These have indeed been very challenging times for our Organization.

Tired diplomatic postures and ritual incantations are not what these challenging times demand.

None of this is meant to deny that we are living in challenging and uncertain times.

In developing countries, it is said that good times are bad times for economic reform.

Protectionism normally thrives in times of economic peril.

Two economic surprises prolonged the good times in 2005.

This frequently occurs in times of rapid economic change.

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.

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

These are challenging times for Governments around the world since they need to respond to increasingly complex demands from their citizens and to significant changes in their global environments.

BERKELEY By any economic measure, we are living in disappointing times.

Steps like these may have been overlooked in better economic times.

But in times of slow economic growth, policymakers options are grim.

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.

A bit more challenging, right?

Easy travel plus hard economic times means that immigration rates may accelerate to the point where social friction exceeds general economic benefit. Similarly, hard economic times may worsen relations among governments, as well as domestic conflicts that can lead to violence.

With tougher economic times inevitably come tougher positions toward foreign competition and outsourcing.

A bit more challenging, right? (Laughter)

At times of serious economic distress, policymakers thrash about seeking solutions, and some people lose confidence in the economic system itself.

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

But the sort of integration that occurs in times of economic crisis is often destructive.

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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.

Although Sri Lanka has grappled with divisions along ethnic and religious lines, in challenging times citizens do come together to help each other, casting aside their differences in exchange for a spirit of unity and togetherness.

Finally, Japan s external environment today is more challenging.

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.

There is no quick or easy way out of this problem, especially in bad economic times.

In these tough economic times, we are all acutely aware that security comes at a price.

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.

First, Ms Chung noted that corporations could foster economic well being at certain times while at other times they could have negative impacts on the enjoyment of human rights.

These are trying economic times for the US, largely owing to imperial overstretch financed by Chinese credit.

The economic benefits, estimated to be between five and nineteen times higher than the costs, are dramatic.

Given that the US is undergoing economic hard times, the size of the response has surprised many.

Hard economic times are correlated with protectionism, as each country blames others and protects its domestic jobs.

Millions of Nigerians have emigrated at times of economic hardship, primarily to Europe, North America and Australia.

Two serious problems make reconciliation in Afghanistan particularly challenging.

But success in Cairo might prove even more challenging.

This means that Europe probably faces another challenging year.