That would tell me something more substantial about you.

The traditional belief was that armed conflict had a more substantial effect on such treaties.

Why does this far more substantial minority not make a move to exercise its political muscle?

The gap between the two countries in terms of literacy is much more substantial than the data here indicated.

Nevertheless, this approach represented the beginning of a substantial paradigm shift from a supply driven to a more demand driven approach.

We are hopeful that that will pave the way for a more substantial dialogue with States on the implementation of their obligations.

We believe that such an agreement would entail support for a decision more substantial than simply the legally required two thirds vote.

As at the world summit, speaker after speaker stressed the need to make faster and more substantial progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Thirdly, status resolution and the ensuing certainty will mean that we can make faster and more substantial progress on a range of issues.

This is very substantial.

More than a year after the tragic events of March 2004, the general situation in Kosovo is now well on track hopefully, towards substantial progress.

MB consumption fell to about 12,830 tonnes in 2002, which shows substantial progress (27 reduction) from the peak of more than 17,500 tonnes in 1998 (2).

MB consumption fell to about 12,830 tonnes in 2002, which shows substantial progress (27 reduction) from the peak of more than 17,500 tonnes in 1998 (2).

Therefore, the report of the Council should become more substantial in order to promote a debate on how the future work of that organ can be improved.

That's a substantial amount of money.

This objective is pressing and substantial.

All call for substantial capital investment.

It deeply regrets that this flexibility and constructive approach were not more widely shared, which would have made it possible to resolve procedural issues more rapidly and take advantage of the Conference in order to arrive at substantial results by consensus.

We have endorsed substantial Secretariat and management reform.

Secondly, emergency humanitarian assistance entails substantial funding requirements.

Clearly, private remittances to African countries are substantial.

This represents a substantial decline over previous years.

And, again, even this more substantial rise probably represents a substantial underestimate of the increase in the real standard of living. The authorities arrive at their estimates by converting dollar incomes into a measure of real income by using a price index that reflects the changes in the prices of existing goods and services.

And so they also account for development of defective processing in a substantial population of children who are more limited, as a consequence, in their language abilities at an older age.

In that regard, we welcome the recent proposals made by Norway aimed at providing more substantial content with respect to the relevant paragraphs of the draft outcome document for the summit.

Their expected growth of more than 5 per cent over the next two years exceeded by a substantial margin their performance in previous decades, reflecting the benefits of past policy reform.

The potential for further expansion is so substantial not just in trade but in a variety of other interactions   that the need for an overall strategy has become ever more salient.

That must be transformed into a substantial net inflow.

The middle income countries should receive substantial debt relief.

Donors are pledging substantial support for the electoral process.

That will require both sides to make substantial concessions.

Children and young people played substantial roles in the preparation of most national plans of action for children prepared in 2004, but could be much more active in the preparation of PRSs.

The US must come to terms with the reality that the world has changed. The longer the US remains in a state of denial, the more damage it will do to its interests and its global influence, which remains substantial, if more constrained than before.

By contrast, a central feature of today s globalized, multipolar world is that shared democratic values do not guarantee agreement about substantial questions of international politics. The more democracies there are, the more conflicts of interests and differences are likely to emerge between democratic countries.

So this is an 80 foot cantilever it's quite substantial.

WFP's Nutrition Service played a substantial role in UNSCN activities.

Some Parties reported substantial hydroelectric power generation in their countries.

In addition, recent sums ruled upon have been relatively substantial.

We have made substantial progress in each of these spheres.

We look forward to a substantial outcome of that conference.

With international assistance, Afghanistan has made substantial progress towards stability.

Substantial progress in trade was therefore necessary for successful development.

The MERCURE system would also provide much wider access to the Internet in Africa, and facilitate much more efficient dissemination of documents, environmental data, images and messages, resulting in substantial savings in telecommunications costs.

There is some evidence of better performance in early adopters all of whom created substantial structural reforms to serve as the foundation for more flexible management but these reforms also involve a trade off.

The Kuomintang (also called the Chinese Nationalist Party) wants to improve relations without surrendering Taiwan s independence. Its opponent, the Democratic Progressive Party, wants to strike a more autonomous posture, though whether it would ever really go for anything more substantial than tweaking China s nose is doubtful.