The rainy season has proved to be as difficult a factor for operations as was feared.

In the past, meetings in some LDCs proved to be difficult because of the high travel costs or visa problems.

More importantly still, those flows proved increasingly difficult to manage in a way consistent with faster and more inclusive economic growth.

While the Government has taken important initiatives to reform civil administration at the central level, reforms below that level have proved more difficult.

OIOS is concerned that information and communication activities are still considered subsidiary activities and, in the first year, it proved difficult to mobilize the necessary funds.

Yet reaching a consensus has proved to be a very difficult task indeed, as many of us have approached these proposals from quite radically different viewpoints.

Excluded from this table are organizations that either did not provide data on the staffing of their procurement services or that provided data which proved difficult to verify.

The European Union noted with concern that coordination between MONUC and the various agencies, funds and programmes in the Mission area had often proved difficult because of their different approaches.

The troika has proved functional, and Europe would have been at pains to provide conditional assistance to eurozone countries without the IMF s participation and support. But cooperation has proved to be difficult, if only because each participating institution has rules and constraints that are not easy to reconcile with the others .

It was felt that the categories of prohibited reservations established by the Special Rapporteur was useful however, in practice, which was rich and varied, it often proved difficult to distinguish among the different categories.

Regaining the local population's trust proved extremely difficult, despite intense social mobilization efforts, the involvement of traditional leaders and healers and a targeted campaign to end widespread risk behaviours such as funeral rituals or the multiple use of syringes.

And once again, they proved themselves.

The rumor proved to be true.

Fortunately, her lump proved to be benign.

But we proved them wrong in Iraq.

It proved the truth of the rumor.

(i) Where the charge has proved groundless

And we proved the concept, more or less.

It's been proved self care is cost effective.

The facts proved that our worries were unnecessary.

Verily We! We have proved them even as We proved the fellows of a garden when they swarethat they would surely reap it in the morning.

Verily We! We have proved them even as We proved the fellows of a garden when they swarethat they would surely reap it in the morning.

That proved to be a lot of bovine stercus.

We proved with those measurements that crocodiles scaled isometrically.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

My first impression of him proved to be correct.

That has proved very beneficial and will be continued.

It may be proved by any means, including witnesses.

Old alliances such as the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the Central Eastern Treaty Organization, and the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty have died or are dying. And forming new alliances has proved difficult, with India rejecting what the US, with uncharacteristic humility, has proposed.

Now movies proved to be the ultimate medium for magic.

The report proved true as a result of their investigation.

So the truth was proved and their works were disproved.

So the truth was proved and their works were disproved.

and whatever they had been earning proved of no avail.

and whatever they had been earning proved of no avail.

Difficult.

WASHINGTON, DC Shortly after America's Republican Party trounced the Democrats and gained control of the Senate in last November's midterm congressional elections, Mitch McConnell, the new Senate majority leader, appealed to his colleagues not to be scary, but to be positive and effective. This has proved very difficult.

Thus was the truth established, and their doings proved in vain.

Thus was the truth established, and their doings proved in vain.

but the warnings have proved to have no effect on them.

but the warnings have proved to have no effect on them.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

It proved the importance of water as a globally irreplaceable resource.

The effectiveness of the new humanitarian architecture remained to be proved.