The effective difficulties of making progress at the CD at this stage should be mentioned to the General Assembly not as a justification but as a challenge that we are ready to confront together with our resolve to overcome it.

Nevertheless, despite these signs of progress, we are failing to confront the magnitude of the challenge, particularly in the translation of global agreements into legislation and action at the national and regional levels.

The need to confront this challenge is in keeping with the resolve of the global community in the Millennium Declaration to strive for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons.

France s Socialist Green government can play a critical unifying role as Europeans confront their biggest challenge in decades. Its success will be highly consequential not least for the political debate that will inform the outcome of Germany s elections in 2013.

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Dear World, Please Confront America

New challenges confront us today.

A life without fear is built when we confront violence against women in all spheres and when we confront racism, recognizing the rights and autonomy of indigenous peoples.

Developing a tool to confront illicit brokering is the next step forward.

Therefore, the United Nations as a whole should confront that vicious malady.

The need for the United Nations system to confront the challenge of transnational crime resulted in, among other responses, the report of the Secretary General's High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, entitled A more secure world our shared responsibility (see A 59 565 and Corr.1).

We need to confront this fear.

The democratic challenge today is, above all, a social and human challenge.

It's also very difficult to confront a general with medals on his chest.

Proliferation is a profound danger, which the United Nations must confront in a decisive manner.

We need to reframe the challenge that is facing Africa, from a challenge of despair, which is called poverty reduction, to a challenge of hope.

But a serious challenge to all of these views has now emerged, in proposals by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a rising Democratic star who has become increasingly prominent at the national level. In her view, the authorities need to confront head on the outsize influence and dangerous structure of America s largest banks.

A challenge, of course.

That's a huge challenge.

The EU desperately needs economic growth to enable its member states to sustain their social security and welfare systems as their societies get older a challenge that other regions and countries are facing as well. But few confront Europe s twin obstacles of anemic productivity growth and demographic decline.

It has numerous valuable assets, but it cannot postpone long overdue reforms, or else it will become increasingly irrelevant in a fiercely competitive global economy. This is the economic challenge that President François Hollande, Prime Minister Jean Marc Ayrault, and all of us in the French government must confront.

So as a teacher and as a spouse, this is, of course, a problem I confront every day.

I wanted to confront the boundaries of the citizen, self imposed and real, and confront the divide between privileged and public access to knowledge.

And some of them will confront the others,

And some of them will confront the others,

So our first challenge was to find these things, and that was a challenge, indeed.

The US is the world s major emitter of carbon dioxide from energy use, but it has done the least among all major economies to confront the global challenge. The Bush administration claims that more research is needed before any action is taken.

And this is a challenge.

So that became a challenge.

I was certain that I will confront my account.

I was certain that I will confront my account.

Our capacity to do so must confront certain realities.

And I think that what connects the challenge for civil society, the challenge for governments and the challenge for business now is, in a way, a very simple one, but quite a difficult one.

It's a challenge to our ingenuity.

That's a challenge. I like this.

So that's a tough challenge, right?

I think it's a great challenge.

However, poverty remained a major challenge.

We must therefore resolutely confront division, exploitation, exclusion, poverty and hunger, as a result of that scourge.

As an architect, I have to confront something like this.

Political, security and economic challenges will continue to confront Iraq.

And it's a brand new leadership challenge.

That's a challenge for 21st century science.

It's a real challenge in the future.

It's really a huge challenge for us.