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Multilateral


Definition:

  • (a.) Having many sides; many-sided.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This program engages more medical professions and represents an integral part of multilateral medical measures with the purpose of realizing health policy and its main scope, i.e.
  • (2) We recognize the importance of mobilizing funding from a variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including innovative sources of finance, to support nationally appropriate mitigation actions, adaptation measures, technology development and transfer and capacity-building in developing countries.
  • (3) Uni- and multilateral relationships could be observed among the single parameters.
  • (4) Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s special envoy for climate change, said the bank’s pledge coupled with commitments from Germany, France and the UK to double their climate finance and similar pledges from multilateral development banks in Asia, Europe and Africa meant the total pledges were “well on the way to $100bn”.
  • (5) Taken together, the report represents the first comprehensive treatment of drug policy reform from a multilateral organisation.
  • (6) The Obama administration was in the forefront of efforts to mobilise international diplomatic support for the Libyan rebels as the uprising began to unfold, backing multilateral sanctions in concert with the EU and lobbying Arab leaders who had no reason to love Gaddafi.
  • (7) • France (GDP $2.61tn) France has pledged up to $89.7m ; $44.85m of that sum is direct bilateral aid, while $44.85m will go to multilateral institutions.
  • (8) Lewis says they will make Labour’s longstanding multilateralism reality, not rhetoric.
  • (9) The incoming Obama administration is expected to avoid using the term "war on terror" and adopt a more multilateral and less military-focused approach to global threats.
  • (10) The report represents the first time any significant multilateral agency has outlined serious alternatives to prohibition, including legal market regulation or reform of the UN drug conventions.
  • (11) They all want the multilateral negotiations to move forward.
  • (12) But we may be permitted to hope there is now a chance that something of the old Canada, committed to moderation and multiculturalism at home and to multilateralism and cooperation abroad, will re-emerge from the fray.
  • (13) We reaffirm our Johannesburg Plan of Implementation commitment to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and overcapacity taking into account the importance of this sector to developing countries, and we reiterate our commitment to conclude multilateral disciplines on fisheries subsidies which give effect to the WTO Doha Development Agenda and the Hong Kong Ministerial mandates to strengthen disciplines on subsidies in the fisheries sector, including through the prohibition of certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and over-fishing, recognising that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiation, taking into account the importance of the sector to development priorities, poverty reduction, and livelihood and food security concerns.
  • (14) At the session, Lavrov announced that Moscow would circulate a draft resolution to provide a mandate for a multilateral coalition against Isis, “based on international law”.
  • (15) But if we want to avoid growing tension we have to find a way around that, and the only framework is the UN multilateralism.
  • (16) Agreement at Copenhagen, in this area of policy which is so complex, politically sensitive and immense in its ramifications, would be an extraordinary achievement for multilateral negotiation.
  • (17) Besides a high but not rigid stability, minimum impairment, a limited but multilateral applicable apparatus and simple operating technique the high variability in consequense of external, subcutaneous and paraosseous placement possibility has to be mentioned.
  • (18) In a much-awaited speech on Wednesday night that may prove the biggest test of Obama's multilateral approach to foreign policy, the president was poised to emphasise a mix of US military action, hitherto confined to airstrikes in Iraq, coupled with support for the forces ranged against Islamic State (Isis) on the ground.
  • (19) We invest directly in the capacity of national governments to execute their own agricultural strategies and join with other donors to fund those strategies through multilateral mechanisms like the global agriculture and food security programme.
  • (20) The international development committee warned that the global health system “remains dangerously inadequate for responding to health emergencies” and said “DfID should not wait for its 2015 multilateral aid review” to do something about this, adding: “The urgency of the situation warrants immediate action.” It pressed the international development secretary Justine Greening to move quickly and decisively to guard against a repeat of the disaster, which has claimed the lives of almost 7,000 people in west Africa.

Nation


Definition:

  • (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
  • (n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
  • (n.) Family; lineage.
  • (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
  • (n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
  • (n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
  • (3) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
  • (4) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (5) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (6) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
  • (7) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (8) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (9) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (10) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
  • (11) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (12) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
  • (13) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (14) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
  • (15) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (16) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
  • (17) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
  • (18) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
  • (19) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
  • (20) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.

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