17. The electrical character of surface material, as indicated by its complex dielectric constant, is also critical in the interpretation of radar images.

Radar reflectivity is considerably increased in the presence of water, which has a dielectric constant greater than 10 times that of dry materials.

These activities are in particular those that are capable of withstanding competitive pressures for efficiency gains and surviving the new industrial and trade realities.

(i) To endeavor to develop advanced mine detection technology and equipment (such as non metallic mine detectors and detectors adopting the working principle of infrared thermovision or soil dielectric coefficient), so to improve the efficiency of detecting MOTAPM through various ways and means.

Those overriding aspects not withstanding, I believe that we need to reassess the way we work our modus operandi not as a substitute for substance but because some of the working modes from the cold war period have become counterproductive.

Meanwhile, households appear to have exhausted their coping strategies, and by the end of 2004 only 17 per cent of the West Bank households were found to be capable of withstanding the adverse conditions for more than one year, compared with around 33 per cent in Gaza.

A cast iron mechanism to ensure that the debt build up does not continue forever is appealing as a way of withstanding increasingly fraught competition for funding. Germany will look like a better credit risk, thereby allowing it to fund its current budget deficits more easily and cheaply.

In other words, Gazprom (and the Russian government) are less capable of withstanding the loss of the European market than vice versa. Indeed, given the hard bargains that China has been driving during Putin s desperate search for alternative buyers, threatening to cut exports to Europe has proven to be an exceedingly unwise tactic.

Many Yushchenko loyalists are unhappy that, in exchange for the government agreeing to fairer election rules, Yushchenko agreed to transfer some presidential powers to the parliament. Not withstanding the self serving intentions of outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, this historic pact may in the long run produce positive results for Ukraine's democracy and prospects for joining the European Union.

The British authorities believe that they are building a resilient global financial center that is capable of assuming big risks and withstanding large shocks either home grown or transmitted from abroad (that is, from the eurozone). But even HSBC, the best capitalized of the lot, has a leverage ratio of only 4.6 , while Barclays ratio is under 3 .