Cultural activities have become increasingly rich and imbued with national identity.

Physical distances have been increasingly blurred, and the world has become as one family.

Children have become increasingly involved in conflicts, both as targets of violence and as combatants.

But I've become increasingly interested in religion.

In recent years, small arms and light weapons have increasingly become the focus of international attention.

Over the past ten years, people have become increasingly aware that they need to change their eating habits.

The CRIC noted that procedures for communication of information have evolved and become increasingly complex since the Convention was adopted.

Our globalizing world increasingly compels our societies to become more interdependent.

Since that time, peacebuilding has become increasingly prominent in our debates.

But, in times of crisis, the trade spillovers have the opposite effect. As the global economy has become increasingly interconnected, these trade multipliers have increased.

Over the last decade, girls have increasingly become the primary targets for abduction during armed conflict with the objective of forcing them to become sexual slaves and or domestic partners.

Lately, lost and abandoned fishing gear has increasingly become a worldwide high profile nuisance.

First, such agreements threaten local food security and employment as fish become increasingly scarce.

It is fascinating to note how our discussions in different forums become increasingly intertwined.

The issue of illegal logging has become increasingly prominent in the international policy agenda.

This has become increasingly visible over the past decade, while we have seen evidence of a decline in poverty in other parts of the world.

As globalization shrinks distances around the globe and these issues become increasingly interconnected, the comparative advantages of the United Nations become ever more evident.

Ireland attaches great importance to the work performed by human rights defenders who have become increasingly effective in ensuring greater protection to victims of human rights violations.

To put off talking makes violence increasingly difficult to end, which means that the sentiments that violence breeds become increasingly difficult to change. To secure peace, Israel will one day have to talk seriously to Hamas as well as Fatah and the PLO.

Because of high HIV mortality rates in Africa, this scenario of property grabbing has become increasingly widespread.

The review and recommendations reflect a market environment that has become increasingly complex over the past decade.

At the other end of the spectrum, rape, adultery, early child bearing, and abortion have become ordinary matters. Increasingly, Iraqi girls interpret anything given to them as a means to have sex with them.

We can be preventative that prevention can be personalized and more importantly, it's going to become increasingly participatory.

Increasingly, emancipation has become part of policy at ministries other than the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.

During the period covered by this Report, information, disaggregated by sex, has become increasingly available from various sources.

Many people have noticed that since the beginning of this century, the birth rate of South Korea has been below 1.5 and the problem of aging has become increasingly severe.

Employment is increasingly precariousness. And where unemployment is preferred to universal job insecurity, it has become impossible to suppress.

Wealth and income have become increasingly concentrated, while middle class incomes in the developed world have stagnated. Tax avoidance by multinational companies is draining developing country incomes, limiting their ability to invest in education and infrastructure.

With the increasing emphasis on managing for development results, national policymakers and the international development community have become increasingly aware of the importance of statistics in informing and designing development interventions.

With the increasing international focus on results based management, national policymakers and the international development community have become increasingly aware that good statistics are part of the enabling environment for development.

Mutual political trust between the two countries has been continually enhanced, practical cooperation has continued to expand, and humanistic exchanges have become increasingly closer, which has brought tangible benefits to both peoples.

International peace talks over Ukraine, once the mechanism by which Mr. Putin forced contact with Western leaders who had shunned him over annexing Crimea, have become increasingly regarded as fruitless and irrelevant.

Process issues had become increasingly difficult over the years and had now reached a point of dangerous interference with the substance .

The international community had become increasingly aware of the protection needs of the millions of human beings displaced by natural disasters.

Sustained economic growth is likely to become increasingly challenging, as donor aid for post conflict needs is being gradually phased out.

Women have been increasingly active as indigenous leaders.

China News Service He Penglei In the last 10 years or so, environmental protection issues at Mount Everest have become increasingly prominent as the number of Mount Everest explorers and tourists increased significantly.

3. We reaffirm our commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which have proved timeless and universal. Indeed, their relevance and capacity to inspire have increased, as nations and peoples have become increasingly interconnected and interdependent.

In response, the United Nations system, Member States and civil society have increasingly become aware that the existing international framework needs to be enhanced to better address the complex emergencies we are facing today.

Private activities in space had become increasingly important in recent years, and such a protocol would facilitate commercial financing for space activities.

American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate. In their private lives, Americans have become addicted to consumerism, which drains their time, savings, attention, and inclination to engage in acts of collective compassion.

In other words, EU leaders began to complicate fiscal governance, ultimately creating an inefficient, inescapable labyrinth of regulation and bureaucracy. As fiscal metrics become increasingly intricate, monitoring efforts will become ever easier to undermine.

And what's become increasingly clear to me is that we're talking about news stories about Africa we're not really talking about African narratives.

Without sufficient infrastructure, roads, storage facilities and irrigation services are susceptible to physical damage from climate related events, and farmers become increasingly vulnerable.

China s inevitable growth slowdown, along with a large tail risk, threatens stable growth in Asian economies that have become increasingly interdependent. Trade within Asia now accounts for more than half of the continent s total trade turnover.