He narrowly escaped being killed.

But we are not so narrowly focused as to ignore what is happening elsewhere within our region.

Hindes was narrowly behind after his lap, but Kenny pushed the team in front and Skinner held on.

There were limits to what could be learned about this issue by focusing narrowly on positive contributions and best practices.

The short length of the Group's mandate compelled the Group of Experts to narrowly focus on a limited number of issues.

Through counsel, the corporation chose to limit its evidence and define narrowly the legal question at issue before the national courts.

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

In setting out to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, they understood that this enterprise could not succeed if it was narrowly based.

The proposal by the delegation of Canada in the Working Group to delete draft subparagraph (b) had been narrowly rejected by five delegations to four.

On 2 October, former Minister Marwan Hemadeh narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded next to his car. His guard was killed in the explosion.

While none of these universal legal instruments contains an explicit legal definition of international terrorism , 10 of them contain narrowly operational definitions regarding certain offences.

The authors cannot before the Committee seek to review the strategic decisions of counsel to limit evidence and narrowly define the issues in the domestic courts.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms

The time has come for Member States to stop looking at threats from nuclear or other types of weapons in terms of their narrowly defined self interests.

The latest proposal to amend the law had been very narrowly defeated in the 2002 referendum, and the Government had no further plans to revisit the issue.

It was also suggested that the evaluation could be more narrowly scoped by focusing on summits and conferences related to resource mobilization within the context of poverty eradication.

In 2004, the Government of Guam narrowly avoided a Government shutdown when the Legislature and the Governor experienced a serious impasse on the budget for the fiscal year 2005.

Part of the problem is blinkered decision making. EU leaders focus narrowly on limiting short term financial and political costs, rather than thinking strategically about broader longer term consequences.

In short, specific terrorist threats should be fought through narrowly targeted counter terrorist operations, while moderates should undercut extremism through the politics of compromise rather than the false and dangerous delusions of military victory.

The participation of women in conflict prevention and resolution is no longer narrowly defined as a matter of gender equality and no longer confined to a perspective of human rights, democratic practices or social justice.

Similarly, it is increasingly recognized that focusing narrowly on country level peacebuilding efforts is unlikely to yield significant changes in peacebuilding outcomes, especially in the regions where conflict has interlocking political, security and economic dynamics.

But if the conference focuses too narrowly on Al Qaeda s presence in Yemen, it will do more harm than good. Instead, the conference must aim to address broader issues of political and social stability within Yemen.

On the other hand, the activities of INSTRAW are and continue to be dispersed thinly among a variety of those themes, since under each the Institute is responsible for only one or two narrowly defined activities.

Second, rather than focusing narrowly on cost cutting issues and seeing public administration revitalization from a doctrinaire, supply side economics angle, recent revitalization measures have multiple objectives and rely on a variety of pragmatic change management strategies.

In addition, on 17 February 2005 while in Mogadishu on an assessment mission of the security situation, the African Union delegation narrowly missed being hit by a roadside bomb explosion that killed two Somalis and wounded six others.

Turkey will hold its parliamentary election in July, four months earlier than scheduled, thereby narrowly avoiding a constitutional crisis over the choice of the country s next president. Nonetheless, Turkey s bout with political instability has damaged its foreign policy and international standing.

Europe must redefine itself and identify its mission anew if it wishes to retain its geopolitical weight. The EU must decide whether it represents a community of values or a narrowly defined geographic entity whose exclusionary impulses will eventually erode its global relevance.

At a deeper level, the real dichotomy is not between state capitalism and unfettered markets it is between extractive and inclusive economic institutions. Extractive institutions create a non level playing field, rents, and narrowly concentrated benefits for those with political power and connections.

It was suggested that the words an undertaking for should be inserted between the words against and the payment of freight to avoid the risk that the phrase against the payment of freight could be narrowly construed to exclude cases of future payment.

Claims for compensation for individual pain and suffering were limited to the specific circumstances set forth in Governing Council decision 3 (S AC.26 1991 3) and to the narrowly limited amounts specified in Governing Council decision 8 (S AC.26 1992 8).

The participants in the deliberations that resulted in New Power, New Responsibility split on this question. Some argued for an absolute requirement of Security Council authorization, while others recognized an imperative to contemplate humanitarian intervention without such authorization in very narrowly defined exceptional cases.

In fact, my delegation recalls that a key amendment proposed in the Sixth Committee by Belgium to make it clear that subparagraph (b) is aimed at outlawing reproductive cloning was narrowly defeated by a vote of 55 against, to 52 in favour, with 42 abstentions.

Even if one thinks narrowly about one s own descendants, presumably one hopes that they will be thriving in, and making a positive contribution to, their future society. Assuming that they are significantly better off than one s own generation, how important is their absolute level of income?

It prohibits not only the application of ex post facto laws, but also requires that the criminalized conduct be described in precise and unambiguous language that narrowly defines the punishable offence and distinguishes it from conduct that is either not punishable or is punishable by other penalties.

We feel that this occasion should be one not only for recommitment to the goals set out in the Millennium Declaration, as narrowly defined, but also for a new commitment to a process of compassionate global development that draws upon the best values known to humanity.

7. Encourages States parties to consider limiting the extent of any reservations that they lodge to the International Covenants on Human Rights, to formulate any reservations as precisely and narrowly as possible and to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the relevant treaty

8. Encourages States parties to consider limiting the extent of any reservations that they lodge to the International Covenants on Human Rights, to formulate any reservations as precisely and narrowly as possible and to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the relevant treaty

First, the agreement would have to define the relevant cases clearly neither too widely nor too narrowly and build on well established R2P language. The definition might be something like situations where populations are suffering, or at imminent risk of, genocide, other crimes against humanity, or major war crimes.

NEW YORK There has been no shortage of scrutiny of what Russian President Vladimir Putin is up to in Syria and why. Much of the analysis, though, has been narrowly focused on the short term and may be too negative in assessing his actions likely long term consequences.

When the Chinese student movement broke out in 1989, I was pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California Berkeley. I traveled to Beijing to participate as an activist in Tiananmen Square, where I narrowly escaped the massacre and was able to make my way back to the US.

In 2008, such a catastrophic scenario was narrowly avoided, owing to policy intervention, including the coordination effort under the so called Vienna Initiative (in which the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, among others, was involved). A new pact to secure the achievements of financial integration is now urgently needed.

As a result, it is explicitly diagnostic and focuses on the most significant economic bottlenecks and constraints. Rather than comprehensive reform, it emphasizes policy experimentation and relatively narrowly targeted initiatives in order to discover local solutions, and it calls for monitoring and evaluation in order to learn which experiments work.

UKIP s rapid rise has been built on the promise of a return to a British past that never was mostly white, God fearing, law abiding, culturally insular, and narrowly focused on its own national interests. It is a vision that appeals mainly to those who are suspicious of modernity and hostile toward globalization.