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During Zoellick's time at the World Bank, the institution's capital stock has been expanded and lending volumes increased to help member countries deal with the global financial and economic crisis ; assistance has been stepped-up to deal with the famine in the Horn of Africa ; a major increase in resources has been achieved for the institution's soft loan facility, the International Development Association ( IDA ), which lends to the poorest countries ; and a reform has been carried out to the World Bank's shareholding, Executive Board and voting structure, to increase the influence of developing and emerging economies in the World Bank's governance.
* UN News Centre-" Deputy Secretary-General calls for stepped-up US engagement with UN " reports 6 June 2006 speech, followed by " Annan backs deputy ’ s call for greater US engagement with UN " on 7 June 2006 with transcript of 6 June 2006 speech and transcript of Ambassador John Bolton's reply
Electricity from the 55 turbines is sent via a network of underground cables to the Te Apiti substation near the lookout, where the electricity is stepped-up to 110 kV for transmission.
The " secondary cadre " stepped-up to the challenge to continue the struggle and to keep the flame for swaraj burning within the people's hearts.
Having out-grown the IHL, the following year he stepped-up to play for the New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL and then spent most of the 1973 – 74 season playing for the Fort Worth Wings of the CHL where he won the league's MVP Honours and was voted as a CHL First Team All Star.

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He ordered a stepped-up effort at establishing more fortines wherever Paraguay wasn't established already.

stepped-up and increase
Working with community leaders, elected officials, local businesses, and local residents, Stringer worked to raise awareness about bike lane safety, and recommended anincrease in protected bicycle lanes, which are separated from traffic by a physical barrier and stepped-up patrol by traffic enforcement agents to ticket scofflaws, along with better signage ,” among others ideas.

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With the lower dealer inventories and the stepped-up demand some manufacturers believe there could be shortages of some implements.

stepped-up and .
This will include a stepped-up program of training and development of personnel.
A stepped-up war effort that year brought about some successes such as the burning of Washington D. C., but many influential voices such as the Duke of Wellington argued that an outright victory over the US was impossible.
To transmit over long distances, it is then stepped-up to 400kV, 220kV or 132kV as necessary.
However, beginning with its earlier sinking of the British RMS Lusitania in 1915, with 128 Americans on board, Germany seemed determined to turn the tide of U. S. disinterest in entering the war ; and while the public outrage over the Lusitania's sinking led, at first, to Germany's accession to Wilson's demands that it stop attacks on non-military ships, the " Central Powers " member nation had again stepped-up its aggressive submarine activity by January 1917, just two months after Twain's piece was first published.

defense and procurement
It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.
As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.
The Délégation Générale pour l ' Armement ( defense procurement agency ) operates the CELAR research center, dedicated to electronics and computing, in Bruz, a neighboring town.
Among the many items that made little progress due to the political stalemate were a stalled arms procurement bill, which would have advanced defense capabilities of the Republic of China through the purchase of weaponry, such as sub-hunting P-3 Orions, from the US government, and banking reform legislation, which would have helped in the consolidation of the many banks in the Republic of China, none of which hold even 10 % shares of the local market.
From 1977 to 1981, during the Jimmy Carter administration, Perry served as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, where he had responsibility for weapon systems procurement and research and development.
Among the many items that have made little progress due to the political stalemate are a stalled arms procurement bill, which would advance defense capabilities of the Republic of China through the purchase of weaponry, such as sub-hunting P-3 Orions, from the US government, and banking reform legislation, which would help in the consolidation of the many banks in the Republic of China, none of which hold even 10 % shares of the local market.
The Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense ( COSTIND ; Chinese: 国防科学技术工业委员会 ) was a civilian ministry within the State Council of the People's Republic of China, responsible for setting policy for defense procurement.
The ministry was formed in 1982 to centralize Chinese defense procurement and technology whose responsibility had been distributed among several agencies.
The intention appeared to have been to create a system similar to that characteristic of Western defense procurement in which entities which are government agencies, setting operational policy, would then contract out their operational requirements to entities which were government-owned, but not government-managed.
However, Onera carries out a wide range of research for space agencies, both CNES in France and the European Space Agency ( ESA ), as well as for the French defense procurement agency, DGA ( Délégation générale pour l ’ armement ).
• Délégation générale pour l ' armement ( DGA, the French defense procurement agency )
* Late September-India and South Africa sign a defense cooperation agreement in Cape Town covering peacekeeping, weapons development and procurement, and counter-terrorism.
Military Sealift Command reports to the Commander, U. S. Transportation Command for defense transportation matters, to the Commander, U. S. Fleet Forces Command for Navy-unique matters and to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition for procurement policy and oversight matters.
In October 2010, an interest for a 60 billions USD defense procurement package from the US was unvailed.
Stonecipher came out of retirement to lead Boeing, following the resignation of Chairman and CEO Phil Condit in December 2003 over scandals over defense procurement.
Program is on the back burner as there are more important defense programs and procurement of new howitzers might need to be postponed for few years.
Significant procurement and acquisition fraud, corruption, and other financial crimes which result in multi ‐ million dollars losses, thus depriving DoD of critically ‐ needed funds that would otherwise be utilized to finance vital national defense initiatives.
During 1972 and 1973, the agency ’ s responsibilities extended overseas when it assumed responsibility for defense overseas property disposal operations and worldwide procurement, management, and distribution of coal and bulk petroleum products ( 1972 ), and worldwide management of food items for troop feeding and in support of commissaries ( 1973 ).
With the downsizing of ROC armed forces in recent years, the Army has endured the largest number of cutbacks as ROC military doctrine has begun to emphasize the importance of offshore engagement with the Navy and Air Force ; subsequent to this shift in emphasis, the ROC Navy and Air Force have taken precedence over the ROC Army in defense doctrine and weapons ' procurement.
The global legal practice's client base includes organizations in the following sectors: aerospace and defense ; automotive ; aviation ; branding ; capital markets ; chemicals ; communications ; construction ; diversified industrials ; education ; energy and natural resources ; financial services ; healthcare ; hospitality and leisure ; insurance ; life sciences ; media ; mining ; private equity and venture capital ; retail ; sports and entertainment ; sourcing and procurement ; and transportation, shipping and logistics.
He supported an amendment by Senator Richard Russell, Jr. to remove funds for the Nike-Zeus antimissile system from a defense procurement bill, and endorsed a motion by Senator Margaret Chase Smith to add $ 134, 000, 000 for two additional nuclear submarines to the same bill.

