Jimmy Carter met Assad in Geneva, in 1977, to explore prospects for a U.S.-Soviet conference on Middle East peace.
Priorities for the first round are to explore prospects for local ceasefires, enhanced efforts to fight Islamic State and improved humanitarian access to besieged areas.
President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made phone calls to Israeli and Arab leaders to explore prospects for halting the fighting.
So for now, at least, Representative David E. Bonior of Michigan, the Democratic whip, is leading the political fight against the accord, while Mr. Gephardt assumes a behind-the-scenes role to keep his rank-and-file united and to explore prospects for a party-healing deal.
The researchers employ stakeholder interviews to explore prospects for entertainment development in one rapidly changing Asia Pacific location, Macao.
Debates over the best vaccine strategies continue (see Zolla-Pazner, p. 167), while preclinical studies explore prospects for eradicating the latent viral reservoir and curing the disease (see Barouch and Deeks, p. 169).
We then provide results on a set of 38 stakeholder-led interviews that were undertaken using GRIP to explore prospects for achieving deep cuts (−60%) in CO2 emissions by 2050 in the North West region of England.
"Southern Ace also began to explore prospects for arms trafficking and engaged in horticultural experiments aimed at the production of narcotic drugs, including marijuana, cocaine and opium".
In exploring prospects, a Republican lawmaker close to the president said the White House was looking for someone who is "an old Washington hand with the ability to re-engineer a huge bureaucracy".
De Mistura, the third UN envoy appointed to handle the Syrian war since it erupted nearly five years ago, plans to hold talks for six months, exploring prospects for ceasefires, action against Isis and improved humanitarian access.
