The complex things get more fragile, more vulnerable the Goldilocks conditions get more stringent, and it's more difficult to create complexity.

So, you know, we live in a world that's subjected to ever more stringent child safety regulations.

On the contrary, we should ask whether the time has not come to set even more stringent targets. And it is also time to take a more detailed look at where we continue to fall short.

Private standards and technical regulations, set by major importers, supermarket chains, etc., will gain in importance, and will be more stringent than national or regional standards and technical regulations.

Therefore, any verification procedures must be sufficiently stringent to ensure full compliance.

Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US. And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.

The current estimated literacy rate for 2001 was 49.51 , though the definition of literacy is more stringent now people who are able to read with understanding and can write a short statement .

Some countries, like the United States and Australia, chose to opt out of its stringent demands others, like Canada, Japan, and a raft of European states, pay lip service to its requirements but will essentially miss its targets. Yet, even if everyone had participated and continued to stick to Kyoto s ever more stringent commitments, it would have had virtually no environmental effect.

Several regulations in developed countries apply stringent rules on food quality, packaging and labelling.

Stringent considerations of the risk of collateral damage are applied each time they are used.

Acquisition of nationality of the Niger was not therefore subject to any very stringent conditions.

This is an important achievement, but it should not be taken as a signal to relax. On the contrary, we should ask whether the time has not come to set even more stringent targets.

In recent years, environmental requirements (ERs) comprising governmental regulations as well as voluntary private sector or NGO created standards and their associated conformity assessment systems have become more stringent, frequent and complex in certain sectors.

Stringent monitoring is carried out, both at the recruitment stage and again at the training stage.

Some have set stringent energy intensity targets and energy conservation plans for different branches of industry.

Stringent and professional quality security policies are implemented throughout the UNCC information systems, networks and databases.

Now many of these guarantees will need to be thrown out. Instead, a number of European countries are discussing the introduction of stringent fiscal rules into their constitutions, and are contemplating even more far reaching changes.

They ask States that are members of the WTO not to set stringent acceptance conditions for Arab States.

Concerns have also been expressed about very stringent MRLs recently applied in Japan on various imported horticultural products.

Although Canada supports the current diplomatic efforts to find a solution to this problem, we have to be ready, as Prime Minister Martin recently indicated, to move from words to deeds and impose more stringent measures, if necessary.

While Europe s reputation for foreign policy softness continues to shape Iranian perceptions, the EU s role in compelling Iran to negotiate underpins the current talks. Likewise, it was France s insistence on more stringent controls that initially blocked the agreement in Geneva last November.

It concluded that, whereas the techniques were appropriate for ensuring regulatory compliance, in order for them to meet the more stringent requirements for verification, increased sensitivity would be required as well as an enhanced ability to detect specific isotopes and chemical species.

Parties to the Convention would be obligated to criminalize in their domestic law offences at least equivalent to those in the proposed Protocol, but would not be precluded from adopting or maintaining domestic law provisions more stringent than those in the Convention.

All chemical weapons production capacity must be inactivated and subsequently destroyed or converted for peaceful purposes, subject to stringent verification by the OPCW.

There is an urgent necessity for a range of international, regional and national efforts to promote a variety of measures, inter alia, more stringent controls on sensitive exports, especially to those countries that are engaged in extensive proliferation activities and are also involved in supporting terrorism.

Only those which have no objection during the publicity can exist from the list of poverty stricken counties. The exit standard is also stringent.

The Executive Board was supplied with details about World Bank data confidentiality provisions, which are as stringent as those in many national statistical offices.

(iii) remove difficult market entry conditions such as those emanating from concentrated and changing market structures, as well as very stringent and diverse product standards

It was expected that IMO would review Annex V with a view to introducing stricter requirements for on board waste management and stringent discharge regulations.

Faced with this scourge of terrorism, Israel is forced to maintain stringent policies at its checkpoints in order to safeguard the security of its citizens.

This is one of the main reasons why stringent inspections of aircraft at airports of neighbouring and regional States for Somali bound flights are necessary.

In the future, if we discover that some other product causes health problems (think of asbestos), rather than facing lawsuits for the costs imposed on us, the manufacturer could sue governments for restraining them from killing more people. The same thing could happen if our governments impose more stringent regulations to protect us from the impact of greenhouse gas emissions.

But, as requirements for registering clinical trials have become more stringent, its magnitude has become quantifiable the results of at least half of the clinical trials involving patients and healthy volunteers remain unpublished years after completion. Studies with negative results are particularly unlikely to see the light of day.

Small and medium enterprises also find it difficult to comply with the high standards set by international markets, including the increasingly stringent environmental and social standards.

If this information is made available, however, it may become feasible to construct estimates of costs due to discriminatory practices such as the application of higher standards to imported goods as compared to domestic goods, more stringent regulation enforcement on imports, and the application of costly certification procedures for imports.

Israel also hoped that concrete action would be taken to put an end to that practice. In that connection, UNRWA must implement a more stringent process of screening its employees in order to ensure that they had no connections with terrorist groups and would not abuse its status and privileges.

An election after which the record of non permanent members is not examined is accountability, but a stringent review holding new permanent members accountable is lack of accountability.

The Committee considers that the authors have not shown that addressing the alleged discriminatory application of a more stringent standard of proof to their claims before the Federal Constitutional Court would have been a futile remedy, merely because the lower courts had consistently applied such a standard of proof to their case.

The Prosecution advocates a broad interpretation of section 203A of the Penal Law (the trafficking offence) in court and lobbied for stringent sanctions against traffickers, including compensation for victims.

In discussions with the European Union in 2003 2004, Iran voluntarily froze its then minimal enrichment program, pending negotiation of a full accord. Iran also declared its willingness to apply the additional protocol, allowing for much more far reaching and stringent monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency than is called for under standard arrangements.

China s downturn appears sudden after all, its exports had been rising at double digit rates every month this year until May. In fact, the Chinese economy s true condition had long been obscured, but has now been exposed by more stringent regulation of activities such as speculative trading of the renminbi masquerading as trade payments.

Experience has shown that acceding developing countries continue to be subject to requests for relatively deep liberalization and stringent reform commitments, including commitments that are more demanding than those that already exist under WTO agreements, which could go beyond the level of concessions and commitments undertaken by existing WTO members at similar levels of development.

7.2 With regard to the authors' claim that the German courts' discriminated against them by applying a more stringent standard of proof to their case than to other past compensation claims, in particular claims concerning restitution of confiscated Jewish property, the Committee notes that the authors did not address this issue in their constitutional complaint dated 13 November 2000.

In paragraph 100 of the report, the Tribunal agreed with the Board's recommendation that it (a) continue to make progress with regard to the implementation of results based budgeting by introducing more stringent central monitoring mechanisms and (b) further develop and update the workload indicators to align with results based budgeting and the exit completion strategy.

The rule of thumb should be that Syria will be the target of sanctions no less stringent than those being applied to Iran. Syria s energy and banking sectors should be fully covered.