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Examples included the Belgian contamination fiasco in 1999, when the company took a week to accept responsibility for a wave of sickness.

A Belgian city has decided to go "veggie" for a day in an effort to highlight the environmental and health costs of eating meat.

The Belgian government met twice on Friday to see how it could extricate its slice of Dexia with a minimal impact on the public purse.

As a gift or special indulgence, Belgian chocolate is one product which lives up to its reputation for quality.

It is not hard to see why: to Belgian leaders trapped in the national equivalent of a bad marriage, the EU's free love must look like bliss.

Only 12 bottles of "The End of History, " a blond Belgian ale, were produced, and each came packaged in its own bit of taxidermy.

Currently the German Shepherd, Dutch Shepherd and Belgian Malinois have proven to be the best choice as the standard military working dog.

The Belgian Malinois possesses a strong desire to work and is quick and responsive to commands from his owner.

Samuel: The British are trapped in the Belgian lowlands. And this paper is already a week old!

Third place in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa is the highlight of his final season with Benetton.

So what about that prerecorded phone message where a Belgian who grew up in Asia tells you about his classmate who climbed Mount Everest?

By the end of the war 800 people had been saved by the organization , but at a cost of over 200 Belgian and French lives .

Fortis, a Dutch-Belgian bank, faced speculation that it would be unable to raise more capital as its share price fell by 10% on Friday.

Belgian blues are so big because their genes for a protein called myostatin, a hormone that regulates muscle growth, do not work properly.

This 3 star hotel is the ideal base for a business trip to the Belgian capital or to the Heysel Exhibition Park.

The Belgian tennis player Justine Henin is to return the professional circuit a year after she's said she'd retired.

Pleasant or not, the unapologetic brutality of his work is - if Tuymans is correct - exactly what one would expect from a Belgian artist.

Companies might even consider the anonymous model used in the Belgian public sector, where CVs do not even include the candidate's name.

The pudding was encased in an outer coating made of bitter dark Belgian chocolate, glazed with edible gold leaf and handmade flowers.

The Belgian defender scooped the official Club prize after a string of powerful performances at the heart of the Arsenal back four.

So a Belgian student who spends a year in, say, France, gets a credit that means something at his home university.

The areas along the front lines, on the French-Belgian border, were wastelands.

Some say Xavier Lust is one of the most talented Belgian designers of his generation.

Now French and Belgian officials are discussing how to split the bank up and create a so called "bad bank" that would hold its worst assets.

Early in her career, she worked as a reporter at Bloomberg, where she covered the French, Belgian, and Swiss financial markets.

Belgian blues are so big because their genes for a protein called myostatin do not work properly.

FOR all its grand central squares and lively cultural scene, the Belgian port of Antwerp is not always a happy town.

Over the next three years, the Belgian government has committed to subscribe to a tentative rights issue of as much as 2 billion euros.

I think this directness is what's most important in Belgian art, including Magritte, who was no painter but a great artist nonetheless.

And it is still possible to short sovereign debt directly: Belgian bonds are "the next big trade" , says one undeterred hedge.

Questions have even been asked in the Belgian parliament about how the kingdom ended up on the wrong side of a "Latin v Calvinist" divide.

The Belgian is penciled in for the end of the month while the other two "are still two or three weeks away" .

The pudding is made of the finest Belgian chocolate flavoured with a combination of peach, orange and whiskey.

On Thursday of this week, European heads of state and government will meet in the Belgian capital to discuss the next steps.

Belgian Senator Paul Wille said he was impressed by China's rapid development.

Initially, they made good progress, agreeing the sale of its Luxembourg private bank, its Belgian retail bank and its municipal lending arm.

A Belgian union said about 150 out of 400 jobs were at risk over plans to dissolve the bank holding company.

Downstairs has restaurant and bar with a pool table area at the back that was being used by a couple of Belgian travelers.

The two dozen teenagers are part of a pilot project started this autumn in nine Belgian schools to promote Chinese language learning.

