Tom sketched a picture of an elephant for Mary.

And I said, Well, you know, what I've sketched out here is just that.

The original road map sketched out at the Madrid Conference in 1991 envisaged two stages the final settlement of disputes between the Palestinians and Israel, and the permanent settlement of regional conflicts. Jordan s participation in both stages is crucial.

The welfare state s Achilles heel was that it required a high level of taxation without stimulating a compensating investment in innovative capacity. An innovation state, established along the lines sketched above, would reconcile equity with the incentives that such investment requires.

In the aftermath of the French and Dutch referenda, the European Commission and the European Parliament have sketched plans for a Europe wide debate on these issues. But such a debate also demands an organizational framework to engage European civil society, national parliaments, and pan European mass media.

The study's findings were used in setting up the new Monitor on Temporal Infrastructure. They were also used in an exploratory study of this subject ( Visie op Tijden') at the end of 2002, in which the various government bodies and social partners sketched the initial contours of a policy on time'.

While we may feel that the foundation was laid during that important event, what we have to do now is to complete what has been undertaken, consolidate the sections of walls that have been erected and build those parts that have only been sketched out  and here I am thinking particularly of the Human Rights Council and provide our project with a sound roof.