Sentence examples for un on a from inspiring English sources

Khalilzad has been an effective and important successor to John Bolton at the UN on a number of levels, but one aspect of his service and identity that rarely gets attention is that he is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.

That would set America's relations with the UN on a downward spiral once more to the detriment of even more than human rights.

When a man does it – like Daniel Craig, say, emerging from the turquoise waves like an irritable tendon in tiny pants, or David Beckham – who scarcely counts as naked because he's got drawings all over him – there's a brief outburst of comedic, hen-party lusting, then the pouting pin-up in question is allowed to return to pontificating about cinéma vérité, or representing the UN on a global stage.

Through partnerships, campaigns, public outreach, and advocacy, the UN Foundation is broadening support for the UN on a daily basis.

Somehow, I had never fully made the connection between some of the humanitarian crises I had covered for Oxfam and the negotiations in the corridors of the UN on a future treaty to harness the trade in weapons and ammunition.

A Thai princess, an Austrian Minister and a panel of United Nations officials and experts today led a discussion at the UN on a subject that deserves far more attention that it gets: the imprisonment of children and the violent abuse too many experience once there.

The UN negotiations on a global climate change agreement, reconvening in Durban shortly, will be the first test of whether this new reality has sunk in.

10. Climategate causes more confusion Just ahead of the December UN negotiations on a climate deal, thousands of e-mails and documents were stolen from a server at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Centre in the UK and posted on the internet.

Fleur Anderson, global head of campaigns at the NGO WaterAid, said: "As the UN works on a renewed set of development goals, it is critical that sanitation be made a central priority in development.

Netanyahu is well aware that, with few terrorist attacks in recent years and a booming economy, most Israelis are not focusing on the "diplomatic tsunami" and outbreak of violence that is widely expected to result from the upcoming UN vote on a Palestinian state.

He suggested institutional reform was required to prevent a prime minister pursuing unilateral military action, without UN backing, on "an incomplete and false prospectus".