The pioneering spirit

Pioneering spirit should continue, but on another level.

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INSTRAW stated that it was unable to continue its pioneering work on statistics and indicators as a result of budget constraints and not because it was unresponsive to the suggestion of the Special Adviser.

And pioneering spirit will be each time we allow ourselves to explore this vertical axis.

It happened because many people put their time and effort and their pioneering spirit into this.

Notwithstanding the fact that the building, as a green building, is very much a pioneering building.

And, in fact, the first pioneering treatments for people, as well as dogs, are already becoming available.

Risks of spaces that have never been so dizzying, as they should be, for a pioneering city.

So how can we perpetuate this pioneering spirit with something that will be independent from fossil energy?

They were filled with a kind of pioneering passion, fired about the problems of the Aral Sea.

Two pioneering projects for youth have also been set up in Egypt under a long term strategy.

Next year, a pioneering group of countries will be introducing a first international solidarity levy on airline tickets.

That pioneering initiative brought together two regions of the developing world in a concrete demonstration of harmony of civilizations.

I know many in the room probably know exactly who he is, but to give the shorthand version for any who have not heard him speak, Dr. Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize a few years ago for his work pioneering modern microfinance.

You know, when people speak about pioneering spirit, very often they believe that pioneers are the ones who have new ideas.

But the pioneering work is now on hold, as are the hopes of millions of farmers for an effective, environmentally friendly answer to the crisis. Countries in Asia indeed, countries throughout the developing world are simply not exporting their abundant and economically important genetic resources.

By exploring new methods and techniques, small satellites can be a tool for pioneering experiments and technologies for future missions involving larger satellites.

What is happening today is analogous to developments a few decades ago, early in the era of personal computers. In 1987, economist Robert Solow awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on growth lamented that You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

And in the upper left, a pioneering effort 14 years ago by GM 84 miles a gallon without even using a hybrid, in a four seater.

And Parag Shah, another engineer, from Mumbai, has unbundled our projects into smaller, more manageable bites that he now serves in his pioneering do it yourself computer science program.

In selecting this priority area, UNDP and UNIDO sought to provide a dedicated and pioneering response to the analyses, conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Commission on the Private Sector and Development presented to the United Nations Secretary General in March 2004 under the title Unleashing Entrepreneurship Making Business Work for the Poor .

UNICEF will continue to cooperate with partners in pioneering and pilot innovations designed to assist in the development of national sectoral policies, technical advances and experience in reaching marginalized children and poor families.

He also welcomed the recent decision of the G8 leaders to erase the debt of HIPCs in Africa and in that connection expressed his support for UNCTAD's invaluable pioneering policy analysis on debt.

Reflecting on the G8's recent decision to cancel the multilateral debt of several poor countries, he recalled UNCTAD's pioneering role in advocating debt relief as an essential condition for overcoming the poverty trap .

Yahoo set the pace in pioneering the active collaboration of Internet and high tech firms with political repression. In 2005, Yahoo gave the Chinese police the computer identification code for a dissident journalist, Shi Tao.

Regarding debt, the Asian Group welcomed the development related initiatives arising from the recent G8 summit and wished to point out that these had been made possible by UNCTAD's invaluable pioneering policy analysis on debt.

Recalling that one of the common goals of the two organizations is to combat corruption and impunity, and noting that the Inter American Convention against CorruptionSee E 1996 99. is a pioneering international instrument in that field,

Norway commended UNHCR for its pioneering and catalytic role in developing innovative concepts that induced the various actors to pool their efforts to the benefit of refugees, host countries and, in cases of return, countries of origin.

In today s competitive global marketplace, countries need to upgrade and diversify their industries continuously according to their changing endowments. A pioneering firm s success or failure in upgrading and or diversifying will influence whether other firms follow or not.

A few years ago I reinvented my process to keep up with people like Greg Lynn, Tom Main, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas all these people that I think are persevering and pioneering with fantastic new ideas of how to create form.

This is a symbol of what we can achieve when we believe in the impossible, when we have a team, when we have pioneering spirit, and especially when we understand that all the certainties we have should be thrown overboard.

This level of business engagement bodes well for pioneering a new planet friendly and people sensitive approach to global prosperity. Indeed, the disaster risk reduction conference in Sendai is the first in a series of major international gatherings this year.

Cognizant of the pioneering role of Islamic Waqfs System in enriching Islamic civilization and their effective contribution to the establishing of economic and social institutions of society as well as their notable contribution to the educational and health fields and to combat poverty

So if I could inspire even a fraction of you in the audience today to share this pioneering diagnostic approach with even one parent whose child is suffering from a developmental disorder, then perhaps one more puzzle in one more brain will be solved.

Instead, the process was opened up to the public, with ordinary citizens allowed to contribute via a government blog. Advocates of free software mixed it up with law enforcers and lobbyists from the likes of Google and Yahoo, in a pioneering example of wiki democracy.

Serious empirical research on capital punishment in the US began with a pioneering study by Isaac Ehrlich, published in 1975 in the American Economic Review. Some subsequent studies have sometimes found a much weaker deterrent effect, while others have found a much stronger effect.

Allow me to draw the Assembly's attention to a signal and very positive pioneering experience of Saudi young people who make up more than two thirds of Saudi society that took place under the auspices of the King Abdul Aziz Centre for National Dialogue.

Encouragement for exchanges of expertise and pioneering experimental initiatives between Arab States with a view to their mutual advantage, especially efforts aimed at expanding social security and social insurance networks, establishing development funds, organizing training and skills development programmes, launching family businesses and the like

Moreover, during the past 3 years, the Greek Anticancer Society has operated and is still operating the Breast Care Network, which constitutes the pioneering implementation of an integrated information and support system for women on issues concerning breast health and, in particular, breast cancer.

It is the repository of cutting edge sustainable technologies, pioneering research and development, world class management, and leadership in environmental sustainability. Yet at the same time, the corporate sector lobbies aggressively to gut environmental regulations, slash corporate tax rates, and avoid their own responsibility for ecological destruction.

It's the product of two years of correspondence between Dewey Hagborg, whose discipline combines her expertise in technology, computer science and art, and Manning, a trans woman and pioneering dissident whose sentence was commuted by Barack Obama when he had just three days left in office.

Exploiting technology Syrians are generally literate, numerate, and technologically sophisticated. A pioneering social networking platform called Tawasul ( Connection ), established by the IRC and the non profit news organization Internews, has been set up to help refugees help one another through the exchange of information and advice.

Back in 1997, a pioneering paper by Robert Costanza and his colleagues put the overall value of marine ecosystem services at 21 trillion. Others have estimated that illegal fishing costs the global economy 10 23.5 billion per year, and poor management of fisheries 50 billion per year.

Still, the dilemma is obvious in pioneering fields like biomedicine, nanotechnology, and neurosciences. Research in these areas sometimes meets with vehement rejection, for example, on religious grounds with respect to stem cell research, or owing to fear with respect to the possibility of altering human identity.