Over the 10 years of its existence, this treaty has become the foremost international legal instrument for the protection of the world's submerged cultural heritage.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

It is the foremost international treaty concerning submerged heritage.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Over the past 25 years, the World Food Prize has grown to become the foremost international award for individuals who have made exceptional breakthrough achievements in increasing the quality, quantity and availability of food in the world, thus reducing hunger.

WHITEHOUSE: A Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture

Only the international community can help, and first and foremost the Security Council.

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For in addition to his higher-profile roles as a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and as a controversial commentator on Middle Eastern and international politics, Said was music critic at America's foremost left-leaning political weekly, the Nation, from 1986 until his death in 2003.

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