This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

Though very difficult to quantify, it is estimated that millions of people die prematurely due to air pollution each year worldwide.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

And though the equation is largely subjective, you can perhaps quantify people, and perhaps quantify affluence, but technology is abusive in too many ways to quantify.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

It is difficult to quantify additional, and not negligible, system wide savings emanating from avoidance of future investments in acquisition and or maintenance of new systems by those organizations that might decide to in source their payroll processing to one of the leading organizations .

Europe s image and soft power have undoubtedly continued to fade around the world (thought such a trend is difficult to quantify), while member states continue to cut defense and development budgets. The good news, however, is that European foreign policy has not unraveled in the crisis.

Training Courses Conducted in the Countries Visited Although difficult to quantify, the effectiveness of import licensing and prevention of illegal imports of ODS is highly dependent on the ability of customs officers to apply the legal regulations in force and to identify illegal shipments of refrigerants.

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product.

ARS researchers also developed fluorescence techniques and a prototype fluorescent instrument to discriminate and quantify crop residues.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

But the value of others such as the wide range of animal species they support and their intrinsic worth to people is more difficult to quantify. In attempting to do so, economists have conducted surveys to find out how much people would be prepared to pay to protect forests and the animal species they support.

A preliminary analysis of the savings to be expected for a common payroll system shows savings in the range of US 100 million over a period of 10 years and this is just the tip of the iceberg given the additional significant benefits to be expected, which are difficult to quantify at this stage.

And it's our attempt to quantify beauty by finding which regions of the brain are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

A fundamental problem in forecasting nowadays is that the ultimate causes of the slowdown are really psychological and sociological, and relate to fluctuating confidence and changing animal spirits, about which George Akerlof and I have written. We argue that such shifts reflect changing stories, epidemics of new narratives, and associated views of the world, which are difficult to quantify.

The reason I quantify that is because we really embarked on this as a mutual journey to really get inside of it.

Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

First, there is the straightforward work of adding up the costs of education, such as teacher training and compensation, school construction and maintenance, and even the opportunity cost of child labor. Then there is the more ambiguous process of assessing the benefits, which, though difficult to quantify, are convincing enough that many economists champion early education.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

It's difficult to explain to people now that it was difficult then.

Some experts endeavoured to quantify the losses arising from inefficiencies, which in the example of textiles could amount to more than 12 per cent of total value.

According to Zhu Baoping, they should further move forward the reform, engage in community shares cooperation, quantify the assets to members, fix it to farmers and produce clear property rights.

The Panel also finds that there is insufficient evidence to quantify damage to mangroves and coral reefs, if any, that can be attributed directly to Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

With regard to the process and methodology used by Saudi Arabia to quantify the loss resulting from damage to its terrestrial resources, the Panel finds that Saudi Arabia's approach is reasonable.

And then we have two parameters which we were not able to quantify air pollution, including warming gases and air polluting sulfates and nitrates, but also chemical pollution.

It's difficult to watch, and even more difficult to look away, but Greene said that's the point.

They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday they have difficult conversations with difficult people, sometimes during very difficult times.

For without that, one difficult journey would be not merely difficult but close to impossible.

Kanji are difficult to read.

English is difficult to learn.

This is difficult to believe.

It's difficult to do that.

Efforts to make the rules more flexible are a welcome development, but shortcomings remain, particularly given that implementation risks make the macroeconomic effects of rule changes difficult to quantify. For example, it is not obvious how to deal with the fact that decisions by large countries have larger externalities, both positive and negative, than those made by their smaller peers, setting the ground for different treatment in a monetary union of supposed equals.

But in general it was difficult it was really difficult to explain what the web was like.

For the purposes of the present claim, the Panel considers that, while soot might have caused some short term damage, Saudi Arabia has not provided sufficient evidence to quantify such damage.

Patents are very difficult to overturn.

English is not difficult to learn.

Those shapes are difficult to change.

And it's very difficult to tune.

Russian is very difficult to learn.

It is difficult to satisfy everyone.