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Hudson, presiding, heard Juet's defense, then called for testimony from crew members.
In the afternoon, defense attorneys began the presentation of their cases with opening statements, some of which had been deferred until after the government had called witnesses and presented its case.
The defense counsel will then make a " plea in mitigation " ( also called " submissions on penalty ") wherein he or she will attempt to mitigate the relative seriousness of the offense and heavily refer to and rely upon the defendant's previous good character and good works ( if any ).
The printed edition ( Presburg, 1838 ), prepared by M. L. Bislichis, contains: ( 1 ) Preface ; ( 2 ) a treatise of eighteen chapters on the incorporeality of God ; ( 3 ) correspondence ; ( 4 ) a treatise, called Sefer ha-Yarḥi, included also in letter 58 ; ( 5 ) a defense of The Guide and its author by Shem-Tob Palquera ( Grätz, Gesch.
As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).
If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.
The game was very close, and in the fourth quarter Walsh called a series of running plays as the 49ers marched down the field against the Cowboys prevent defense, which had been expecting the 49ers to mainly pass.
Guderian expressed a hearty contempt for General Ludwig Beck, chief of the General Staff from 1935 to 1938, whom he characterized as hostile to ideas of modern mechanised warfare: quoting Guderian " He was a paralyzing element wherever he appeared .... ignificantly of his way of thought was his much-boosted method of fighting which he called delaying defense ".
In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.
Most gecko species can lose their tails in defense, a process called autotomy.
The building up, layering on and overlapping of security measures is called defense in depth.
* 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
In Matrix Revolutions Captain Mifune leads the human defense of Zion, piloting open-cockpit mecha called APUs against invading Sentinels.
* 1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article " Bedingt abwehrbereit " (" Conditionally prepared for defense ") about a NATO manoeuver called " Fallex 62 ", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr ( Germany's army ) facing the communist threat from the east at the time.
A non-star quarterback on a winning team may be called a " game manager " if he avoids making mistakes that prevent his team's defense and rushing offenses from succeeding.
Starting from 1952, works were held in the Moscow-based Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering ( headed by Sergei Lebedev ) on automated missile defense system which used a " computer network " which calculated radar data on test missiles through central machine called M-40 and was interchanging information with smaller remote terminals about 100 — 200 kilometers distant.
* 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
Mainly because of Clarence Darrow, this strategy changed as the trial progressed, and the earliest argument proposed by the defense once the trial had begun was that there was actually no conflict between evolution and the creation account in the Bible ; later, this viewpoint would be called theistic evolution.
" In contrast, he called the defense " eloquent " and " magnificent.
Because of injuries to defensive linemen ( at the beginning of the season the Dolphins were down to four healthy defensive linemen ) defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger created what he called the " 53 " defense, in which versatile Bob Matheson ( number 53 ) would be used as either a defensive end in the standard 4-3 defense or as a fourth linebacker in a 3-4 defense, with Manny Fernandez at nose tackle.
In the fall of 1979, at Reagan's request, Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham conceived a concept he called the High Frontier, an idea of strategic defense using ground-and space-based weapons theoretically possible because of emerging technologies.

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