In Myanmar, we have made great strides in fostering gender equality.

Afghanistan has made great strides in its efforts towards nation building.

UNICEF and its partners continued to make great strides in achieving tangible results for children.

Within the past 20 years, South America had made great strides both economically and politically.

The international community has already made great strides in elaborating many international instruments to combat it.

16. All but a few developing countries also made great strides in reducing the child mortality rate.

Namibia, with only thirteen years of independence and with limited resources, has made great strides towards gender equality.

I.47 Nevertheless, the Advisory Committee notes that great strides have been made in some areas of technological innovation.

Jordan has taken great strides since the beginning of the 1990s towards becoming the medical centre of the Arab world.

Ongoing regional processes have made great strides in developing criteria and indicators that contribute to defining and assessing sustainable forest management.

However, in the five remaining months of the period, the Office of the Prosecutor made great strides to further reduce the vacancy rate.

Bahrain had thus made great strides towards implementing the Millennium Development Goals in respect of the empowerment of women and aspired to make further progress.

Great strides had been made in including women in decision making, as demonstrated by the appointment of two female Cabinet Ministers and two female Deputy Ministers.

Although Colombia had made great strides in combating poverty, 3 per cent of the gross national product was still allocated to the war instead of social programmes.

Large strides have been made on development matters.

The achievements! The gigantic strides man has taken!

The Programme has made great strides in joint planning and programme coordination with other agencies and in forming partnerships with host countries as well as civil society actors.

Where there is consensus, let us take big strides.

In collaboration with its partners, the Partnership has made great strides with respect to assisting country efforts in designing, implementing and monitoring national strategies for the development of statistics.

The functional commissions had made great strides in revising their methods of work in accordance with the guidance provided by the Economic and Social Council, as exemplified by the fact that

Under the teacher's guidance, I took big strides with my studies.

Further strides have been made in decentralizing Government authority and services.

The ICC has made enormous strides in the period under review.

This year has witnessed major strides towards sustainable peace in the Sudan.

Africa had recently made considerable strides towards maintaining peace on the continent.

The text proposed for endorsement makes significant strides towards redressing the imbalance.

Since our Rose Revolution two years ago, Georgia has made great strides towards reducing social inequality, strengthening human rights, caring for the sick and vulnerable and promoting sustainable development all important elements of the MDGs.

China, with its huge population, shortage in natural resources and frequent natural disasters had recently made great strides in developing the technologies for launchers, satellite telecommunications, Earth observation and recoverable satellites to meet its needs.

Finally, the humanitarian element of the strategy has made great strides forward over the past year, as both the delivery of relief material and access to affected populations have increased dramatically since the communiqué was signed.

Although women were still relatively underrepresented in top posts, significant strides had been made.

While she welcomed the great strides made in formulating strategies to eradicate absolute poverty and reduce overall poverty, she was concerned that poverty indicators continued to worsen while the gap between the rich and the poor widened.

This institution has made significant strides for the sake of world peace, security and development.

The Government made great strides in concluding agreements with the United Nations and with armed groups in Darfur aimed at facilitating urgent relief measures for those adversely affected by the unfortunate events that have taken place in past months.

The United Nations has made immense strides in promoting peace and universal values throughout the world.

2. Welcomes all efforts by countries of the region to overcome the effects of past conflicts, and also the efforts of the international community, which have helped the countries of the region to make great strides towards peace and stability

Some strides have been made in fulfilling the conditions for admission to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

Significant strides in health care can be made through existing drinking water systems and generic drug manufacturing.

Yet each year we also see movement, in small steps or in strides, towards a more secure world.

There is no doubt that the United Nations and the international community have made important strides in addressing impunity.

The strides made towards reforming the security sector, in particular the training of the new police service, are also encouraging.

Since the end of the cold war, nuclear disarmament has registered unprecedented strides due to individual, bilateral and collective efforts.

In recent years, United Nations agencies have made major strides in meeting the requirements of donors for reporting and consultation.

While China, India, and Brazil still have very large rural populations, they have made great strides in reducing poverty, with several hundred million people (the largest proportion in China), escaping it in the last few decades. And these countries middle classes are growing fast as well.

NASA scientists also made exciting new strides in lunar studies while working on the Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored Clementine mission.

The forum has made significant strides in establishing strong working relations with key civil society organizations over the last three years.