The text they agreed upon on Friday is a caricature of diplomacy.
Russia's actions during its earlier campaign in Chechnya were criticized by the commission in 1995 and 1996, but only after a text was agreed upon with Moscow.
After the denunciation of Stalin by his successor, Khrushchev, in the 1950's, the Soviet anthem remained without lyrics until a new text was agreed upon in 1977.
The text finally agreed upon here in Rio is a passing description of "the future we want," but it does not set us on the path to get there.
Records of screening and selection decisions (citations excluded; citations identified for full text review; citations agreed upon for full text review; studies excluded upon full-text review; studies identified for inclusion in evidence map; studies agreed upon for inclusion in evidence map) were systematically kept.
Both texts agreed that in the case of differences the Amharic text was to prevail.
David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, said that the text that was agreed upon in Munich "needs detail and urgency to offer hope to the people suffering sieges inside Syria".
Such texts are usually agreed upon well in advance.
And although the Unicode Consortium — which standardizes how computers communicate text and agrees upon new emoji — it an international group, most of its voting members are affiliated with American companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and IBM.
Individual codes were assigned to give meaning to text, and these were agreed upon by the coders.
Although this attracts a lot of media attention, it becomes a challenge for negotiators to provide the ministers with a mutually agreed upon negotiating text from the preceding week.
