The process of convergence of evidence and the careful cross checking and review of testimony requires time.

Advocates envisaged an orderly process in which economic convergence accompanied and facilitated global economic growth. They foresaw a collaborative process guided by enlightened policymaking.

It has expanded detail on services considerably as part of a wider convergence process of the international and regional3 industry or activity classifications.

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So my story really is as much about that convergence in the Americas as it's a convergence story in Eurasia.

And the forces of convergence exploded.

There's a lot of serendipitous convergence here.

Those points of convergence deserve thorough consideration and reflection.

I think they re two quite different modes divergence and convergence.

I think we can reach a good degree of convergence.

Because what it does is allow a convergence like we've never had before.

So this dream is really enabled by the convergence of two known technologies.

A possible convergence of interests lies with expanded South South trade and investment.

Moreover, the project provided indications of the extent of convergence achievable in participating countries.

What results UNDP has achieved have been based on convergence among the following elements

First, the new architecture must facilitate the convergence of the security, humanitarian and development perspectives.

Improved convergence of approaches, programme strategies and interventions will lead to greater effectiveness and enhanced outcomes.

The concentration on six provinces was meant to model initiatives for decentralization and inter sectoral convergence.

A project to study convergence between the European and North American industry classifications was initiated in 2000.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence. Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

The quasi unison statements and the virtual convergence on the subject in the general debate speak for themselves.

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His Majesty's Government is committed to resolving the problems confronting Nepal with patriotism as the point of convergence.

And I had a happy brush with convergence until, kind of, Warner basically has to liquidate the whole thing.

At the same time, it showed the limitations in the convergence effort that ISIC and other classifications could achieve.

Over the past 20 years, convergence had again come to be seen as the inevitable result of free trade.

In the US, successful convergence in economic conditions across regions relies strongly on labor mobility. Internal migration is the main driver of income convergence, helped by a common language and all the other factors that foster mobility in America, such as comparatively easy access to housing and education.

That's what we're looking forward to. That is where we're going this union, this convergence of the atomic and the digital.

There's a convergence. So, wherever the rain is falling, the air is drawn towards it to replace the air that's rising.

Let me also express my appreciation for your inspiring inaugural statement and highlight convergence with what I am about to say.

Convergence in social service provision also required strengthening the linkages and coordination of CBSS with other national programmes supported by UNICEF.

That summer I'm all I'm at Warner that summer I'm all excited to work on convergence, and then the bottom falls out.

And here is where we really felt that there was a great convergence of the technological and the natural in the project.

It is through the convergence of multiple avenues of enquiry that patterns emerge and begin to focus on the most critical elements.

Over the last few decades, there has been increasing convergence towards a set of non jurisdiction specific, widely recognized financial reporting standards.

Greece is urgently called upon to play a more constructive role in the peace process by explaining the benefits of its own normalization of relations with Turkey and its support for that country s EU membership. And Turkey could give a tremendous boost to confidence in the peace process by announcing a symbolic withdrawal of some troops from northern Cyprus as a goodwill gesture a move that would also greatly assist Turkey s convergence with Europe.

As a result, the new focus of the convergence work became a better concordance scenario, which addressed lower structure detail and concept issues.

In particular, Thailand fully supported the role of UNCTAD as a forum in which countries could enhance policy convergence on important global issues.

The Third and Fourth Committees should collaborate closely to promote ideas reflecting the convergence of their mandates on the issue of self determination.

We must continue to move from polemics and mutual accusations to a search for points of convergence and a gradual lifting of sanctions, which are damaging to both sides. As a first step, the so called personal sanctions that affect political figures and parliamentarians should be lifted, so that they can rejoin the process of seeking mutually acceptable solutions.

In the first, the region risks a cycle of weak growth, retreat from market oriented policies, and increasing disillusionment. As a result, convergence with Western Europe could slow, with many countries lagging far behind a far different outcome from that envisioned during the boom of the mid 2000s, when convergence within a generation seemed almost like a birthright.

Time can then be dedicated to unresolved issues. While some smaller details remain to be resolved the areas where general convergence has occurred include

The three hours of discussions in an informal, interactive mode lead me to conclude that there are more areas of convergence than of divergence.