The signs are not good, even in Europe.

These trends all augur well for India s economic future.

Biofertilizers, for example, hold great promise for increasing food productivity.

However the education policy and the ESR hold the promise of an improvement in the situation.

This means that governments need to practice what they preach.

It needs policies that hold out the promise of lower unemployment and better times.

At the Millennium Summit in 2000, United Nations member States adopted eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to inspire, guide and assess humanity's development efforts.

That step, together with the accelerated settlement activity, does not bode well for the peace process.

Xi s visit is not expected to usher in any breakthroughs.

It is regarded as one of the important precursors of a future Nobel Prize award.

But the outlook for a new, sensible policy is not promising.

However the recent initiatives by the Government and the civil society hold promise of being able to combat this menace to some extent.

Israel was still the occupying Power, controlling air space, land borders and the sea.

In fact, the availability of these data, I think, heralds a kind of new era of what I and others would like to call computational social science.

Neither the romantic preservationist nor the bulldozing modernizer approach promises an adequate solution.

In 2001, then President Jiang Zemin hoped the Games would herald China s arrival as an industrialized power.

Aware of the promise of restorative approaches to justice that aim to reduce crime and promote the healing of victims, offenders and communities,

With the euro crisis likely to continue unabated, America s continuing malaise does not bode well for global growth.

With respect to the important question of development, it has be acknowledged that in recent years, Governments have taken some promising steps.

The situation in Somalia continues to give hope to the ability of the contending parties to resolve their differences in the higher interest of their beloved country.

In fact, the FMCT is not only important for non proliferation, but it also serves as a precursor to disarmament.

Can Kim lead on these and other issues that are beyond his experience?

If to the axis of evil, we add Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Palestinians, along with terrorism, the resulting picture is anything but hopeful.

This bold move could presage a game changing role for the EU in bringing about a long awaited resolution to the Israel Palestine conflict.

There are already some serious signs of distress the currency war between the United States and China, and its spread to other countries, being a case in point.

Can Kim lead on these and other issues that are beyond his experience? Foreboding is in order.

There was every expectation that his participation in the Government of National Unity would have had a positive impact on efforts to resolve the crisis in Darfur.

In addition to the efforts conducted by some foundations and bilateral and multilateral donors during the past years, a few promising initiatives are under way.

It was vital that the participants in the Meeting should agree on a specific document focused on the future, and so far the negotiations augured well.

The fears of China s rulers, I suspect, do not bode well for reaching a peaceful resolution of its territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas.

Great Britain, Belgium, and even France find themselves at a debt level that does not leave much hope that they will escape unscathed.

As long as we're teaching our kids that heroism starts when someone scratches a mark on your forehead, or someone tells you that you're part of a prophecy, they're missing the most important characteristic of leadership, which is that it comes from within.

From this perspective, the Commission presages a future European democratic government, as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who has proposed instituting an elected president, has suggested.

PHILADELPHIA In January, Israeli voters will go to the polls for an election that promises to hand Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a renewed mandate.

Indeed, Josef Ackermann, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, recently said that such investments augur a new industrial revolution a revolution that will transform the way we live.

The EU s current formula, United we fall, divided I stand, does not augur well for the future of Europe s foreign and security policy.

But, given a global economic environment that promises scant sustainable growth in the coming years, things could otherwise get very tough very soon.

A widening gap in economic performance and political dominance is such a dismal prospect for the EU that it must not be allowed to become permanent.

As you know, there have been recent positive developments in the region, and those responsible for this latest attack are cynically working to eliminate the promise that they hold.

The successful negotiation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in 2003 (see General Assembly resolution 58 4) portends a new era of international cooperation.

Early efforts that restricted OFDI insisted that borrowing was to be done abroad and earnings were to be reinvested, or that plants and equipment were to be used as contributions of capital in kind.

It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.

Greenhouse gas emissions may have dropped as a consequence of reduced production amid the economic recession, but the coal resurgence does not bode well for future targets.

Beyond the countries affected by the Arab Spring, rising tensions between Shia, Kurdish, and Sunni factions in Iraq since the US withdrawal do not bode well for a boost in oil production.

We also have hopeful signs that progress is possible towards the universal, rule based, open, non discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system envisaged in the summit document.