Indonesia is not only regionally important, but as a member of the G20, as one of the world's largest democracies, as one of the world's largest Islamic nations, it has enormous influence and really is, I think, a potential model for the kind of development strategies, democracy strategies, as well as interfaith strategies that are going to be so important moving forward.
His Athlon Sports Communications, Inc. is the nations largest publisher of sports annuals.
At this time, the programme was run by the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE), the governing body in the largest of the three home nations that make up the team (Northern Irish boxers compete for Ireland at the Olympics).
UNRWA, one of the United Nations' oldest and largest agencies.
Indeed, the Polish constitute the largest group of the Righteous Among the Nations, the honorary title granted to all non-Jews who saved Jewish lives by Yad Vashem, the organisation charged with commemorating the Holocaust.
The G-20 was set up as an ad hoc response to the financial crises of the 1990s to meet the need to expand necessary international financial and economic cooperation beyond the seven largest economies plus Russia to include developing nations, like China, India and Brazil.
Now a 57 state collective which includes every Islamic nation on earth, the OIC, currently headed by Turkey's Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, thus represents the entire Muslim umma (or global community of individual Muslims), and is the largest single voting bloc in the United Nations (UN).
The United States is Chile's largest trading partner, and trade between the nations has grown steadily since 1993, Clinton said.
Italy and Spain are the third and fourth largest economies, respectively, in the 17 nations united under the euro currency.
By 2050, two emerging market economies will be among the 3 largest in the world, while two-thirds of the thirty largest economies will come from EM-denominated nations.
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And with the exception of the U.S., with its diverse economy, cheap dollar, and still home to the largest middle class on earth, only emerging nations are doing better this year than they did in 2007 and in 2008.
In Europe and beyond, there are already global anticorruption frameworks in place that, by providing intergovernmental review mechanisms, allow the smallest nations to comment on the efforts of the largest ones.
Because I've been working down there for nearly a year as the U.N. special envoy, I've been in constant touch with our people through the U.N. on the ground, and you know we lost a lot of our people there -- the largest loss of life in the history of the United Nations on a single day.
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And Libya was among the African Union's largest contributors, paying dues for some of the 54 member nations.
The United Nations peacekeeping force there, which is already its largest operation anywhere, is about to be made even larger.
Next month, the United Nations will hold what is expected to be the largest ever gathering of leaders to discuss sustainable development at a time when inequality is on the rise from the U.S. to China.
Brazil has one of the largest pension liabilities in the world, even bigger than some European nations.
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"It is the team that probably does best in the Six Nations from the home unions that will probably have the largest share of Lions players, " said O'Driscoll, capped 88 times by Ireland.
In 1992, the world's largest environmental summit opened in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, with 178 nations taking part.
In accompanying filings it said the firm created by the 2007 merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBouef, Lamb Greene and MacCrae was once one of the largest law firms on earth, with 1, 300 attorneys in 12 nations and more than 5, 000 clients.
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Dr. Stacy provided a detailed technical presentation of the physical location, size and geo-political complexities associated with bringing to market what he characterized as potentially the world's second-largest oil reserves -- and a key energy resource for the industrialized nations in the 21st Century .
Even though many analysts agree that the dollar won't be replaced in the short run, it is a notion that has been raised by other nations such as Russia and more recently Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world-after Russia, Canada, China and the United States and the third largest in the Americas.
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This is due in part to the United Nations' climate summit now in progress in New York, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders to discuss climate issues.
By 2050, the BRIC nations are projected to be the first, third, fifth and sixth largest economies in the world.
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In December 2002, TNT's parent company TPG set about testing that idea when it launched a partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian aid agency.
So he carries with him to France the fact that we are pushing our Congress to act on these matters, and he comes as the leader of the largest economy in the world and a great friend and ally of a great many nations, so I think we continue to have a significant leading role to play at the G20 and other international fora.
Worldwide, it is the largest institution dedicated to education on these issues and is the only institute within the United Nations system accredited to confer master's degrees (MSc).
In spite of a devastating defeat in World War II, Japan had emerged from the rubble to be again acknowledged a world power on par with the strongest nations of the West, and accepted as the world's second-largest economy after the United States.
The big concern in the U.S. is not which country has the largest navy or nuclear arsenal, but whether China, Japan, and the oil exporting nations, will continue to buy U.S. bonds, and hold U.S. dollars in their central bank reserves, happy to be the largest foreign holders of U.S. debt.
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