Translation of "couche blanche " (French → English) :

5. Welcomes Brazil's efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and congratulates it on the positive developments in areas such as poverty alleviation, reduction of child malnutrition and basic education; Stresses that Brazil still needs to undertake considerable efforts to reach all MDGs by 2015, for example in ensuring sufficient quality in basic education for all girls and boys and in continuing the decrease in under-five mortality; Points out that the promotion of gender equality is a fundamental human right and an instrument to achieve the MDGs which needs to be present in the EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership;

it should be noted that, in spite of economic development and the accumulation of wealth, Brazil still has a high number of poor people; emphasis should be placed on the need to support the Brazilian government in its efforts to tackle poverty in the poorest regions and the poorest layers of society, taking into account the fact that 65 % of the poorest Brazilians are black or of mixed ethnicity, while 86 % of those in the most privileged class are white;

(p) it should be noted that, in spite of economic development and accumulation of wealth, Brazil still has a high number of poor people; emphasis should be placed on the need to support the Brazilian government in its efforts to tackle poverty in the poorest regions and the poorest layers of society, taking into account the fact that 65 % of the poorest Brazilians are black or of mixed ethnicity, while 86 % of those in the most privileged class are white;

When an integrating sphere is used in the receiver, the interior surface of the sphere shall be coated with a matt (diffusive) spectrally non-selective white coating.

(d) Wholly milled rice: means paddy rice from which the husk, the whole of the outer and inner layers of the pericarp, the whole of the germ in the case of long grain or medium grain rice and at least part thereof in the case of round grain rice have been removed, but in which longitudinal white striations may remain on not more than 10% of the grains.

God also created a climate for this blessed land ensuring that for about six months out of every year all of nature, which has given so much during the summer season, disappears under a thick layer of white snow.