Anti-death penalty group the World Coalition said it was "horrified".
"The World Coalition was told by these officials that although Taiwan would not abolish the death penalty overnight, its intent is to reduce the use of the death penalty, " the organisation said.
As a matter of fact, Venezuelan authorities have announced the acquisition of a Belarusian missile-shield system, and although President Bush has said that he does not consider Chavez a threat, the fact is that Chavez is actively working to create a world coalition against the United States.
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International experts shared their knowledge of strategies and concrete steps implemented to promote freedom of information around the world, including coalition-building and development of advocacy campaigns.
British and German envoys have gone to the Muslim world to shore up the coalition, including countries like Iran, with which the US itself has strained relations.
He compared the challenges facing the current Conservative-Lib Dem administration to those confronted by Winston Churchill's coalition government during World War Two, saying the severity of the situation meant it was right for two parties to work together.
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The election of a Socialist president in France and the collapse of the Greek coalition had once again roiled world stock markets and everyone was worried.
The history of the very few "grand coalition" experiments in Italy since World War II does not inspire hope for long-term success.
But she has since left to join the World Bank, apparently sacrificed in the interests of coalition politics after a tiff with Aburizal Bakrie, a leading businessman, party leader and former cabinet member.
But US leaders may already have concluded that a narrow win by the Hezbollah-led coalition would not be the end of the world.
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Because industries and organizations are operating in a world of rapid, constant change, a new guiding coalition will be necessary each year in order to keep pace.
At a meeting last week in Brussels, prospective donors agreed to create a fund, controlled by the UN and the World Bank, that would distribute donations independent of the coalition.
We welcome the vocal support of the National Association of Evangelicals, Southern Baptist Convention, Focus on the Family, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, World Relief, Sojourners and others.
Before the powers that be call for abandoning our limited-government principles, maybe we should look at how Ron Paul adhered more consistently to the first principles of our founders and, in the process, found a unique and diverse coalition that actually could have competed in a world not controlled by a two-party system.
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The group was then the vanguard of a tripartite guerrilla coalition with wide support in the non-communist world.
And so a coalition of nations enforced the just demands of the world.
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The National Coalition has lent support to terrorist groups from around the world since the 1960s.
"The regime keeps killing our innocent civilians while the (National Coalition) is staying in fancy hotels, begging the world for financial support, " al-Asaad said.
World stocks fell on Wednesday after Greek politicians failed to form a coalition government and called for new elections, raising concerns among investors that Greece may eventually leave the euro zone.
This is political territory unknown for a generation or two, after all the last coalition that Britain had was during the dark days on the World War II, over 60 years ago.
On the other hand, there is no arguing with the evidence, from one Arab country after another, that if America's coalition against terrorism is to include large parts of the Muslim world, the United States will have to repolish its credentials as an even-handed intermediary between Israel and the Arabs.
Part of the reason we're been able to build a strong international coalition that isolates Iran around the nuclear issues is because the world has confidence that I've been sincere and my administration has been sincere about giving Iran an opportunity to pursue peaceful nuclear energy while foreclosing the pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
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But ultimately I think it promises greater success, and it sustains our coalition and support for it, not just here but in the Arab world as well.
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America has also tried to mollify countries' concerns by allowing the creation of a fund, administered by the UN and World Bank, that will disburse countries' donations separately from the American-led coalition.
The FSC was formed by a coalition of advocacy groups including Rainforest Action Network, Friends of the Earth and World Wildlife Foundation.
One of the challenges for the coalition is that Iraq is not a homogenous nation, but was cobbled together after the first world war.
At this point all the snazzy new websites and re-focused marketing efforts in the world aren't going to get Google, Microsoft, and the other members of the White Spaces Coalition anywhere if they don't actually demonstrate the broadband-in-between-TV-signals tech in action -- and it looks like that's proving to be harder than expected.
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