In Myanmar, we have made great strides in fostering gender equality.

Afghanistan has made great strides in its efforts towards nation building.

UNICEF and its partners continued to make great strides in achieving tangible results for children.

The international community has already made great strides in elaborating many international instruments to combat it.

Ongoing regional processes have made great strides in developing criteria and indicators that contribute to defining and assessing sustainable forest management.

However, in the five remaining months of the period, the Office of the Prosecutor made great strides to further reduce the vacancy rate.

In collaboration with its partners, the Partnership has made great strides with respect to assisting country efforts in designing, implementing and monitoring national strategies for the development of statistics.

Where there is consensus, let us take big strides.

The functional commissions had made great strides in revising their methods of work in accordance with the guidance provided by the Economic and Social Council, as exemplified by the fact that

Under the teacher's guidance, I took big strides with my studies.

Further strides have been made in decentralizing Government authority and services.

The ICC has made enormous strides in the period under review.

This year has witnessed major strides towards sustainable peace in the Sudan.

Africa had recently made considerable strides towards maintaining peace on the continent.

Finally, the humanitarian element of the strategy has made great strides forward over the past year, as both the delivery of relief material and access to affected populations have increased dramatically since the communiqué was signed.

Although women were still relatively underrepresented in top posts, significant strides had been made.

This institution has made significant strides for the sake of world peace, security and development.

The Government made great strides in concluding agreements with the United Nations and with armed groups in Darfur aimed at facilitating urgent relief measures for those adversely affected by the unfortunate events that have taken place in past months.

2. Welcomes all efforts by countries of the region to overcome the effects of past conflicts, and also the efforts of the international community, which have helped the countries of the region to make great strides towards peace and stability

The United Nations has made immense strides in promoting peace and universal values throughout the world.

Some strides have been made in fulfilling the conditions for admission to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

Significant strides in health care can be made through existing drinking water systems and generic drug manufacturing.

There is no doubt that the United Nations and the international community have made important strides in addressing impunity.

While China, India, and Brazil still have very large rural populations, they have made great strides in reducing poverty, with several hundred million people (the largest proportion in China), escaping it in the last few decades. And these countries middle classes are growing fast as well.

NASA scientists also made exciting new strides in lunar studies while working on the Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored Clementine mission.

The forum has made significant strides in establishing strong working relations with key civil society organizations over the last three years.

Sierra Leone has continued to make giant strides in all areas of human endeavour since the end of armed conflict in 2002.

Some parts of the world are doing better than others in this respect. Researchers from the Commonwealth Fund recently reported that some high income countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, have made great strides in encouraging the use of electronic medical records (EMR) among primary care physicians.

The decentralization process, which provides a framework for the devolution of power and responsibilities between the central and local governments, has made further strides.

During the reporting period, the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities made significant strides towards implementing a single set of tax rules, applicable throughout the country.

Many gamekeepers acknowledge that grouse shooting is not universally popular, but the SGA said the industry had made significant strides in terms of best practice.

Despite the energy, resources and efforts diverted from development in order to preserve democracy, Nicaragua has made major strides towards fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals.

The meeting, among other things, will hear of strides made in our region in preventing and punishing illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons.

NASA made significant strides in microgravity and life sciences research during FY 1994, beginning with the Spacelab Life Sciences 2 (SLS 2) mission in October 1993.

Over the three years which have elapsed since it gained independence in May 2002, Timor Leste has made remarkable strides towards the threshold of self sufficiency.

State authority has been restored throughout Sierra Leone and significant strides have been made towards re establishing the Government's control over the country's diamond mining sector.

and strengthen its discussion of relevant achievements and experiences, push forward pragmatic cooperation between both sides, especially the cooperation in capacity building to make greater strides forward.

I'm also very hopeful that in the next decades, we will make big strides on reducing that death rate that has been so challenging in this disease.

The Government is commended for all the accomplishments it has achieved and, together with the international community, it needs to continue making bold strides in human rights.

The Government of Nova Scotia has made some important strides in addressing child poverty as part of the National Child Benefit (NCB) (see Introduction to the present report).

NASA continued in FY 1994 to make strides in the field of Telemedicine, the practice of medicine across distances using a phone line, satellite, microwave or other telecommunications medium.

If they want to open the door to final status, they will have to make significant strides in implementation of the standards in the weeks and months to come.

For it is only when all nations are treated as equal partners in the international community that we can expect significant strides to be made in our collective efforts.

TOKYO In recent years, the number of tourists visiting Japan has been increasing rapidly, reaching a record 13.4 million last year, a 29 increase from 2013. Japan seems to be making great strides toward its goal of recapturing the position as an Asian cultural center that it held a century ago, when the Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore lived in Tokyo.

This year we succeeded in making further strides, spurred along by a number of Presidents, including those from the Netherlands and Norway, as well as from New Zealand and elsewhere.