You've been lagging during the second term.

What, one wonders, are lagging nations waiting for?

I appreciate that, as we are lagging behind.

not lagging in diligence fervent in spirit serving the Lord

not lagging in diligence fervent in spirit serving the Lord

And I just thought we were lagging behind in missiles.

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.

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.

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

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.

(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.

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

But does such a West exist? In our era of fragmentation, there is a more powerful and dynamic American West, a globally more problematic European West (itself fragmented between a prosperous north and an economically lagging south), and even a British West and, in Japan, an Asian West.

The level of response is low and lagging in the main areas of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation and reducing negative consequences.

South Asia s worst problems poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender inequalities are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are limits to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions. With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.

When events shift, it becomes obsolete. As Charles Morris wrote Intellectuals are reliable lagging indicators, near infallible guides to what used to be true.

When events shift, it becomes obsolete. As Charles Morris wrote Intellectuals are reliable lagging indicators, near infallible guides to what used to be true.

However, gender equality in primary education has been attained in the ECLAC region, but still is lagging in Africa and Asia, including West Asia.

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.

Given the risk inherent in betting on policy convergence, labor mobility which enables highly valuable human capital, especially well educated young people, to leave lagging regions for those that offer more and better employment opportunities could prove to be a critical tool for adjustment.

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.

Preparations for the referendum are lagging and inadequate. Brinkmanship and broken agreements threaten to turn the referendum s technical and political difficulties into yet another disaster for the country.

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.

From the mid 1970's on, however, Americans continued working more or less the same number of hours, while Western Europeans began working less and less each year. If Western Europe needs an explanation as to why its rate of economic growth is lagging behind the US, it need look no further.

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.

While some representatives pointed out some success stories, particularly in transition economies, others stressed that a number of developing countries were still lagging in reforms to improve the investment climate.

However, countries in which progress towards improving policy frameworks and enhancing institutions are lagging cannot be overlooked, and special efforts will be required to reinforce their efforts and to ensure financing.

But simply directing financial resources to lagging regions will not be enough to solve their problems. For example, the gains from labor mobility have not been equally sharedbetween educated and uneducated migrants.

But the Committee may want to clarify its guidelines in certain respects in order to address the possibility of lagging support as perceived by the High level Panel (A 59 565, para.

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.