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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Where there is consensus, let us take big strides.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

Yet Turkey has made remarkable strides in the midst of regional upheavals. After a sharp downturn in 1999 2001, the economy grew by 5 per year on average from 2002 to 2012.

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

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.

This is a classic example of what I call block thinking, which seems to have made huge strides in Europe in recent years. John Bowen s recent book Why the French Don t Like Headscarves documents this shift.

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.

2. Notes with appreciation that many strides have been made in the prevention and settlement of disputes and that there have been sustained efforts by African regional and subregional initiatives of late to mediate and resolve conflicts

That fact could be attributed to the diversity of Egypt's industrial sector and to the large strides made with regard to reform policy, which had had the effect of encouraging Egypt's development partners to support its industrial modernization programme.

In particular Western Cape and Gauteng provinces provide legal and health services for rape survivors, and the National Prosecuting Authority and the Durban magistrate's court have made important strides in setting up specialized courts to deal with sexual offences.

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.

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).

We have made tremendous strides in reaching more children with more vaccines, which is why more children are surviving than ever before. But there are still even more children to save, and we need help to do our work on the ground.

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.