However, despite this positive picture, a climate of protracted social and humanitarian crisis endured through the year, punctuated by an intensification of the conflict, ongoing barrier construction and persistent fiscal crisis.

Protracted situations

When confronted with a debt crisis in the eurozone, European leaders repeatedly kicked the can down the road. The result was an unnecessarily deep and protracted recession.

Revised estimates under sections 17, 20, 21, 27, 28C, 28D, 28E, 28F and 28G of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008 2009 to ensure operational preparedness and business continuity in a protracted human influenza pandemic crisis

Pessimists would immediately point out that Europe has struggled to come together even on far less complex and more controllable issues, such as the protracted economic and financial crisis in Greece. Yet history also suggests that shocks of the scale and scope of the current refugee crisis have the potential to spur remarkable policy responses.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

When the crisis in Syria erupted, nobody predicted how serious, protracted, and complex it would turn out to be. For starters, observers underestimated citizens' ever deepening sense of hopelessness, which has driven them to support jihadi groups or the Assad regime.

As the Security Council knows and as is normal in any situation of protracted conflict, such as that in Côte d'Ivoire deep seated mistrust among the Ivorian leaders continues to hamper the advance towards the resolution of the Ivorian crisis.

The tragedy of that protracted stagnation isn't sufficiently recognized, I think.

They have also accumulated large protracted arrears with the international financial institutions.

Future efforts will focus on situation specific approaches, notably for protracted refugee situations.

Those protracted conflict situations are terrible problems for the regions in which they linger.

As I observed in my last report, however, the protracted stalemate is inherently destabilizing.

New Zealand was not prepared to continue the protracted and inconclusive process for another decade.

Protracted check ins and check outs reduce the effective stay of UNMOs in the field.

Less wealthy member countries benefited from tools like the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund, which provided considerable resources to enable them to boost their per capita income. But protracted economic crisis has changed their citizens' perspective, with a rising proportion viewing EU membership as more costly than beneficial.

The common currency, once portrayed as the start of a quasi federal Europe, instead created serious tension between creditor and debtor countries when many debtors faced a protracted economic downturn. Just as Europe seemed finally to be escaping the euro crisis, refugees, especially from Syria, began flooding in.

Protracted civil conflicts have provoked some of the largest occurrences of forced displacement in recent times.

In 2004, some two thirds of the global refugee population remained in limbo in protracted situations.

In 2001, Irish voters rejected the Nice Treaty, which threw the EU into a protracted period of crisis and introspection, which ended only with agreement on the so called Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Almost immediately, however, French and Dutch voters rejected that Treaty, bringing the negotiations back to square one.

The Indian Ocean tsunami, the food crisis in the Sahel, the earthquake in South Asia and protracted conflicts such as those in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Darfur region of the Sudan are just a few of the crises that have stretched humanitarian response capacities to their limits.

Protracted refugee situations, which had lasted for more than five years, were a different type of obstacle.

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

The protracted nature of the conflict and lack of active hostilities meant that international attention had also faded.

Resettlement was another important solution for refugees, particularly for the many who lived in limbo in protracted situations.

The adoption of section XI of General Assembly resolution 59 276 had been the result of protracted negotiations.

Although the number of conflicts has decreased during the last 10 years, today's conflicts tend to be protracted.

Protracted displacement with little hope of solutions in sight remains the situation of millions of displaced persons worldwide.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions. The situation in Darfur remains of gravest concern.

These protracted delays are dangerous and have contributed to a deep uncertainty that continues to affect Côte d'Ivoire.

However, there have been protracted and dangerous delays in the implementation of other key provisions of the Pretoria Agreement.

Moreover, the protracted negotiations on the draft decision had delayed the adoption of a number of important draft resolutions.

From Constitutional Crisis to European Crisis

All of this, according to Reinhart and Rogoff, involves a protracted and pronounced contraction in economic activity. They reckon that the average length of post war crises has been 4.4 years the time it takes for the necessary de leveraging to occur after which the crisis of confidence is over and economic growth revives.

Because of this diversification, concerns have been raised that in case of crisis it would be difficult to reach an orderly and collaborative debt restructuring agreement and that aggressive creditor litigations and protracted negotiations would lead to a stalemate or produce an outcome which would not correspond to the financial needs of debtor countries.

When We bless man, he is disregardful and turns aside but when an ill befalls him, he makes protracted supplications.

When We bless man, he is disregardful and turns aside but when an ill befalls him, he makes protracted supplications.

Burundi had recently emerged from a protracted period of civil war, but recent elections had given the country democratic institutions.

If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.

These costs might result, for example, from debt relief for countries which may enter the HIPC process or for protracted arrears.

A protracted hostage situation involving United Nations staff in Kabul was successfully resolved during the months of October and November 2004.

A protracted hostage situation involving United Nations staff in Afghanistan was successfully resolved during the months of October and November 2004.

UNHCR must play a mobilizing role in that area and focus greater attention on the necessity of resolving protracted refugee problems.

Unless decisions were taken by consensus, Member States would not support or trust the new body, and negotiations would be protracted.

Investors were originally worried that the protracted legal battle would only further hit the electric car company, which was still losing money.