However, since the level of government funding usually depends on the level of national income, Governments in least developed countries are least likely to afford large outlays for population activities.

Research shows that women exposed to HIV are at least twice as likely to become infected with HIV as their male counterparts.

Unfortunately, the majority of cases are being diagnosed at a later stage when treatment is most costly and least likely to be successful.

If you are a blind child in India, you will very likely have to contend with at least two big pieces of bad news.

According to the World Bank, the current financial and economic crises in East Asia are likely to push at least 20 million people back into poverty.

It is quite likely however that, for a while at least, the two mechanisms will operate simultaneously.

We want to know how likely, or relatively how likely, two different explanations are.

The third and least likely cause of core housing need in 2001 was crowded living conditions (suitability problems).

Countries from sub Saharan Africa were identified as those least likely to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.7 Those countries are also some of the most vulnerable to disasters.

Furthermore, those youth who were most at risk were also those who were least likely to enter into youth programmes.

This trend is likely to continue, with illicit drug production expanding in places where law enforcement poses the least threat.

The desert Arabs are more stubborn in their denial of truth and hypocrisy, and are the least likely to be aware of the limits which God has revealed to His Messenger. God is all knowing and wise.

The desert Arabs are more stubborn in their denial of truth and hypocrisy, and are the least likely to be aware of the limits which God has revealed to His Messenger. God is all knowing and wise.

They are also less likely to be self employed and half as likely as men to be employers.

Your brain doesn't know. Because both are equally likely.

Effective remedies are likely to deter human rights violations.

Some things are less likely than others, that's all.

Are you... likely to resume your career soon, principessa?

QE and OMT are simply new incarnations of this old transgression. Such central bank policies, together with Basel III, mean that financial repression will likely define the economic landscape for at least another decade.

Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non smokers are.

Those are significant steps that are likely to produce good results in 2005.

The parents are more likely to respect what he'd done.

In principle, middle sized farms are more likely to diversify.

The following are currently seen as the most likely sources

But the reality is that credit and asset equity bubbles are likely to form in the next two years, owing to loose US monetary policy. The Fed has signaled that QE3 will continue until the labor market has improved sufficiently (likely in early 2014), with the interest rate at 0 until unemployment has fallen at least to 6.5 (most likely no earlier than the beginning of 2015).

Ordinarily, as the world comes out of a downturn and global interest rates rise, at least one or two emerging market countries suffers a spectacular blowup. Not likely this time, at least for the next year.

It appears to be widely believed that lethal injection is likely to inflict the least suffering and this is at least one of the reasons why countries like the Philippines and Thailand have turned to it.

They are posh, they're wealthy, they're less likely to have outdoor jobs, they're less likely to do manual labor, they have better social support, they're less likely to smoke so for a whole host of fascinating, interlocking social, political and cultural reasons, they are less likely to have skin wrinkles.

The problems of food and hunger were likely to continue, with developing countries most severely affected because they were least able to overcome them.

Hence, like the least developed countries, the higher fertility countries in this group would most likely benefit from increased efforts to reduce unwanted fertility.

This trend is likely to continue up to (at least) 2000, and additional gas supplies will come to match any increase in domestic demand.

At least that proves they are diligent.

At least you are convinced about that!

Small satellites are likely to offer new opportunities for procurement methods.

You have no more devoted disciple... and are never likely to.

Fish are likely to be found about 20 yards from shore.

The resulting upheavals in the structure of the workforce can be at least as important as the actual number of jobs that are affected. Economists call the most likely outcome of this phenomenon the polarization of employment.

Some people let us say the people who work for Mr. Colbert might reasonably regard you as the person least likely to mourn his passing.

The most vulnerable are the least developed countries.

Half of them are least developed countries.17

Least developed countries export earnings are also small.

There are no details. At least, not yet.

By contrast, older users (1) are less likely to do stupid things in the first place, and (2) are less likely to do so in range of a camera. (Of course, there are notable exceptions.)

Most Parties experienced or are likely to experience difficulties in implementing measures.

In the public domain, women are less likely to achieve senior positions.