• Under shariah compliant finance, 2.5 percent, or one-fortieth, of the assets of the financial instrument have to be donated each year to zakat.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • On Feb. 5 a projected 145 million viewers will watch the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks square off in the fortieth Super Bowl.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The market leader in Japan is Sharp, but it only ranks eighth in the world, with one-fortieth the sales of Nokia, the top company.

    ECONOMIST: Why Japan lost the mobile-phone wars

  • This fortieth trading week of 2012 comes to a close with investors closely analyzing what impact the latest jobs report may have on the presidential election.

    FORBES: Weekly Market Wrap

  • Organization, in collaboration with the EEAA, Ministry of State for the Environment, of a special day for Biosphere Reserves, in view of celebrating the fortieth anniversary.

    UNESCO: Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Responses

  • By then, the Times had moved from its old building, on West Forty-third Street, to the sleek Renzo Piano building, on Eighth Avenue between West Fortieth and West Forty-first Streets.

    NEWYORKER: Changing Times

  • At 400 kilovolts, a standard value for long-distance transmission, an alternating current 30 metres (100 feet) from the ground has a fortieth of the loss of a similar cable at ground level.

    ECONOMIST: Power transmission

  • Greece is struggling to raise funds, but so is California, which accounts for a far bigger share of America's output (one-eighth) than Greece does of the euro zone's (a bit more than one-fortieth).

    ECONOMIST: Greece's sovereign-debt crunch

  • In the fortieth-anniversary edition of Capitalism and Freedom (2002) he stated that he was equally opposed to right-to-work laws and to yellow-dog contracts, which make employment conditional on not belonging to a union.

    FORBES: Why Milton Friedman Opposed Right-To-Work

  • " The primary reason America confronts a terrorism problem today, he continued, is "the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by an Israeli occupation that is about to mark its fortieth anniversary and shows no sign of ending.

    WSJ: Gabriel Schoenfeld Says Barack Obama's Pick to Head the National Intelligence Council, Charles 'Chas' Freeman Jr., Is a Controversial Choice

  • Anyway, I hope that this third conference, celebrated a decade after the first, will be followed by the thirtieth, fortieth, and so on... because this conference promotes the mobilization of intelligence within Latin America and the Caribbean towards a better future for us all.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

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