Efforts have been made since 1918 to stamp them out -- through the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which bans their use, and the 1997 Convention on Chemical Weapons, which bans their use, development, production and transfer -- but still some nations stockpile them.
Beef export volumes rose by 86% last year, thanks partly to efforts to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
The planned cull is part of a joint effort by the Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland governments to try to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
He testified that after months of trying to develop an FBI-approved system to quickly recover the information, the White House found its solution Thursday morning and -- with the FBI's stamp of approval -- began the process that will soon turn out 25-30 tapes per day.
Time will tell whether the new-look ICC can really stamp out the cancer of corruption.
In "Das Liebesverbot" (composed, given just once, and withdrawn when Wagner was 22), a holier-than-thou German viceroy comes to stamp out sin in Palermo.
Otherwise developers would have to buy all these handsets to test their applications--a problem that Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) hopes to stamp out with its "Open Handset Alliance" and development platform.
There have also been attempts to stamp out discrimination, through a new anti-discrimination body, and to recruit more ethnic minorities to prominent jobs.
Thierry Chillaud, of the OIE in Paris, says the high frequency of animal transport and exchanges among many countries makes foot-and-mouth resistant to many efforts to stamp it out.
National Director for Older People's Services - Prof Ian Philp - was appointed with a brief to stamp out ageism in the NHS, and to implement new standards of care for older people.
Ruling out compromise, pledging to rubber-stamp the tea party agenda in Congress -- that's not change.
Ruling out compromise by pledging to rubber-stamp the tea party agenda in Congress -- not change.
Steven gave Colton his ultimate "musician's musician" stamp of approval -- one he doesn't give out too often.
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He asked whether there was a "plan B" of by-passing president Karzai if he failed to stamp out corruption.
At stake is the market for the so-called x86 processors that both Intel and AMD stamp out.
But in the 18th century, after political union with England, the Scots did their best to stamp out their own tongue believing that it was coarse low-class stuff in comparison with the finer words being spoken by London's elite.
Officials in the 1950s created a so-called rat patrol of exterminators ready to parachute in and stamp out migrating vermin.
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Stamp, top-scorer for the Seasiders last season with 14 goals, is out of contract this summer but has been offered a new deal by the Nationwide Conference club.
I've got no time for those who say this is a culturally relative issue - it is wrong, full stop, and we've got to stamp it out.
Richard Mannington Bowes, a 68-year-old man who was critically injured in an attack as he tried to stamp out a fire during riots in Ealing, has died.
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Cockbain may well have been named in the squad, but was definitely ruled out after being handed a 20-day ban by a disciplinary panel on Tuesday for a stamp against Sale Sharks.
The Stamp Stampede encourages people to adorn their dollars, to beautify their bucks, to put make-up on their moola, to stamp money with messages that promote a constitutional amendment to get special interest money out of politics.
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