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Given the present level of contributions to the General Fund, UNITAR cannot absorb its rent and maintenance costs and at the same time, maintain and or expand its core training programmes.

With respect to operations, the Government of Québec has invested significant sums for the development of services for Québecers, in addition to the costs stemming from the normal increase in expenses that the health system must absorb, such as salary increases, energy costs and building maintenance.

43. Expresses its concern that no specific information has been shared with Member States concerning associated costs, and requests the Secretary General to include such information in his sixth annual progress report and to make every effort to absorb such costs within the approved budget of the capital master plan

Under existing agreements made prior to 15 June 1993, UNFICYP troop contributors volunteered to absorb the regular costs that would be incurred by them if their contingents were serving at home (i.e., regular allowances and normal expenses for matériel).

In the meantime, India s banks have enough capital to absorb losses.

P680 can also directly absorb a photon at a suitable wavelength.

China s initial globalization dividend, accrued through low factor costs, is rapidly diminishing, and a new era characterized by reliance on the massive domestic market to absorb foreign high level factors of production, such as technology and human capital is just beginning.

He tried to absorb as much of the local culture as possible.

Because thus we absorb the language and its grammar and spelling 2.

As a result, women absorb more alcohol into their bloodstreams than men.

It will not be possible to absorb these additional conference servicing requirements.

It will not be possible to absorb these additional conference servicing requirements.

Moreover, we require areas to absorb the waste emitted by our energy use.

Type 6 nylon can absorb up to 9.5 of its weight in moisture.

Equally important were training and the development of national capacity to absorb technology.

Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.

The goal is not to absorb shocks but to reduce income gaps across regions.

It will not be possible to absorb these additional requirements of the task force.

The second lesson is that the death penalty debate should not absorb all our attention.

As a result, the capacity of manufacturing to absorb labor has become much more limited.

Because black particles contain soot and absorb sunlight, they are believed to increase global warming.

Iran seeks compensation for expenses incurred in treating these additional cases indirect costs such as transportation costs costs incurred by caregivers opportunity costs and costs of future medical care.

But, when the fighting ended, it was Deng who had to absorb most of the lessons.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

They accumulate in the tissue of living organisms, which absorb POPs through food, water, and air.

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The natural resource industries that globalization promotes have limited capacity to absorb employment out of traditional sectors.

In the case of Greece and Portugal, for example, the tourism industry might absorb some unemployed retailers.

As they absorb their losses on US treasury and agency securities, capital flows toward the US will diminish.

But, by raising the consumption share of its GDP, China will also absorb much of its surplus saving.

China now stands ready to absorb some of that surplus saving to promote a shift toward internal demand.

Over the last decade, Greece could absorb only a fifth of the EU modernization funds available to it.

Oceans absorb approximately 1 3 of the produced by humans, which has detrimental effects on the marine environment.

French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher.

The Secretary General further indicates that it is not possible at this stage to determine the capacity to absorb these additional costs, which would represent a charge against the contingency fund and, as such, would require appropriations for the biennium 2006 2007 to be approved by the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.

Methodologies used to calculate costs Staff costs Salary and common staff costs The standard costs (in United States dollars) applied in determining staff costs in the proposed budget are based on actual salary costs for the first three months of 2005, and adjusted for step increments in 2006 2007.

Last month, the bank paid 1.1 billion in dividends, reducing its ability to absorb future losses on its investments.

Atmospheric greenhouse gases allow sunlight to pass through but absorb heat and radiate some down to the earth s surface.

Capital buffers to absorb losses during the downturn of the cycle can be more easily built during the upswing.

One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.

But there aren t enough safe, secure, and sound enterprises to absorb all the workers laid off from risky enterprises.

He noted that sub Saharan Africa is now in a position to absorb more capital inflows to build infrastructure.

In some cases, an island or group of islands may be able to absorb the likely displacement of population.