The 1830 Belgian Revolution led to the establishment of an independent, Catholic and neutral Belgium under a provisional government.

Likewise the commission has sounded tough on Dexia, a Franco-Belgian lender, demanding that it come up with a plan early next year.

French fries were called Belgian fries once, but the name was finally changed to French fries. Sometimes French fries are just called fries.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian scientists are developing a cuddly green robot to help ease the anxieties of children in hospital.

For instance, a Dutch-Belgian company has developed a fuel cell for a Volkswagen van and is also working on a larger unit to power a bus.

If taste is one of the main factors putting women off, why not just drink Belgian fruit beers?

"To tell you the truth, I thought the show wasn't that good, " says Belgian tourist Raphael Doumont.

Recently, however, it has agreed to pay royalties, to French, Belgian and Luxembourgian artists whose works are viewed in those countries.

Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne has spoken of his pride at taking command of the International Space Station.

Ms Ding, who was working as the head sales manager for Belgian projector company, Barco, was not so quickly convinced.

One day Hoover hurried to Berlin to protest against the piratical act of a German submarine in sinking a Belgian relief ship.

A State which would exercise this right should notify its intention to other States through the Belgian Government.

The denunciation shall take effect one year after the date on which the notification has been received by the Belgian Government.

I learned only much later that it was the bitter almond smell of the cyanide that the Belgian had inhaled in order to die.

Having never seen a German soldier, they had few qualm s about settling in Aachen, near the Belgian border, after the war.

BNP and the Belgian government will also take a bigger slice of a fund housing the worst of Fortis's structured assets.

Belgian scientists believe they've found the key to guessing how many orgasms a woman has had - and apparently it's all in her gait.

One of the towns is St. Amand-les-Eaux, in northern France near the Belgian border.

Belgian chocolate is considered to be the gourmet standard by which all other chocolate confections are measured.

Let me answer the question by telling a story about Belgian chocolates.

The differences between my country and China that I notice most in my life are the food, fixed prices and Belgian bar culture.

Belgian prosecutors showed how Clottemans had cut the cords to the main and reserve chute of her rival.

Belgian banking is just one part of a bigger European story about the tilting balance between onshore and offshore banking.

He does not suffer fools and can be withering in private about political opponents, say Belgian sources.

Better market regulation is the "only solution" , thundered a Belgian minister.

EU leaders have chosen the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy, to be the first permanent European Council President.

The pudding is made with four different types of the finest Belgian chocolate flavoured with a combination of peach, orange and whiskey.

"That Belgian chap, Profond, " he said, "is a member here now. He's a rum customer. "

So Lafont proved his worth by personally hunting down and torturing the leader of the Belgian resistance.

What makes Belgian chocolate unique is the quality of ingredients and an almost fanatical adherence to Old World manufacturing techniques.

Belgian frigate came to the rescue of a sinking ship between Somalia and Yemen, saving 38 people. The U.

Last Friday, Metro settled with Belgian bank KBC Group for an undisclosed sum involving a lease-back agreement being in technical default.

Mr. DeMarco imports all of his products, which include nuts, dried fruit, pastry supplies and Belgian chocolate.

The Belgian Court ruled against the last sentence Google within large sums of compensation.

At the end of its colonization, there were nine Congolese educated to university level in the Belgian Congo.

My intended nine-month journey to India had begun two days earlier at the port of Zeebrugge on the Belgian coast.

What was Wellington's answer, at the dawn of Belgian independence in the early 19th century?

The deal was brokered by the Belgian government following the surprise nationalisation of the group's Dutch businesses.

After French and Belgian MPs voted to ban it, more bans on female (invariably Muslim) headgear will follow around the continent in 2011.

Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy is a low-key politician with a reputation for conciliation.

Baltacha held her next serve but was broken twice more as the Belgian wrapped up the first set with ease.

Meanwhile the collapse of a Franco-Belgian banking giant, Dexia, has brought home the pressing need to recapitalise Europe's banks.

