets that started in 2007 and accelerated this September.

The Secretary General of the United Nations and the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization may enter into such supplementary arrangements for the implementation of the present Agreement as may be found desirable.

In the first quarter of this year, the eurozone s public debt ratio actually rose, to 92.2 of GDP.

Later this year, donors will decide whether to renew this facility.

So we got more money this year to carry on collecting more and more samples.

The British economy is contracting. Greece s economy has been shrinking for years.

The Pakistani Taliban has killed hundreds of Pakistani soldiers this year.

Making matters worse, the country has suffered this year from both floods and drought.