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They had a dent in the rear door.

It would take years of new car sales to make a dent in that number.

This burden includes both public debt (owed by the government) and external dent (owed by the country as a whole to foreigners).

They would have preferred a sharp revaluation of perhaps 20 in order to make a noticeable dent in the US unemployment rate.

All of the achievements to date in this domain constitute only a small dent in the huge task that needs to be accomplished.

Now those projections have been cut to less than 2 , which is too slow to make a dent in the very high rate of unemployment.

There's another one, equally important, about how that very same Mother Nature is so nurturing and so resilient that we can never make a dent in her abundance.

All these factors contribute to sustained productivity improvements, which alone can make a dent on poverty and contribute to an increase in the living standards in poor countries.

The program may stimulate some productive credit intermediation, but it will not make a significant dent in what will remain one of the major obstacles to robust economic recovery.

The slowdown in advanced economies, together with a weaker euro, will further dent Chinese growth, bringing its 11 plus growth rate towards 7 by the end of this year.

Surely watching graphic videos showcasing ISIS crimes leave a dent on adults, but what do they really do to our children? Should children even watch ISIS crimes shared on video?

In exchange for emergency loans, all three countries have embarked on massive austerity. Yet, despite the tremendous social pain, this approach will make no dent in their large and rising debt overhang.

But the idea of a rape culture a concept formulated by feminists in the 1970 s as they developed the study of sexual violence has hardly made a dent in mainstream consciousness.

But the long term prognosis made especially dire by health care reform s inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.

Violence in Thailand s predominantly Muslim south seemed to dent his ambitions last year, but his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party s landslide victory last February gave his bid for regional leadership a new lease on life.

Julia Boggs Dent Grant (January 26, 1826 December 14, 1902), was the wife of the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and was First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877.

In their efforts to reduce the impacts of these ERW the Coalition Munitions Clearance program continues to undertake very significant reduction and disposal efforts which are making a substantial dent in the numbers of ERW present.

Meanwhile, we've got two trillion dollars at a minimum, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers that we need to expend to even make a dent in the infrastructure, which is currently rated at a D minus.

Cuts to child allowances and unemployment pay have caused a consistent rise in the poverty rate, and government income transfers designed to combat it make an even smaller dent in poverty now than they did in the 1980s.

Similar coalitions can be assembled to dent global poverty by fostering a second green revolution in Indian agriculture, to enhance India s role in the global economy through vocational and higher education, and to tackle the worldwide spread of AIDS.

Reducing emissions is the only response to climate change that environmental campaigners talk about, despite the fact that repeated attempts to do so in Rio in 1992 and in Kyoto in 1997 failed to make a dent in emission levels.

The outcome of the vote attests to the ineffectiveness of Turkey s parliamentary opposition, which once again failed to make a dent in the AKP s popularity, almost as if they had set out to disprove the theory that electorates simply tire of long serving governments.

In order to regain Latin America s support and to dent Chávez s popularity the Bush administration will need much more than a short trip. Passing a comprehensive Immigration Bill that normalizes the legal status of millions of Latin American workers in the US may help.

Quite often the consultation processes that were initiated through the poverty reduction strategy papers initiatives have been regarded as opportunistic and ad hoc, resulting in implementation that does not make much of a dent in existing structures and in processes that are inimical to pro poor growth.

The 50 day offensive, which killed at least 2,137 Palestinians, a majority of whom were civilians, including 577 children, and wounded at least 10,870 others, may have destroyed the Strip's infrastructure but has failed to dent the morale of civilians, who shake off the rubble today to celebrate Eid.

And I think, you know, that's a great name for boats that think that they're going to do anything to make a dent in this by dragging a boom between them when there are literally hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Gulf right now with oil at the surface.

The UK example is important but, given the scope and scale of the challenges, the proposal is a relatively modest one. The program may stimulate some productive credit intermediation, but it will not make a significant dent in what will remain one of the major obstacles to robust economic recovery.

Although a growing number of countries have achieved an economic growth rate of over 5 per cent per annum in the past five years, such progress has tended to be rather episodic and, in any case, well below the 7 per cent growth rate generally considered to be necessary to begin making a dent on poverty in the region.