Some of our countries have been threatened by the application of foreign labour laws, to the detriment of our legal production.

2. Risk and detriment

Common sense and the instinct for survival tell us to stop exploiting our depleting resources to the detriment of nature, society and mankind.

His success was never to the detriment of others.

10. Membership at both levels implies no detriment to either.

Our blinkered focus on it to the detriment of other planetary challenges will only be heightened by the attention generated by Gore s Nobel Peace Prize.

This would ensure adequate representation without detriment to the efficiency of the system.

In addition, we wish to express once again our delegation's concern at the legislative role being played by the Security Council, to the detriment of the General Assembly's authority.

That is why parents prefer sending their sons to school, to the detriment of girls.

Girls are expected to marry at a very young age, to the detriment of their education.

But Europe cannot build up its own agriculture to the detriment of the less fortunate.

This would be to the detriment of the other party relying on the signor's signature.

This gives less time for late effects to develop and thus reduces the relative detriment.

gt gt In this country, being stupid is no longer considered to be a detriment.

Draft guideline 3.1.5 seemed to stress the letter of the treaty to the detriment of its spirit.

During the twentieth century, the terms of trade had changed to the detriment of developing countries.

The shortcomings work, in my opinion, to the detriment of the best interests of the child.

The moment when that vision can be realized continues to fade into the future, and, in the meanwhile, we are forced to spend our energies on enhancing palliative measures to the detriment of permanent solutions.

The areas where cybertechniques can be used to the detriment of the community are being gradually identified.

That would encourage the major Powers to bypass it and would undermine the Council, to the detriment of all.

Very clever Buenos Aires street vendors decided to practice price discrimination to the detriment of any passing gringo tourists.

Small island developing states are truly appreciative of such encouragement, for we are cognizant that chronic dependency on aid can lead to an acquired immunity deficiency syndrome, to the detriment of the health of our economies.

He who commits a sin , commits it only to his detriment . Surely Allah is All Knowing , All Wise .

He who commits a sin , commits it only to his detriment . Surely Allah is All Knowing , All Wise .

That works to the detriment of Bolivia and of all countries involved in this struggle against the odds.

Economic and political capital appeared to be focusing on the economies in transition to the detriment of the developing countries.

One approach to this issue is to consider whether the savings to creditors collectively would outweigh the incidental detriment to individual creditors.

To the detriment of their own people, its leaders, Haled Mash'al and Ismail Hanieh, want neither peace nor compromise.

Membership in any national minority or ethnic group may not be used to the detriment of any individual and

Any precipitous withdrawal, however, would be to the detriment of innocent Somali people and is likely to reverse the whole process.

We are accused in some quarters of being too preoccupied with forging close relations with Indonesia, to the detriment of justice for past abuses, and in doing so of encouraging impunity. To our accusers, we say the following.

(b) All principles and norms must be fully present, and no norm must be made to predominate to the detriment of another.

The comparison of doses in diagnosis and therapy may not, however, correctly reflect the relative detriment.

The granting of such relief may need to be balanced against potential detriment to the interests of creditors generally or to the debtor's assets.

A country that takes in those without other places to go... that opens its arms and its heart often at detriment to itself.

In his case, in view of the closeness of his emigration date to his retirement date, the minimum basis redounded to his detriment.

These have led to self censorship of the media to the detriment of its functions of keeping the Haitian public informed quot . 1

Those technologies underpin knowledge, so that science is developed and transmitted mostly in the North, to the detriment of the South.

The rights set out in article IV must not, however, be to the detriment of non proliferation efforts and environmental concerns.

The introduction of user charges for education and health services had worked to the detriment of the less fortunate population sectors.

(b) It could be used to the detriment of the very class of persons that the legal requirements for signature are intended to protect.

This means that cooperation with non EU countries should not be to the detriment of solidarity and common rules within the EU.

As a result, to the great detriment of contemporary macroeconomics, his fellow economists did not understand asset prices, manias, panics, and liquidity.

But European elites, preoccupied with short term fixes, have not considered the long term need for such revisions to their own detriment.

So an alliance between them would seem a near impossibility. Yet Europe seems bent on achieving the impossible, to the Continent s detriment.