• Green MSP Robin Harper's amended motion, which said Grameen-type banking could provide an opportunity to tackle the growing problem of unemployment among 16 to 19-year-olds with the establishment of a microcredit scheme for young people in Scotland, was unanimously backed by the parliament.

    BBC: Decision time

  • The victims' families, whose long campaign for justice led to the establishment last year of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, were the first to see its report Wednesday morning.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Since the end of the revolution last year, Libya's security establishment has been divided on how to deal with the scores of militias, composed predominantly of ex-rebels who fought to topple the Gadhafi regime.

    WSJ: Libyan Army Clamps Down on Militias

  • Republican voters have already displayed a propensity this year for rejecting establishment-anointed choices in favor of insurgent conservatives.

    NPR: 2012: Economy, GOP Set Tone Of Presidential Race

  • It's not uncommon for this sort of establishment to have signed a 20-year lease, which means some are still paying '90s-era rents, at least for now.

    WSJ: Manhattan's Low-Rent Dining in Hiding

  • The scandals are playing into the growing disaffection among Italian voters with establishment parties that every year gorge on billions of euros in public financing, analysts say.

    WSJ: Scandals Rain on Berlusconi's Party

  • The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has redoubled its efforts in the past year toward literacy, the training of teachers, and the establishment of school statistics.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • And just like that, a 155-year old company challenged the establishment and disrupted the power of the elite coterie of editors and retail buyers to deliver the latest style.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The Private Pension Plan Bulletin Historical Tables published by the US Department of Labor in March, 2007, documents that trend in the twenty year period (1975- 2004) that followed the establishment of the PBGC.

    FORBES: PBGC Pension Termination: A Worker's Perspective by Terry O'Rourke, United airlines (December 15, 2007 )

  • One year later the Scotland Act was passed providing "for the establishment of a Scottish Parliament".

    BBC: Devolution in Scotland

  • With the establishment of the Hammarskjold Commission in December 1988 and the appointment one year later of the panel of experts chaired by Ambassador Wilenski, the Director-General embarked on a process for the reform of the Organization.

    UNESCO: Administration

  • Est in the chic, tucked-away (meaning no view at all) Establishment Hotel is the Sydney Morning Herald's 2006 Restaurant of the Year and a showcase for star chef Peter Doyle's surprising combinations such as a velvety John Dory in a carrot-and-sherry sauce.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In some areas of Scotland, the re-establishment of the red kite continues to be jeopardised by illegal killing and each year brings further reports of the persecution of other raptors, notably golden eagles and peregrines.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Calls over birds of prey killings

  • Instead of meekly resigning, the judge, Iftikhar Chaudhry, embarked on a flamboyant nationwide campaign demanding the establishment, for the first time in Pakistan's turbulent 60-year history, of a genuinely independent judiciary.

    NPR: Former Pakistan Leader Sharif Desires Return

  • The 35-year-old graduate of the Culinary Institute of America is also the executive chef at the fine-dining establishment at the Distrito Capital hotel.

    FORBES: Mexico City: Inside Latin America's Hottest City

  • The Conference welcomed the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) earlier this year and recognized the potential contribution it could make to enhance the effectiveness of the Convention.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • It was a schism that led to the formation of the establishment-approved Women's Tennis Association in 1973 -- which will be marked this year by the WTA's "40 Love" commemorative campaign, a celebration of four decades of progress in the women's game.

    CNN: How women cracked tennis' glass ceiling

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