The extreme conditions of poverty in which women live both in the urban and in rural zones, constitute the major cause of environmental problems.

Conversely, major disasters, or the accumulation of risk from smaller but regular events, may cause environmental problems that impact on livelihoods and development options, for example where biodiversity is undermined.

A major cause of the problems was perceived to be the absence of a specific provision in the Egyptian Constitution recognizing the Copts as a minority and providing for their protection.

Status report major human rights problems affecting indigenous peoples

Major problems exist when the husband dies during this union.

Imputed data is cause of major concern to most countries.

Today, however, there are still problems that cause people everywhere great concern.

These health effects are serious. Diabetes already is the major cause of kidney failure, blindness, and lower limb amputation in many countries, and a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.

Cancer is the second major cause of death for women, after heart illness.

The problems in Africa, however, as we've been discussing for the whole of these first couple of days of TED, are major problems.

So meetings and managers are two major problems in businesses today, especially to offices.

It plays a major role in solving the most urgent problems of modern times.

Recognizing that natural disasters constitute one of the major problems for the development of Mozambique,

Recognizing that natural disasters constitute one of the major problems for the development of Mozambique,

Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems. That then means that it's entirely in our power to deal with these problems.

He stressed the importance attached to prevention as a major way to combat cross border problems.

The question of terrorism has become a major cause for concern within the multilateral disarmament community.

National media, television, print and radio are now major allies in furthering the cause of children.

It is critical that the parties deal with major pending political problems before the elections are held.

The Group's role is to coordinate and promote joint efforts to resolve major problems in this area.

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

These markets are also a main cause of the many arms related problems in the front line States.

Were those really better times? And what are the big problems today that should cause us to lose sleep?

Engineers involved in the oxidizer turbopump development successfully resolved all of the major technical problems encountered early in development.

In its written and oral representations, the Central African Republic indicated that it was still facing major economic problems.

Indeed, inadequate levels of salaries in Africa have been a major cause of weak incentives, high turnover and corruption.

According to the physician, the back problems were of a type that could befall anyone and had no apparent cause.

While the cause of the initial problems was unknown, it did not allow a presumption of defect to be drawn.

And one of the major problems that we have is our operating system is not giving us the proper feedback.

But, if we deal with the broader, major, overall challenges, then the other problems can be dealt with more effectively.

The view was expressed that illiteracy and a lack of adequate education continued to constitute major problems for developing countries.

Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem and a leading cause of death and injury around the world.

The resulting smog can cause serious breathing problems among sensitive groups of people, contributing to thousands of premature deaths each year.

And so what this tells me is, when you look at the discussion of how to resolve our fiscal problems, we are not a nation that's powerfully divided on the major, major issue.

About half of them, 600,000, have permanent damage to their heart that will cause them to have very bad problems later on.

Political instability and poor governance are major contributors to the poor climate for investment, as are corruption and law and order problems.

We can do much more nationally, as well as internationally, to involve young people in solving major problems in our global community.

To try to address some of these problems I have launched two sets of major reforms during my time as Secretary General.

Indeed, very few of those who receive ECT do not also receive benzodiazepines, which do cause significant autobiographical memory problems when given alone, and antipsychotic drugs, which cause difficulties with lists of names or telephone numbers, and other comparable problems. Yet these drugs are rarely, if ever, blamed for cognitive disturbances following psychiatric treatment.

As is rightly pointed out by the Secretary General, poverty and associated problems remain a major impediment to the progress of youth worldwide.

A delegation said that malaria was a major cause of mortality in several developing countries, and more needed to be done by UNICEF.

Nonetheless, a number of major problems remain, which can only be addressed through continued international support to Timorese law enforcement agencies beyond May 2005.

The alarming IDU and related HIV AIDS problems in countries surrounding Afghanistan have led to a major expansion of the UNODC demand reduction portfolio.

The successes recorded in the 1990s were further reinforced when the member States of the African Union, identifying the high rate of corruption in the continent as the major cause of the continent's numerous problems, especially in the areas of development, adopted in July 2003 the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption.

2. Notes that impunity continues to be a major cause of the perpetuation of violations of human rights, including extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions