And then, in the middle of a sentence, at the very birth of twilight, I turned and looked down the street.

As fascism fell, the United Nations rose.

I got up in the morning and I didn t say a word.

I jumped up and said something stupid like, Hey, stop, that's not right!

It was on that basis that the United Nations rose from the ravages of the Second World War.

And after its defeat in World War II, Japan rose from the ashes to become Asia s first global economic powerhouse.

For the real Poland that emerged after 1989 is much more promising than their political incarnation of it.

It played a crucial role in assisting the Bonn process by providing security during the emergency Loya Jirga in June 2002.

Such countries adopted development strategies that promoted specific sectors within a given period, while aiming at higher growth and restructuring.

Korea is a nation that rose from the ashes of war to build the world's eleventh largest economy and to achieve significant democratic progress.

Many countries that expressed reservations about the decision to remove the previous regime by military force have risen to the challenge of assisting us in our efforts to rebuild.

UNICEF has played an active role in supporting the Government's back to school programme , which has targeted 500,000 children since 2004.

He expressed his appreciation for the active and supportive role of the multinational force, the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division, the United Nations agencies, and for the generous contributions of donor States.

irememberSG is part of the Singapore Memory Project, a national initiative to collect, preserve and provide access to the memories of a nation which rose to become one of the most prosperous cities in the world.

The Organization rose out of the devastation of that terrible experience, and its noble mission was crafted as a response to its unspeakable horrors, which shocked the conscience of humankind.

Out of the ashes of war a new kind of Europe arose, as did a new kind of Japan, which even had a pacifist constitution (written by idealistic Americans, but gratefully accepted by most Japanese).

She is also mentioned in the poem Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines Two ladies fair, but most unfortunate Have in their ruins rais'd declining Rome, Lucretia and Virginia, both renowned For chastityThomas Heywood's play The Rape of Lucretia dates from 1607.

I got up the next morning, went to the computer and looked at the results, and was hoping for something that walked in a straight line, like I've just demonstrated, and this is what I got instead.

In many countries, national machineries have played a key role in promoting and facilitating legal reforms, development of monitoring mechanisms, data collection and indicator development, capacity building, and public awareness campaigns on gender equality and empowerment of women.

Fast forward three years. I did eventually get off the sofa, and start planning another expedition. This time, I wanted to go right across, on my own this time, from Russia, at the top of the map, to the North Pole, where the sort of kink in the middle is, and then on to Canada.

The problem was that the money from my last salary was about to run out, and such a lunch gathering would put too much pressure on my already tight budget, but thank God he said it was his treat, i.e. for free, so I went (I am joking, of course 50 shekels is not that much).