But greater flexibility must be given to the Secretary General in managing staff and resources.

That is why we reiterate that we are ready for dialogue and call for greater flexibility.

It was a good example of the potential benefits to programmes when the Administration had greater flexibility.

Some progress has been made in the new Evian approach, but greater transparency and flexibility are needed.

In areas such as personnel, the most important prerequisite of reform was greater flexibility in the reallocation of existing resources.

His delegation, therefore, called on Member States to demonstrate greater flexibility and a firm political will to finalize those instruments.

Mr. Repasch (United States of America) said that the Secretariat had repeatedly stressed the need for greater flexibility in human resources management.

The Tribunals have also placed greater emphasis on training, lateral reassignments and the recruitment of spouses, and a number of additional administrative measures that allow greater flexibility for both the staff and organization.

It was also proposed that States should be given greater flexibility in determining who was a victim and what was meant by reparation.

The Chinese delegation hoped that the future deliberations of that body would be marked by additional effectiveness and pragmatism along with greater flexibility.

You lose the right to shape people's work when it's volunteer effort, but you also shed the institutional cost, which gives you greater flexibility.

Greater flexibility, better capacity to serve small communities, relatively labour intensive technologies and greater adaptability to local economic conditions can in some cases make SMEs better suited to conditions in other developing countries than TNCs (Dhungana 2003).

There is a need for the authorities in China to introduce greater flexibility in establishing and implementing interest and exchange rate policies and to continue with reform measures.

It is important to allow livestock owners to use their expertise to design methods that they believe can achieve the agreed outcomes, as this builds greater cooperation and flexibility.

But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory. The stability of the international financial system today depends on the willingness of countries with rigid exchange rates to allow greater flexibility.

Whereas the community focus should be on access to information, self monitoring, facilitation, and collective action, policymakers need greater flexibility, adaptiveness, and respect for the knowledge and potential of the populace.

And so we're proposing a different kind of flexibility, something that we call compartmentalized flexibility.

China has elevated the reduction of external imbalances to a major national objective in 2007. It intends to boost domestic demand and is committed to moving gradually toward greater exchange rate flexibility.

Today s emerging countries have considerable policy flexibility and much greater latitude to act than they had in the past. Accordingly, faced with a weakening global economy, they confront two basic policy choices.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

To be sure, reserves are important to smooth out imbalances in a fixed exchange rate regime. But the world has moved since the 1970 s in the direction of greater exchange rate flexibility.

A number of transition economies in Europe introduced more flexible employment regulation last year.7 However, while moving towards greater flexibility in labour standards, countries should ensure that some degree of employment stability remains.

Parties have explored several innovative options for financing transfer of mitigation technologies that aim to catalyze important financial actors and provide greater overall flexibility for the private sector to invest in environmentally sustainable technologies.

I would therefore urge all members to show greater flexibility and to reconsider their respective positions in such as a way as to allow the Commission to reach early agreement on its substantive agenda items.

It called on all parties concerned to show greater political will and flexibility to overcome the deadlock which the Committee had been in for the past two years on three remaining articles of the draft conventions.

The accord presents a framework rooted in the desired principles of greater harmonization, precision and flexibility, and engenders responsiveness to the diverse needs and requirements of United Nations common system organizations and their respective staff members.

Governments are inhibited by the knowledge that labor market reform may well result in a short term increase in unemployment (and thus further fiscal deterioration), because employers will find it cheaper to fire personnel. The hope is that greater flexibility would also translate into a greater willingness to hire in an economic upturn.

Because it just creates more flexibility.

But one should not expect too much from a tough ECB stance. Think of the limited success of the ECB s advocacy of greater labor market flexibility there has been no dramatic increase in the pace of reforms.

I wanted to show you the ways, innocuous as they seem, in which we're incorporating what we've learned about girls their desires to experience greater emotional flexibility, and to play around with the social complexity of their lives.

We should also move quickly to restructure the partnership between the donor community and recipient countries to allow for greater flexibility in the utilization of development assistance and better recognition of the development priorities set by our countries.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

What is notably missing is recognition of the need for greater flexibility on fiscal consolidation efforts. As the Commission has requested, countries with stronger fiscal positions should consider slowing their consolidation efforts in order to avoid aggravating the recession.

With high modernist flexibility, that doesn't really work.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Mousavi ran as a reformist who said he would strive for greater freedom of the press, more rights for women, and fewer restrictions on the private lives of Iranians. He also hinted at more flexibility in negotiations with the United States.

Recent experience in New York was highly frustrating, and there is a need for greater political will, as you said, and for far more flexibility on the part of each of the delegations present here so that we can move forward.

While it would bring greater flexibility and allow the individual States to take into account the special features of various risks, it contemplated, in contrast to the existing regimes the creation of liability regimes, that would not be self executing.

Historically, the informal economy had been based on agriculture, but the non agricultural informal workforce had grown in all regions of the world, particularly with the recent push for greater labour market flexibility and the corresponding erosion of labour rights.

Some of the proposals link the depth of the cut to be made by developing countries to options for developing countries to use other flexibilities, for example, the deeper the cut, the greater the flexibility in binding coverage and levels.

Nonetheless, to ensure that a measure of this type did not undermine the prerogatives of the different United Nations offices or bodies, at the same time greater flexibility would be needed in recruitment up to grades P 4 or P 5.

And so while planning is important, so is flexibility.

The international financial institutions should show some operational flexibility.

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.