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Negotiations with the first three aspirants will have to be ratified both by them and by NATO’s’s sixteen parliaments.
Sixteen years have passed since Silvio Berlusconi, a blessing and a curse for the Italian people, made his first foray into the political ring.
The Sixth Fatah Congress, the first in sixteen years, will take place in August 2005 and will seek to reconcile the conflict between the Old and Young Guard.
PARIS: For the fifth time in sixteen years the French have switched course, putting the opposition in power.
Sixteen years ago, business as usual meant almost no treatment of poor people with AIDS, because financing was not available.
At least sixteen million workers outside America who are now employed making exports to America would have to find jobs in other sectors as well.
Sixteen graduate and undergraduate students, male and female, felt that the university’s administration then did little to push back against such encroachments on female students’ rights to a fair and non-threatening learning environment.
Sixteen years have passed, but the pain remains, buried in the hearts and minds of the people.
While the old Soviet threat had united its sixteen members, the new threats, it turned out, divided them.
Sixteen years later, Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced, with equal sophistry, that the Paris climate agreement would devastate the US economy and cost America some 2.7 million jobs, mostly in the construction industry, by 2025.
As a result, when Pinochet was returned to Chile sixteen months later, on medical grounds, he faced revived criminal charges filed by victims and survivors of his rule.
Sixteen years later, the results are in: disease burdens have fallen sharply, and the Global Fund proved to be a great success (the donors now think so, too, and have recently replenished its accounts).
Sixteen years after the crisis, the unemployment rate was 6.2% – more than triple the rate in 1990.
Sixteen of the 28 EU countries have statutory tax rates below 22.4%, and effective tax rates are likely to be even lower.
Many, perhaps most, are under sixteen years of age.
Sixteen years later, it has become clear that the Israelis have made no effort to come to terms with Palestinian national aspirations – and that no effective effort has been made to convince them.
Sixteen cancer patients in critical need of bone marrow for transplants were put at risk because the matching marrow could not be flown in from the United States or Canada.
Sixteen years later, in 1994, in Cairo, 179 governments embraced reproductive rights as a basic human right and adopted resolutions to ensure the provision of universal access to a full range of reproductive health services, including family planning.
It began with the publication by the Praesidium of the Convention on the Future of Europe of a draft of the first sixteen articles of the "Treaty to establish a Constitution for Europe."
Sixteen political leaders and former diplomats combined principle with political realism to produce the most comprehensive proposals for change since the UN was created in 1945.
Sixteen years ago, African health ministers, the international health NGO PATH, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Serum Institute of India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and dozens of other partners formed the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP).
Sixteen years after India granted Pakistan most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status, Pakistan is on the verge of reciprocating.
Sixteen cities have already crossed the World Bank’s threshold for high-income status, with annual per capita incomes of more than $12,616, and four – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen – have global reach.
Sixteen years ago, the Asian financial crisis erupted, following the Thai government’s decision to float the baht in the face of speculative attacks.
Sixteen of the thirty-eight have long been aligned with this party, whose ploys in the late 1970s led to the Soviet invasion of 1979-89 which cost two-and-a-half million Afghan lives.
Sixteen US states currently provide credits for firms offering training.
Standing in church during the first service he attended, Levin tried to revive the memories of his youth and the strong religious feeling with which at the age of sixteen or seventeen he had been imbued.
Sixteen hours daily had to be filled somehow, living abroad as they did completely at liberty, quite cut off from the round of social life that had filled his time in Petersburg.
To go off with a man, to hang on to him at sixteen, when the family was in want!
She had never dreamed of anything else; violence behind the pit-bank, a child at sixteen, and then a wretched household if her lover married her.
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