I opted in for three surgeries, and one of them was experimental.

His Government had unconditionally opted to remain non nuclear.

Bangladesh has consciously and unconditionally opted to remain non nuclear.

The majority opted for resettlement in the United States where there is a strong Montagnard community.

To achieve this, it opted for a mixture of policy instruments.

Qatar has opted for promoting multilateralism and has lived by this choice.

Many independence movements throughout the world had opted to take up arms.

The analysis also found that many individuals who participated in these interventions had opted to further their education.

Her Government requested the international community to assist those who opted for repatriation.

At least two written submissions by Member States opted for the latter formulation.

3 Two of the experts who did not pass opted to retake the examination.

However, several key dissident factions and their leaders opted to remain outside the process altogether.

As for transit goods, in the aftermath of the events of October 2002 operators opted for a wait and see policy.

I couldn't walk as much as I used to, so I opted for five inch heels.

Various jurisdictions have opted for specialized courts and tribunals to handle competition cases to avoid such delays.

As a result, large numbers of girls have opted for the subject combination entitled Science and Health'.

Instead, Santos opted for the path of least expedience. After all, war, in Colombia and elsewhere, frequently unites nations, while peace divides them.

The Board notes that UNOPS has opted not to collaborate with UNDP and has prepared its own fraud policy.

It was a lifestyle issue for many women, who often opted for part time work or job share arrangements.

Some outlets have opted to close, such as the newspaper El Norte, in the northern border state of Chihuahua, after the killing of correspondent Miroslava Breach in March.

An opinion was expressed that Armenia, which had allegedly opted out of regional cooperation, was now complaining about its isolation .

To promote women's advancement, Gabon had finally opted to set up various joint institutional mechanisms, including at the ministerial level.

In 2003, the United Nations General Assembly formally opted to use the term South South instead of ECDC TCDC in describing cooperation among developing countries (A RES 58 220).

Having opted for a liberal economy, the Republic of Guinea has also adopted competence as a selection criterion for recruitment in the civil service and in the private sector.

He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted, not because his parents opted for a different destiny.

We must, however, recognize that the parties do not seem to have resolutely opted for peace and reconciliation far from it.

Mr. Sardenberg (Brazil) said that his country had opted for a multisectoral approach to tackle the challenges of children's hunger and poverty.

In 1987, Tunisia had opted for a market economy, and it had been one of the first countries to conclude partnership and free trade agreements with the European Union.

Unable to agree on coordinated reflationary action, governments opted to move unilaterally. One after another, they abandoned the gold standard, depreciating their currencies.

So, some health care units have opted to work on abortions to reduce death and infection risks, sterility, and to reduce internment time.

As these submunitions are known to be unreliable, the French armed forces have opted for the use of rockets with a single explosive charge.

Several experts have opted to study the courses this way, and to make separate arrangements to take the examinations under the supervision of the secretariat.

Former high ranking FAPC officers who opted for integration into FARDC have been posted outside Aru territory, many of them being sent to Beni and Kisangani.

Regrettably, conditions were being attached to the security assurances given by nuclear weapon States to those States which had voluntarily opted not to acquire nuclear weapons.

Within this trend more countries have the determination to construct new nuclear power plants, while others already having such plants, have opted to construct new ones.

Based on the provisions of the electoral code, women were co opted to sit in the National Assembly and the Senate and now represent 30 and 34 per cent of those bodies, respectively.

Considering the limited availability of data in Bosnia and Herzegovina for determining absolute and relative poverty, we opted for the absolute poverty line as the most suitable instrument for poverty definition and monitoring.

When the Soviet Union collapsed more than two decades ago, and Ukraine opted for independence, many expected the country to do better than Russia in the years to come. But events turned out differently.

In contrast to men like Funes, Ortega, Mujica, and Chávez, whose careers began in guerrilla movements or failed coups, Mockus s past is irreproachable. He has never been co opted by private interests, be they political, economic, or criminal.

3. When persons entitled to the right of option have exercised such right, the State whose nationality they have opted for shall attribute its nationality to such persons.

A key meeting of country networks was co convened by the Government of the United Kingdom in December 2004 at which some networks agreed to form formal governance structures while others opted for looser structures.

This pattern persists across Central and Eastern Europe, where governments have also opted to imprison drug users. In Hungary, for example, the penal code calls for two years imprisonment for personal possession by a drug dependent person.

Despite having pleaded their case jointly before the domestic courts, the parties opted to send complaints both to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and to the Human Rights Committee.

The weapons inspectors were pulled out, and America opted for preemptive war. Bush was portrayed as facing down a new Hitler with Churchillian resolve, and advocates of containment were accused of appeasement.

Until now, no Arab society has managed to harmonize these opposing trends. Instead, most governments have opted for a more or less confrontational approach of suppression and exclusion, banning Islamists from participating in elections or bullying them into semi legality.