• The Director-General called on political leaders to build on the potential of culture as a force for social cohesion and dialogue: "The role of culture in development should be fully recognized by policy makers, especially at a time when the new development agenda is being defined, " she said.

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  • The Director-General called upon authorities and professionals to be vigilant about looting and the illicit trafficking of manuscripts, noting that cultural sites are particularly vulnerable in times of unrest.

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  • The Director-General called on all parties to protect Egyptian cultural heritage, symbol of the country's identity, and to respect freedom of expression, pillar of democracy.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • In June a horrified Leon Panetta, the new director of the CIA, called an emergency meeting to brief Congress on the programme, which had been kept secret.

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  • The ACLU Director Anthony Romero called it one of the worst civil liberty measures ever enacted in American history, and that kind of echoes what House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said.

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  • In her address, the Director-General called for a year of renewal for World Heritage.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • In its decision, the 21-member Committee responsible for implementing the World Heritage Convention, called on the Director-General of UNESCO to create a special fund to help Mali in the conservation of its cultural heritage.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

  • Visitors were briefly deterred from central London during the games, but Alva director Bernard Donohue called the recovery "almost immediate".

    BBC: British Museum is the most visited UK attraction again

  • The campaign has been called "tasteless" by the BBC's director general Tony Hall, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and others, though few have called for the song to be banned outright.

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  • Tannenbaum had become the director of pro personnel for the Jets and called to interview him for an internship.

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  • The Director-General has called upon governments to prevent and punish crimes against journalists, noting that freedom of information has been under great threat.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • In a report on the problems of the recent Hogmanay event, Jim Inch, the city's director of corporate services, called on the executive to pledge more financial backing for the Hogmanay celebrations.

    BBC: Edinburgh on Hogmanay

  • When that failed to stop the criticism, he picked up the telephone one night and called the Herald's advertising director.

    ECONOMIST: Miami politics

  • Keiji Fukuda, the assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, called the outbreak "serious" on Sunday.

    CNN: The story

  • The UNWTO regional director for Asia, Xu Jing, called the number "staggering".

    BBC: Chinese tourists now biggest source of travel spending

  • The charity's Scottish director called for more to be spent on prevention.

    BBC: Eye test

  • "He wanted to know if I could help him get into the KIPP school in Houston, " says Robichaux, who immediately called two other teachers and the director of operations from KIPP Phillips.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute, called for Edinburgh City Council to ban the grotto.

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  • "The company's human resources director called us in a panic, " recalls Christine Fahlund, a senior financial planner at T.

    FORBES: Company Stock Bonanza

  • Asadi is now the local director of an environmental group called Nature Iraq.

    NPR: Iraq's Marshlands Face A Second Death By Drought

  • He has not called for either the Director General's or Chairman's resignation.

    BBC: The BBC has faced worse crises

  • In early 2010, he was forwarded an e-mail in patchy English from a Ukrainian academic named Oleg Bakhtiyarov, who introduced himself as the director of a recently formed institution of higher education in Kiev called the University of Effective Development, and as a leading proponent of a philosophical movement called psychonetics.

    NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners

  • "Having recovered 25 dead bodies from the rubble, we have called off the search and rescue operation, " the director of Dhaka's fire brigade, Sheikh Mohammad Shahjalal, told the AFP news agency.

    BBC: Bangladesh housing collapse rescue operation called off

  • The director of business body CBI Scotland has called for improvements to transport links to the Highlands.

    BBC: Plane

  • But CBI director general Richard Lambert called the Budget "the UK's first important step on the long journey back to economic health".

    BBC: Budget: Osborne's 'tough' package puts VAT up to 20%

  • Peter Fincham, ITV's director of television, called the figures a testament to "the enduring popularity of high-quality television content broadcast free-to-air to mass audiences".

    BBC: X Factor final 'most watched show of 2010'

  • Age Concern Director General Gordon Lishman called the decision "scandalous".

    BBC: Expats lose battle for better pensions

  • Hospice director Dr Ros Taylor called the donation "a substantial amount of money" which would go towards funding the free services it offers to families suffering with a life-limiting illness.

    BBC: Hemel Hempstead

  • He was the political director of an independent campaign committee called Americans for Bush, which produced and broadcast a commercial featuring Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who received a weekend furlough in Massachusetts and then committed several grisly crimes.

    NEWYORKER: Money Unlimited

  • Undurraga is particularly concerned about the NARMS findings because it means the consumption of meat is adding to what the director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, last year called a "post-antibiotic era, " or an era in which antibiotics will no longer work to fight disease because too many bacteria have developed resistance to it.

    CNN: What government tests found in your meat

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