" Being a Belgian , I know my weaknesses . But I must also have a few talents to have got this far, " he says.

Belgian chocolate pralines could be filled with a variety of flavored nougats or creams, such as coffee, hazelnut, fruit or more chocolate.

He says he does not seek immediate secession but wants the Belgian federal shell gradually to dissolve into the EU.

The art of Belgian political leadership consists of bringing consensus to a broad and fractious coalition.

Belgian banana scientists have become skilled in using DNA-transfer to introduce disease-resistance genes directly into the plant's genome.

It was only on January 23rd that Belgian students organised protest rallies to urge their country's politicians to get a move on.

The Congolese, from Belgian club Standard Liege, has already had a trial with Tottenham, who are keen to sign him when he turns 16.

Mandy thought she might be Brazilian. Or maybe Belgian.

Belgian politics became tribal, with each party championing its own linguistic agenda.

European Union finance ministers are expected to talk about Greece when they meet in the Belgian capital next week.

Other eurozone bond markets saw a sell-off but it was milder than Tuesday's, with French, Spanish and Belgian yields all rising.

Belgian brewers use several tricks of the trade to produce consistently excellent fruited beers.

Arsenal have made contact with Lille regarding the summer transfer of Belgian international Eden Hazard.

I had assumed him to be a Belgian.

In a separate incident, a Belgian ship was captured by pirates 600 kilometers off the Somali coast.

In the UEFA Champions League, the Belgian runners-up will be trying on Wednesday against Chelsea to stop a run of 12 defeats in a row.

The Serb made the leap from the Belgian league this summer and has wasted no time endearing himself to Liverpool supporters.

A frustrated Chinese player, Tan Wangsong, swung his foot straight into the crotch of a Belgian player.

In Spain the group is fighting a price war and its Italian and Belgian businesses are both being restructured.

Volvo may be headquartered in Sweden but the Ford-owned automaker is seeking loan guarantees from the Belgian government.

Filmed in the Belgian Congo, production was halted due to the cast developing amoebic dysentery and malaria.

North of Shanghai at Suzhou is Picanol Suzhou Textile Machinery (PST), part of Belgian-based weaving machine maker Picanol.

Kompany was voted Belgian player of the year in 2004, and has already earned international recognition on a regular basis.

However, a Belgian court ruled that the host nation's police and football authorities were ultimately responsible.

Belgian Post, in which CVC Capital Partners, a private-equity firm, took a large stake in 2006, has also sharpened up its performance.

The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Belgian Government.

One such fast breeder reactor (the SNR-300) was planned for Kalkar, a town in Germany close to the Belgian and Dutch borders.

And it seems odd for a British party to prefer, say, a Belgian president to a British one.

Belgian doctors used an internationally-accepted scale to monitor Houben's state over the years.

Belgian political parties divided along French- and Dutch-speaking lines four decades ago, and most voting districts are split the same way.

As Night Falls, Enjoy A Delicious Belgian Beer Or Nightcap In The Lobby Bar, With The Wonderful, Crackling Oak Fireplace In The Background.

For instance, KBC, a Belgian bank, insisted that payments on its hybrid securities were "mandatory" .

Rogge, 67, a Belgian surgeon and former Olympian, has just won-re-election to a second and final term as head of the IOC until 2013.

IN THE land of Magritte, art scarcely matches the surrealism of Belgian politics.

On the same day, Zeng also visited the Belgian Nuclear Power Research Center and the renewable energy architecture demonstration program.

Since then, the Belgian government has set up a permanent framework to encourage the repatriation of funds.

Lai Temu said at the meeting, the Belgian "absolutely no" Germany's proposal.

Belgian architect Edith Wouters describes her work as "giving an extra quality" when there's very little to work with.

Shareholders first rejected the sale to the Dutch state, and then proceeded to reject the sale of Fortis Bank Belgium to the Belgian state.

Belgian governments fall often, yet the place trundles along because most leaders agree to disagree.

