Sentence examples for upgrading the status from inspiring English sources
At the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, 138 nations voted in favor of upgrading the status of the Palestinians and 41 abstained.
Ratings agencies recently began upgrading the status of several bonds issued by major state-owned companies like the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, or Dewa, and MB Petroleum, a major supplier of oil field services in Oman.
Mr. Netanyahu's visit followed a vote last week by the United Nations General Assembly on upgrading the status of Palestinians to nonmember observer state, in which Germany joined 40 other nations in abstaining.
Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu is still smarting from Mrs Merkel's decision last November to abstain in a UN General Assembly vote on upgrading the status of Palestine (he had expected a no vote).
In recent weeks members of Congress have written to UNESCO to let leaders of that organization know that upgrading the status of the PLO will jeopardize U.S. funding to that organization.
Schön's theory on educating practitioners argues for upgrading the status of practical knowledge and challenges the positivistic ideas that thinking must be grounded on facts.
She and her three predecessors had asked the cabinet and parliament to upgrade the status of the ministry in order to secure a budget.
In Jerusalem on Sunday, the Israeli government unanimously rejected the General Assembly's decision to upgrade the status of Palestine to a nonmember observer state of the United Nations.
Argentina and China tabled the proposal earlier this year to upgrade the status of the committee, but the rich countries are justifying their opposition to this with rather convoluted logic, saying that sticking with a dominant OECD would "maximise synergies" and "avoid duplication".
Soon after the General Assembly voted to upgrade the status of the Palestinians, the Netanyahu government announced that it would advance plans to settle a particularly contentious area of the West Bank known as E1.
After the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week to upgrade the status of the Palestinians at the United Nations, Israel announced plans for 3,000 more housing units in contested areas of East Jerusalem and around the West Bank.
