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The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

You're talking to a small- to medium-cap value manager, and that manager is becoming a dinosaur. What we do in our Capital Fund or the New Income Fund is a function of our discipline.

Although there is a definite relationship between lung function and vitamin D, it is unclear if increases in vitamin D through supplements or dietary intake will actually improve lung function in patients with chronic respiratory diseases.

Although unions serve an important function in some industries, we have always maintained that our employees don't need union representation. We believe all of our employees receive fair wage and superb benefits.

A lot of the options will take too long, and you can't hold the customer up like that. We might have one machine that does both. It may be full function on one side and quicker transactions on the other.

Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

People think the time to leave is when things become unbearable, or is a function of the time you've been there. It's not, ... The Doom-Loop System.

Probably this year was the most successful group I've worked with in terms of watching players come together as a group. They were able to grow and understand how to function together as one heartbeat.

Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.

Perhaps it's a function of the fears that (Fed Chief Alan) Greenspan has already gone too far (with interest-rate hikes) and the worst news is yet to come.

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.

Our export function is also supported by enterprise relationship management (ERM) software that provides full order processing-right from acceptance of the order through to dispatch and invoice. It is fully integrated with our financial ledgers, manufacturing and distribution functions. It also allows sales analysis and reporting features.

Our decline was all in function of what was happening outside Brazil. But we were also with an accumulated rise of 14 percent and we needed a reason to take profits.

Our design team created The Monet with today's family in mind. The first floor features both formal and casual living and dining areas plus a den that can function as a home office or guest suite.

E-mail management is a key factor in compliance and corporate governance procedures, and a potential landmine in legal discovery initiatives. That's why it shouldn't be seen as a secondary function with niche technology, but as a core component of records compliance management.

Fiscal responsibility includes planning for contingencies--planning that goes well beyond backup and recovery--into the fabric of people, governance and the ability to change direction with great speed, ... Boards need to hold management accountable for building a strong bench of leaders who know the business, understand the interplay between sustainable futures for our businesses and our communities, and can function under times of great stress, including personal losses.

Even for people with bad lung disease, bronchitis, end-stage emphysema and asthma, the mere effect of focusing on a basic body function like breathing can be restorative.

Essentially we want to provide an appropriate balance between professional services and managed services to those accounts and owning the IT function of those small businesses.

There's substantial premiums you pay if you buy gas near a freeway. It's simply a function of gas stations' taking advantage of the convenience factor. They may also pay higher rents, though.

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

The results were very encouraging. But further research needs to be done using a larger number of people and testing them multiple times. We also need to examine their brains both before and after learning to meditate. Our group is currently planning to do this. Eventually, such research should reveal more about the function of the thickening; that is, how it affects emotions and knowing in terms of both awareness and judgment.

We believe over time, customers will move to more function and higher scales sets of infrastructures. Customers needed an entry point to do SOA based on Web services.

This will function not as a bell tower, but as a vertical structure that collects the buildings. It's open and people will gather and walk around.

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc

The whole era of IT as a support function for marketing, finance, and sales is history.

This function has always been treated like a stepchild.

This building has been designed with form and function for the next 100 years.

This facility was not supposed to function as it does today.

This is the best Christmas present I could ever have received. Now it's just a matter of getting him back and hoping there is enough kidney function left to salvage so that he doesn't end up back on dialysis.

This is a function of those companies seeing an opportunity to get in on the surging housing market. Obviously, the long-term demographics for people in their 50s and 60s play into this. Not everyone wants to live on a golf course in Florida.

This is not a team that we've had the luxury to look ahead a lot this year. We've been doing so much of trying to learn how to function in the here and now that it really becomes challenging to look ahead. When you look ahead too far, it becomes a distraction.

In looking at cognitive function and how it relates to drinking, I wondered how other variables, such as additional drug use, might have an influence. That is when it was found that smoking had a correlation.

In big accounts they're definitely a threat to the incumbent vendors. They've invested a lot in their sales function and have been able to land big deals.