After all this is the place that declared its independence for a day last year in protest against the slow crumbling of the Belgian state.

The instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Belgian Government.

They made their first appearance in a 1958 edition of a Belgian comic magazine.

Wheat beers like Belgian wit and German hefeweizen are often cloudy because of light scattered by precipitated proteins.

Default insurance on French, Belgian and Spanish debt leapt above record closing levels Tuesday as bond yields in the region climbed.

Made with: At least 5, 000 pieces of colonial and post-colonial African currencies (including Belgian, French, Dutch, Republic of Congo).

Yields on French and Belgian sovereign bonds started to climb into dangerous territory yesterday and could continue on their way up.

Correct temperament is essential to the working character of the Belgian Malinois.

PATTAYA: A Belgian tourist was severely injured early Thursday when his Thai lady bit his male organ and almost severed it, police said.

The Belgian city of Ghent has declared Thursdays meat-free days. Should cities around the world join in the vegolution?

The case was brought by a Belgian consumer group which challenged differential pricing for men and women.

Belgian jewellery manufacturers are buying more cut diamonds from Israeli diamond merchants.

Ping An executives believe the majority of Belgian investors will vote against the revised deal.

The price of this model of cassette-player is 2500 Belgian francs at today's rate of exchange.

Dawa, now 25, has a Belgian mother, a degree in business management from Heriot-Watt university in Scotland and he speaks five languages.

Wins Belgian Grand Prix and his home race at Silverstone en route to fourth in the drivers' championship.

The Belgian Shepherd Dog was developed in Belgium as a herding dog to work sheep.

The EU's trade strategy will be the guiding policy statement for Karel De Gucht, the Belgian who took over as trade commissioner this year.

However, only three months later Philips was back in the market, buying a Belgian firm that is a leader in advanced lighting products.

They won, and a Belgian appeals court upheld their victory in May.

Custom fonts evoke the rich and gooey Belgian chocolate "mouth feel" that Fairytale Brownies consumers prize.

They highlight a new version of a tension that Robert Triffin, a Belgian economist, identified in 1960.

The Belgian player Eduardo Masso has reached the final of the Dutch Open in Hilversum.

The Belgian government amended the deal's terms, but in a court-ordered vote on Feb. 11, shareholders voted the BNP Paribas sale down.

But the Belgian council told the BBC most routes were already full or too expensive for the mutinous students to afford.

Belgian ministers made a decent fist of their country's six-month rotating presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2010.

And Belgian tourist Lina Michiels, 24, said: "You guys here are a little bit stricter on how you dress - we don't mind it (going topless). "

But the difference between the two Belgian artists is instructive.

As we walk toward the shed, a Belgian Shepherd begins barking furiously, jerking its iron chain and baring sharp teeth.

The prisoners will still fall under the jurisdiction of Belgian courts but may find a bit more elbow room in their new accommodations.

Much like wineries, tours of Belgian chocolate shops include tastings and exclusive souvenirs.

Maastricht's "coffee shops" have responded by restricting sales to Dutch, German and Belgian residents.

Any Contracting State may denounce this Protocol by notification to the Belgian Government.

And the Belgian credits his team-mates for helping him stay positive throughout a frustrating second season with the Club.

The 3D film is based on a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Georges Remi, better known by his pen-name Herge.

8 the collapse of a Franco-Belgian banking giant, Dexia, has brought home the pressing need to recapitalise Europe's banks.

Liverpool and AC Milan are in a battle to sign the Belgian midfielder Axel Wistel who currently plays for Standard Liege.

Patrols have since been conducted by Belgian, Spanish, Norwegian, German and Danish aircraft.

But about 20 nations, including the UK and Japan, along with UN secretary general Kofi Annan, back a more flexible Belgian proposition.

A Belgian citizen hospitalized in Pakistan after a car accident was the first known death related to infection by the superbug.

Asked if the law should be changed to allow the ending of minors' lives, 89% of nurses in the Belgian study said yes.

