The answer is actually quite simple.

Indeed, it is discouraging.

But that acknowledgement of reality does not end the drama.

There is virtually no handrail. It doesn't pass any standards.

Without it, development will become an economic indicator with no relation to social reality.

Otherwise, such doctrines lose their relevance.

Both are the product of an ideological reading of the world that bears little connection with reality.

Actually, this is not the first time (that my site has been banned).

But Obama s message lost touch with reality when he turned his attention to the budget deficit.

The Secretary General has made some important and pertinent recommendations concerning institutional reform.

For the simulator to make you believe that different outcomes are more different than in fact they really are.

These are not isolated albeit powerful individuals out of touch with reality.

After numerous requests, Mary finally gains the opportunity to meet Queen Elizabeth (something that, in reality, never happened).

And in fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it.

By introducing this draft resolution, we aim to make the work of the First Committee more relevant. It is a one time only draft resolution.

Later, it emerged that the duck was a stork, which was named Menes, and that the tracking device on it was for a study.

The first is improving the quality, safety and relevance of basic education, so that student enrolment and motivation remain high.

Europe s disunity and impotence underline this image of a West that has partially lost touch with geo political realities.

When I read the words of Mr. Zuleta Angel of Colombia the opening speaker on that occasion I was struck by their relevance today.

The Team regards the Consolidated List as the basis of the sanctions programme. It sees its credibility and relevance as essential to Member States' compliance.

Gender neutral perspectives do not take into account the extent to which historical stereotypes and socio economic realities affect the lives of women and girls.

Our aim is to provide high quality education for all, with relevant content, and to expand pre school education.

Ultimately, the challenge before us is to strengthen multilateralism by enhancing its effectiveness in order to make it relevant.

4.11 The State party explains that the genesis of a new State in international terms depends on factors related to actual events rather than to the law.

Such images become part of your sense of reality, and could disturb your sense of confidence and reduce your willingness to spend and support the economy.

The composition, size and working methods of the Council need to reflect today's realities in order to be perceived as relevant and legitimate.

Picture in a frame, ashes in a bottle, boundless energy confined in the bottle, forcing me to deal with reality, forcing me to deal with being grown up.

One could argue that concessions on this front would simply acknowledge attitudinal and behavioral reality and allow the church to move on.

In their post Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold they include the following footage from a documentary on the problems within the penitentiary system in Brazil, including overcrowding.

But it looks as if Sarkozy, once obsessed with gaining power, has progressively lost touch with reality since achieving his goal.

We note with great interest the initiative to establish a Human Rights Council to make our efforts in this field more relevant and effective.

The proposals for future study on the subject aim at correlating the Greek projects to international bibliography and the study of issues which are immediately related to the Greek reality.

Some saw this as a simple acknowledgement of reality, but in fact it was a momentous step that required diplomatic skill and political courage.

I would, however, just like to give the Council a couple of examples of what, I must say, I find totally out of touch with reality on the ground.

But, with the economy in free fall, Putin cannot pretend forever. And when he finally does acknowledge reality, he will have little room for maneuver.

Growth and employment forecasts in the advanced countries have been reduced a delayed recognition of the reality of an extended and difficult recovery and a new post crisis normal.

I'm self it's self inspired. Diatomic structures, radiolaria, the things that we couldn't see but we can do now these, again, are cored out. They're made virtually from nothing.

President elect Obama has shown pragmatism and realism, and seems to understand that accepting limitations is not weakness refusal to acknowledge reality is.

And actually, since this is a tech crowd, I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors over hundreds of years.

And when you listen to some of the presentations here and the extraordinary range of human capability, our understandings and then you contrast it with the fact we still call this planet, Earth it s pretty extraordinary we have one foot in the dark ages.

The initiative has successfully contributed to raising awareness among women consumers of both the realities for outworkers in the clothing industry and the opportunities for women consumers to be active in efforts to improve outworkers' wages, conditions and lives.

But that acknowledgement of reality does not end the drama. The second act will be about restoring growth prospects for the EU periphery, which will pose an even more difficult challenge.

One participant considered the 2005 NPT Review Conference as an opportunity to make the NPT norms more relevant and contribute to reducing the motivation for placing weapons in outer space.

The travel ban will be helped by the increasing accuracy and relevance of the List, and by closer cooperation with Interpol, but it will require considerable international effort to solve the problem of false and stolen documents.

There are a number of other methods that may be used in addition to medications to reduce procedural pain and anxiety including virtual reality therapy, hypnosis, and behavioral approaches such as distraction techniques.