Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has maintained Tunisia's long-time policy of seeking good relations with the West, while playing an active role in Arab and African regional bodies.

Tunisia's climate is temperate in the north, with mild rainy winters and hot, dry summers.

In addition, a universal system of electricity provisioning ( e. g. universal voltage, frequency, ampère ; e. g. 230 V with 50 Hz ), as well as perhaps a better mains power system ( e. g. through the use of special systems as perfected single wire earth returns ; e. g. Tunisia's MALT-system, which features low costs and easy placement )

Ghannouchi was seen as a respected technocrat by US diplomats in early 2010, with a cable stating, " Prime Minister Ghannouchi, the respected,, pragmatic, and apolitical technocrat, has served in his post since 1999 and with his reappointment appears set to surpass longevity records for senior officials since Tunisia's independence in 1956.

Hugging Tunisia's coastline, Skanes is a holiday resort known mostly for its professional golf courses, never-ending strips of white, sandy beaches, clear blue sea and hotels that fuse Moorish architecture with modern designs, and is frequented throughout the Summer by tourists from around the World.

Race walker Hatem Ghoula stayed with the leading group through 10 km, but fell back after that and came in more than 3 minutes behind to post Tunisia's best result of the Games in athletics.

Mali's top scorer, with four of their five goals, was Tenema N ' Diaye of Tunisia's CS Sfaxien.

He scored a spectacular late equaliser, during Tunisia's 2-2 draw with Senegal during the first round of games in Tunisia's group D, on January 23.

* Interview with Neila C. Hachicha: " Tunisia's Election Was Undemocratic at All Levels ", Middle East Quarterly, a Tunisian politician explains obstacle to democracy in her homeland.

Following Tunisia's elimination from the 2006 World Cup after a 1-0 defeat to Ukraine, Trabelsi announced his retirement from international football at the age of 29, with 61 caps and one goal.

Etoile's most fierce rivalry is with Esperance Sportive de Tunis, as the teams are 2 of Tunisia's finest.

Petrochemicals are Tunisia's third most important export despite the small size of its oil and gas fields as compared to Libya and Algeria.

He had previously been part of Tunisia's 2004 African Nations Cup-winning squad, and played in the 2002 World Cup.

Janice Rhodes Deledalle has referred to Tunisia as " cosmopolitan " and has said that " Tunisia cannot be considered in the category of as other colonies ", because of the diversity of cultures embedded in Tunisia's heritage throughout the ages.

Weightlifting had some medal potential for Tunisia, but it was unrealized, as Sbai failed to post a valid lift in the Men's 69 kg, and Sassi had the best finish of Tunisia's whole delegation at 4th in the 63 kg division.

He also played in all of Tunisia's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 2004 African Nations Cup, which Tunisia won.

* Further related projects include: ( i ) diverting and / or damming the River Niger to help irrigation and hydro-electric power in Mali and Niger ; and ( ii ) diverting water from the Mediterranean Sea to form an inland sea in Tunisia's Chott Djerid salt pan, near Tozeur ;

The Sahel, a broadening coastal plain along Tunisia's eastern Mediterranean coast, is among the world's premier areas of olive cultivation.

Near the mountainous Algerian border in the west rises Tunisia's highest point, Jebel ech Chambi at 1544 meters.

Called the Dorsale, Tunisia's mountain range is interrupted by several passes, including the Kasserine.

Tunisia's economic growth historically has depended on oil, phosphates, agri-food products, car parts manufacturing, and tourism.

Tunisia's merchant marine consisted of 14 ships as at 2002.

As president, Ben Ali instituted economic reforms that increased Tunisia's growth rate and foreign investment.

During his administration, Tunisia's per capita GDP more than tripled from $ 1, 201 in 1986 to $ 3, 786 in 2008.

The sentences will take immediate effect although Ben Ali and his wife are currently residing in Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi government failed to respond to Tunisia's requests to extradite them.

In his return to Tunis, on April 7, 1943 he made sure that the message he had sent from his prison in August 1942 reached the general population as well as the militants, that Germany was bound to lose the war and that Tunisia's independence would only come after the victory of the Allies.

The star and crescent recalls the Ottoman flag and is therefore an indication of Tunisia's history as a part of the Ottoman Empire.

Tunisia's cultural life dates to prehistoric times, as illustrated by dolmens near Bou Salem and rock carvings of the Tunisian Sahara.

The final section of this pamphlet is of special interest in a consideration of Steele's relations with Swift.

My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.

In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.

With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.

Last year, after Trujillo had been cited for numerous aggressions in the Caribbean, the United States and many other members of the Organization of American States broke diplomatic relations with him.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

Working in a vacuum of minimal information can result only in show pieces that look good in exhibitions and catalogs and may please the public relations department but have little to do with the essence of interior design.

For the interpretation of these significant investigations, it should be remembered that reciprocal relations exist in the hypothalamus with respect to autonomic and somatic functions which are closely associated with the emotions.

With the exception of treaty-making, foreign relations were historically concerned for the most part with conditions of short or at least measurable duration.

The threat of effective anti-trust action, provoked by `` gouging the public '' through price increases not justified by cost increases, and fears of endangering relations with customers, Congress, the general public and the press, all operate to keep price increases in some relation to cost increases.

It lost sight of the individual almost entirely and confined itself to rules limiting the exercise of state power for reasons essentially unconnected with justice or morality save as these values might affect international relations.

In the new situation, philosophy is able to provide the social sciences with the same guidance that mathematics offers the physical sciences, a reservoir of logical relations that can be used in framing hypotheses having explanatory and predictive value.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

The pain and distress associated with the performance may easily give the wife a deep-seated dread of marital relations and cause her, unconsciously, to make the sex act unpleasant and difficult for both by exercising her vaginal muscles to complicate his penetration instead of relaxing them to facilitate it.

In one extreme case, cited by a Pittsburgh psychologist, an office worker's wife refused to have sexual relations with her husband unless he bought her the luxuries she demanded.

Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.

You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.

Our leadership in a wide economic boycott of South Africa would be not only in accord, it seems, with the moral conscience of America, not to be denied because we also as a people have widespread injustice in the relations of the races in our own country, but also in accord with our law, U.S. Code Title 19, Section 1307, which forbids the importation of goods made by forced or convict labor.

They had spent the morning revising the act, eliminating all the gay songs, patter and dancing with a view of the best public relations.

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

Mississippi's relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years in the White House.

Barnett, as the titular head of the Democratic party, apparently must make the move to reestablish relations with the national Democratic party or see a movement come from the loyalist ranks to completely bypass him as a party functionary.