The coming vote is historic because it will mark the first transition between democratically elected governments in a country that has experienced three coups and frequent political instability.
Last week's general elections appear to have paved the way for the first transition from one elected government to another in Pakistan - a country prone to military takeovers.
Earlier this month, Libya's interim National Transitional Council handed power to a newly elected assembly, in the first peaceful transition in the country's modern history.
Pakistan on Wednesday announced that elections will be held on 11 May in what will be the first democratic transition between an elected civilian government to another.
It also, just as importantly, represents a break from the recent past, setting up the first orderly transition of power at Ford in more than a decade.
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The trustees added they would work with governors in each area to "facilitate this first phase of transition".
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As Pakistan attempts what would be its first-ever transition from one civilian government to another, these Pakistanis are watching closely.
This time, Tunisians will go to the polls to participate in the first election a transition country has hosted since the Arab Spring began.
First, unlike the transition from character-line to graphical user interfaces, touch user interfaces do not provide a better environment for productivity applications.
During the first phase of the transition process carried out earlier this year, Afghan forces assumed control of seven cities and provinces.
His work took place as the media world was making a seminal transition, first from print to broadcast, and beyond that to the Web.
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If he did not have other passive income those losses would have been suspended after the first few years of transition into the new regime of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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These are lofty goals, and during the first two years of its transition Indonesia has understandably made only modest progress towards them.
In a way, I think I managed to skip the first four stages of the transition because I voluntarily left the traditional economy nine months ago from a position of relative strength, and skipped ahead to the Favela Chic world of acceptance.
These actions support our strategy to transition from being a first-party web game developer to a multi-platform game network.
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The transition to "housing first" threatened jobs and budgets across the country.
This isn't the first time Enron's grand transition has faltered.
The transition has created the first significant opening in the market since the GED was created in 1942, when soldiers returning from World War II needed to get a jump-start on their careers.
"The first priority was to ensure the seamless transition of operations to Abellio, " he said.
From Rangers' point of view, they must keep producing players capable of making the transition from youth teams to first-team level.
So first, we have begun the responsible transition to the Afghans, who are moving into the lead for security here in Afghanistan.
The death of a spouse is the first most common factor associated with a transition from owning to renting, according to the report.
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Zoo employees want to be careful, and have a four- to five-month transition period to make sure first that the baby is healthy, then will be able to socialize and be accepted within its population of eight other gorillas.
It is the -- the Prime Minister of Tunisia is the first leader of the Arab Spring to visit the White House and meet with the President, and it is the first country that has gone through a transition because of the Arab Spring to be holding elections, as you note.
The transition will be gradual: At first, the Hotmail faithful will get e-mails and other alerts telling them about the switchover.
The America Invents Act, signed into law in September, will transition the patent application process from the first-to-invent system, to the new first-to-file system.
First, we need to do more to make the transition from military to civilian life easier for our veterans.
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This diagram is significantly more complex than the first one, since the industrial-to-consumer transition was fundamentally simpler than the consumer-to-post-consumer.
If confirmed, Genachowski's first big task may be the dealing with the nationwide transition to digital cable, scheduled for Feb. 17.
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