Such an indicator provides information on the level of e business sophistication and interactivity in countries.

The high incidence of criminality, together with its level of sophistication in African countries, is posing serious threats to development strategies.

There can be no doubt that the work of the Commission will be much delayed if a high level of sophistication is sought.

Moreover, the expansion of domestic processing activities with relatively high technological sophistication contributed to raising the overall skill level of the labour force.

Since the issuance of my previous report, the level of insurgency in the country has risen, as has the sophistication of the insurgents' weaponry.

No sophistication, no class, no dignity, no history.

A marked improvement in the level of sophistication of concluding observations is indispensable if the reporting process is ultimately going to justify the expense and effort involved.

A mustard of more sophistication and culture and meaning.

D. Increasing sophistication and institutionalization of states of emergency

Does evolution control the sophistication of matter in the universe?

Given the high level of technical sophistication that might be expected from certification authorities and the high level of trust they were intended to generate, certification authorities should, in normal circumstances, be held liable whenever the issuance of faulty certificates resulted in damages.

Since the Panel conducted its last overflight in mid February, there has been a noticeable increase in the level of mining, as well as the degree of sophistication employed in methods of extraction.

While economic crimes can be perpetrated by individuals, the level of sophistication and organization involved in many such crimes, in particular those where illicit profits are high, suggests the involvement of organized criminal groups.

What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense phoniness, false sophistication, jargon.

On the basis of the preparations outlined above, the Monitoring Group also noted an example of the new level of organization and sophistication demonstrated by the opposition during the fights with TFG for control of Baidoa.

The world has also witnessed an unprecedented rise in, and sophistication of, acts of terrorism.

The means by which perpetrators obtain personal information vary in terms of their technical sophistication.

Moving towards higher technological sophistication in the diversification process is a crucial ingredient of development.

The truth is it puts on an act of sophistication, but at heart it's strictly provincial.

So, another thing that we do is to confuse adult sophistication with the actual understanding of some principle.

But we learn that with sophistication comes the understanding that you can't acknowledge that you have moral heroes.

More sophistication is being introduced into the distribution chain to maximize value in each segment of the chain.

The level of sophistication and the duration of this additional LOAC training will increase as military personnel progress in terms of rank and responsibility, the purpose being to ensure that individuals are equipped with the requisite level and depth of understanding of LOAC principles appropriate to the appointments and duties which they will undertake.

It now views the operation as class A, given the mechanical equipment and industrial sophistication that are being employed.

In a word, the perpetuation and sophistication of exceptional regimes are really the two sides of the same coin.

Legislation and regulatory provisions should also be geared towards matching the sophistication of the phenomenon and its increasingly transnational nature.

This includes a strategic approach to increasing the level of technological sophistication of the production carried out in developing countries and the training of local employees so as to enable them to carry out more skill intensive (and more highly paid) activities over time.

China still has large areas of underdevelopment and per capita income is a better measure of the sophistication of the economy.

Their complexity, their sophistication, is something to really marvel at, and I think it's really the scandal of the Human Genome Project.

Some, I feel sure, have, in the practice of consultation and coordination, achieved a high and desirable degree of facility and sophistication.

Brazil agreed in principle with most of the draft outline. It considered, however, that chapters IX and X of section two and chapter V of section three, as currently drafted, could be eliminated, as they reflected a level of sophistication that might be beyond the scope of the manual.

Moreover, in a given field, an array of clusters can often be found in different locations and with different levels of sophistication and specialization.

The third changing fundamental is the increased sophistication of economic alliances and partnerships between and among States, civil society organizations and the private sector.

The sophistication, scale and lethality of attacks has increased, necessitating the ongoing review of United Nations protection arrangements, in collaboration with the Multinational Force.

Educated women in the urban areas of northern Afghanistan expressed grave concern over the restrictive measures imposed on women by the Taliban movement, especially in large urban centres which had achieved a certain level of sophistication such as Kabul and Herat, where women have played a prominent role in the culture for centuries.

Yet there is evidence that the rapidly evolving sophistication of conventional arms, and commercial pressures to secure export sales, are creating a wider market for weapons.

The differences between the two systems varied by country owing to the degree of sophistication of equipment, inventory value of the contingent owned equipment and total troop strength.

28. States receiving arms have a responsibility to seek to ensure that the quantity and the level of sophistication of their arms imports are commensurate with their legitimate self defence and security requirements and that they do not contribute to instability and conflict in their regions or in other countries and regions or to illicit trafficking in arms.

Mexico is convinced that States that produce and supply conventional weapons, together with States that receive them, share a common responsibility to ensure that the volume and level of sophistication of such weapons do not exceed legitimate defence needs, promote regional instability or arm races, exacerbate, intensify or prolong conflicts, or become the object of illicit trafficking.

A study executed under the Commission's e Europe 2005 programme focussed on the online availability and sophistication of 20 public services and found that significant progress had been made.

Numerous difficulties still confront the fight against prostitution, including the increasing sophistication of prostitution related activities, the income gap among the regions, unemployment, and the easy going lifestyle of some.

The global reach of the Internet, the growing sophistication of the banking sector and other advances in technology have dramatically reduced the importance to organized criminal groups of physical boundaries.

In this regard, given the sophistication and borderless nature of terrorism, it is extremely important that international cooperation should be a salient feature of the global strategy to combat terrorism.

36. To establish a prototype, the range and sophistication of the off the shelf software available to support activity based costing is more than sufficient to meet the relevant requirements.

Alarmed by the expansion and dimensions of transnational organized crime, terrorism and the links between the two and by the increasing sophistication and diversification of the activities of organized criminal groups,