The Thamud and 'Ad denied the consequential calamity.

The Thamud and 'Ad denied the consequential calamity.

The consequential reductions, for each organizational unit, would be as follows

Official diplomacy begins where the battlefield ends. Unfortunately, in today s most consequential militarized conflicts, that boundary is still nowhere in sight.

The distinction between a healthy person and a dead one is about as clear and consequential as any we make in science.

But actually, the nine month long process of molding and shaping that goes on in the womb is a lot more visceral and consequential than that.

This is why we spend our time talking about things like gay marriage and not about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue.

They learn to overlook short sighted reactions and impulsive thinking, to think in a long term, more consequential way.

Consequential proposed revisions and commentary to article 30 are set out in the text following paragraphs 23 and 24.

Consequential loss may also be compensated, if not excluded by parties' agreement, as it was not in this case.

The reductions in staff recommended in the paragraphs above would lead to a consequential reduction of 1,984,600 under support services.

The reductions in staff recommended in the paragraphs above would lead to a consequential reduction of 57,700 under section 28F.

Perhaps due in part to this practice, subsidiary bodies rarely raised controversial and consequential issues when reporting to the Council.

The variance of 12,129,400 under this heading is attributable primarily to the accelerated deployment of troops and the consequential increased requirements for standard troop costs, rations and contingent owned equipment.

The reductions in staff and other recommendations in the paragraphs above would lead to a consequential reduction of 397,300 under section 28E.

The Secretariat has also identified the articles of the current text of the Model Law that would require consequential amendment so as to enable the use of electronic reverse auctions, and those consequential amendments are set out in chapter V of the addendum to this Note (A CN.9 WG.I WP.40 Add.1).

Jordan submitted results of monitoring and assessment studies which it claims show trends of increased water demand and consequential decreasing water supply to the wetlands.

The disclosure of any information by the bank concerned pursuant to the provisions of this article is not regarded as dereliction of the duty of bank secrecy and neither that bank nor the Central Bank assumes any consequential liability.

Accordingly, pending the outcome of the review, the Committee recommends against approval of the seven additional staff proposed for the office, with a consequential proportionate reduction in operational requirements.

Indeed, Cameron s promise is arguably the most consequential issue at stake in the British election if he remains Prime Minister, there will be a referendum if Miliband takes over, there will not be. Britain s strategic future rests on this choice.

The potential vulnerability of Western exports and equity prices is massive. Of the two major instances of policy tightening occurring in the world today, the US Fed s may be the easier one to understand, but it is not necessarily more consequential for the world than what is happening in China.

1.2 By its resolution 59 268, the Assembly approved revised salary scales for staff in the Professional and higher categories and consequential amendments to the Staff Regulations, effective 1 January 2005.

There is no doubt that, with time, the renminbi will acquire a more consequential international role. Twenty first century financial technology will facilitate direct trading in a variety of different currencies, eliminating the need and custom of routing virtually all international transactions through the dollar.

And yet much of the current uncertainty is set to dissipate. In the coming months, highly consequential policy decisions (or their absence) in systemically critical parts of the global economy will be revealed, with significant effects on growth rates, asset prices, and overall confidence.

For the ECB and the Bank of Japan (BOJ), both of which are facing formidable downside risks to their economies and aggregate price levels, this is hardly an idle question. For the United States, where the ultimate consequences of QE remain to be seen, the answer is just as consequential.

The Working Group requested the Secretariat to revise the text for the Model Law and to make consequential changes to the proposed text of the Guide to Enactment, taking into account the above matters.

In short, while the existence of ongoing international trade in the chemical is not a prerequisite for the Party to take its actions under this article, its decision concerning the future import of the chemical will cause the Party to take consequential actions affecting its international trade.

The threat to the globalization process may not be immediately apparent, but it is very real. The failure of the Doha Round would be more than a footnote in future history books it would be a hugely consequential case of political myopia at a time of great opportunity.

