By increasing economic and cultural ties, diplomacy might unleash the soft power that could contribute to more gradual regime transformation over the longer term.

Such changes are difficult.

Similar shifts have been witnessed in Asia.

In the field of the economy, significant transfers are taking place.

Fifthly, there has been gradual improvement in the physical quality of life index.

In fact, some transfers flow the other way.

The world has gone through extraordinary transformations since then.

But the deleveraging process will be gradual and orderly.

Globalization has caused drastic shifts in the job market, and technological innovation has changed the scope of the market.

Adaptation occurs through the gradual modification of existing structures.

LAHORE Pakistan is undergoing three transitions simultaneously.

At the same time, images of life in our own societies are shifting.

(This loss of confidence then led to major shifts of power away from the Church.

But major power shifts within Asia are challenging the continent s own peace and stability.

Tactical moves, however, can always develop into strategic shifts.

BRASILIA Raúl Castro has begun a gradual process of changing Cuba s economy and international relations.

Implementation is a gradual process and will be done on a case by case basis.

The implementation, which UNDP leads, has been a gradual process and is done on a case by case basis.

It is far too early to expect significant shifts in the major sources of aggregate demand.

Whatever molecules are transferred to or from should be considered part of the system .

After independence, there has been gradual immigration from England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

The world is poised to undergo one of the most dramatic power shifts in human history.

We are in the middle of a social and demographic shift that will both destroy and create consumer markets.

Needless to say, this will occur only gradually, particularly in the developed countries.

The Province has been gradually increasing its support for children with special needs.

In this regard, Indonesia urges that the United Nations reform should be made in a comprehensive, step by step and sustainable manner.

We have experienced great economic transformations throughout history the industrial revolution, the technology revolution, and the era of globalization.

There are at least five important interconnected transitions embedded in China s new Five Year Plan

The policies needed to do so vary by country and involve structural shifts.

(a) Such process is gradual, and would begin with identifying arms with a temporary legalization.

This process, as has been demonstrated by the experience of other regions, such as Latin America, is inherently an incremental one.

Recovery will require major shifts in trade imbalances, technologies, and public budgets.

In the 19th century, Philippine ports opened to world trade and shifts started occurring within Philippine society.

Policy recommendations representing major paradigm shifts in thinking are flooding the global policy stage.

CARICOM aims at achieving full labour market integration and is progressively implementing the free movement of people.

Its growth was fueled by an extraordinarily rapid structural transformation towards an increasingly sophisticated set of industrial goods.

The problems of the diffusion of power (away from states) may turn out to be more difficult than shifts in power between states.

The UK s national interests have not changed, and no fundamental shifts within the EU have worked against those interests.

But even more moderate shifts in America s monetary growth rate have translated into corresponding shifts in the rate of inflation.

Reform is not just a plan it is already happening.

After 1966, Korea University continued to expand with a gradual increase in the number of departments within the College of Science and Engineering and in the College of Agriculture.

In addition, the planning for an incremental and phased relocation of UNPOS to Somalia will be undertaken.

This will include ending the war in Iraq, raising taxes on the rich, and also gradually phasing in new consumption taxes.

Without its gradual imposition, an Asian Union could at best remain only a pale and hollow copy of its European model.

It will hinder the ability of Alwefaq to engage in gradual process for political reform and negotiation, he said.