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This was published at a time when climate science was rising up the agenda as an explosive political issue.

He plays tennis since the age of 6, but he will have to give it up because he's running out of time with so many activities in his agenda.

I am also encouraged that Member States have continued to keep intercultural dialogue high on the agenda of the General Assembly.

A senior U. S. Treasury official said the Obama administration intended to put currency issues on the agenda for the IMF meeting here.

Taking the first several minutes after waking up to acclimate to my day reminds me that I'm not at the mercy of everyone else's agenda.

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With so much else on the agenda in London, it is not clear how much time the Group of 20 will be able to devote to trade.

In fact, I can no longer sit through a meeting that has no stated purpose, agenda or reasonably neutral facilitator.

O. P. leaders have come out for a complete return to the Bush agenda, including tax breaks for the rich and financial deregulation.

The committee spent hours trying to hammer out the final points of the agenda before finally reaching agreement.

Today, the question of executive power, so central to the national security law battles of the Bush years, is mostly off the agenda.

As it had stated in the discussions on the Development Agenda, development was already a strong and undeniable dimension of WIPO.

"They are aware of it as an issue, but it'snot at the top of their agenda, " he said.

If it fits in with his broader agenda - stability - then there is a possibility that he might be convinced to give up his nuclear weapons.

He tried to raise the poor's mind (via psychology & money) to protest for his own personal agenda to be given pardon for his crimes.

Brian Farrell's work is all part of this agenda to try and actually discover all the species on Earth.

He said other pressing demands for resources make it "unlikely that the government will place science at the top of its agenda" .

Changing times have pushed the question of labour back to the top of the agenda.

We believe that the world is here to be conquered and overcome but it is simply a flow of energy that has no judgment or agenda with us.

The instinctive refusal to see that there is a non-agenda is characteristic of both the Blair and Brown versions of New Labour.

When asked if the leaders discussed the yuan's exchange rate, Mr. Wu only said the topic wasn't on the meeting's agenda.

In a delicate exercise, charities are trying to present their agenda without usurping the mayor.

Dealing with the growing economic and military power of China will also be on the agenda, she said.

"The main impact we wanted to have was to put this on the agenda of the candidates, " he says.

Therefore, the policy agenda of civic participation is often the determinants to enhance the ability of social integration and harmony.

While you are at it, make me a special agenda and don't forget to have enough room at the side for notes.

The Delegation believed that all that was needed to be said on the Development Agenda had been spelt out in previous meetings.

Robert: Go ahead, it's for your reference. While you're at it, make me a special agenda.

Regardless of whether or not your meeting is remote, it's always a good practice to send out a numbered agenda with your meeting invitation.

Also, allow her to set the rules and agenda for your meeting at a place of her choosing.

In his 1960 election campaign, he said the president's responsibility was to "set before the people the unfinished agenda" for the nation.

said he wanted reform of the international monetary system to be at the top of the agenda at the group's November summit in Seoul.

The Delegation referred to interventions made earlier on the Development Agenda, during the General Assembly.

So, alas, would a more nuanced view on public-service reform, since much of the party never signed up to the Blairite agenda.

For years it had used the threat of its veto to keep North Korean adventurism off the Security Council's agenda.

If they worked for a private business and made choices to spend the " companies" money on personal agenda deals they would be in jail.

There is no doubt that world events have given the United States and China a full and formidable agenda.

The even more controversial question of how to enforce any thresholds that leaders eventually sign up to is yet further off the agenda.

The meeting March 14 is to set the common agenda for addressing the widely deepening recession that G20 leaders will take up in April.

Notifies all observers that have been registered with the agenda model when an entry or to-do list is added, updated or deleted.

Fiscal union is now officially on the European agenda in the run-up to the last European summit of the year on December 9.

This would anticipate the changing interests and concerns of all the big trading nations in a way that the Doha agenda did not.

Peace has been high on your agenda for such a long time, but ignored by the dark Ones who use wars to hold you back.

President Obama may be experiencing a temporary bounce with his own personal ratings, but much of his agenda remain hugely unpopular.

If I catch them lying, trying to use me to pass disinformation, or working a hidden agenda, I break off the contact.

There could be a different president two years hence, ready to reverse his agenda of international passivity and decline.

Gas issues seem to be taking up most of the day's agenda in the meeting between the leaders.

'There seems to be a head of steam building up on a cross-party basis around the social mobility and fair access agenda, ' he says.

I'm not a part of any agenda, You've got to trust me. I'm her just like you. To solve this.

