Such assumptions are not applicable to most ESCWA member countries, which suffer from chronic unemployment and underemployment, excess capacity, inadequate utilization of resources, and widespread market distortions.

The planning and budgeting assumptions were divided into general strategic assumptions and programme specific assumptions for guidance down to the detailed programme level of work.

Variations in budgetary assumptions

They have no knowledge of that. They only follow assumptions, and assumptions are no substitute for the truth.

They have no knowledge of that. They only follow assumptions, and assumptions are no substitute for the truth.

Most of them follow nothing but assumptions and assumptions avail nothing against the truth. God is fully aware of what they do.

Most of them follow nothing but assumptions and assumptions avail nothing against the truth. God is fully aware of what they do.

What is the basis of your assumptions?

The changes underway in American defense policy reflect planning assumptions. The strategy that emerges will be only as strong as these assumptions are accurate.

UNOPS has exercised caution in its budgetary assumptions.

Nevertheless, the national consensus has shifted, shaking all assumptions about Israeli politics. The February elections will put those assumptions to their severest test in decades.

(i) Going concern, consistency and accrual are fundamental accounting assumptions.

The expected return and risk profile of the Fund's portfolio should be based on long term capital market assumptions which reflect forward looking expectations for investment performance over the long term, while taking into account historical relationships among asset classes.

You've really got to just throw your assumptions out the door.

4), a reduction of 33,860,400 resulting from revised exchange rate assumptions, additional requirements of 24,074,600 related to revised inflation assumptions and a reduction of 43,011,800 due to adjustment of staff assessment ( 43,011,800).

If we are to call the tyranny of assumptions into question, and avoid doxa, the realm of the unquestioned, then we must be willing to subject our own assumptions to debate and discussion.

We depend on the fact that audiences, such as yourselves, will make assumptions.

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions.

Moreover, we're afraid that technology has altered our very assumptions of cultural consumption.

The first lesson is that the MDGs made assumptions that cannot be validated.

In reality, our contemporary frameworks for political economy are replete with unstated assumptions about the system of ideas underlying the operation of political systems. Make those assumptions explicit, and the decisive role of vested interests evaporates.

I'd like to discuss some of these assumptions and the problems associated with them.

Those three assumptions could bring greater objectivity to the reactivation of Security Council reform.

Iraq asserts that Jordan's terrestrial claim is based on theoretical assumptions that are flawed.

Contrary to widely held assumptions, an emphasis on action provides a special urgency to thinking.

But we must acknowledge that this moment has brought about a rare consensus of assumptions.

If these assumptions are not realised, then trials may well be pushed beyond that date.

Being a rebel is about recognizing that experts' assumptions and their methodologies can easily be flawed.

What we seek today is a commitment based on conviction not on pressure, coercion or assumptions.

However, these assumptions are not based on evidence which is in the possession of the Prosecutor.

To fool you, ladies and gentlemen, to deceive you, to show that you, too, can make assumptions.

To put the assumptions very clearly capitalism, after 150 years, has become acceptable, and so has democracy.

The model and the findings described above are based on the experience and assumptions of one nation.

A case in point is the economics of two sided markets, which involve competition between platforms whose principal product consists in connecting two categories of users, who then offer each other network benefits. When markets are two sided, many of the standard assumptions of antitrust analysis no longer hold market entry can be bad for consumers, exclusive contracts can increase the number of firms in a market, and pricing below cost may not be predatory.

He said that in the past the Committee had used the assumptions provided by the parties and closed by stressing that the Parties were in any case better placed to develop the assumptions to be used due to their unique knowledge of their own system.

Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.

13. Re emphasizes the need to refine budgetary assumptions through closer scrutiny of expenditure patterns of the Operation

So I think we should shatter some of our utopian assumptions and actually start doing something about it.

I find that the best results in life are often held back by false constructs and untested assumptions.

The Government Performance Project analysis proceeded from the following assumptions (inherent in the model depicted in the figure)

And it sort of nibbles at the core of the whole profession and all the assumptions of that medium.

In fact, the week afterwards, some tax cuts were done that made the situation even worse than their assumptions.

The other assumption that you made and this little lesson is to show you that you will make assumptions.

The thing that all the work has in common is that it challenges the assumptions about conventions of space.

The Agency's Major Planning and Budgeting Assumptions for the 2006 2007 biennium were shared with donors in November 2004.