Compounding these challenges is our heavy dependence on the natural environment to support our tourism industry, the lifeblood of the economies of our nations.

However, meeting the basic needs and the social and economic aspirations of society has traditionally required a heavy dependence upon highly polluting energy and industrial technologies, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels.

St. Helena's heavy dependence on aid from the United Kingdom and other external funding for capital and technical investment allows the population to enjoy a higher standard of living than local resources would be able to sustain.

Real dependence on this person.

President Barack Obama s administration is trying to stop the construction of new coal fired power plants, unless they are equipped with CCS technology. China, for its part, has realized that its heavy dependence on coal is causing such devastating pollution and smog that it is leading to massive loss of life, with life expectancy down as much as five years in regions with heavy coal consumption.

Bond investors heavy reliance on credit rating agencies, which tend to be laxer with powerful issuers, has not been fixed. The shadow banking sector s dependence on the official banking sector s liquidity and guarantees, and thus ultimately on the government, has not even been touched.

Dependence will decline as the international trade regime improves.

Energy dependence was a major source of economic vulnerability.

The fact that the spotlight is now on China s Tibet linked claim to Arunachal Pradesh, rather than on Tibet s status, underscores China s dominance in setting the bilateral agenda. Given India s dependence on cross border water flows from Tibet, it could end up paying a heavy price.

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This external dependence increases their vulnerability to external economic threats and shocks.

It's pretty heavy.

It's increased our dependence on foreign oil despite the gains in fuel efficiency.

More political education was needed to break the psychology and culture of dependence.

The economy remained weak, however, with dependence on a few commodities, including vanilla.

Competition in fund raising is obviously accentuated by the dependence on supplementary funding.

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like a heavy load.

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These boxes are heavy.

The representative of Chad associated his delegation with the comments made by the African and LDC groups, and praised UNCTAD's Africa report as a remarkable and detailed analysis, which identified the advantages and disadvantages of FDI particularly in situations of low domestic savings and heavy dependence on exports of primary commodities, which pertained in Africa.

We are convinced that Africa's dependence on aid will diminish as growth prospects improve.

UNCTAD presented a paper on Africa's trade performance and commodity dependence at the workshop.

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For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

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Smog was very heavy today.

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This world summit recognizes that our globe is one of shared dependence and shared opportunity.

But the GCC economies are also rife with structural problems that short term economic packages will not address bloated public sectors, heavy dependence on imported labor, and endemic unemployment, especially among young people, who make up a disproportionately large share of the population. The region needs sustainable policies aimed at bringing about much needed economic diversification.

Within the Turkish government, this opening is viewed as an immense opportunity to reduce Turkey s heavy dependence on energy imports. In addition to securing energy supplies, the deal would help Turkey to overcome its chronic current account deficit roughly 70 of the country s 84 billion trade deficit is due to the import bill for energy supplies.

This group included the second tier Asian NIEs, but also isolated success stories from other regions, as well as the waking giants of China and India Enclave industrializers Some countries moved away from dependence on commodity exports by linking to international production chains, often by attracting large amounts of FDI and with heavy reliance on imported inputs and machinery.

But there is another explanation for China s excessive export dependence, one that has more to do with the country s poor political and economic institutions. Specifically, export dependence partly reflects the high degree of difficulty of doing business in China.

As oil prices rise, these countries dependence on the oil sector increases, despite all efforts to diversify their economies. To combat the impact of such dependence, they spend oil revenues on other sectors, leaving the oil sector with little investment.

See UNCTAD, Economic Development in Africa Trade Performance and Commodity Dependence (United Nations publication, Sales No.

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We had a heavy rain yesterday.