As such, emigration had become a more significant issue in discussions on development.

Official statistics demonstrate that microenterprises have become significant generators of employment and self employment.

The site is expected to become a significant new source of revenue for this self financing publication.

A significant number of the components in the network have frequent failures and have become uneconomical to repair.

Countries without a significant extractive industry presence could also become more involved in initiatives and standards in the area.

320. The efforts within the European Union and the World Health Organization have expanded and have become increasingly significant.

FDI inflows had become significant in Benin only after the establishment of a market oriented economy in the late 1980s.

In just a few years, the Global Partnership has become a significant force worldwide for enhancing international safety and security.

By the early 1990s, Singapore had become a regional coordination centre capable of supporting significant R D activities and management functions.

The oil industry has become much more concentrated and vertically integrated, providing the oil majors with significant market power in the retail market and putting greater pressure on non integrated incumbents to become integrated.

Recognizing the significant number of persons who have become internally displaced owing to natural disasters over the course of the past twelve months,

Involvement in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council has become a significant programme for the World Federation of Methodist Women.

If sanctions, which are usually in the form of fines, are not significant, they become merely a cost of doing business for the cartel.

This has become all the more significant following the December 1996 WTO Council meeting in Singapore, which placed trade facilitation on the free trade agenda.

These countries, once models of economic hope and democratic promise in Latin America, have become examples of democracies without legitimacy or credibility. Although they have made significant social progress in recent years, they have become centers of popular unrest.

After its initial steps during the pilot phase, GEF has generally become an effective and credible facility for funding activities that deliver significant global environmental benefits.

We the people have become inured to our own irrelevance when it comes to doing anything significant about anything that matters concerning governance, beyond waiting another four years.

We have no significant predators, we're the masters of our physical environment the things that normally cause species to become extinct are no longer any threat to us.

Pakistan had made significant contributions to fighting international terrorism but, at the same time, believed that that mission should not become a pretext for oppression, occupation and injustice.

After its initial, unsteady steps during the pilot phase, the GEF has generally become an effective and credible facility for funding activities that deliver significant global environmental benefits.

15. In this emerging market place, developing countries had become significant purchasers of space related products and services and represented an important customer base for the space industry.

While such distinctions were of little significance when emergencies were short term localized phenomena, they become much more significant in countries suffering from long drawn out institutionalized emergencies.

Even at this early stage, it has become clear that Habitat programme managers will have a significant impact on promoting the work of UN Habitat at the country level.

EFCT was also concerned at this time about the need for tourism, of which conference tourism is a significant part, to become a competence of the Community in Brussels.

The world economic system is highly competitive and market based, and Africa has become largely marginalized in recent years in attracting significant inflows of long term foreign direct investment.

Politicians in both Hawaii and Guam have been lobbying hard to become the chosen destination for the carrier owing to the significant impact it would have on the local economy.

When such standards are adopted by a regional trading bloc, they may become a significant barrier to the distribution of developing country products, for example in the area of textiles.

But you can say that every animal that has become naked has been conditioned by water, in its own lifetime, or the lifetime of its ancestors. I think this is significant.

Following this guideline reduces the growth of mass in the most frequently used regions of space and reduces the potential for having on orbit collisions become a significant source of debris.

Significant figures

Significant Building

In recent decades many countries of our continent have become independent and democratic, and are ready for the open market. Some of them have experienced significant economic growth. Economic reforms and democracy have made them favourable ground for development. However, against this background, many African countries have become poorer.

To become operational, each regional project must be reviewed and endorsed by a significant number of countries in the region, which must accept their obligations as stipulated in the regional project documents.

There would clearly be significant increases in the administrative expenses to be charged to the Fund if it were required to become more self reliant in some or all of its operations.

Highly significant relationship.

Significant problems remained.

Other significant developments

A significant breakthrough.

A significant initiative.

James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship.

But through their background and networks, this group nonetheless provides a significant backbone to the Al Qaida structure, as well as experience and guidance for newly radicalized recruits who wish to become effective terrorists.

Moreover, Egypt stressed the need for certain basic requirements to be fulfilled if the United Nations Register is to become a truly significant confidence building measure and thereby contribute to enhancing security and stability.

You become your nation. You become your religion.

Given the significant participation of regional organizations in maintaining peace and security all over the world, the time is right for the relationship between the Council and regional organizations to become more focused and organized.

Not only were migrants increasingly skilled workers or people with capital, but growing numbers were in the countries of destination illegally. Moreover, so called irregular migration of criminals and traffickers had become a significant factor.