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Simple sentences
UN stands for the United Nations.
What does UN stand for?
UN stands for United Nations.
The official languages of the UN are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Is there any way you can un-shrink a T-shirt that has shrunk?
According to the UN, the world population exceeded 7 billion in October of the year 2011.
Movie subtitles
You know, and I can't go get all un-lonely because I'm married.
Ha visto un gran perro que ha pasado corriendo?
C'est un joli nom. Suzanne, I wish I could tell you something.
Tomamos un trago,?
But tipping is un-American.
Be careful now. (NEIGHING) Un momento, my friend.
I'm trying to un-park my car.
I consider his whole attitude un-American.
It ain't right. It's un-American.
Tais-toi un peu! Want to save time, we do miss the wreck.
Downright un-American, if you ask me.
Easy. Easy, young'un.
Poor young'un can't hardly breathe. She. She's near dying'.
Henrietta, do you allow your niece to wander off un-chaperoned?
Your language is most un-English.
Have you ever had a waiter look at you with un-tipped eyes?
A whole lot of good people feel just as I do. and we're not un-Christian monsters.
And when they do, they get un-married.
You, young 'un.
My young 'un.
Sure, I seen that gal young 'un.
How come she don't go by the name of Keefer if she's your young 'un?
Come here, young 'un.
How come you're here, young 'un?
Ain't you Tom Keefer's young 'un?
Well, un-busy yourself.
The spokesperson for the UN military meeting as well as the local Governor welcomed them.
Comme un reve.
Look at me, I've weathered worse storms than this. Yet here I am, still un-battered.
Well, it sounds un-American to me.
Gee, it shows you how un-concentrated you can get.
Un message?
Well, git 'r go, where'd you latch onto that 'un?
Un cafe au lait et un sandwich fromage, et pour moi, un cafe noir et un sandwich jambon.
News and current affairs
The UN, like the dream of European unity, was also part of the 1945 consensus.
Few people can muster great enthusiasm for the UN.
As Ambassador to the United States and the UN, and later as Foreign Minister, he represented an Israel with which the world's liberal imagination could identify.
Unfortunately, like so many other international agreements, the Convention on Biological Diversity remains essentially unknown, un-championed, and unfulfilled.
This pattern of action and inaction by the Council has given greater credence to those who believe the UN's highest human rights body is inherently anti-Israel.
By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
Kosovo would acquire limited independence, with its status rising from a province of a sovereign state to an international subject capable of entering into certain agreements with other states and even joining the UN.
Yet it was Yugoslavia, whose foundations are unstable, that was recently admitted to the UN.
Debate over Iraq dominated international diplomacy, and took up almost the entire UN agenda.
The war in Iraq cost countless innocent lives, such as when the UN headquarters in Baghdad was bombed.
Ironically, President Bush claims that the UN does not follow through on its word.
Yet the US repeatedly violates its own UN pledges.
There are many other similar commitments that the US has made in recent years to the UN that remain utterly unfulfilled.
The US promised action to fight man-made climate change as a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in 1992.
This deal could then be given teeth by the UN Security Council.
During 2002-2006, I led the United Nations Millennium Project, which aimed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, for then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Not surprisingly, many UN agencies and aid agencies in rich countries fight this approach.
Experts can debate whether this was in conformity with UN rules and procedures.
I have no doubt that those involved were seeking a way forward that would allow for a full investigation and help overcome the political divisiveness currently undermining the Human Rights Council within the UN system.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that, if the latest peace talks collapse, he will press for UN recognition of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
In part, the UN team wanted to keep humanitarian assistance lines open.
The team's members also knew that Sri Lanka's government had wide support among UN member states, and that the LTTE had none at all.
An internal review panel studying what went wrong in the UN system's response to Sri Lanka, commissioned by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and headed by the distinguished diplomat Charles Petrie, is due to report to Ban next month.
Sri Lanka took a similar stance, using studies from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate that in 2008, environmentally permissible carbon emissions totaled no more than 2,172 kilograms per person.