Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

In some cases, an island or group of islands may be able to absorb the likely displacement of population.

In addition, the existing UNDP advisers will be able to absorb some functions that UNOTIL advisers are currently engaged in from May 2006, namely

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries will be able to absorb only limited numbers of surplus workers from labour exporting countries owing to current work nationalization policies.

Capacity to absorb an innovation

I was also inspired by Walt Whitman, who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him.

Subsequent interviews indicate that a number of previously reunified returnees have separated themselves from households that are not able to absorb them and have returned to the local authorities.

This is the reason why I created, with David Edward, a scientist of Harvard University, an object able to absorb the toxic elements using those kind of plants.

It's brilliant. It's a way to get sodium and glucose together so that when you add it to water the child is able to absorb it even during situations of diarrhea.

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.

The domestic economy was able to absorb this shock and increase its employment by almost 100,000 jobs through employing an additional 20,000 workers on top of the 80,000 who no longer work in Israel.

It feels like it's going to absorb you into another world.

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

Fortunately, income from the Facility was able to absorb losses in other divisions, most notably the UNOPS Asia office, where actual project delivery for 2004 fell short of its budget target of 47.5 million by 64 per cent.

Equally important were training and the development of national capacity to absorb technology.

So if the web was made entirely out of dragline silk, an insect is very likely to just bounce right off. But by having really, really stretchy capture spiral silk, the web is actually able to absorb the impact of that intercepted prey.

It is therefore of paramount importance for the PA not only to target employment generation schemes to the sectors that are able to absorb the shock of the labour released from the Israeli market, but also to design appropriate programmes to increase productivity in these sectors.

Ultimately, while the World Bank is expected to secure funding for most civilian adviser posts in the finance sector, it is hoped that UNDP will be able to absorb key civilian adviser posts in the sectors of justice, rule of law and democratic governance.

By invisible, I mean it doesn't absorb in the electromagnetic spectrum.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

Adding to that the low rate at which the private sector is able to absorb young people seeking work and the political crisis in the country, it is easy to understand why Togo's young people are facing the problems of unemployment, poverty and the other scourges I have mentioned.

In the case of the capture spiral, it needs to be so stretchy to absorb the impact of flying prey.

However, the global market is no longer able to absorb China s massive exports, not to mention the immediate impact of economic malaise in Europe and the United States on export demand. Moreover, rising labor costs and a stronger renminbi will also undermine China s export sector, causing GDP growth to slow this year.

Countries in most developing regions, such as Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia, may be able to absorb their armies of potential workers into productive employment and benefit appreciably from the ensuing economic boost. (Indeed, this miracle has already occurred in East Asia.)

Yes, many African countries need skills. But they are unable to absorb them, owing to several factors associated with economic backwardness.

Cool roofs are highly reflective surfaces that don't absorb solar heat and pass it on to the building or atmosphere.

A good book can completely absorb your attention, to the extent that you forget your surroundings and even your existence.

They consider the CKREE subject to be so designed that it would gradually absorb their son into the Christian faith.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007 was insufficient to absorb 31,500.

And in these cavities, these micro cavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water.

It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.

In addition, the Government of Somaliland was increasingly concerned about the number of returnees and their capacity to absorb the returnees.

The problem this entails is worsening because neither the private sector nor the State has the capacity to absorb the increase.

b The missions will attempt to absorb the balance requirement for the period 2005 06 within the proposed 2005 06 budgets.

It's hard enough to learn to get the skills, try to learn all the material you have to absorb at any task you're taking on.

So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.

In all these cases, and a few others also mostly in Asia domestic reforms would surely have produced growth regardless of international trade. But it is difficult to see how the resulting growth could have been as high reaching an unprecedented 10 or more annually in per capita terms without a global economy able to absorb these countries exports.

And so actually it allows for an intense emotional exchange, but is serves to absorb the specificity of the words that are delivered.

Ramp up support to Haiti over the long term as there will be an increasing capacity to absorb and use aid to build more sustainable development.

It allows small and medium sized enterprises to absorb new technologies that increase efficiency and productivity and helps to improve employment opportunities and labour conditions.

It was part of the federal government policy to use alcohol as an instrument with which to absorb the constant surplus of sugar cane production.

And he showed that gasses such as CO2 absorb heat, thus acting like a blanket warming Earth's surface.

Because these materials could actually absorb six to 12 times as much energy per pound as steel, and do so a lot more smoothly.

A number of instruments can be used to absorb a successful practice, including institutions and facilitators of the learning process and tools and guidelines.

Given the importance of the topic, States should be given a reasonable opportunity to properly absorb the significance and scope of the draft articles.