The past decade has seen a growing demand for United Nations humanitarian assistance.

Regional programmes are generally understaffed to meet a growing demand for their services.

The growing demand for energy will require massive investment.

The growing demand for natural resources puts a premium on promoting regional cooperation policies.

Public services there are no longer adequate given the increased demand of a constantly growing population.

The private sector has met most of the growing demand for childcare.

In Brazil, increasing cocaine abuse among adolescents is a growing problem, placing greater demand on the treatment services.

In Japan and South East Asia, there is a growing demand for canned and ready to drink coffee.

But demand was ever growing and it was difficult to tamper with existing documents.

Insofar as there is growing overall demand and segmentation of demand, the existence of unorganized retailing would not be expected to be put at risk as a result of reform.

There is also a growing demand in several European markets for tropical fruit salads due to a general interest in tropical products among consumers.

The demand for exotic meats (such as ostrich and other game meat and venison) is also growing.

The growing and insistent demand for integrity in public life further emphasizes the complexity of modern public administration.

A growing proportion of States have a multisectoral and coordinated national drug control strategy in place, offering the political and strategic foundations for effective demand reduction.

Djibouti s educational system is currently under pressure to meet the challenges of growing unemployment, rising demand from a young population and a large influx of refugees.

The housing sector has experienced a growing demand due to the downsizing of households, and social exclusion has been on the increase in the sector.

In recent years, growing demand by United Nations clients, coupled with UNOPS corporate downsizing, has enabled this process to begin.

This trend is driven by technological advances in the aerospace industry and the ever growing demand for higher living standards.

In that connection, there is a worldwide effort under way to ensure that there are sufficient amounts of the raw material available to meet growing demand.

Growing world consumption of finished steel products was largely driven by the growth of demand in Asia, particularly in China, and, to a lesser extent, India.

Accordingly the global demand for nuclear knowledge and materials, including the programs for development of fuel cycle facilities are growing rapidly.

In rapidly developing nations, demand for energy intense foods, like meat, is growing, increasing the total amount of fossil fuels used.

During the reporting period, activities undertaken by UNDCP were mostly concerned with demand reduction, including two community based demand reduction projects dealing with the growing problems related to heroin abuse in the highlands.

In the early 1990s, the value of procurement by the Organization increased significantly as a result of the growing demand for goods and services in field missions.

The underlying causes of deforestation include the demand on forest land for agriculture, grazing and human settlements the growing demand for timber and forest products and a range of biotic and abiotic factors that adversely affect forest health and vitality.

New capacity is mainly planned in developing countries and countries in transition with relatively low production costs and rapidly growing domestic demand.

Market trends increasingly reveal the growing demand for diversified travel experiences, from seaside resorts (often linked to mass tourism) to cultural discoveries.

Demand for care for persons affected by HIV AIDS is growing, and the response is unsatisfactory, as is the relevant legal regime.

7. The expert from Malaysia described how the liberalization of the telecommunications sector had brought about strong competition and rapidly growing demand.

The claim that America has centuries worth of coal is deceptive, as it fails to account for growing demand, and decreasing quality.

A large part of this was related to investment in natural resources, supported by a strong rise in global commodity prices and growing demand for diamonds, gold, oil, platinum and palladium.

Growing niche markets for specialty coffee include Japan for gourmet varieties, and the United States where, despite a generally falling demand for coffee due to health considerations, the demand for gourmet specialty coffee is projected to surpass US 3 billion by 1999.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was the envy of the world, owing to an all powerful export machine that tapped the demand of a rapidly growing global economy. Japan, Inc. still has a good institutional memory of what it takes to draw support from external demand.

The world market may just be able to absorb a 10 per cent growth in supply over two years, provided that Chinese demand continues growing at its recent rates.

Furthermore, the growing will to keep children living in very difficult circumstances with their birth families and in their native environments also plays a part in increasing the demand.

The best evidence for this has been the growing demand for the rapid assessment procedures manual, which has gone into its fifth printing.

The second Achilles' heel is complexity a growing fragility, a growing brittleness.

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A fourth trend, which has emerged in the past years, is related to a growing demand to make democracy more meaningful and to allow for more opportunities of participation in policymaking.4

Likewise, food scarcity is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand. At the same time, rising incomes are altering people s diets, which now include more animal based proteins, further compounding Asia s food challenges.

A growing concern

As a result, the income of the global elite is growing both rapidly and independently of what is happening in terms of overall output and employment growth. Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower income groups.

UNOPS experienced growing demand for its services, particularly for project management services supporting large scale, complex programme activities in post conflict and transitional situations.

To meet the growing demand for information, the Department must adopt innovative media and newer, faster technologies and optimize the tools it already had.

With imports still growing strongly and commodity prices beginning to fall as a result of the world slowdown, Argentina s large trade surplus is disappearing quickly. Fearing a weaker peso, spooked investors demand dollars.