I wonder which way is the shortest.

My God, this is the shortest I've ever had.

And he said, That is the shortest distance between two points.

And he said one day, What's the shortest distance between two points?

My challenge is the shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

As far as I know, he is the shortest student in this school.

Mr. Talat also urged me to resume negotiations in the shortest time possible.

I walked the 10 kilometers back and it was the shortest walk I ever had.

The expert review team and the Party should strive to complete the review in the shortest time possible.

The use of the shortest possible distribution channels is vital for increasing capacity and retaining more value added.

It just drops them, the shortest distance possible, to the forest floor, where they're actually upcycled into next year's topsoil.

If you want to take the game around the world, it's got to be the shortest form of the game.

We must strengthen our efforts with a view to setting up an effective Peacebuilding Commission in the shortest amount of time possible.

Is this a good evolutionary adaptation, or is it going to lead us to being the shortest lived hominid species on planet Earth?

Hence, we must accept the urgency of ensuring that the development cooperation mechanisms outlined at Monterrey bear fruit in the shortest possible time.

We cannot solve the problem overnight, but we should be able to stop the violence and the suffering within the shortest time possible.

The issue of political prisoners is still unresolved, though the Government has expressed its determination to deal with it in the shortest possible time.

Nevertheless, 16 Non Self Governing Territories remained on the United Nations list, and he stressed the importance of completing the task of decolonization in the shortest possible time.

It encourages all parts of the UN to do their utmost to ensure that the Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate becomes fully operational in the shortest possible time.

(a) Continue close cooperation with the Executive Director of the Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate in order to make the Directorate fully operational in the shortest possible time

The joint communiqué called for a resumption of the political talks in Darfur in the shortest possible time in order to reach a comprehensive solution acceptable to all parties.

In that regard, Peru urged those countries that had not yet done so to ratify CTBT in order to secure its entry into force within the shortest possible time.

The longest autumn has been in Beijing in 2003 since 2001, which lasted for 67 days while the shortest autumn has been in 2017, which lasted for only 36 days.

For example, article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child indicates that children should be detained only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.

She wrote all her own software to design and built this DNA origami, a beautiful rendition of China, which even has Taiwan, and you can see it's sort of on the world's shortest leash, right?

Accordingly, the Group would like the Secretariat to submit to the Third Committee, within the shortest time possible, a proposal based on the principle of rotation that could be put into effect at the sixtieth session.

There is a high demand for its office space and it is constantly monitoring the rental market to ensure that it is able to sublease office space in the shortest possible time frame when current sublease agreements end.

The dialogue should focus on identifying programmes that will improve the living conditions of the population in the shortest possible time and on priority policy and institutional reforms that are pivotal to the political stability and economic progress of Liberia.

Peace in Afghanistan will also open up the shortest transit routes for trade in energy, raw materials and goods between Central Asia, South Asia and the world, with enormous economic benefits for Afghanistan, Pakistan and all the countries of the region.

In his classic treatise Strategy The Indirect Approach, B.H. Liddell Hart, reflecting on his World War I experiences, insisted on the foolhardiness of direct attacks on an entrenched enemy. In strategy, he argued, the longest way round is often the shortest way there.

Most tellingly, during the financial crisis of 1997, it did not adopt IMF policies and as a result had the shortest and shallowest downturn of any of the afflicted countries. When it re emerged, it was not burdened with debt and bankrupt firms like so many of its neighbors.

While it is difficult to determine an exact time frame required to reach pre tsunami levels, we assure the international community that we will once again, with their generous assistance, recover and rebound from this disaster in the shortest possible time and proceed with the graduation process as recommended.

15. Expresses its appreciation for the action taken by creditor countries of the Paris Club with regard to the debts of developing countries that are affected by natural disasters, and, in this regard, reiterates the need for relief promises to be fulfilled within the shortest possible time frame in order to free the requisite resources for national reconstruction efforts

Targets include (a) commitment by at least 50 countries to use detention only as a last resort and for the shortest possible time (b) establishment or strengthening of child friendly , and gender appropriate investigative and court procedures in at least 30 countries and (c) inclusion of internationally accepted norms for child justice in laws and policies in all post conflict countries.

When conflict intensified in Darfur at the end of 2002, the SPLM wasted no time in declaring that the pursuit of military victory by either side would be futile and would only escalate the conflict, and that the Government of the Sudan and the armed opposition in Darfur should seek a peaceful, negotiated political settlement in the shortest time possible.

It invites the CTC in particular to ensure that the Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate becomes fully operational in the shortest possible time, and to take additional measures to enhance cooperation with the Al Qaeda Taliban Sanctions Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) and the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), and to initiate contacts with the working group established pursuant to resolution 1566 (2004).