Over 250 million people are directly affected by desertification.

A more specific example drives home the point.

But science might also offer more direct ways of influencing our brains.

The private gains can be measured most directly in the form of executive compensation.

The second group exploits the state s arbitrary powers more directly.

The reasons are more immediate than the intractable character of Middle East peace making.

This choice directly concerns more than 150,000 employees.

Nothing is more lethal in politics than failure in direct confrontation.

Of those 100 countries, more than 50 received direct assistance and the others received indirect assistance through sub regional and regional activities.

The sizeable investments required to make up for the loss of nuclear energy may contribute more immediate stimulus.

Some governments practice an even more direct method of suborning favorable coverage.

Right across much of the world North America being a notable exception working hours have been coming down.

First, a new global compact should focus more directly on rich countries responsibilities.

By contrast, the link between official intervention and exchange rate movements is much more direct and potent.

And GM crops currently in development will deliver even more direct and easily identifiable consumer benefits.

One of the things in climbing is, most people sort of take it straight on. And they follow the most obvious solution.

To be more academic, software agent systems are a direct evolution from Multi Agent Systems (MAS).

CAA Centre still offers the most to the point treatment of Computer Based testing for use in Higher Education.

Politicians and regulators have neither the political courage nor the intellectual conviction needed to return to a much clearer and more straightforward system.

Humans have altered the brightness of the Earth as seen from space in more direct ways.

Slovakia is directly funding and implementing more than 70 projects in the poor countries of Europe, Asia and Africa.

The new vaccine had twice the impact on these last couple of viruses as the old vaccine had, and we immediately started using this.

And lower profitability will reduce pay more effectively than any direct regulatory controls.

An elementary reaction is a chemical reaction in which one or more of the chemical species react directly to form products in a single reaction step and with a single transition state.

(b) The parties may agree that the appointment of one or more conciliators be made directly by such an institution or person.

Metaphysics James and Dewey were empirical thinkers in the most straightforward fashion experience is the ultimate test and experience is what needs to be explained.

Heatwaves and droughts on one hand, directly from the warming, but also, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor with its latent energy, rainfall will become in more extreme events.

Some argue that many forms of physical neglect, such as inadequate clothing, exposure to environmental hazards and poor hygiene may be directly attributed to poverty whereas others are more cautious in making a direct link.

Employment can be created in a direct or indirect way.

Demands for reform are now focused on introducing direct presidential elections with two or more contenders, and limiting presidents to two consecutive terms in office.

Some people argue that what America needs most is a central banker who has experienced crises firsthand.

These include permitting high financial access even before a crisis materializes, and allowing disbursements to be more front loaded.

By this date, over 300 houses were completely destroyed with more than 150 villages and towns being directly affected by the floods.

As a direct consequence of these acts, over 2,000 Azerbaijani citizens have been killed and tens of thousands of people injured. Azerbaijan and its people have suffered huge material and moral damage.

Given its dominant role in the region, Europe can exert a more direct impact on policies affecting trade and mobility.

But some of the component indicators of the IIAG (such as rule of law, bureaucratic red tape, and fiscal policy) are more directly under government control.

Nearly all of the night shift workers of a ceramics plant directly across the street from the biological facility (compound 19) became infected, and most died.

This year, floods alone have affected more than 200 million people and resulted in direct economic losses of 17 billion.

Child benefit payments made directly to the mother had more than doubled in real terms since 1997.

Do it right away.

I recognized him immediately.

Second, for those not qualifying for the new instrument, the Fund s workhorse lending facility, the Stand By Arrangement, will be made more flexible along several dimensions. These include permitting high financial access even before a crisis materializes, and allowing disbursements to be more front loaded.

Today, there is a higher level of bankruptcy in the United States than in the European Union, and it is easier for bankrupt Americans to embark on new ventures.

The Katyn massacre was a direct result, with Stalin ordering the mass murder of Poland s elite in order to decapitate Polish society and thus make it more pliable.

Other provisions include curbing the far reaching powers granted to the President in the 1971 constitution and introducing direct presidential elections with multiple candidates.