In an increasingly dynamic sports and entertainment marketplace, new technology and entertainment vehicles have impacted the way sports leagues function and how we deliver the NHL experience to our business partners and fans,

In another 10,000 or 20,000 years, I think the human brain may acquire a form that is quite different than the human brain today. Not necessarily in its shape, which may remain relatively the same. But the function may be different. It may be, on average, a little smarter. Or it may acquire certain skills that in its current form it isn't well-equipped to handle -- advanced cognitive abilities such as abstract reasoning. We don't really know for sure how -- but we are still evolving.

In a nutshell, Cary Dyer will allow the chamber to function and operate in a more professional manner and help us grow into a world-class chamber, take us to the next level.

In certain situations, there is a classical function and responsibility there that must not be avoided, even if it is just to appeal to good sense.

In designing the jeans we considered both function and fashion. The result is a uniquely functional, yet stylish, great fitting jean.

In general, we think that nature evolved this function to help us survive DNA damage that would otherwise kill us. It's probably a kind of damage that all cells encounter frequently in life.

In a new museum we could plan how all of the areas function together.

If people could get a condom as conveniently and naturally as buying a Chinese cabbage, the AIDS prevention function carried out by condoms could finally imbue people's lives and change their bias (against condoms).

In America, however, the authority to grant legal status to a marriage has been a function reserved for the states, and different states have different laws regarding issues ranging from blood-testing to waiting periods before marriage.

I have serious concerns about the potential risks of taking lots of fish oil capsules. So much fish oil can have paradoxical effects, reducing immune function in later life.

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

If Molly sees a lake, her instinct is to run into it. She would just keep going if no one stopped her. That would be an important function of the dog.

If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.

Importantly, such insights can now guide studies that focus on the normal function and interactions of these proteins and how they might be enhanced by disease-causing mutations. These studies could give better understanding of how the proteins cause disease.

In the first place, the market provision of 'security' generates its own paranoid demand. 'Security' becomes a ... prestige symbol. Secondly, as William Whyte has observed of social intercourse in New York, 'fear proves itself'. The social perception of threat becomes a function of the security mobilization itself, not crime rates.

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.

No institution can function smoothly if there is disunity among it's members.

Sleep serves not only a restorative function for adolescents' bodies and brains, but it is also a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.

As we neared the end of season 1, our plan was that each woman would enter a new life chapter. Gabrielle would learn to function without Carlos, Susan and Mike would build their relationship, Lynette would go back to work, and Bree would become a single woman. We either had to have Rex divorce her or die, and we already did the coma with Mama Solis.

The baby Triceratops confirmed our argument that the horns and frill of the skull likely had another function other than sexual display or competition with rivals, which people have often argued, and allows us to propose they were just as important for species recognition and visual communication in these animals.

That fountain's function is to create wealth, and more importantly it serves to block the straight road leading into the park.

The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.

The Boston Globe is just struggling mightily. It's a function of the Boston economy; it's a function of the mergers of advertisers like Bank of America and Fleet.

Everybody is out there trying to replace the former function of the floor broker. We want to get the industry to push the envelope.

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

That is the problem with us. It gets personal with us because we don't get a call and we're up 10 or 15 points, to heck with the call...I really think it's a function of not understanding that it's about the game and not about the individual.

It's really a problem if people can't function and can't go to work. They're in dreadful pain, their families suffer, and their workplace suffers as well.

It's really nothing but the classic function of the extension service, which is to take research and interpret and apply it in the field. It's just using a new tool to do that ? a virtual or digital county agent.

The new dynamic is really a function of high oil prices and high gasoline prices and increasing recognition that there is a need to go to alternative fuels such as ethanol.

It varies from role to role and the type of the piece and the people you're working with. All those factors contribute to how you function on a movie.

Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we've always been a band that improvised our sets. That's critical to the way that we function on stage. Whatever the mood takes us on stage can vary from night to night with what you feel like playing.

