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

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.

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.

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

And after the first two or three years, just as societies are beginning to develop the capacity to absorb resources and make the most use of them, financing tends to decline.

Those obstacles require that we prepare for and anticipate emergencies before they begin by training staff, increasing agency capacity to absorb additional funding, and better equipping responders to operate in challenging environments.

Should the executive office that provides this service find it difficult to absorb, then the capacity released from the Executive Office of the Office of Legal Affairs should be appropriately redeployed.

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

We acknowledge that there is now a broad consensus that such assistance has been compromised by a number of factors that have fuelled the perception that Africa lacks the capacity to absorb and effectively use increased funds.

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

But it recognizes that what Europe s troubled countries need most is not money, but the planning and administrative capacity to spend it effectively. Over the last decade, Greece could absorb only a fifth of the EU modernization funds available to it.

Careful studies need to be done to determine available energy, land, mineral, and biological resources before projects proceed. Land planning must be overhauled, with industrial monopolies broken up and development goals set according to population, resource volume, and the capacity to absorb pollution.

But the estimates of wealth accumulation in recent years in the rich world are biased upward too. Empirical studies by earth scientists have revealed all too often that the capacity of natural systems to absorb disturbances is not unlimited.

The National People s Congress has discussed using a portion of China s foreign exchange reserves to finance infrastructure projects in developing countries. Such a Chinese Marshall Plan could seek to strengthen developing countries capacity to absorb Chinese goods, or it could advance a broader development agenda.

The developed countries should continue to fulfil their commitments, while the developing countries should continue to enhance national level efforts, expand the scope of cooperation and trade among themselves, absorb more foreign direct investment, enhance national capacity building and eradicate poverty through national economic development.

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

The figures from the census of Afghans living in Pakistan, which was held in February and March 2005, underscore the need for concerted efforts to increase Afghanistan's capacity to absorb returnees by introducing employment generating reconstruction schemes and providing land and shelter, in addition to ensuring security.

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

Finally, to absorb and integrate more than a million asylum seekers and migrants a year, the EU needs to mobilize the private sector NGOs, church groups, and businesses to act as sponsors. This will require not only sufficient funding, but also the human and IT capacity to match migrants and sponsors.

Few foreign journalists venture in it is too difficult and too dangerous for them to work inside the country and local reporters are harassed by the authorities. And, even when there is news, the world s capacity to absorb bad and sad stories from yet another hellish place is limited.

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

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

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

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.

The EU needs a comprehensive plan to respond to the crisis, one that reasserts effective governance over the flows of asylum seekers so that they take place in a safe, orderly way, and at a pace that reflects Europe s capacity to absorb them. To be comprehensive, the plan has to extend beyond the borders of Europe.

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.

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.

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

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.

Urbanization was so rapid that cities could not fully absorb the new pool of labour, thus giving rise to the phenomenon of urban poverty.

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