The Belfry is a prominent feature of Belgian Gothic architecture , especially in Flanders.

Investors positioned for pain in several countries on Monday, with Italian and Belgian bond markets hit hard.

For the former, the Happy Monk is packed with fashionable young locals sipping pints of Belgian ale on tap.

Yan Haunters, a Belgian working as a sound engineer in China. He said that music was his life. . .

They were created by Belgian studio Coming Soon for the Gent Scheppende Stad (Ghent Creative City).

A city of extreme southeast Netherlands near the Belgian border.

The choice of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as European Union president has drawn mixed reaction.

This time meet Belgian Blue Cattle which is famous for their double muscling due to a gene that suppresses the production of Myostatin.

The supercross track was designed by the belgian Freddy and it's undulating slopes and tight turns were appreciated by the crowd.

In a makeshift clinic he encountered a Belgian medical team being evacuated in a UN bus.

Wenger had high hopes for Vermaelen - and he admits the Belgian has exceeded them.

Belgian chocolate famous, so, in Belgium don't remember dessert can cause obesity advice, very good taste authentic chocolate here!

A city of northern France north-northeast of Paris near the Belgian border.

This type of Belgian, spontaneously fermented wheat beer is dry, full-bodied and usually aged in wooden casks.

A Belgian innovator comes up with a way to make a clean profit.

Muriel--now calling herself Myriam-- "couldn't have children, " a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutor's office said last week.

The original Belgian was a mid-sized, all purpose, generic farm dog.

This paradox was first noted in 1947 in a Federal Reserve paper written by Robert Triffin, a Belgian-born economist.

A: Kimberlite Diamond is one of the most important partners and sponsors of the Belgian Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai.

The Belgian diamond centre of Antwerp has about 400 polishers, while Israel has up to about 4, 000 polishers.

Clash, not collaboration, is the likely trajectory for China and India, says Belgian political scientist Jonathan Holslag.

The restaurant area has a fire place and lounge bar where you can try a selection of the many Belgian beers.

Most Belgian private-banking customers are natives, rather than tax exiles from abroad.

GM's UK, Belgian and Spanish employees would bear the brunt of those losses in the rescue, according to figures floated by Magna.

Under Belgian law, convicts can ask for early release after serving one third of their sentence.

"We're currently negotiating with Jovanovic but we couldn't achieve an agreement (yet), " said a spokesman for the Belgian side.

Annink, secretary of the Belgian Embassy in France, part-time a third-rate entertainment magazine reporter.

Most Americans learned about them in very popular cartoon show in the '80s, but Smurfs first appeared in a Belgian comic in the '50s.

They favour either the former Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, or the Dutch prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende.

Yields for Belgian debt have jumped, as investors fret about its load of debt and lack of leadership.

This is Li's second semi-final this year after she lost in the last four to Belgian Kim Clijsters at the WTA Sydney tournament.

Contagion intensified: yields on Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and even Belgian bonds jumped (see chart).

The Allies take heavy casualties and eventually get stalled at the Belgian border.

Williams garnered another bestsScore nomination for "The Adventures of Tintin, " an animated blockbuster based on a Belgian comics series.

So he found work as a trader in the Belgian Congo instead and then moved to Brussels, where he has remained ever since.

For Euro-federalists, such as Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister, the answer is to move towards a United States of Europe.

Swiss Air did have an agreement with the Belgian government, which owns the other chunk of the airline, to increase its stake to 85%.

Larter is the celebrity face hired by the Belgian chocolates for its annual Valentine's Day promotion contest.

furniture for belgian furniture company quinze & milan.

Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens is concerned essentially with the nature of human perception.

And they buy dollars; like the Belgian chocolate lovers buy chocolates when they are highly priced.

A model reveals a white diamond that hefts 603 carat on a news conference that in Belgian Antwerp the province holds.

He was also a member of the Belgian national rugby team.