The wonder is not that the protesters lack an agenda but that they are still cheerfully trying to hammer one out.

The president will have to give the federal budget deficit and national debt a far more central place in his policy agenda.

As a contemporary Chinese poet, to what extent does the question or issue of a readership stand as an agenda for you?

And now it looks like a good bet that he will overcome opposition to his economic agenda, which in its own way is no less bold.

A report of any special meeting, its agenda, attendance and action taken, shall be reported to the next business meeting.

China's foreign policy is often an extension of its domestic agenda, an effort to create conditions for fast growth to continue.

While trade was a top issue on the agenda for the Bush-Putin meeting, in Hanoi, it was by no means the only one.

An example is the banding used to identify alternate rows on tabular data, or to emphasize parts of a conference agenda.

Critics of the president denounced the speech as an effort by the White House to promote the president's domestic agenda.

It was the strength of that opposition which drove the subject onto the agenda at Nagoya.

In other words, figure out what's important in your work life, move as much of that work to the front of your agenda and focus upon it.

It has boosted the education budget by billions of pounds in recent years and made education one of the linchpins of its agenda.

In essence the Kobe Call for Action asks governments to put health at the heart of the urban policy agenda.

Amy settles into her seat, takes out her computer and reads over the agenda for the meeting to which she's traveling.

It still has no overwhelming ideological agenda, being motivated more by the desire to secure supply of natural resources.

The Delegation pointed out that several speakers had referred to the development agenda, as if it had already been adopted.

He said: "We want to see a constructive dialogue, good will, no doubt, and now need to discuss the agenda for negotiations. "

None of this civil agenda endears him to the religious parties that are Mr Netanyahu's natural allies in the "national camp" .

Regarding the WIPO Development Agenda, the Delegation regretted that agreement had not been reached on this issue during the past two years.

agenda setting , as a practical - testified theoretical hypothesis , is believed to be very effective in this aspect.

What is interesting about this agenda is how familiar much of it would seem to the participants at Bretton Woods, with one exception.

The Delegation said they were not implying that some of the proposals were to be eliminated from the Agenda.

The dark Ones would go to any lengths to stop you, as their agenda is to take over the Earth and enslave you.

The Vice President is vague in her answer, telling Kellerman that her agenda and that of the Company just happened to be the same.

That such a respected statesman is in their crosshairs is a sign that the red-shirts' agenda contains the seeds of a social revolution.

Information protection is now high on the boss's agenda in businesses of every variety.

Whatever the president's wishes, demolition seems to be off the agenda.

His courage in doing so against the instincts of his own party, and his readiness to imperil his domestic agenda, should be commended.

He then dropped the agenda he was preparing for the next day's meeting and took Jimmy to meet the young man.

It makes no gesture, however small, however costless to its larger agenda, of a bipartisan approach to the great questions it addresses.

The ethnic hatred seems to have been pushed aside and now people are pushing a common agenda and pursuing economic survival.

Medvedev also said another task on Russia's agenda was to transfer all combat units to a state of "permanent readiness" .

Dole and I had a good talk, but I left the meeting unsure of what our relationship, or his agenda, would be.

Close to the top of the agenda, though, was the matter of school lunches and what could be done to improve them.

Trip schedule, list of activities My trip agenda includes a conference in Paris and a meeting in London.

We discover a young man, apparently happy, whose evident good humor seems to be a part of his political agenda.

All that raised expectations that Obama should be able to win congressional approval of his core agenda.

This positive feedback loop is exactly the kind of self-preservation strategy a system with its own agenda would develop.

"I have had lots of meetings to present innovation, and have been surprised that sustainability was on the agenda each time, " he said.

The G-20 Summit is now a little more than a week away and the host, British Prime Minister Gorden Brown, is taking his agenda on tour.

That would give it a majority in both chambers, and hence greater freedom to pursue its own agenda.

Some Republican leaders have said the election results show that Americans want much of the president's agenda reversed.

Diplomats, development experts, and others in the United States Government must be able to work side by side to support a common agenda.

But a change of culture will be needed and a more pro-active relationship with the media should be high on his or her's agenda.

The vote on China currency was one of the last items on the congressional agenda before the midterm elections.

A senior administration official said the session had a full agenda that ranged from combating terrorism to trade.

Travel may also be on your agenda, and getting away from your normal base would be very good for your spirit now.

At the talks, the issue of how the developed world will pay for climate saving measures by emerging economies is at the top of the agenda.

But let me reassure the critics. The strengthening of health systems has moved near the top of the international health agenda.

