By definition, there are not too many of them, and therefore their powers are to a large extent unchecked.

And in fact at this age it is substantially controlling its own self development.

Health care matters are to a large extent within the competence of the Länder.

Lebanon was to a large extent a patriarchal society, with families spending money on the education of boys rather than girls.

98. Independence of the judiciary and police is not respected and mostly not understood.

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It largely reflected the undiminished techno optimism of its time.

54. The Programme s progress towards becoming a centre of excellence has depended, to a significant extent, on the availability of financial resources.

To a large extent these women are still studying and have therefore not yet been included in the latest statistics.

These measures considerably improved control over non expendable property

To a considerable degree, they are intended to provide information according to the standards established by the accounting regulatory bodies and tax authorities of most countries.

However, the macroeconomic content of the reforms was left largely intact.

Despite the adoption of the Agenda for Development and the holding of a special session to review and appraise the implementation of Agenda 21, the consensus reached by the international community had remained largely unimplemented.

Thus the ability to adopt control strategies is, to a large extent, linked with development progress.

This has allowed for a substantial degree of flexibility.

This document will now be substantially produced through the new database but will continue to require a degree of manual work.

However, no consensus has yet been reached on critical issues, such as land based and high risk (adventure) tourism, leaving tourism to be regulated to a large extent by the industry itself.

We owe that largely to Jan Egeland.

The wall has done much to disfigure the city.

The draft law on the prevention and suppression of terrorism should go a long way towards ensuring compliance with the provisions of these conventions.

The scourge of foreign ex combatants remains a largely ignored tragedy.

And to a large extent it fixes the brain.

In spite of enormous international pressure and involvement, the joint institutions remain, to a large extent, symbolic.

The system relies heavily on a self management approach throughout the decision making structure of the office.

Therefore, they are largely the reason why new forms of work relations have not yet begun to be implemented in the economy.

The Kimberley Process certification scheme, established to counter conflict diamonds , is helpful but is still hampered by inadequate controls on the ground.

We believe that the failure of the international community to hold arms manufacturers, their agents and brokers to account has been largely responsible for the uncontrolled illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Africa, with its attendant consequences on the continent.

There is still discussion on the extent to which EMS could help improve compliance with environmental laws and regulations, and to what extent EMS can facilitate a shift from quot command and control quot approaches to a balance of regulation and preventive approaches.

Simple, straightforward, commonsensical also, largely untested.

The advancement of women in NAM countries depends very much on their educational level and the quality of education they receive.

However, this idea has not gained a great deal of support.

In many ways, it's what TED is all about.

The accounting function is completed, to a large extent, as an adjunct of those processes.

These are to a large extent applicable to the case of UNSMIH.

To a large extent. In his own way.

In fact, the Saharan education system was very effective with compulsive primary schools and total literacy in the camps university training depended very much on the goodwill of Algeria, Spain, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Cuba, and most of the university trained students returned to the camps, despite a lack of jobs.

The extent of the use is determined to a large degree by the extent of e business activity in the overall economy.

This close identification of the criminal justice machinery with the system of political and racial oppression has contributed greatly to the rate of criminal violence in South African society.

Despite the proliferation of certification schemes, however, very little ground has been covered in terms of creating a critical mass of companies that have been certified.

Many poverty reduction activities are still largely project driven.

The extent of their participation has been determined, in very large measure, by the degree of interest of the respective Territories in given areas of activity.

11. The spokeswoman for the Asian Group and China (Philippines) stated that Asian countries had liberalized their FDI and trade regimes significantly, and had carried out substantial deregulation and privatization of industries, which had facilitated the entry of new foreign firms.

Secondly, the importance that EMS will acquire in developing countries will depend to a large extent on whether or not ISO 14000 standards will become an important factor in the market place in the developed countries.

Although required by the Montreal Amendment, ODS exports are not yet to be licensed in the majority of the countries visited.

It will depend on us, to a large extent, whether its long suffering people regain their hope for a better future and for a life of dignity, free from fear and want.