Significant gains have been made on every continent in advancing democracy.

After treatment, the child gains significant functionality.

The gains made in water supply coverage are increasingly threatened.

The DPRK has made impressive gains in education since 1945.

Given the oppression from which Afghan women emerged in late 2001, the gains they have made in the past few years, including in the legal, political and educational areas, are significant.

Life is like a marathon, where short term gains and losses are not significant in and of themselves.

Lastly, as the Mission drew down gradually, every effort must be made to safeguard the gains made.

At this crucial juncture in the peace process in Côte d'Ivoire, we cannot ignore the significant gains achieved so far.

Although Africa had the potential to reap significant gains from ICT, access to information and communication services was still insignificant in Africa.

Impressive gains have been made in the delivery of primary health services to the community.

The Chiang Mai Initiative has made significant progress.

Significant progress had been made during the session.

Employed women are showing significant improvements in their standard of education, but these improvements are not matched by gains in terms of employment.

But gains are being made in poverty reduction, health, education, gender equality, the environment and more.

Gains continue to be made with respect to the situation of human rights in the country.

It must continue to enhance and build on those gains we have made over the years.

Significant investment is being made in projects focused on management reform, and significant benefits are being attained.

At the same time, significant inroads have been made.

However, despite significant gains over the past three decades, some 20 per cent of the world apos s people continued to live in abject poverty.

This situation had to be reversed if the gains from the FDI were to be made concrete.

UNICEF increased its involvement in water quality improvement in 2004 and gains were made in arsenic mitigation.

In addition to the impressive quantitative progress in universalising the Convention, important qualitative gains have been made.

Because if we are unable to do that, we will defeat the gains that we have made.

Significant progress has been made in a variety of areas.

Significant progress has also been made in security sector reform.

54. Significant progress has been made at the national level.

Significant improvements were also made in the Office s publication programme.

As the war intensified, RENAMO soon made important military gains, particularly in the central parts of the country.

Efficiency gains

Efficiency gains

In light of the significant gains as well as worrying reverses in human development in the South, the need for South South cooperation is clearer than ever.

Consider, for example, Latin America s growth model of the last two decades. Global competition has whipped many of the region s industries into shape and fostered significant productivity gains in advanced sectors, but these gains have remained limited to a narrow segment of the economy.

The Summit made a significant step in the direction of universalization.

The report duly acknowledges the significant progress that Afghanistan has made.

Malaysia had made significant progress since the World Summit for Children.

In recent months and years, some significant efforts have been made.

In this regard, the revised CPL has made some significant changes.

The passage of those two hurricanes reversed all the gains we had made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Neither the two parties nor any of us must move backward we must preserve the gains made so far.

Outsourcing some operations also allows significant productivity gains ranging from 15 to 25 per cent, access to additional skills, and improvements in the quality of the services provided.

Significant progress was made in working in parallel with international financial institutions.

Significant progress has been made in the preparation of UNMIS team sites.

In Kenya, we have made significant progress in a number of areas.

United Nations technical agencies have made significant investments in the education sector.

This judgement made a significant contribution to the Tribunal's jurisprudence on rape.