In a speech at the Asia Society in New York, last weekend, she said Washington has a very broad agenda when it comes to China.

But a new direction is possible, especially if he begins to focus his attempts to launch a new agenda with business on a few concrete steps.

The road to sustainable development, he said, is only attainable if it is built on a gender inclusive agenda.

But that only begs the question of why financial reform has not been higher on the agenda of the president and Democratic leaders.

We 're dealing with one gigantic entity . . . that seems to be very skilled at promoting its agenda .

Expanding the current research works and supporting software testing of more application have been a priority of the agenda.

But Nessar says that rather than joining with the coalition's agenda, Russia will try to balance it out if not provide an alternative to it.

We are ready to collaborate with all of you in executing this ambitious research agenda.

Chandler was a master of this sort of sub-textural dancing, where dialogue is always a hidden agenda about to be revealed.

This technical forum meets at least once a year and sets the framework of guidelines for the Community's operational agenda.

Government health care had been a leading item on the liberal agenda at least since Harry Truman first proposed it, in 1946.

It is all about the adults' agenda and not really for the children at all.

A third source said the talks were a regular event but there were "no specific projects on the agenda at the moment" .

And there seemed to be something of a consensus on the agenda.

Tong said he expects regional economic integration to be at the core of the APEC agenda this year.

How much of this agenda has found its way into the Dodd-Frank bill?

But the consensus was that human rights has to be on the agenda even if it is awkward.

It emphasized that issue was at the heart of the development agenda and must not be forgotten, as more proposals were submitted.

This book draws together the existing literature and expertise and with a view to helping set the agenda for public health action.

Likewise, an agenda for getting out of the crisis and setting the global economy on a more balanced path does not depend on the yuan.

Such written notice shall be accompanied by an agenda and such additional materials as the Chairman and Vice Chairman deem appropriate.

A U. S. official said the issue wasn't on the official agenda for the meeting but could easily be raised.

Ding urged the city government to put population management on its agenda in the next Five-Year Plan, which starts this year.

It trusted that the General Assembly would be able to take the Development Agenda process forward.

Judging by progress on the formal agenda, rather than the surprise intervention of the British prime minister, the results so far are mixed.

I try to have no expectations, no agenda and let the landscape unfold as I explore.

Meetings adhere to strict agendas, including starting and ending times. Do not attempt to deviate from the agenda.

It added that after two years of discussions, all its components of the development agenda had been finally ignored.

Nuclear safety also is on the agenda of a week-long board meeting at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

Two Republican candidates, Texas governor Rick Perry and former Senator Rick Santorum, said the policy amounts to promoting a gay agenda.

The science establishment has an agenda to prove that the mind consists entirely of brain activity and has no non-material component.

Not all of our agenda passed, so we had plenty of ammunition for the last two and a half weeks of the campaign.

Her problems stem partly from having to juggle her own agenda against that of the parliamentary allies on whom her survival depends.

The important point was that the Development Agenda could not be reduced to a discussion on this cluster of issues.

All this means that grappling with entrenched joblessness deserves to be far higher on America's policy agenda.

There is no set agenda for how often you practice astral projection or any other out-of-body technique.

Each of the big players has its own agenda, so picking a candidate from amongst them may be a hard sell within the group itself.

The boldness of the President's agenda may be outmatched by the bleakness of his political situation.

Despite those challenges, the US government has no clear research agenda, or even research community, that focuses on cybersecurity.

In the Delegation's view, a WIPO Development Agenda was something that had to be implemented through a gradual approach.

But Barnes told VOA's Issues in the News program that the president is right to make an early push for his entire agenda.

Those looking for a response to social breakdown will find that the Conservatives have worked hard at parts of this agenda.

This is a nationwide policy agenda I'm trying to build, and as you all know, politics are personal. Help me make green the new black.

In particular, the overall campus teaching building construction, the construction of wireless LAN Geng Shiba referred to the agenda.

A smart innovation agenda, in short, would be quite different from the one that most rich governments seem to favour.

His "freedom agenda" came to the fore later, after it was discovered that the much-hyped weapons did not exist.

Resolving the Year 2000 problem was one of the top items of the HKMA's supervisory agenda in 1999.

Yet if the total amount of economic growth is limited, then that should be on the agenda as well.

Newspapers have been accused of trying to set the agenda for the government.

Give concrete specifics of achievements that illustrate how you could advance the company's agenda.

This is a question of the last importance. Be sure to put it on the agenda.

