The comparable figures for Shi ites were 10 and 14 , respectively, but were just 4 and 5 , respectively, for Sunnis.

The regional training courses should follow the current regional sequencing.

Growth rates this year and in 2006 are projected at 4.7 and 5.2 , respectively.

When we talk about such a sequence, we have to think about harmonious transitions to avoid any gaps or relapses.

This is significantly below the average of the old EU countries for these three years 2.7 , 2.6 , and 2.4 , respectively.

The 2005 workplan of the Division includes, as an output, the development of a succession management framework by the end of 2005, for application in 2006.

While the decision by some in favor of dynastic succession may be lacking in democracy, it is not entirely devoid of merit.

The EU had on several occasions called for greater efficiency in the work of the governing bodies and had suggested, inter alia, that PBC and Board sessions might be held consecutively in non budget years so as to release valuable additional funds for programme delivery.

One reason why a dynastic succession is taking place is that Kim Il sung created a national ideology, Juche, which mixes communism and autarky with a heavy dose of Confucian values.

It further decided that at its seventh session it would proceed with the in depth consideration of topics in documents A CN.9 WG.I WP.31 and 32 in sequence (see para. 8 below).

Indeed, in Latin America today there are 14 representative democracies that allow presidential re election seven consecutively and seven discontinuously.

At that session, it decided to proceed at its future sessions with the in depth consideration of topics in documents A CN.9 WG.I WP.31 and 32 in sequence (A CN.9 568, para.

Preconditions for ensuring development gains include measures aimed at the appropriate sequencing of reform, domestic supply capacity building and increased competitiveness, and universal access by all, especially the poorest, to essential services.

In the distribution sector, Chinese SMEs found it difficult to develop their business in the face of competition from big foreign competitors (e.g. China's biggest retailer had a sales volume of less than 1 per cent of that of the biggest retailer from the United States).

The centrality of hereditary succession in the quest for peace and stability was shown by Hafez al Assad when he agreed to unprecedented good will gestures aimed at drawing Ehud Barak s Israeli government into a peace deal.

As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular legitimacy and have had to fall back on the dynastic succession practiced by the regimes they toppled.

In Austria, even liberals admit that an endless succession of social democratic and Christian democratic governments has clogged the political system s arteries, making it difficult for smaller parties to penetrate what is seen as a bastion of political privilege.

China and Russia, which can be considered strategic rivals of the US, spend 35 billion and 24 billion, respectively (though these figures probably underestimate expenditure, the true amount is certainly still far below the US level).

(g) Except as provided hereunder, a staff member who delays taking his or her home leave beyond the calendar year in which it falls due shall not be entitled to take his or her next home leave until the second succeeding calendar year after the year in which the delayed home leave takes place.