You hadn't seen him in years, and yet you say he was an old friend.

Advances in the longstanding efforts to reform and restructure the transport sector have had mixed success.

For longstanding members, enlargement presents an opportunity to prepare public finances for coming demographic challenges.

To tell the truth... Its been my wish for a long time to someday become a government official.

But successful integration with the West presupposed reconciliation with France, the old enemy and neighbor.

As one of the founding members, Australia has long been a strong and active supporter of the IAEA.

Daughter, I'd like you to meet an old and dear friend of mine, Mrs. Florence Burnett.

Indeed, Matthias Warnig, the chief executive of the pipeline consortium that Schroeder will chair, is a longtime Putin friend.

The negotiation of an FMCT is a long held and frequently articulated aspiration of the international community in the field of disarmament.

Age old problems have been compounded by the realities that have emerged since the end of the cold war.

There, C 3PO and R2 D2 are captured by Jawas, and are taken to be sold.

Among those charged is Hisham Almiraat, a medical doctor and leading voice in Morocco s blogosphere, who is a long time member of the Global Voices community.

What must occur for us once again to shudder as we did and to strive to overcome the natural temptation to yield to age old historical offences?

In 1989, NeXT struck a deal for former Compaq reseller Businessland to sell NeXT computers in select markets nationwide.

A long standing activity of INSTRAW had been to provide modular training packages related to women, water supply and sanitation.

Because of our geographical proximity and long historical association, the Caribbean countries and Haiti have traditionally enjoyed close and friendly relations.

Ancient times are combined with the unadulterated present in several locations you will see this for example when visiting Český Krumlov or Kutná Hora.

A wave of military, government, and diplomatic defections, led by his long time ally First Armored Brigade Commander General Ali Muhsin al Ahmar, rocked his regime.

As a long standing advocate of greater accountability by the Council, Brazil more than welcomes this debate, which, to our regret, takes place only once each session.

Kissinger works personally with the Chinese account, jointly propounding with his long time rival Zbigniew Brzezinski the notion, so seductive for an America growing weary of its imperial burden, of a global Big Two.

This Quranic phrase, from Surah Yasin, 36 58, was the first of many bonding discussions that I have had with Khurram Parvez, my long time friend.

First, it emphasized preventive diplomacy and the need to develop appropriate political mechanisms for the early solution of disputes, which had long been a concern for Pakistan.

As a firm believer in the right of all peoples to self determination and as a long time member of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian people, Nigeria has total faith in this approach.

Australia has been a longstanding champion of high seas biodiversity conservation and is seriously concerned about the impact of a range of human activities on the vulnerable ecosystems of the high seas.

On the fourth floor, I had a meeting with a long time acquaintance, Vitaly Fedorovich Dubko, the coach for our trampolinists, who led them to Olympic gold, 16 years ago already, in Sydney.

Weeks away from the end of the Obama presidency, there is a strong possibility that the US is moving away from the defining project of rapprochement with its long time foe, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The 56 year old plays Jack Jarvis on the popular BBC show, which he writes and co stars with long time comedy partner Greg Hemphill.

Similarly, Mugabe is known to favor transferring power to an interim government led by his long time ally, Emmerson Mnangagwa, if he decides that the time has come to step down.

TORONTO In 2002, the cognitive scientist Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University won the Nobel Prize in Economics for work done with his longtime collaborator Amos Tversky (who died in 1996).

Return to NJPW (1996) At Wrestling World on January 4, Vader had his first post WCW match, facing the man whose four year winning streak Vader had ended over eight years ago, Antonio Inoki.

He drummed for his Birmingham friend, Roy Wood, on his 1979 album, On the Road Again , and on Wings' album Back to the Egg on the tracks Rockestra Theme and So Glad to See You Here .

With modern technology, Indonesian Muslims can see clearly the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, the disastrous results of the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and America s silence when Lebanon was bombed in July 2006.

Many senior Americans were puzzled that Turkey, a long standing NATO ally and a secular state, refused to allow American forces to use Turkey as a base to invade Iraq.

The record was the first recorded with long time friend and former Straight Ahead, Rest in Pieces, Youth of Today and Agnostic Front bass player Craig Setari, who had replaced Rich Cipriano in early 1993.

Chu is a former Berkeley and Stanford professor of physics and head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, while Locke is a former Washington State governor and a long time supporter of US China commercial exchanges. Each packs the kind of soft, utilitarian powers of persuasion that Chinese leaders are most willing to embrace academic degrees from prestigious universities, advanced scientific and technological knowledge, high office, and a Nobel Prize.

Chu is a former Berkeley and Stanford professor of physics and head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, while Locke is a former Washington State governor and a long time supporter of US China commercial exchanges.

KKKill the Fetus , Closed Casket and Dead Flowerz As a student at Osborn High School, Esham met Mastamind, who gave him a three song demo tape of his music, leading the two to form the group Natas with Esham's longtime friend, TNT.