Yet, it's 3,000 times tougher than its geological counterpart.

In reality, these animals have no terrestrial counterpart they're unique in the world.

Presumably, the eurobonds would be under the control of the eurozone finance ministers. The board would constitute the fiscal counterpart of the European Central Bank it would also be the European counterpart of the International Monetary Fund.

And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea, National Marine Sanctuaries.

However, every women's NGO had a fundamentalist counterpart, which meant that progress was slow and difficult.

Efforts made by Africa to stand as a solid counterpart to its development partners were emphasized.

There is no clear counterpart for Regional Programmes in member governments or focal points in UNDP country offices.

That is in line with the agreement reached last year by my predecessor and his counterpart in the Fourth Committee.

A similar high level meeting has been held in Latin America and an Asian counterpart has been called for 2006.

The Agency has signed a comprehensive memorandum of understanding with its main law enforcement counterpart, State Investigation and Protection Agency.

An effort has been made to cultivate the League of Arab States as a counterpart institution, but results have been mixed.

On August 11, local time, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a talk with his Ugandan counterpart in Kampala, capital of Uganda.

Indeed, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer himself, invited his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, to commemorate that tragedy together.

Enunciations of principles and adherence to values have a necessary counterpart in the collective responsibility to undertake concrete and action oriented measures.

Each sign We showed them was more marvelous than its counterpart. And We afflicted them with the plagues, so that they may repent.

Each sign We showed them was more marvelous than its counterpart. And We afflicted them with the plagues, so that they may repent.

UNIDO administers the remainder of the budget in consultation with the centres to recruit counterpart institution staff as well as other international experts.

The Greek Cypriot administration should be reminded, once again, that its counterpart is, and has always been, the Turkish Cypriot side, not Turkey.

The Greek Cypriot administration should be reminded, once again, that its counterpart is, and has always been, the Turkish Cypriot side, not Turkey.

The counterpart of the United Nations Model Tax Convention, the OECD Model Tax Convention (and its Commentary) was further amended in 2003 and 2005.

The absence of strong regional institutions has made it difficult for the regional programme to find a clear counterpart for its inter country operations.

In such event, the shipper, being the original contractual counterpart of the carrier, has to assume the responsibility of advising the carrier about delivery.

It is expected that a national counterpart will be appointed shortly to the post of Director of the Treasury, currently filled by an UNMISET adviser.

Funding for the project was provided through a loan of EC 9.9 million obtained from the Caribbean Development Bank and local counterpart financing of EC 2.1 million.

Challenges. The rural population of Pakistan does not at present have the same facilities and amenities in the fields of education, health, employment etc. as its urban counterpart.

But, as Vladimir Putin greeted his Turkish counterpart in the gilded hall of a St. Petersburg palace, I got the distinct impression that Ankara wants this reconciliation the most.

The declaration adds that parliaments should increase their international work in partnership with the IPU, which they consider to be a unique global parliamentary counterpart of the United Nations.

(d) To maintain and increase contacts and improve the mechanism of consultation with the counterpart programmes, organizations and agencies concerned regarding projects and programmes in order to facilitate their implementation

(d) To maintain and increase contacts and improve the mechanism of consultation with the counterpart programmes, organizations and agencies concerned regarding projects and programmes in order to facilitate their implementation

In accordance with their coordination role, UNOTIL military advisers supported several tactical level meetings between the Border Patrol Unit and its Indonesian counterpart at various junction points along the border.

UNIDO services should be properly targeted to the specific circumstances of recipient countries, some of which, particularly LDCs, experienced difficulties in absorbing UNIDO services because they lacked appropriate counterpart institutions.

With regard to agenda item 5, the findings of the Evaluation Group highlighted the need to improve technical cooperation delivery to poor countries and regions that lacked strong counterpart institutions.

To achieve these results would require financial assistance, and the GoE noted that counterpart funding in terms of infrastructure would be available from many of their respective organizations and institutes.

In the case of UNDP, the other elements are cost sharing, funds and trust funds, government cash counterpart contributions, contributions to local office costs, extrabudgetary activities and management services agreements.

The Greek Cypriot leader, Demetris Christofias, and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Mehmet Ali Talat, are working hard to reach an agreement. But it will elude them without a further concerted push.

Military training advisers are primarily responsible for facilitating relations between the Border Patrol Unit and its Indonesian counterpart, while police training advisers provide training and mentoring to the Border Patrol Unit.

Perhaps the biggest challenge is to find a regional institution that can serve, not so much as a counterpart, but as a sounding board and mechanism for validation of UNDP regional efforts.

So the game must be stopped, if only for the survival of innocent bystanders the rest of us. If you do not see humanity in your counterpart, you will not talk to him.

The Group's findings highlighted the challenge faced by UNIDO in providing effective technical cooperation delivery to the least developed countries (LDCs) and backward regions that lacked strong counterpart institutions with adequate absorption capacity.

The technical team, which works with a counterpart national team, has focused on refining organizational charts, defining areas of responsibility for the international partners and the monitoring framework for the implementation of the programme.

Ms. Dee sent the rest of the money ( 1 million) to Ms. Chung in Youngland, through an underground banker, Mr. Ezura, in Zeitstaat, who had his counterpart, Ms. Jabbar, in Youngland (alternative remittance system).

Lula told his Iranian counterpart that to deny the Holocaust was bad, even for Iran itself. Ahmadinejad replied that he did not deny it, but only criticized what he considered Israel s political use of it.

OXFORD Many of the recent tributes for Margaret Thatcher following her death celebrated her as a transformational leader who brought about great changes. There were frequent references to her equally transformational American counterpart, Ronald Reagan.

The most recent of these attempts are the contacts which the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Abdullah Gül, had with his Armenian counterpart on the margins of various international meetings.

All told, these various initiatives are likely to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the coming decade, speeding growth in the counterpart countries while deepening their production, trade, and financial linkages with China.