And many businesses say it is a Belgian cut diamonds, most of its marketing boo head.

Belgian bankers also give thanks for the helpful changes in the fiscal climate and in banking rules.

I don't know if you are aware of a Belgian player called Eden Hazard, but he's a huge young talent.

And Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel told Belgium's Le Soir newspaper he found nothing new in Mr. Bush's speech.

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Qian Xiuling, a woman from Jiangsu, was used by God to persuade a German general to spare the lives of 96 Belgian villagers in June 1944.

he built the heads of 30 famous Belgian and international people with LEGO bricks and he has built LEGO creations ever since.

Angelo Callant, a Flemish speaking Belgian, says he supports the Lisbon Treaty and he is proud that a Belgian is the EU first president.

The other convicts in this eastern Belgian prison turn to look.

In the morning, when the market is in swing, you can buy Belgian eggs, at fifty centimes apiece.

will bring you news of Vermaelen's fitness later today but, if the Belgian is sidelined, Campbell believes he can be an able deputy.

Spreads on Belgian bonds over their German equivalents are widening.

We replied that we could not bargain away whatever interests or obligations we had in Belgian neutrality.

In 1978, Alfredo Gios signed a contract with Gustav Janssens, owner of a Belgian Ice Cream Factory.

Its results included two-month profit contribution from the Belgian Bank.

Annick Van Wesemael, master florist and multiple winner, has won the second prize at the Belgian championship of floristry .

The Dutch are an outspoken, demanding bunch, who expect straight answers, says Luc Deliens, a Belgian academic.

Belgian undertakers plan to dissolve dead and flush them into sewage system.

Belgian engineer, don't know when this was taken though.

The honesty of the Belgian and Dutch debate can feel pretty brutal.

KBC, a Belgian banking and insurance group, owns the biggest bank in the Czech Republic and the second-biggest in Hungary.

Most Chinese think Belgian chocolate too sweet, Miss Chen reports.

It's the Belgian's fourth Grand Slam title, her first outside the United States.

The Greek debt crisis has already severely hurt the French-Belgian bank Dexia.

Palace of Versailles an abandoned building has been leased to a Belgian company, which they replaced with 23-room luxury hotel.

Many Rwandese and Burundians speak French, the language of their former Belgian rulers.

In 1998, a Belgian student named Sacha Klein left Brussels to spend a semester at a U. S. university.

On September 6, Premier Zhu Rongji, who was paying a formal visit to Belgium, met with Belgian King Albert II in Laeken castle.

French retailer Carrefour's Belgian branch said it would close 21 stores in Belgium and cut nearly 1700 staff, AP reported.

He stressed that the Belgian government adheres to One-China policy, of which Li Zhaoxing felt grateful.

So the Olympic committee has opted for compromised Belgian style.

Wang Yan, president of LOOKWE and Prince Philippe are talking happily with Belgian enterprises.

The Supplies are manufactured according to Belgian and European technical standards.

Dirk Tirez, general counsel for Belgian Post, says: "The financial crisis reinvented the way we [in-house lawyers] work. "

The Belgian prime minister still has plenty of time to disappoint.

A new film about the adventures of Tintin, the Belgian boy reporter, opens across Europe this week.

The local store has started selling baguettes and Belgian beers.

In addition, BAIC proposes to shut down GM's Belgian Antwerp plant and cut Opel's workforce across Europe, these people said.

A Belgian puts a coin in a vending machine and gets a Coca-Cola.

Yet Belgian politicians are stuck in endless talks-about-talks.

But given the rise of English, it is rational, says Philippe van Parijs, a Belgian academic.

On the day I visit, a bespectacled Belgian man sits at one end of a long table in front of a pile of bones.

The unity of the Belgian state has come under scrutiny.

It is the most important communications network for international financial market transactions, a Belgian not-for-profit cooperative.

Shares in Swiss Air Group have risen in early trading, up nearly 16% after agreeing to pay 258 million Euros to the Belgian carrier, Sebina.