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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

After nine rounds of GATT WTO tariff liberalization this agenda has made significant strides with average tariff levels having reached single digit figures, and international flows of FDI, trade and financial resources having increased exponentially.

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

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

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

The Ministers noted that although the objectives of the NWICO have yet to be fully realised, some Member Countries have, individually, made significant strides towards attaining a balanced flow of two way information among themselves and with non Member Countries.

SADC fully aligns itself with the statement made by Namibia on behalf of the African Group, which outlines the significant strides Africa, in partnership with the international community, is making in the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

UNHCR had made significant strides towards that goal in 2004 and its collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) had served to highlight the critical link between forced population displacement and international peace and security.

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

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.

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

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

It would be counterproductive to penalize countries like Costa Rica that had made significant strides towards disarmament, respect for human rights, a fair labour system and protection of the environment, by excluding them from cooperation programmes and restricting the entry of their products to developed countries' markets.

Significant and persistent health inequality indicates that, by raising the health levels of those with lower incomes or less education, massive strides could be made in improving populations overall health. This may require reshaping the welfare system to some extent, but the payoff would be well worth the effort.

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

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

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.

Significant strides were made in ensuring rapid connectivity for emergency operations and provision of lower cost options for connectivity for small offices in remote situations and offices with higher bandwidth requirements VSAT based networks now provide 76 offices with improved bandwidth, reliability and cost cutting services such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

Where there is consensus, let us take big strides.

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.

The Chiang Mai Initiative has made significant progress.

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).

Several small island developing States have made strides in developing their capacity to trade, but economic vulnerabilities remain high and special efforts should be made by the international community to strengthen the resilience of these countries.

At the same time, significant inroads have been made.

Ms. Lock (South Africa) said that the transitional Government had made significant strides in implementing the terms of the peace agreement and that the United Nations had intensified its activities to support the Congolese people in their preparations for the referendum to be held in December 2005 and the presidential and legislative elections to be held in early 2006.

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

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.

Significant progress has been made in a variety of areas.

Significant progress has also been made in security sector reform.

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

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