Fortunately, despite having lagged rather than led this process of consequential (and increasingly disorderly) global change, it is not too late for policymakers to catch up. But doing so requires more than just better national policymaking in Europe and America it is also time for urgent and deep reform of the multilateral system and its main institutions.

TEL AVIV As the Islamic State militant group has advanced across Iraq and Syria, traditional regional alliances, long shaped by Western powers, have been upended. Particularly consequential is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s struggle to reconcile his country s relationship with NATO with its image as a leading protector of Sunni Islam.

In any case, Hamas faces some risky and consequential decisions of its own all the more so should its main rival, Abbas s Palestinian Authority, succeed in its current diplomatic campaign at the United Nations. Obama had promised a Palestinian state within one year, and Abbas is now building upon that promise.

International organizations and Member States, together with other Habitat Agenda partners, are increasingly coming to terms with the mammoth challenge of dealing with rapid, poorly managed urbanization and the consequential proliferation of unplanned, unserviced slums and informal settlements.

The Committee having established the existence of an act of racial discrimination, it must follow that the failure of the State party's courts to provide an effective remedy discloses a consequential violation of article 6 of the Convention.

In this context, some delegations welcomed the fact that the definition of damage covered both consequential economic loss and pure economic loss, including loss of income directly deriving from an economic interest in any use of the environment.

Third States which suffered consequential damage should be entitled not only to claim compensation but also to demand the elaboration of such conditions and criteria and of methods of preventing or minimizing the adverse effects caused by sanctions.

The task for Europe is not just a matter of restarting and completing the economic and political initiatives, whether regional or domestic, that have been put on hold until after the German election. In fact, these top down decisions, while admittedly complex and certainly consequential, may be the least of Europe s challenges.

France s Socialist Green government can play a critical unifying role as Europeans confront their biggest challenge in decades. Its success will be highly consequential not least for the political debate that will inform the outcome of Germany s elections in 2013.

This is a dangerous combination that erodes social cohesion, political effectiveness, current GDP growth, and future economic potential. That is why it is so disappointing that, despite heightened awareness of inequality, the IMF World Bank meetings a gathering of thousands of policymakers, private sector participants, and journalists, which included seminars on inequality in advanced countries and developing regions alike failed to make a consequential impact on the policy agenda.

Indeed, today s good news should not obscure some consequential structural limitations that will require prolonged therapy and caution. After all, the US economy has yet to regain its full strength, is too structurally impaired to sustain any rapid forward movement, and has not yet started to overcome the many distortive side effects of the extreme medicine that it received.

During the early stages of the crisis, Germany, which had bet heavily on Russia s modernization, was averse to taking any consequential action. But, as the crisis deepened, German Chancellor Angela Merkel worked to persuade her European counterparts to implement a broad and biting sanctions regime.

Beyond semantics lies the more consequential, but equally ambiguous, question of the international community s role and responsibility. Just as too broad a definition could undermine a country s sovereignty, too narrow a definition like that which seems to predominate today allows violence and instability to proliferate.

The present statement by the Secretary General outlines the budgetary implications and or consequential changes in the resource proposals for the Office of Internal Oversight Services in the budget for the support account for the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006.

As humans, we are uniquely equipped to make decisions on the basis of ambiguous information in fact, we do it all the time. When we choose a career or a spouse in our private lives, or when a politician seizes an opportunity from a plethora of possibilities, the task at hand is always about making highly consequential decisions based on imperfect information.

More consequential, the European Central Bank has committed to a large and relatively open ended program of large scale asset purchases. The ECB acted despite a growing chorus of warnings that monetary stimulus is not sufficient to promote durable growth, and that it encourages excessive risk taking in financial markets, which could ultimately threaten economic stability and prosperity (as it did in 2008).

In short, oil prices were not quite as consequential for global growth in 2015 as seemed likely at the beginning of the year. And strong reserve positions and relatively conservative macroeconomic policies have enabled most major producers to weather enormous fiscal stress so far, without falling into crisis.