In the course of this work, Rød-Larsen made contacts that proved to be useful in secret negotiations between Israel and the PLO.

A mechanism has been set up for both forces to work together, Rød-Larsen said, with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora agreeing with UNIFIL force commander Gen. Alain Pellegrini to meet weekly with top security officials from both forces.

" As we see it, Lebanon is now facing colossal opportunities ," Rød-Larsen told reporters.

" Rød-Larsen described his meetings since 18 August with Lebanese leaders as " encouraging ," and said they were committed to implementing Security Council Resolution 1701, which requires that Israeli troops withdraw from south Lebanon at the same time that Lebanese army troops and a beefed-up U. N. force of 15, 000 troops enter the area.

* Rød-Larsen overseeing Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, 17 March 2005.

In December 1992, in the background of the official Madrid negotiations in London, Israeli vice-minister of foreign affairs Yossi Beilin and Norwegian researcher Terje Rød-Larsen set up a secret meeting for PLO representative Ahmed Qurei and Israeli history professor Yair Hirschfeld.

Terje Rød-Larsen ( born 22 November 1947 ) is a Norwegian diplomat, politician and sociologist.

Rød-Larsen grew up in Bergen and studied social sciences, culminating in a Ph. D. in sociology.

In 1989 Rød-Larsen moved to Cairo, when his wife Mona Juul, who worked for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was stationed there.

Rød-Larsen performed a detailed sociological study of living conditions in the West Bank, Gaza and Eastern Jerusalem.

The same year Rød-Larsen became formally employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a special advisor on Middle Eastern affairs.

Envoy Terje Rød-Larsen said on 20 August 2006.

" Rød-Larsen noted approvingly that Lebanese troops have deployed in the south, where they are charged with ensuring that Hezbollah militia do not launch rockets across the border into northern Israel.

" Rød-Larsen made no mention of Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz's comment that Israel will not allow Lebanese troops to deploy within two kilometers ( 1. 25 miles ) of the Israeli border unless they are accompanied by U. N. forces.

" There is now a security vacuum which the Lebanese government is trying to fill " with the help of international forces, said Terje Rød-Larsen.

* Rød-Larsen at the UN, 13 July 2004.

`` Hodges predicted: ' I think we will see more foreign firms coming to the U.S..

Their written repositories of traditional knowledge, the Books of Chilam Balam, were all ascribed to one famous oracle priest who correctly had predicted the coming of the Spaniards and its associated disasters.

This predicted event has been variously interpreted as referring to: ( 1 ) Jesus ' transfiguration ; ( 2 ) his resurrection ; ( 3 ) the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost ; ( 4 ) the spread of the kingdom through the preaching of the early church ; ( 5 ) the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem in AD 70 ; or ( 6 ) the second coming and final establishment of the kingdom.

In other words, the foreboding dream not only predicted the future, but the dream was the cause of its prediction coming true.

It is predicted to increase in a stable growth rate in the coming years.

In late 1976, Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982.

" He now claimed that he had predicted the deaths of Lorenzo de ’ Medici and of Pope Innocent VIII in 1492 and the coming of the sword to Italy — the invasion of King Charles of France.

Millennialist movements were very common in Europe at that time: between 760 and 780 a series of cosmic phenomena caused panic among the population of Gaul ; John, a visionary monk, predicted the coming of the Last Judgement during the reign of Charlemagne.

He was henceforth regarded as the Karmapa, a manifestation of Avalokitesvara ( Chenrezig ), whose coming was predicted in the Samadhiraja Sutra and the Lankavatara Sutra.

Before the 2008 recession it was predicted that the coming of the East London line to Crystal Palace station would make the area more attractive for property purchasers and business owners.

In Part I, the Messiah's coming and the Virgin Birth are predicted by the Old Testament prophets.

predicted the coming of the sandwich generation, in this case, grown children and other family members helping their elderly parents who are up in age

Everything that she predicted in my lifetime has come true and is still coming true to this day.

She predicted a " second coming " of a " General Practice Movement ".

His beliefs were based on the earlier teachings of the Lenape prophets, Scattamek and Neolin, who predicted a coming apocalypse that would destroy the European-American settlers.

In her book The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas, historian Anne Salmond wrote that tribal traditions held that Toiroa, a tohunga from Mahia, had predicted the coming of the Europeans.

Lomborg highlights a repeated theme of Ehrlich's from the early 1970s — a coming age of material scarcity, most prominently displayed in his 1974 book The End of Affluence in which he predicted widespread shortages of vital materials by the mid-1980s along with acute food shortages.

The game is based around the idea that a group of American industrialists predicted the coming of an apocalyptic nuclear war, and began to create a plan for an emergency operations and reconstruction infrastructure that would survive that war.

While it was predicted that people from poorer backgrounds may be put off from enrolling for a degree because of the measure, the number of young people engaged in higher education has actually risen, most markedly in those coming from poorer backgrounds.

Initially, Daimler-Chrysler predicted annual sales of 2, 000 global units with 50 % coming from the United States ; however, such lofty sales expectations never materialized.

The comet fell on New Year's Eve, but it was not to be the coming of Sigmar as predicted.

Tsvigun predicted the Time of Apocalypses and the coming of the Holy Spirit on November 10, 1993.

It is predicted that the mean global temperature will rise in the coming years due to a number of forces affecting the climate, the amount of atmospheric CO2 will rise, and both of these will influence water resources ; evaporation depends strongly on temperature and moisture availability, which can ultimately affect the amount of water available to replenish groundwater supplies.

" IBM was pleasantly surprised ( perhaps shocked ) to receive 5, 200 orders in just the first five weeks – more than predicted for the entire life of the machine!

Several weeks after its debut, Ottawa Citizen television columnist Bob Blackburn deemed the programme to be noticeably improved and predicted that if that trend continued " and if the program doesn't run dry on its slightly limited subject matter, Front Page Challenge might well become an institution on Canadian TV ".

In 1996 Varotsos and other colleagues claimed to have predicted impending earthquakes within windows of several weeks, 100 — 120 km, and ± 0. 7 of the magnitude.

Being fond of science he predicted the event by himself, but the chosen observation point was the marshes near Sam Roi Yot where he contracted malaria, of which he died two weeks later.

He toured Petrograd, Moscow ( where he was concerned at the food shortages ) and Riga, which he predicted the “ Boches ” would never capture ( they would do so in late 1917 ), and thought that even if Tsar and Tsarina were assassinated-the Tsar was toppled a few weeks after he left-Russia would not make a separate peace.

Seeds are started after all danger of frost is past and the soil is warm or within 3 – 4 weeks before the predicted last frost date in the area.

When the oil, which was predicted to last only four and a half weeks, lasts for 500 million years, Bender declares it a Robanukah miracle.

He also predicted the 2011 Chicago blizzard in January 2 weeks before it hit Chicago.

According to the tradition, if Phil sees his shadow and returns to his hole, he has predicted six more weeks of winter-like weather.

This " sleeper effect " was shown to vanish, as predicted, if the unacceptable communicator was " reinstated " several weeks later by reminding the audience about who had presented the earlier persuasive material.

Percent predicted forced vital capacity in the group of patients treated with aglucosidase alfa increased by 1. 2 percent at 78 weeks.

Such activation linked to curiosity predicted better recall of surprising answers one or two weeks later.

His first analysis of the situation predicted that insurgents could resist German attacks for about two weeks.

In the lead-up to those festive weeks, the British media — The Guardian, in particular — predicted that the jubilee would be a failure, arguing that Britain was no longer interested in the monarchy ; a pervading sense of apathy amongst the populace seemed to confirm this.