• There is no other venue where the most vulnerable country is at the table where it needs to be.

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  • The major objective of this joint effort is for UNESCO to provide assistance to its Member States by creating a reference table of country names and abbreviations for countries whose official languages are based on Cyrillic script.

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  • But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.

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  • The table was a country type, made of half-planed boards, like the ties under railroad tracks.

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  • In this era of ballooning debt the long-term fiscal health of our country has become a kitchen table discussion.

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  • Ironically, Canada top the medal table in every country which ranks golds won above total medals won - which theirs doesn't!

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  • According to federal prosecutors, beginning in approximately January 2003, Robert Nicol and his accomplices promoted business opportunities to consumers across the country under the business name Table Top Vending Inc. and, later, Gold Star Vending Inc.

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  • China, where millions play table tennis across the country, have never lost the women's singles crown since the sport was introduced at the 1988 Olympics.

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  • If we are going to truly confront the education crisis in this country, nothing should be off the table.

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  • No developing country could claim money was not on the table, and no donor could claim the results were not there to see.

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  • Abdu Ganadi, the spokesman for Saleh's ruling General People Congress party (GPC), said that Saleh's stance does not represent the official position of the party, but is a condition that Saleh has put on the table in exchange for him leaving the country.

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  • While the other seven leaders from North America, Europe and Japan fret about the digital divide, and the poor health and bad debts of the world's hard-up nations (see article), Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, by his own admission, knows he is struggling to avoid his country's relegation from the big-power table to the ranks of the third world.

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  • For millions of families across our country, women's wages mean food on the table, decent medical care, and timely mortgage payments.

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  • They joined for the wrong reasons - a determination to have a seat at the top table rather than a careful analysis of the country's economic interests.

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  • In a speech at his party headquarters in the north-eastern city of Lahore, Mr Sharif appealed "for all parties to come to the table and sit with me and solve the country's problems".

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  • Mr Milburn said the Government will publish a league table showing the best and worst areas in the country from next year.

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  • "Jamaica is now ranked number one in the medal table and that's not bad for a country with a population around the same size as that of the west Midlands, " said the BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston, Jamaica.

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  • "You've got the pharmaceutical industry and the largest group representing seniors in this country, who 16 years ago weren't at the table but were on the other side of the political debate, " Gibbs said of groups expressing support Monday for health care reform.

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  • Martin divides his time between a Gold Rush-era house atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where the theme is the Wild West (racks of Colts and Winchesters, plus an 1880s roulette table with scrimshawed ivory chips), and a country house in the Napa Valley town of Rutherford.

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  • And I think if you step back and look at some of the significance of today's events -- you've got the pharmaceutical industry and the largest group representing seniors in this country, who 16 years ago weren't at the table but were on the other side of the political debate.

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  • First, the Tide has to run the table in the SEC, easily the toughest conference in the country.

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  • On April 11, with the crisis of investor confidence spreading from Greek government bonds to the country's banking system, the EU finally put money on the table.

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  • Reached by telephone, an official at the Chinese Table Tennis and Badminton Center, which is affiliated with the country's General Administration of Sports, was unable to provide any information about Yu's status.

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  • He was equally adept at the negotiating table, portraying himself not as the representative of a humiliated country but as the proud representative of a great power having to put up with a minor annoyance.

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  • We can hope that some of them can make finals and preferably finish in the top eight, and therefore contribute to the placement table which I feel is a more accurate measure of a country's prowess than medals alone.

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  • This country is for all Syrians, and they can bring all things to the table.

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  • And despite going into the Leeds match sitting top of the table - the highest-ranked non-league side in the country - most of the squad have second jobs.

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  • As you can see wind is providing only 0.1% of the electricity demand of the country today (to be strictly accurate, in the 30 minute period the table is calculated for).

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  • "There are thousands of entrepreneurs, millions across this country, who do incredible things and make money to put food on the table, to pay their bills, and to save for the future and their children, " she says.

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  • And, of course, no child in the United States of America should ever go to bed hungry, and no family in this country should have to worry that they won't have food on the table, not just during the holidays, but every day.

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