I appreciate that, as we are lagging behind.

And I just thought we were lagging behind in missiles.

As a result, we are lagging behind on many of our targets.

Fast growing regions should also be encouraged to support those lagging behind.

The LDCs are lagging behind in respect of many of the MDG targets.

Currently, Africa is lagging behind in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

While reform in the Organization was accelerating, renovation of its Headquarters was lagging behind.

We will not be able to finish this meeting on time we are lagging far behind.

Although transportation practices and patterns have changed accordingly, the international legal framework governing multimodal transportation is lagging behind.

In the final, Zhang Binbin also started from lagging behind and shot more stably and won the silver medal with just 0.2 rings behind the champion.

These three superficial factors reflect the reason behind the relative lagging behind of our growth pattern change. That is, the government led growth has not yet been fundamentally changed.

Those countries are lagging far behind the international development mainstream because of the specific structural and geographical challenges that constrain their capacity for development.

She had the impression that Algerian society had undergone a massive transformation, especially with regard to women, and that legislation was therefore lagging behind.

Statistics show that, in these countries, remittances represent the second most important source of capital lagging behind only foreign direct investment and surpassing ODA flows.

This Major Programme responds to this challenge and will emphasize UNIDO support to those countries lagging behind in achieving the poverty goal of the Millennium Declaration.

(d) The provision of assistance for the disabled and pupils lagging behind in their schooling, so as to enable them to exercise their right to education

The international community should be responsive to the fact that the poorest countries of the world were lagging further and further behind in terms of growth.

Although it is pleasing to note that many international agencies are making deliberate steps to improve the metadata to support MDG indicators, some are lagging well behind.

However, turning to the main questions, we have found that we are still lagging behind on some of the issues to which have so strongly committed ourselves.

(iv) The tendency of families to migrate in search of work and take their children with them, resulting in absenteeism, lagging behind and dropping out of school

Central to these concerns is an understanding that the quality of women s health, and in particular reproductive health, is lagging behind advances seen in other health indicators.

The representative of Egypt, speaking on behalf of the African Group said that despite the great achievements of humanity, Africa was still lagging far behind in economic and social development.

You've been lagging during the second term.

What, one wonders, are lagging nations waiting for?

Among the G 7 economies, only Italy has done worse than the UK since the Great Recession began. Indeed, the UK s GDP has only just regained its 2008 level, lagging behind even France.

The summit confirmed our dedication to fulfil the Millennium Development Goals through considerable donor commitments, as well as the need to pay particular attention to countries in Africa that are lagging far behind.

Growth, however, remains uneven, with a small number of developing countries growing rapidly, a larger number showing improved performance, and a third group, in particular the least developed and African countries, lagging behind.

(b) The evaluation and application of impact indicators in the countries concerned is lagging well behind the many other undertakings relating to the conceptual, theoretical and scientific development of indicators embarked upon since 1992.

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not lagging in diligence fervent in spirit serving the Lord

The United Nations Secretariat had made great efforts to address the security aspects that could be dealt with from within the Organization, but, as far as legal protection was concerned, Member States were lagging behind.

Several delegations also drew attention to the fact that the pace of economic development has not been uniform worldwide, and that some countries are lagging behind in accomplishing their national development objectives and the MDGs.

In terms of politics, Africa is relatively lagging behind, but there are many African countries. So Japan has always regarded it as the so called 'big ticket field,' said Yang Bojiang, an expert for Japanese issues.

The latter is almost a requirement if the countries joining EMU are to have the requisite common interest rates at the start of 1999. 46. Economic recovery in Italy is lagging behind that in France and Germany.

During its current term, the group considered the barriers that African Portuguese speaking LDCs face in preparing their NAPAs and developed an action plan to support Portuguese speaking countries that are lagging behind in the preparation of their NAPAs.

Meanwhile, as we have heard during this open debate, financial contributions are still lagging.

Indigenous and tribal peoples are lagging behind other parts of the population in the achievement of the goals in most, if not all, the countries in which they live, and indigenous and tribal women commonly face additional gender based disadvantages and discrimination.

As usual, however, perceptions are lagging behind reality, which means that Germany is still widely viewed as the eurozone s most powerful force. But, as the global business cycle accelerates Germany s return to the old normal, the power shift within Europe will become increasingly difficult to ignore.

It is also concerned about reports that school attendance in minority areas, including the Tibet Autonomous Region, is lagging behind, that the quality of education is inferior and that insufficient efforts have been made to develop a bilingual education system which would include adequate teaching in Chinese.

(e) Prevention and treatment and rehabilitation activities are progressing in some regions while lagging or decreasing in others

An international consensus had been reached on those major principles, but its translation into concrete action was lagging.

Finally, and most important, the magnitude and duration of the drop in aggregate demand has been greater than expected, partly because employment and median incomes have been lagging behind growth. This phenomenon preceded the crisis, and high levels of household debt have exacerbated its impact in the aftermath.

Folks like Ann Cotton, who started a group called CAMFED in Africa, because she felt girls' education was lagging.

The level of cooperation with the Tribunal extended by Croatian authorities throughout the reporting period, culminating in their decisive contribution to locating General Gotovina, sets the bar high for all the countries in the region that are still lagging behind to varying degrees in fully complying with their Tribunal obligations.

I am not satisfied with the evident lagging behind of our criminal legislation from the acute challenges of our time, nor with delays by Parliament in examining and adopting urgent draft laws, nor the low efficiency and insufficient provision of the work of judicial bodies, or the practical defencelessness of judges.