In post conflict countries, shorter term humanitarian relief must help form the basis for longer term development efforts to achieve the Goals.

We need better criteria for details and procedures to make that happen in the shorter term.

Such a decision would avoid the inevitable disruptions to the substantive work of the Commission that result from shorter term mandate renewals.

Isn't there something shorter?

He's shorter than Tom.

This two pillar approach constitutes a framework for cross checking indications from the shorter term economic analysis with those from the longer term monetary analysis in order to obtain a robust view about the risks to price stability.

I am shorter than you.

My sister is shorter than you.

Ideas get shorter. They become sound bytes.

The food for thought paper takes account of variant aspirations and concerns whilst not losing sight of both shorter term and longer term issues and perspectives. It is a positive and promising contribution to our collective effort to try to find a way forward.

They get a little shorter at 9 a.m.

Is there a shorter road to get there?

The actual interest rate refers to the interest rate adopted to cash the future cash flow of a financial asset or financial liability within the predicted term of existence or within a shorter applicable term into the current carrying amount of the financial asset or financial liability.

So the shorter the bar, less angiogenesis, that's good.

First of all, worse nutrition, maybe shorter life spans.

Food processors tend to be shorter and wider than blenders.

The assistance provided needs to be supported over a number of years and, where shorter term in country or regional training is delivered, this needs to be followed up to consolidate and institutionalize both knowledge and skills.

It is expected that this trend towards shorter trials will continue.

As we age, our time horizons grow shorter and our goals change.

If her nose were a little shorter, she would be quite pretty.

The measures that will make this period shorter have already been taken.

And those symmetries, then, make the equations even shorter, and even prettier, therefore.

Here's a monkey eye view. Monkeys are shorter, so it's a little short.

Shorter reports on progress of work were also submitted at the intervening sessions.

Early indications are that the trial will be completed in a shorter time.

My brother is two years older than I, but he is three centimeters shorter.

Shorter national military service for parents of large families, children of unmarried mothers, etc.

UNIDO's seminar in Romania was shorter and follow up relied mostly on the NOU.

By applying the defined criteria, the panel developed a more concise and considerably shorter list.

The author thus disagrees with the shorter length of punishment claimed by the State party.

There are papers by experts focusing on the theme and shorter articles on other subjects.

It was also of the opinion that the reports should be shorter and better targeted.

In China, children shorter than 1.1m don't need to buy a ticket to travel by train.

Some delegations called for a shorter, user friendly version of the plan to help its dissemination.

But, with 90 days left to bridge the ideological and partisan divide before another crisis erupts, the fuse on America s debt bomb is getting shorter and shorter. As a dysfunctional US government peers into the abyss, China America s largest foreign creditor has much at stake.

And the downs are going to be much longer and the ups are going to be much shorter.

The Bonobo, although shorter than us and their arms still longer, is more upright, just as we are.

For example, in some types of breast cancer, patients may be treated for more than a decade with anti hormone therapies, and these long term treatments are working they are successful at preventing some of the cancer recurrences that occur with shorter treatment. But, while these long term therapies are relatively safe, they do have side effects, and the number of cancer recurrences that they prevent is small.

Welcomes the launching on 7 April 2005 of the national dialogue by the Transitional Government of Haiti, and stresses that such a dialogue should serve the long term aim of national reconciliation and, in the shorter term, the holding of credible and inclusive elections urges the Transitional Government of Haiti to redouble its efforts for this essential process and invites all Haitians to participate in this dialogue without delay

... but it strikes me as a slightly unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter.

I did resist the temptation to skip to the back where the shorter and more clearly mystical chapters are.

I mean, if you have an idea worth spreading, surely you can put it into something shorter than 2,300 words.

At the same time, women could only talk 20 of the television time, as their statements were shorter than men's.

Now, it's often said that getting closer and closer to the fundamental laws by examining phenomena at low energies, and then higher energies, and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion.

And when I held my bronze one up against my Sculpey one, it was shorter by three quarters of an inch.