Since their explicit agenda is to make us consume less, that is, to be poorer, they worry that this may not be popular.

"The fight against poverty is now on the agenda of every sector. "

If possible, kindly send us a confirmation for an appointment date and other details to be place in our agenda.

The fortunes of illegal enterprises over the past decade have been helped by the fact that they were low on the law-and-order agenda.

And as if your western governments and media are the most trustworthy, righteous, agenda free and whiter than white regimes.

it was institutionally special, with a special political base and a special scientific and clinical agenda.

You can be sure that as you get closer to this date your priorities will change and your agenda will shift accordingly.

I think the Chinese are equally committed to stimulating growth, to being able to help push the global economic agenda as well.

And Mr Obama has much to think about, especially when it comes to rallying support for his legislative agenda.

And that means we'll finally be able to issue a report card on the president's arms-control agenda.

The next project on your agenda when attempting to achieve multiple streams of affiliate income should be to create your email capture page.

Your agenda for the day should be rest, relaxation and getting back in touch with what you really enjoy doing.

Sex is also a hugely relevant social topic, which is often overlooked on the social affairs agenda.

Yet a program for that kind of change is nowhere to be found on the American political agenda.

The London meeting will last only a day, and its agenda is potentially vast, so don't expect everything to be settled.

The long- term objective of the PCDA was to establish a mainstream development agenda in WIPO on a permanent and sustained basis .

Many conservatives expressed fear over the past week that the president's address would be used to push a partisan political agenda.

The Delegation believed that its proposal fell in line with that spirit and was also consistent with the Doha Agenda.

In the run-up to a presidential election, US intellectuals compete hard to shape the foreign policy agenda.

Keeping trade between two of the world's biggest exporters buoyant seems to be high on the agenda.

Understanding the other side greatly reduces risk and establishes which parts of the agenda are really up for negotiation.

But such meetings have been more frequent recently and rarely has such an agenda been set out in advance.

The Delegation of South Africa observed that there may be mixed feelings at the meeting in terms of support for the Development Agenda.

Mr. Kim's travel to China during that visit is a sign that the succession issue is now at the top of the North Korean leader's agenda.

I'm still working on the agenda, there will be a lot to go over on Monday. Here's what I've got so far.

As the items on your agenda show, persuading people to adopt healthy behaviours is one of the biggest challenges in public health.

In a statement its Geneva mission said it would not agree to adoption of the agenda until its concerns were addressed.

We ought to put this on the agenda, in conclusion, which must be carried out in three weeks.

As I said, you are rejuvenating the public health agenda for the European Region.

The pact appeared to represent President Obama's first victory in his ambitious agenda to move toward a nuclear-free world.

Business groups have been trying to muscle another item onto the agenda.

But with another 15-odd countries on the agenda and about three to four weeks to go, allowing the torch relay to go on might be much worse.

But if China is serious about sustainable economic growth, putting these to the top of the agenda would be a good start.

'It's not an unreasonable expectation' to see it on the legislative agenda within the next 12 months, according to Dr. England.

And last week, the United States led an effort to put Burma, for the first time in history, on the agenda of the U. N. Security Council.

The first thing it would like to highlight was the clarity of the proposal, following the whole process of setting up a Development Agenda.

"We're prepared to go through these talks as long as it takes for us to get through our agenda, " Glaser told reporters.

He says the Kyodo reporter was more interested in pursuing a political agenda than accurately reflecting his comments.

A man who has put the battle against graft at the top of his agenda must be beyond reproach himself.

We may have a president who does not mind, and even will encourage, members of Congress, of both parties, to question him on his agenda.

And I believe that there is a strong agenda of practical action we can take together to help China realise that goal.

He welcomed the decision to meet on Sunday and said if his group had a chance to participate it would study the agenda.

They may have their own agenda, or at least their own perception of who you are and what you want.

We regarded Assange throughout as a source, not as a partner or collaborator, but he was a man who clearly had his own agenda.

Urgent agendas of domestic renewal on every continent turn out to be a common agenda, for global renewal.

As the British Foreign Secretary said a few weeks ago: 'green is not an item on the agenda, it is the agenda.

Let's thrash the matter over before putting it on the agenda .

AFTER years of fat profits and bonuses, cost-cutting is once again at the top of the corporate agenda.

Other high-profile plans, such as labour-market reform and central-bank autonomy, seem to be off the agenda.

Michelle Obama is also gradually developing an agenda of her own, centred on health issues, on which she will speak and start to campaign.

One of these nations hosts the economic forums annually and sets the agenda after consultations with other member nations.

