That was an important means of promoting economic growth and eradicating poverty.

It is now an important means for outsourcing inside the United Nations system.

The concerns raised here are aimed at finding an effective means of dealing with an important problem.

Export controls were an important practical means of closing existing loopholes in the NPT regime.

Regional cooperation is an important means for developing and strengthening the economies of developing countries.

A cut off agreement is an important means of reducing the availability of fissile material.

Rural development was then an antidote to drug cultivation, and drug prevention an important means of containing HIV AIDS.

Treaties establishing such zones were an important means of strengthening the concept of horizontal non proliferation.

Abolition would also deprive the institutional personnel of an important means of arbitrariness, repression and corruption.

Those audit units constitute an important element of internal control by providing a continuous means for improving an organization s operations.

It stated that, in light of modern means of communication, unsigned writings play an important role and signature requirements were becoming less important.

It also serves as an important means of preparing the ground in support of the establishment of UNIOSIL.

Such terminals also offered an important means of rapid dissemination of information warning of impending or possible disasters.

It was also suggested that debt relief be considered as an important means of fighting poverty in these regions.

121. Members expressed the view that electronic communication provided an effective means of communication and played an important role in information collection and dissemination.

And it's an important issue because it means that we have to, as a society, think about what we value.

There is general agreement that the CRIC is an important means for the COP to review the implementation of the Convention.

69. His Government saw the Convention to Combat Desertification as an important means of fulfilling its overall goal in development cooperation.

Actions of tutela have also become an important means of defence against domestic violence and is used by women in particular.

The two sides consider BSEC to be an important factor and an effective means of developing the multilateral economic cooperation, which promotes all European integration processes.

Let me first grade what are the most important means.

Training is generally seen as an important means of strengthening the capacities of African countries in the area of desertification monitoring and assessment.

Gender analysis of national budgets has also emerged as an important means of ensuring that resource allocations match policy commitments on gender mainstreaming.

The participation of stakeholders, including non governmental organizations (NGOs), was mentioned to be an important means of ensuring continuity of climate change activities.

Training programmes and seminars aimed at familiarizing practitioners with the Code of Conduct were considered to be an important means of improving its application.

Again, no basically new nuclear technologies are involved, but the new emphasis on worldwide, cooperative monitoring by different technical means is an important development.

That's important and it's an important shift.

First, it seems to me important to reiterate what seems to be at first sight the obvious this Conference is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Another important research problem concerns the ways and means of quantifying NTBs.

That means that several important fishing nations are still outside that cooperation.

Offender victim conciliation and mediation was noted by some speakers as an important means for dialogue about conflicts and for reconciliation beneficial to both parties.

For their part, the regional economic commissions were an important means of promoting regional cooperation and the increased allocation proposed for them was therefore welcome.

The role of the media as an important means of promoting democratic change had been clearly demonstrated during the Russian presidential election held in 1996.

An important one.

An important announcement.

A means to an end.

By all means, an investigation.

So income means something very important within our societies, and nothing between them.

Export controls were one of the most important means of countering that threat.

504. Tunisia is convinced that such cooperation is an essential element of the establishment of peace and brotherhood among men and an important means of promoting exercise of the right to knowledge and scientific progress, and it therefore encourages international exchanges in this area by all means.

The notes prepared in support of that item, such as the present one, are an important means of sharing information between the Council and the Statistical Commission.

50. An important means of widening the coverage of reporting countries is to increase the scale of assistance to countries, particularly in the area of capacity building.

An ill wind means the end.

That's what being an officer means.

I suppose context is important here. But in some other contexts, equitable means equal .