The fiscal deficit continues to present a daunting challenge in Japan.

The ever increasing global demand for energy and industrial goods and services represents a daunting challenge.

Managing to halve poverty and provide universal access to primary education by 2015 was a daunting challenge.

Disaster reduction is synonymous with lowering this vulnerability, a daunting challenge facing Southern African governments during a time of fiscal restraint and economic structural adjustment.

Again, a daunting task.

Achieving it was a daunting challenge, and more challenges lie ahead. But the negotiators success in converging on a plan that offers hope of practical progress is an unambiguous triumph.

When I asked Beatrice why she decided to take on such a daunting challenge, she replied I came here to grow beautiful flowers on the ashes of genocide .

Navigating the Anthropocene effectively and ethically is perhaps the most daunting challenge that modern humans have faced. Overcoming it will require a smarter approach to strategic decision making and a broader understanding of innovation.

As other speakers have said, it's a rather daunting experience a particularly daunting experience to be speaking in front of this audience.

It's daunting.

We face a daunting task requiring a vast effort.

It's very technological, it's very complex, a little daunting.

Resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced communities remains a daunting task.

Their surplus low cost unskilled labourers should be allowed cross border mobility in order to help lift their families out of poverty, which remained the most daunting challenge to countries' collective wisdom.

Now that can be daunting.

More importantly, the Palestinian leadership must reshape and reunite its polity to face the challenge of statehood. So far, the task of reconciling Hamas and Fatah seems to be no less daunting than that of striking a peace deal with Israel.

The challenge to change is even more daunting in a situation where the power of capital has dominated unchallenged and has impacted, too often negatively, on the daily lives of millions of people in the developing world for far too long.

Daunting human development challenges nevertheless remained.

Mainstreaming ageing in national plans and international strategies remains a daunting task.

We gather here on the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations, confronted with the daunting and ongoing challenge of making this world in which we all live better for us, our children and our children's children.

The new challenge is no less daunting than the old one, but it can be overcome if international organizations and affected Governments work together to share knowledge and put to use methods that have proven successful elsewhere.

I truly understand how that can be daunting.

It was daunting task also because after hearing the feedback from Member States on what they liked or did not like about the two earlier reports, their key challenge was to assemble a good package of recommendations that the Secretary General could present to the General Assembly.

The challenges facing the United Nations today are daunting.

The African reality itself remains as daunting as ever.

For many developing countries, implementation of the Habitat Agenda remained a daunting challenge owing to such problems as poverty, disease and unemployment. The international community should therefore show greater political commitment through concrete interventions in order to ensure achievement of the Habitat Agenda and the Millennium Development Goals.

In the meantime, China faces another, equally daunting challenge the United States growing determination to contain its growing influence. At this year s CDF, tensions between the hegemon and the rising power were widely discussed, both in the formal sessions and on the sidelines.

Climate change, deforestation, growing populations, and other ecological strains will challenge the very survival of hundreds of millions of people around the world in the coming decades. UN leadership will be instrumental to proposing and forging solutions to such daunting long term global challenges.

The democratic challenge today is, above all, a social and human challenge.

We need to reframe the challenge that is facing Africa, from a challenge of despair, which is called poverty reduction, to a challenge of hope.

It seems too daunting, too dangerous, for any company to take on.

Despite these achievements, the economic and developmental challenges facing Afghanistan remain daunting.

Although some progress had occurred, those problems were as daunting as ever.

Attaining a reformed Security Council is one of the most daunting tasks, and also one of the most important.

A challenge, of course.

That's a huge challenge.

Facing poor road conditions, poor communication networks and the daunting challenge of feeding and sheltering thousands, these relief agencies are in dire need of more efficient means of reaching isolated areas and villages in the north eastern coastal towns of Somalia that are still partly submerged.

The unfolding status talks in the Balkans give us a hope for an early settlement of the daunting Kosovo issue.

So our first challenge was to find these things, and that was a challenge, indeed.

And this is a challenge.

So that became a challenge.

The challenges ahead of us for the all round development of youth are daunting.

However, the latter task would appear to be far more daunting than the former.

They know full well that their popularity can be sustained only if they are able to deliver growth, employment, and higher living standards. This would be a difficult challenge under any circumstances and is all the more daunting against the backdrop of the Arab Spring s destabilization of the economic systems across the Middle East and North Africa.

And I think that what connects the challenge for civil society, the challenge for governments and the challenge for business now is, in a way, a very simple one, but quite a difficult one.