The Home Office report is dominated by an agenda where the various problems of adulthood are revisited on children.

There was no breakthrough at the summit on another lead item on the agenda: climate change.

What exactly will be the agenda of your teaching sessions at Guangzhou? Will it be aimed only at senior practitioners or novices as well?

A good agenda states meeting place; starting time, time for each item, ending time; objectives of the meeting; and items to be discussed.

The cybernetic group did not find answers as much as they prepared an agenda for questions.

This gives you a strong advantage in terms of national ownership of the health agenda.

Last night he was holding his own town hall meeting at Bozeman, Montana, offering a passionate defence of his crammed agenda.

But the biggest injustice kids have to deal with is the biased, agenda-ridden concept of standardized testing.

After the outbreak of the financial crisis , a concept of carbon tax has really entered into the public agenda.

The Delegation said that the issue of norm-setting within WIPO was a core element of its proposal for a development agenda.

He understands that the role of a judge is to strictly interpret the law, not to advance a personal or political agenda.

However, in an unprecedented move, Taiwan forced adjournment of the meeting by refusing to approve the appointments agenda item.

As the global food crisis grows day by day, the question of how to feed the world in a stustainable way is top of the agenda once again.

Noting that the General Assembly agreed with his proposal, he suspended the discussions of the Agenda item.

The study of "Agenda-setting" is related to that of the Guide of Public Opinion theoretically.

It is the second time for Premier Wen to visit Britain since he took office. Although the visit is short, the agenda is fairly tight.

Last October, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, one of the nation's two main safety regulators, met to set its long-term agenda.

The agenda of his cultural remedy thus incorporates a variety of paradoxes, warps and decoys and is pessimistic and incomplete.

All this is insane. It's not the agenda of a country interested in its future.

He had laid out his legislative agenda for an autumn special session.

They may impose a confrontational agenda that can actually make it more difficult for you to resolve your issue.

A bold microeconomic agenda will not yield instant rewards. Nor is it a substitute for getting the macroeconomics right.

Mr Medvedev has firmly embraced, at least verbally, the modernising political and economic agenda that Russia sorely needs.

Dutfield said the approval of the agenda came largely thanks to the persistence of the Friends of Development.

Now that America's biggest state has put universal coverage at the top of its political agenda, the feds will have to take notice.

In short, the decision to secede from the British Empire was accompanied by a truly revolutionary agenda for the infant American republic.

Japanese whaling was always going to be a major sticking point on the IWC agenda in Madeira.

Obama is still broadly popular, and the public is still broadly sympathetic to his administration's agenda.

An agenda and all accompanying board papers are sent to all directors at least three days before every board meeting.

China's monetary policy and the further opening of its financial markets to US institutions are expected to be high on the agenda.

Schedule My agenda is quite full for the whole week, so I can't make an appointment with you.

With regard to the upcoming visit by Myanmar Prime Minister to China, I already shared with you his agenda and schedule last time.

Know you have the confidence to be independent and exult in the freedom that comes from being able to set your own agenda.

A Home Office spokesman said the department took the growth agenda "very seriously" .

Could I suggest that we move on to the next point on the agenda, as we're a bit pressed for time.

Instead, it had a powerful political agenda of its own, expressedin the line 'Many things in China, it seems, should return to MayFourth'.

Relevant arrangement including the agenda of the meeting is still under consultation and will be released in due course.

But 3 years on, though a draft of the legislation has been finished, the law remains near the bottom of the agenda of the state council.

Algeria has scant motivation to cut back in light of an expanded quota agenda.

eg. They ran through the agenda at the beginning of the meeting.

Only the na? ve or those with a political agenda believe that the economic cycle can be eliminated.

"We want to use entrepreneurship programs as a platform to push a democratic reform agenda, " she said.

I began the project with no political agenda, preferring to let the soldiers speak for themselves.

North Korea's recently disclosed uranium enrichment program will be on the agenda of future discussions, he said.

The energy conservation of the building in economically underdeveloped area is still in far rising space of agenda .

China supports the consideration of the agenda item "Sport for Peace and Development" in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

Mr. Blair said he discussed the agenda of the upcoming G-8 summit of leading industrial nations plus Russia in Scotland in July.

In international diplomatic events, the host country is usually given a free hand to prepare the agenda.

A major part of that agenda is streamlining the central-government bureaucracy into fewer but stronger agencies to cut red tape.

But Wal-Mart is an irresistibly easy target. Crafting an agenda that would really help American workers would be rather more demanding.