Lack of progress on the implementation of development commitments would, therefore, further accentuate existing misgivings.

In the process, they would accentuate the pressure on the global economy from the West s seemingly endless downturn.

She concluded by observing that poverty could accentuate women's vulnerability and therefore their propensity to commit criminal acts.

We must avoid any attempt to perpetuate and accentuate the existing inequalities by creating new centres of privilege.

The strategy had helped to accentuate gender activities in Namibia and to provide a planning framework for the future.

Dependence on the markets alone can seldom achieve these specific targets and may often accentuate the deprivation of vulnerable groups even further.

This mission must also reflect a new politics that does not accentuate differences, but helps shape a new sense of who we are.

B. To eliminate the factors that accentuate poverty among women and prevent them from overcoming the circumstances that keep them in that situation

The danger is that such groups could accentuate the divisions of a fractious society, rather than pull everyone together in the collective national interest.

This would compromise the element of predictability in the decision making of the Security Council and further accentuate the inequities of the present structure.

In the short term at least, the stabilization and adjustment policies pursued by developing countries in the past few years have tended to accentuate unemployment.

But the most serious thing is that the report, if approved, would further accentuate the imbalances that serve as its reference point and its starting point.

Successive reschedulings and structural adjustment programmes had served only to accentuate the economic problems of many developing countries and to make their socio political balances more fragile.

Emerging markets and developing countries now account for 50 of global GDP and 75 of global growth, and demographics will further accentuate the shift in the center of economic gravity.

But the global downturn may also accentuate protectionism, especially if nationalistic impulses gain the upper hand, perhaps stimulated by fire sales of domestic assets (as we saw during the Asian financial crisis).

Her legal background and previous experience as minister of justice accentuate her self declared mission stabilizing Israeli government and cleaning up all traces of corruption, including those associated with Olmert and Sharon.

The increasing frequency and devastating effect of such disasters, many of which can be directly attributed to problems of development, accentuate the importance of this area of the Department apos s work.

Mr. Elyseu Filho (Brazil) said it was regrettable that it had not been possible to reach consensus, as a declaration adopted by means of a vote would only accentuate the divisions within the international community.

It shows very well that eyes can hear, and this is interesting to me because technology allows us to present sound to the eyes in ways that accentuate the strength of the eyes for seeing sound, such as the removal of time.

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

The responsible left in Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay are an exception to the emerging rule set by Venezuela s President Hugo Chávez. The best way to accentuate the region s growing anti American sentiment is to try to close the US Mexican border (which will be futile).

But we hope that you can build on those positive signs and not allow them to drift away, because I think it is that kind of continued engagement, working with trying to accentuate the positive, that stands a good chance of taking us forward.

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

These European apprehensions partly reflect failure by the continent s leaders to capitalize on the sometimes spectacular successes of enlargement, Poland being the most notable example. Instead, the exigencies of domestic politics have induced many European leaders to underscore the difficulties and accentuate the failures of expansion.

However, some of the factors arising from those processes might accentuate the trend towards a world economy in which a large number of developing countries would be unable to keep pace and might continue to be locked in a vicious circle of poverty, underdevelopment and environmental degradation.

The challenges that the Department of Humanitarian Affairs has faced in its first year of operation accentuate the need for an effective coordination mechanism at the heart of the United Nations system under the leadership of the Secretary General and on the basis of General Assembly resolution 46 182.