* World Monuments Fund-Adobe Missions of New Mexico-Description of a project of the World Monuments Fund for the preservation of adobe churches in New Mexico, in the United States.

The restoration of this ensemble was spearheaded by the World Monuments Fund and was completed in 2004.

Shaolin Monastery and its famed Pagoda Forest were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010 as part of the " Historic Monuments of Dengfeng.

Three sites in Madhya Pradesh have been declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO: the Khajuraho Group of Monuments ( 1986 ) including Devi Jagadambi temple, Rewa, Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi ( 1989 ) and the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka ( 2003 ).

In 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation called it one of America's " 11 Most Endangered Historic Places ," and in 2006 it was listed as one of the World Monuments Fund's " 100 Most Endangered Sites.

These churches, which are also found in the neighboring region of Puglia, were listed in the 1998 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund.

San Pietro Barisano was recently restored in a project by the World Monuments Fund, funded by American Express.

In 1996, the World Monuments Fund declared Valparaíso ’ s unusual system of funicular elevators ( highly-inclined cable cars ) one of the world ’ s 100 most endangered historical treasures.

Other notable organizations Israel is an active member of include the Education For All movement, the European Centre for Higher Education ( CEPES ), the World Heritage Committee ( WHC ), the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property ( ICCROM ), and the International Council on Monuments and Sites ( ICOMOS ).

The Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles were listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1981.

World Monuments Fund has aided Preah Khan, the Churning of the Sea of Milk ( a 49-meter-long bas-relief frieze in Angkor Wat ), Ta Som, and Phnom Bakheng.

* The World Monuments Fund in Angkor-background, interactive map, travel tips, panoramas, e-cards

The LBZ was placed on the 2002 World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites.

Oculus was funded by American Express Company in partnership with the World Monuments Fund, J. P.

Many of the buildings within the World Heritage Site are also listed buildings and Scheduled Monuments.

The World Monuments Fund included the school on its 2008 Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites in the category Main Street Modern.

Japan has 16 World Heritage Sites, including Himeji Castle and Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto.

Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership ; World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies ; the International Monetary Fund ; and the World Bank.

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), World Bank, EBRD, as well as other international financial institutions ( IFIs ) and foreign countries are extending considerable grants and loans.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

* 1992 – Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Activists ' goals are for an end to the legal status of " corporate personhood " and the dissolution of free market fundamentalism and the radical economic privatization measures of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

World Bank / International Monetary Fund | IMF protesters smashed the windows of this PNC Financial Services | PNC Bank branch located in the Logan Circle, Washington, D. C. | Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

The southern and eastern plains have been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands ecoregion.

A series of largely unsuccessful 5-year plans initiated in July 1986 in partnership with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attempted to reform the foreign exchange system, liberalize imports, reduce restrictions on international transactions, diversify exports, and reform the coffee industry.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has stated that 361 animal and plant species have been discovered in Borneo since 1996.

The World Wide Fund for Nature divides the island into seven distinct ecoregions.

A team of biologists convened by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) developed an ecological land classification system that identified fourteen biomes, called major habitat types, and further divided the world's land area into 867 terrestrial ecoregions.

The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) divides the waters of the Columbia and its tributaries into three freshwater ecoregions, naming them: Columbia Glaciated, Columbia Unglaciated, and Upper Snake.

The RGC is a member of most major international organizations, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

This area of tropical forest has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Cameroonian Highlands forests ecoregion with Mount Cameroon considered separately because as an active volcano it has a distinct environment from the other mountains.

Cape Verde is a group of arid Atlantic islands which are home to a number of birds and reptiles and constitute a unique ecoregion in the World Wildlife Fund classification.

* The World Wildlife Fund profile

The foremost separate road running event is the annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ( formerly World Road Running Championships ).

Though perhaps most known as one of the foremost military and sporting weapons used by European knights, the use of lances was spread throughout the Old World wherever mounts were available.

Along with Rathbone, Gollancz was the foremost British campaigner during the Second World War on the issue of the Nazi extermination of European Jewry.

Agriculture continued to be the foremost industry for Palmdale and its northern neighbor Lancaster until the outbreak of World War II.

The World Wars profoundly altered Australia's sense of identity-with World War I introducing the ANZAC legend, and World War II seeing a reorientation from Britain to the United States as the nation's foremost major ally.

France has 37 sites inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage List and features cities of high cultural interest ( Paris being the foremost, but also Toulouse, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lyon, and others ), beaches and seaside resorts, ski resorts, and rural regions that many enjoy for their beauty and tranquillity ( green tourism ).

Captain Scarlet becomes Spectrum's foremost weapon in its fight against the Mysterons after the events of the pilot episode, in which the Mysterons threaten to assassinate the World President as their first act of retaliation.

The stadium was, in its early days, considered to be one of the foremost stadia in the world and played host to numerous major finals, such as that of 1974 FIFA World Cup.

The America First Committee ( AFC ) was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.

However, the Mysterons ' attempt to assassinate the World President – for the purposes of which they kill and re-create Spectrum's foremost agent, Captain Scarlet, as an indestructible doppelganger – fails when a kidnapping of the president is foiled and the Scarlet reconstruction falls to its apparent death from the top of a tower, later regaining the consciousness of the original, human officer ( how this happens is never explained in the series canon ).

In 1912, William E. Bohn was able to predict about the two foremost examples of industrial unionism then extant, " It is possible that neither the Industrial Workers of the World nor the Detroit I. W. W. will ever become numerically important.

The Soviet Union, which claimed to follow Leninism, proclaimed itself the foremost enemy of imperialism and supported many independence movements throughout the Third World.

William F. Friedman, America's foremost cryptologist, initially became interested in cryptography after reading " The Gold-Bug " as a child-interest he later put to use in deciphering Japan's PURPLE code during World War II.

Since 1973 the foremost elite competition has been the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Equipped with the skills of the foremost academic and military minds, Joe enlists in the World Intelligence Network ( WIN ), becoming its " Most Special Agent ", pursuing the ideal of world peace and saving human life.

He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist-in particular, as a reporter in three wars ( First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War ).

The World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) is the foremost authority on threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories, depending on the degree to which they are threatened:

Chomsky's primary argument in Hegemony or Survival is that the government of the United States has pursued an " Imperial Grand Strategy " in order to maintain its status as the world's foremost superpower since at least the culmination of the Second World War.

One of the foremost practitioners of playing from either flank was the German winger, Jürgen Grabowski, whose flexibility helped Germany to fourth place in the 1970 World Cup, and a championship in the 1974 World Cup.