Environmental issues play an increasingly important role in this sector.

437. Standards play an increasingly important role in the world economy.

396. Artistic and cultural education has become increasingly important in Germany.

Such activities in the European Union are seen as increasingly important.

In a globalized economy, however, international factors played an increasingly important role.

In that context, the role of the private sector was increasingly important.

Questions related to crime prevention had become increasingly important to many States.

The pace and quality of industrialization was currently becoming an increasingly important issue.

Private capital flows play an increasingly important role in supplementing developing countries' domestic resources.

As a result, good governance by both recipients and donors had become increasingly important.

For companies, it is important, in their own interest, to support the development effort, as developing countries are increasingly important future markets.

Stakeholder participation in sustainable forest management is an increasingly important feature at the country level.

Non military personnel played an increasingly important role in linking peacekeeping with post conflict peacebuilding.

Women's activities are playing an increasingly important part in maintaining economic stability in the society.

The presence of these forces is an increasingly important deterrent to the resumption of hostilities.

Both are important, and both require allocation of scarce resources that are increasingly hard to acquire.

The Convention on Biological Diversity has become an increasingly important international mechanism for conservation in mountain regions.

Acknowledging that the United Nations has an increasingly important role to play regarding the protection of minorities,

Technologies could be used now and could play an increasingly important part in adaptation to climate change.

The team in headquarters will play an increasingly important role in promoting technological innovation in UNICEF WASH programmes.

Foreign direct investment forms an important economic link between developing and developed countries and, increasingly, among developing countries.

In recent years, the family has been playing an increasingly important role in nurturing and educating Vietnam's future generations.

Issues of the protection and preservation of resources for the production of foods become increasingly important in this respect.

Support for good governance has become an increasingly important element in the development related work of the United Nations.

16. Educational institutions continue to be increasingly important partners for the Department and its channel to the younger generations.

Women are no longer simply the victims of wars and conflicts they are increasingly an important part of the solution.

The United Nations could, and should, actively use that important tool and rely increasingly on the potential of regional structures.

The role of the United Nations in emergency humanitarian assistance is increasingly important, because its services are in great demand.

As a result, economies have become more market oriented and enterprises play an increasingly important role in the development process.

As a result, economies have become more market oriented and enterprises play an increasingly important role in the development process.

Other actors, however, have also taken on an increasingly important role in shaping national and international agendas and policy dialogues.

Military and defence markets for smart materials are diminishing, and dual use applications will become increasingly important in the future.

One seemingly small aspect of the overall relief effort became increasingly important as the delivery of food and water started rolling.

And it's becoming increasingly important that we figure out how to extract these raw materials from these extremely complicated waste streams.

In an increasingly dangerous, ever more interconnected world, Britain cannot afford to make its most important collective decisions based on delusions.

In the later stages of the revision process, it became increasingly clear that continuity was an important element for many countries.

Brazil strongly supported the establishment of nuclear weapon free zones, which should play an increasingly important role in building mutual confidence.

Recognizing the increasingly important role of the Board in facilitating the detection and interdiction of the suspected diversion of psychotropic substances,

These two entities have played increasingly important roles in the implementation of large scale electoral projects like those in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It is, however, important that we do not lose sight of other priorities, which demand increasingly urgent attention from the international community.

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

Consumers are increasingly important players through their use of user generated search content (blogs, postings on travel sites such as TripAdvisor.com, etc).

14. The performance of the banking sector in 1997 confirmed the optimistic expectations concerning its increasingly important role in reconstruction and development.

Along with rapid development of China's direct financing market and wealth management market, the asset custody market has played an increasingly important role.

They were a vital building block of the modern Omani State and would continue to play an increasingly important role in that society.