Building a nation demands more than steel and concrete.

I needed a more concrete understanding of social conditions.

I'll show you something a little more of a concrete example here, as this thing loads.

So a more concrete undertaking, one that preserves South Korea s bedrock security concerns, is needed.

We need a Europe that is more concrete, less rhetorical, and better suited to the current global economy.

Foreign voter participation is clearly bound to work best at a local level, where the issues are more concrete.

It would have been very useful to have more concrete guidance in those cases.

Migration is a concrete example.

The new runway has a more durable concrete surface, and opened in time for the peak of the FedEx shipping season.

In order to achieve more concrete progress, the international community must act in a more concerted manner and with greater determination to put the basic framework in place.

However, more concrete and accelerated action aimed at implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is needed.

Attempts to stop students from being lured into the sex industry have also been more concrete.

Provisions on the right to union organizing are far more concrete and detailed in branch collective contracts.

Overall, it is clear that more needs to be done to obtain further concrete and measurable results.

Overall, it is clear that more needs to be done in order to obtain concrete, measurable results

We can ask a very concrete question.

As such, it is a concrete category.

Even more important, we must take concrete steps to reduce selective application, arbitrary enforcement and breach without consequence.

It starts with a blank wall a concrete canvas.

Indonesia will certainly present its views and proposals regarding those issues in more concrete terms during the thematic discussions.

More concrete and visible efforts are needed to ensure civil society and minority community involvement in economic decision making.

Concrete objectives

Tartous, the dreamy little town by the sea is no more. It has physically mutated over the last three decades into a pathetic jungle of concrete.

I emphasize the importance of that resolution, and would like to see more steps taken to deal with this issue in a concrete and efficient way.

Part of this task implies taking more concrete and appropriate steps to sever links between public servants and paramilitary groups.

We are concrete.

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But, to lawyers like the ICC prosecutor, the abstract claims of justice are more vivid than any concrete duty of protection.

More detailed and concrete plans are needed, however, and we will be watching closely to see how well the project works.

The Organization was exploring ways and means of giving more concrete effect to the measures envisaged in the Memorandum of Understanding.

A failure to take concrete action would risk breeding disillusionment.

And missile defense is a concrete way to do that.

But he has been unable to integrate these individual measures into a more concrete vision that could address the neo colonial links that still beset Franco African relations.

They fired into the reconstructed concrete wall from different angles, and found that, to produce a round hole, they had to fire from more or less straight on.

The more tons of steel produced, slabs of concrete poured, and gallons of crude oil pumped out of the ground the better.

But the public, despite its concern about unemployment, is not very interested in the details of concrete plans to create more jobs.

The concrete is cast around a plastic, steel or aluminium curved duct, to follow the area where otherwise tension would occur in the concrete element.

Public acceptance of ideas is itself progress of a kind, but what really matters is that it provides leverage that can be used to bring about more concrete progress.

The concrete reform measures that have been put in place since I became Secretary General in 1997 have already made the United Nations a more effective and efficient organization.

Whatever one thinks of the many concrete suggestions made by the Commission, this much is clear we need a more inclusive debate about globalization, one in which more voices are heard, and in which there is more focus on the social dimensions of globalization.

Governments should also invest more in verification research and development. The United Kingdom s proposal to host a conference of nuclear weapon states on verification is a concrete step in the right direction.

It makes a number of concrete recommendations aimed at achieving this.

For example, the United Nations has given concrete support for elections in more and more countries, often at decisive moments in their history more than 20 in the last year alone, including Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and Burundi.

But, to make this scheme more concrete, I would suggest augmenting it with a pact for labor and skills between the EU and the Arab countries that choose a path to democratic transformation.