It's been widely heralded.

Those elections heralded a new dawn of optimism, and inspired confidence in our democratic transition.

Its birth heralded the fact that cooperation and international brotherhood could bring rays of light to even the darkest of times.

And when the book came out, I was heralded as Africa's answer to Frederick Forsyth, which is a dubious honor at best.

You may remember this as the AOL Time Warner merger, okay, heralded at the time as the largest single deal of all time.

A secretariat report prepared for UNCTAD XI11 (Sao Paolo, Brazil, June 2004) heralded the new geography of international trade shaped by South South cooperation.

The Minister for Health, Ernest Britto, said that the new state of the art hospital heralded a new era in health care in Gibraltar.15

While we initially heralded the Internet as the fantastic new marketing device that was going to solve all our problems, we now realize that the Internet is, if anything, too effective in that regard.

Even the much heralded shale gas revolution is a lot of hype similar to the gold rushes and stock bubbles of the past. Shale gas wells deplete far more rapidly than conventional fields do.

Even the much heralded shale gas revolution is a lot of hype 160 similar to the gold rushes and stock bubbles of the past. Shale gas wells deplete far more rapidly than conventional fields do.

But history never bowed out at most, it only took a decade long intermission, with its next act heralded by the terrorist attacks in the United States in September 2001. And here the plot has thickened.

Angelina Jolie s photo spread with her toddler son, adopted from Cambodia, in Vanity Fair heralded this shift the sexy young woman and her son in a luxurious hotel bedroom made single motherhood look fun and glamorous.

Serious efforts and far reaching compromises are needed to begin the process of building institutions for regional security cooperation. Otherwise, the much heralded Asian century, far from bringing economic prosperity and peace, will be an age of suspicion and peril.

Reform suggested a loosening of central controls on economic life, undertaken in a spirit of pragmatism and gradualism, as an antidote to Mao Zedong s ideology of revolution. Similarly, opening heralded the PRC s integration into the world community especially the capitalist West.

The establishment of the Partnership was the most meaningful way in which we could observe the Golden Jubilee of the 1955 Asian African Conference held in Bandung, which heralded the emergence of many new sovereign nations from the shadow of colonialism.

When the market boomed, such schemes authors were heralded as geniuses. But when house prices fell and mortgage backed securities (and derivatives based on them) became illiquid, Citigroup took the liabilities back onto its balance sheet and then needed to be rescued through massive, repeated bailouts.

The Committee should not be fooled by the recent unilateral withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza or the evacuation of Jewish settlements in the area they neither constituted the beginning of the end of Israel's genocidal policy nor heralded a definitive solution to the Palestinian issue.

DAVOS The World Economic Forum s annual meeting in Davos has lost some of its pre crisis panache. After all, before the meltdown in 2008, the captains of finance and industry could trumpet the virtues of globalization, technology, and financial liberalization, which supposedly heralded a new era of relentless growth.

This much is clear, however there is little confidence in Bush's economic policies. The typical American family knows that it is worse off today than it was four years ago, and appears unconvinced that the tax cuts targeted at upper income Americans brought the benefits heralded by the Bush administration.

The first moment when decisive French leadership began to unify Europe came when Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer created the European Coal and Steel Community. By rooting the then West Germany in the political, economic, and social fabric of the West, that step heralded the start of Germany s rebirth and economic miracle.

This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much heralded summit between two of the world s great democracies. With lucrative deals at stake for the big ticket products that drive the French economy military hardware, nuclear power plants, and Airbus planes France has a strong interest in a successful summit in India.

UN Security Council resolution 1559, which explicitly called for the disarming of all militias and the reassertion of Lebanese government authority in the south, went unheeded. After the much heralded Cedar Revolution of 2005, Hezbollah even joined the Lebanese government, while at the same time maintaining its armed militia and control of the south.

In Europe, Fukushima prompted a media blitz of gloom and doom over nuclear energy. The German magazine Der Spiegel heralded the 9 11 of the nuclear industry and the end of the nuclear era, while Spain s leading newspaper El Pais preached that supporting this energy was irrational, and that China has put a brake on its nuclear ambitions.

The representative of the Secretariat recalled the findings of the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (A 59 565), which had noted that while the impact of these changes was yet to be fully understood, they heralded a fundamentally different security climate, one whose unique opportunities for cooperation were matched by an unprecedented scope for destruction.

While much attention has been paid to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the northern West Bank, an action widely heralded as a force for positive changes to the situation on the ground, the occupying Power continues to commit systematic human rights violations, State terrorism and even war crimes against the Palestinian people under its occupation.

The assassination of the President of Iraq's Governing Council makes it crystal clear that the US is failing to create the minimal law and order needed for any sort of orderly transfer of power to take place by June 30th. Barely two months ago, the signing of a constitutional document by a US appointed group of un elected Iraqi officials was heralded as if it were the re enactment of America's constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

LONDON Fifty one years ago, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, and Francis Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of DNA s structure a breakthrough that heralded the age of the gene. Since then, the field of genetics has advanced significantly, particularly as a result of the global Human Genome Project, which in 2003 identified all of the roughly 23,000 genes and three billion chemical base pairs in human DNA in order to screen for many rare diseases.