Finally, Japan s external environment today is more challenging.

In this challenging environment, administrative infrastructures have continued to function.

Most should be able to grow strongly, despite the challenging global environment.

Moreover, criminal cross border activities add yet one more dimension to the already challenging security environment.

How can we adapt to such a world? What underpins success in this new and challenging environment?

In the context of this extremely challenging environment, the main tasks of the military component would be

But, for everyone else, particularly small and medium size firms, the credit environment continues to be very challenging.

Outer space represents a challenging environment for human exploration because of the dual hazards of vacuum and radiation.

Although the political environment is described as challenging , as of 2009, the multi party system still exists in Malawi.

A split vote thus undermines European interests, delivering an unequivocal blow to European foreign policy in a challenging geopolitical environment.

Because it is fighting for its own survival in a highly challenging environment, the Jordanian regime needs Israel s security collaboration.

Cattle herding allowed nomads to create livelihoods in an increasingly unpredictable and challenging environment, characterized by an arid climate and scarce resources.

Finally, Japan s external environment today is more challenging. During the post Kobe reconstruction period, world demand was buoyant and global productivity surged, owing to China s gathering boom, America s information technology and communications revolution, and political and economic convergence in Europe.

But the challenging strategic environment and legacy of failed negotiations call for a more daring approach The EU should take the initiative in persuading its partners in the European Economic Area to offer Israel membership, conditional on the completion of a peace agreement.

For Palau, the environment is our economic future.

I was debating the other day on a talk show, and the guy was challenging me and go, What's a pastor doing on protecting the environment?

In consequence of this, social and economic development is increasingly challenging for a developing nation shouldering a debt burden out of all proportion to our economic capacities.

While emerging economies can deal with the economic slowdown in industrial countries, the financial sector transmission mechanism is more challenging.

Positive economic growth required a conducive and enabling environment.

Meanwhile, the international economic environment showed some auspicious signs.

Sustained economic growth is likely to become increasingly challenging, as donor aid for post conflict needs is being gradually phased out.

Both the Nobel Prize and his re election reflect the confidence placed by the international community in Mr. ElBaradei's dynamic leadership in a complex and challenging international environment.

China s explosive economic growth hinges on the rest of the world, radically changing the global production chain and challenging the global trading system.

The economic development plan was unveiled at a time when Malaysia was starting to recover from the Asian financial crisis and challenging economic conditions as a result of high oil prices.

PARIS To evaluate an American president s foreign policy performance after one term is challenging, given the complex diplomatic and strategic environment and significant domestic constraints that confront every US president.

A bit more challenging, right?

A bit more challenging, right? (Laughter)

I also commend the Kosovo Force (KFOR), the UNMIK police and the Kosovo Police Service for having shown great skill and professionalism in maintaining a secure and stable environment through a challenging period.

19. Also welcomes the growing cooperation between the Economic Cooperation Organization, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Environment Programme in the field of environment, and encourages their active collaboration with the Economic Cooperation Organization

But, owing to China s skewed economic structure, its exchange rate regime presents much more challenging problems than those encountered by Japan and other East Asian economies.

But striking the proper balance is challenging.

That will be particularly challenging for Bernanke.

That is an assumption that needs challenging.

Emerging and challenging issues deriving from implementation

That was an extremely impressive and efficient record, particularly given the complexity of the trials, the challenging operating environment and the fact that the entire Court structure had been built from the ground up.

There are no easy ways out of underdevelopment without challenging traditional lifestyles, customs, and social relations. Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.

Fiscal prudence and stable inflation rates are cornerstones of today s relatively healthy global economic environment.

The commingled problems of climate change, economic growth, and the environment suggest their own solution.

It is an environment that will produce deep disparities in economic performance around the world.

The global environment is one of diversity in culture, religion, political system and economic conditions.

However, the situation in Cité Soleil remains challenging.

BEIJING Today s financial crisis and looming global recession are challenging China s export driven economic model as never before in the 30 years since Deng Xiaoping opened the economy.

Coherent programs to promote economic catch up are relatively straightforward. But the transition from follower to leader at the frontier of the innovation economy is more challenging and elusive.

In an environment of ultra low interest rates, the economic cost of being late is low.

But nowhere is this clearer than in the interaction between economic processes and the natural environment.