Lack of progress on the implementation of development commitments would, therefore, further accentuate existing misgivings.

In the process, they would accentuate the pressure on the global economy from the West s seemingly endless downturn.

She concluded by observing that poverty could accentuate women's vulnerability and therefore their propensity to commit criminal acts.

This mission must also reflect a new politics that does not accentuate differences, but helps shape a new sense of who we are.

The danger is that such groups could accentuate the divisions of a fractious society, rather than pull everyone together in the collective national interest.

But the most serious thing is that the report, if approved, would further accentuate the imbalances that serve as its reference point and its starting point.

Emerging markets and developing countries now account for 50 of global GDP and 75 of global growth, and demographics will further accentuate the shift in the center of economic gravity.

But the global downturn may also accentuate protectionism, especially if nationalistic impulses gain the upper hand, perhaps stimulated by fire sales of domestic assets (as we saw during the Asian financial crisis).

Her legal background and previous experience as minister of justice accentuate her self declared mission stabilizing Israeli government and cleaning up all traces of corruption, including those associated with Olmert and Sharon.

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

The responsible left in Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay are an exception to the emerging rule set by Venezuela s President Hugo Chávez. The best way to accentuate the region s growing anti American sentiment is to try to close the US Mexican border (which will be futile).

These European apprehensions partly reflect failure by the continent s leaders to capitalize on the sometimes spectacular successes of enlargement, Poland being the most notable example. Instead, the exigencies of domestic politics have induced many European leaders to underscore the difficulties and accentuate the failures of expansion.