Give me novelty, give me familiarity.

Familiarity destroys and trumps fear. Try it.

You can feel the familiarity of all beings.

(e) Other skills familiarity with the documents production system

having a professional knowledge and familiarity with local language, laws and customs

And these are everyday conventions, conventions that are so obvious that we are blinded by their familiarity.

In addition, 782 staff members completed an electronic self learning course to increase familiarity with programme procedures.

This one was actually around the playing cards I got yesterday, but it had a certain familiarity to it.

And the temporal lobe hallucinations are all sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity, located in space and time, coherent, dramatic.

This increase in familiarity and experience is particularly important for SMEs since they tend to have limited experience of different business cultures and practices.

Programme staff and policy advisors Competence in gender and development, and in sector specific gender analysis familiarity with using gender analytical, planning and monitoring tools.

However, the law does not add any value to this lack of familiarity by introducing a general reliability requirement such as paragraph 3 (b) of article 9.

In many cases, States with greater familiarity with and understanding of specific situations are small and medium sized countries, where there is greater geographical and cultural closeness and affinity.

Such capacity building includes seminars and workshops aimed at strengthening their knowledge in areas such as international humanitarian law and criminal law and their familiarity with the Tribunal's jurisprudence.

On one hand, populations and community based organizations often have a greater familiarity with and understanding of local needs, priorities and constraints that can affect the successful implementation of policy measures.

The foremost important competitive advantage arising from OFDI in this survey is the increasing familiarity and experience in international business (exposure to foreign culture and business practices) that becomes a firm specific asset.

The Panel notes that common traits displayed by these claim preparers include their command of the English language and familiarity with the Commission's claim development procedures and jurisprudence from the regular claims programme.

He observed that, in El Salvador and Sierra Leone, it was sometimes difficult to strike the correct balance in the use of outside experts, who brought neutrality but also lacked familiarity with the national context.

In this respect, TNCs from the South can use their familiarity with the local business environment, geographical proximity and ethnic and cultural ties to leverage their competitive edge in other developing countries (Aykut and Ratha, 2004).

Pursuant to operative paragraph 5 (f) of General Assembly resolution 58 28 and within existing resources, the Secretariat engaged in activities to enhance familiarity with and encourage greater participation in the United Nations standardized instrument for reporting military expenditures.

The complainant offers no convincing explanation of why her certain risk of torture, inter alia because of her familiarity with intelligence of vital importance to the security of the Spanish State, did not lead to immediate action against her.

That we could take people who had the fear that they weren't creative, and we could take them through a series of steps, kind of like a series of small successes, and they turn fear into familiarity, and they surprise themselves.

Familiarity with a wide range of information resource types, another basic of library work, will help staff give a broader view of possibilities at the knowledge discovery stage of organizational projects, as well as providing support to training and coaching activities.

In Singapore, some two thirds of the 204 companies surveyed agreed that OFDI had increased their enterprise competitiveness by improving market access, strengthening market position, increasing the company's international image, and increase familiarity with and experience in conducting international business.

Two thirds of the Singapore firms surveyed confirmed that OFDI had increased their competitiveness. OFDI had contributed to increasing familiarity and experience with international business, which enhance firm specific assets, including improving the reputation and brand image of Singaporean enterprises.

This is driving a growing number of wealthy Japanese to move to Singapore or Australia, where inheritance taxes are lower. The familiarity of Japan, it seems, is no longer sufficient to compel the wealthy to endure the high taxes imposed upon them.

Kyoto As 2009 commences, Microsoft is previewing its next generation operating system, Windows 7, which is remarkable only in that it is almost the same as every previous version. Stagnation in computer design is not surprising, considering that familiarity is so comfortable.

With his over familiarity, simplicity, and occasional vulgarity, Sarkozy undermined the dignity of his sacred function. This was not forgiven, and was judged more severely than the shortcomings of his presidential record, which was not significantly worse than that of his predecessors.

One result of the deal is the paradoxical sounding familiarity with difference. Because immigrants participate in America s economic and political arenas, Americans are used to different sorts of people and so distinguish those differences that might damage the country from those that will not.

Some speakers identified inadequacies in their provision of international cooperation, including lack of a comprehensive legislative basis for the provision of mutual legal assistance, absence of domestic provisions for simplified extradition procedures and lack of familiarity with the use of videoconferencing for the provision of witness testimony.

While most of the procurement staff are familiar with the standards of conduct, updated by inter office memorandum dated 21 November 2004, the Procurement and Logistics Division agrees that familiarity with those standards needs to be documented and extended to all staff associated with the procurement process.

We know from international experience that online shopping undermines hypermarkets more than neighborhood stores, which often offer home delivery, credit, and the reassuring familiarity of personal relationships. A local shop may be able to use the Internet to tailor more precisely its selection of goods to its customers tastes.

With respect to financial commitment, it has been argued that the source of stable finance necessary to generate organizational learning is just as, if not more, likely to come from relationship banking (based on familiarity and trust) and similar financial arrangements as from purely market sources of finance.

The Committee also wanted to know if judges had been adequately trained, for example, to ensure their familiarity with the Convention and to what extent rural women had access to justice and whether a legal aid system had been established to assist women in cases of domestic violence.

At the same time, the main alternative candidates on the left and right have positioned themselves too far toward the extremes to recapture the center easily. On the left is Amir Peretz of the Labor party, a populist and trade union federation leader with little national leadership experience and even less familiarity with security matters.

The core principles those under discussion include sovereignty, legitimacy, impartiality, transparency, good faith, and sustainability principles currently would apply to all debt instruments and could provide greater coordination than market based approaches. But, although this effort has the advantage of familiarity, it would be non binding, with no guarantee that a critical mass of parties would adhere to it.

This was an impression, moreover, that did not fade with familiarity. We met a number of times in the years that followed, on his visits to Australia and in South Africa at his home in Soweto and on one memorable occasion when I accompanied him to the opening match of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.

In such efforts, the Bureau was guided by the principles set out in Commission decision 2000 109, in particular that expertise, integrity, independence and impartiality were of paramount importance with regard to the selection of mandate holders, with due regard given to overall geographical and gender balance among mandate holders, as well as to ensuring familiarity with different legal systems.

Actually, that overwhelming similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA is a product of two cultural facts our familiarity with the chimpanzee s body, and our unfamiliarity with DNA. After all, when the chimpanzee itself was new and interesting (in the 1700 s), contemporary scholars commonly judged it to be overwhelmingly similar to the human form so much so, that it was commonly classified as a variant of humans.

The new leadership must now shift the focus to commitment and implementation of that strategy namely, through enactment of a new set of bold reforms, especially those related to the services sector, the social safety net, and state owned enterprises. Xi s emphasis on the top level design of reforms lends itself particularly well to this agenda, as does Li s intimate familiarity with the detailed blueprint provided by China 2030.

To succeed, Olam has had to work up country a euphemism for difficult conditions far from comfortable port cities requiring it to rely on Indians familiarity with, and willingness to work in, Africa s interior. Indeed, so competent is Olam that when Wilmar, a Southeast Asian firm run by overseas Chinese and a force in its own right in China and across Asia, sought to expand in Africa, it sought out Olam in a joint venture.