Any time you have a brand new quarterback, things function differently. Everybody has certain talents and abilities, and you're trying to turn things toward that. But you don't just turn everything on a dime. It takes time.

I want to make sure we will have decent amount so that we can function as a team. We want big companies like Softbank to be our major sponsor.

I want to get back as fast as I can, but smartly. This is an injury, it's pretty much all or nothing. I have to be able to do everything with it and function as a quarterback or I can't. My body will tell me when I'm ready.

It's tough for me because you want to feel like you can play this game. If I'm in the crowd and I see somebody's not involved and not doing much, I'm going to think that guy can't play. The other team's not worrying about you. It's hard for me to function that way.

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

A part of Kopassus has a unique, military counter-terrorist function in Indonesia, and it's that particular part of Kopassus where we're looking for heightened levels of cooperation.

At this point, which function is cheaper is unclear. When GM offers XM, it's included in an audio package, with 6 speakers and a CD changer. In other cases, you might see it offered in cars for $300 or less.

The irony is while we're driving more productivity and revenue by switching to broadband POS systems, we need to be far more careful about Internet vulnerabilities. It's a whole new ballgame building an IP network for hundreds of stores that needs to function even if a broadband connection is lost, and has to protect private customer and business information, not to mention facilitate the business of managing the entire network.

Their primary purpose is to learn more about local government's function in a free-market economy,

The fewer carriers you have, the less opportunity you have for the marketplace to function properly.

The knowledge of the delayed function of a cashier's check and a money order might catch some people if they were nice honest people.

It's indefensible that something like that happened. And if that change of positions was a function of people changing their stories, then the investigation really has to look into whether false official statements were made, or for that matter, whether there was an obstruction of justice.

It's important to have all of them open because they're designed to function as a unit. The quality and quantity of choices so far have been well received.

It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.

It will be a unique, multi-channel premium athletic store that speaks to active trend-conscious women through its products, brands, store environment and elevated level of customer service, ... It will have fashion to go with function and will be grounded in the athletic sports genre.

They can fail to function properly, which can lead to a fire or explosion.

They can, in fact, expand the industry as they bring on new capacity. And that's partially a function of the miniscule penetration rate so far in the North American travel or tourist market.

CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history --which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by Messrs. Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers.

I just knew, and everyone knows what I am and what I can do, ... It was more like, am I going to ever get healthy again? Healthy doesn't just mean not having pain. It's, are my legs going to be able to function the way they did before? Can I play without putting tape all over my body? Slowly but surely, I've gotten back to that.

His intestinal function has not returned to normal and we're taking the appropriate steps to make sure that it does.

His intestinal function still has not returned to normal. The only progress I have to report is that there doesn't seem to be any sign of an infection.

interim basis until I reach a decision on whom to nominate to undertake this function on a continuing basis.

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

In order to ensure there was no question about making sure the obligations of the office were fulfilled, he executed a letter on Sept. 19 confirming (Hayes') appointment as chief deputy coroner of Caddo Parish. There's no election required. The Caddo Commission can call an election, or they can allow the chief deputy to carry out the function until the next scheduled election.

Children are creatures of habit and very much depend on a routine to feel secure and function well. Kids fall apart when you change their sleep schedule. They need at least 12 hours.

Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body,

Before the new system, the export administration function was paper driven, manual and labor intensive. The introduction of software became necessary due to the increased level of business and demands from customers for a faster turnaround.

I love the idea of finding great design in unexpected places. A beautiful piece of furniture adds more than function to any home, it adds real life.

Hopefully the film answers that, ... It opens that can of worms, where people walk out and say, 'Wow, I can see why it would be hard for him to function again after that.'

He's very learned, very astute and well-spoken. He's demonstrated an ability to be political when necessary, which is a function of a good Fed chairman, and has demonstrated his depth of understanding of economics and the relationship between economics and financial markets.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

I don't know how long it will take to fill either post. The Urban designer position is very important to the entire design review function and is critical to fill.