As a result, extreme poverty, which has until now been more common in rural than in urban areas, will become increasingly an urban phenomenon.

As China s leaders continue to push for more control over Hong Kong, spinal shivers are likely to become an increasingly common feature of life there.

But I've become increasingly interested in religion.

Common analysis should increasingly replace repetitive analysis of individual agencies.

Cultural activities have become increasingly rich and imbued with national identity.

Our globalizing world increasingly compels our societies to become more interdependent.

Since that time, peacebuilding has become increasingly prominent in our debates.

And BeatJazzers become as common as D.J.'s.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid.

Lately, lost and abandoned fishing gear has increasingly become a worldwide high profile nuisance.

Physical distances have been increasingly blurred, and the world has become as one family.

First, such agreements threaten local food security and employment as fish become increasingly scarce.

It is fascinating to note how our discussions in different forums become increasingly intertwined.

The issue of illegal logging has become increasingly prominent in the international policy agenda.

Children have become increasingly involved in conflicts, both as targets of violence and as combatants.

As globalization shrinks distances around the globe and these issues become increasingly interconnected, the comparative advantages of the United Nations become ever more evident.

In recent years, small arms and light weapons have increasingly become the focus of international attention.

After the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy in 2013, it had to make tough choices between servicing its pensioners or its debt, keeping its museums open or its police force intact. As 2015 begins, similar difficult decisions may become increasingly common.

English has now become the common language of several nations in the world.

Projections indicate that extreme weather events will become more common in the future.

Because of high HIV mortality rates in Africa, this scenario of property grabbing has become increasingly widespread.

The review and recommendations reflect a market environment that has become increasingly complex over the past decade.

We can be preventative that prevention can be personalized and more importantly, it's going to become increasingly participatory.

Over the past ten years, people have become increasingly aware that they need to change their eating habits.

Increasingly, emancipation has become part of policy at ministries other than the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.

During the period covered by this Report, information, disaggregated by sex, has become increasingly available from various sources.

It has become a common social consensus to recall the martyrs and call for heroes.

Thematic issues, it was widely acknowledged, had become a common component of the Council's work.

Employment is increasingly precariousness. And where unemployment is preferred to universal job insecurity, it has become impossible to suppress.

Many persons interviewed reported that harassment and intimidation by ex combatants had become a common occurrence.

Microbiological contamination of water sources is a common problem in many countries and chemical contamination (notably arsenic and fluoride) is increasingly a concern.

Over the last decade, girls have increasingly become the primary targets for abduction during armed conflict with the objective of forcing them to become sexual slaves and or domestic partners.

The CRIC noted that procedures for communication of information have evolved and become increasingly complex since the Convention was adopted.

has become an important platform for maintaining regional security and stability and promoting common development and prosperity.

Advocating, defending, learning from and caring for heroes has become a common practice in the whole society.

Process issues had become increasingly difficult over the years and had now reached a point of dangerous interference with the substance .

The international community had become increasingly aware of the protection needs of the millions of human beings displaced by natural disasters.

Sustained economic growth is likely to become increasingly challenging, as donor aid for post conflict needs is being gradually phased out.

Of course, competition for resources will also be important, especially as the consequences of the fourth factor climate change manifest themselves. Many countries and regions are already under severe water stress, which will only intensify as climate change causes natural disasters and extreme weather events like droughts to become increasingly common.

Within this increasingly complex environment, UNICEF will pursue funding strategies that support common approaches to reducing transaction costs, streamlining operational processes and producing measurable results.

Private activities in space had become increasingly important in recent years, and such a protocol would facilitate commercial financing for space activities.

The independent expert was also told by several people that the rape of young boys and sometimes even men, particularly by the Interahamwe, is increasingly common.

But neither side seized the opportunity to build on this common ground, and today US Iran relations are as antagonistic as they have been in years. For the US, Iran s nuclear ambitions, opposition to Israel, and support for extremist groups have become increasingly intolerable in the context of the war on terror.

In other words, EU leaders began to complicate fiscal governance, ultimately creating an inefficient, inescapable labyrinth of regulation and bureaucracy. As fiscal metrics become increasingly intricate, monitoring efforts will become ever easier to undermine.

And what's become increasingly clear to me is that we're talking about news stories about Africa we're not really talking about African narratives.