Carbon emissions have kept increasing, despite repeated promises of cuts.

Yet, despite increasing economic costs, Iran s response only hardened.

The story of the daily resistance that continues despite increasing militarization on the ground and despite the regime's attempts to silence every form of citizen expression.

Despite the existence of cost effective interventions, the lack of financial resources is a major obstacle to increasing road safety substantially.

Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting competitiveness and increasing costs.

Despite the increasing importance of remittances from Italy, Spain, and the United States, the largest share in absolute terms still originates from France.

So far, despite endless words about increasing aid to poor countries, the rich G 8 countries are reneging on their part of the bargain.

And Russia and China continue to provide diplomatic cover, with Iran sending material support. Life in Damascus, despite increasing shortages, seems almost normal.

Despite the war (or perhaps because of it), Syrian citizen media networks, with increasing knowledge and skill, have been a major conduit for the documentation of the war.

Each year, nearly 1.2 million people die and millions more are injured or disabled as a result of road accidents, despite increasing awareness concerning that preventable scourge.

But, despite deep historical animosity over World War II, there are increasing calls in the region for Japan to expand its influence to counterbalance China.

In the same vein, the interrelationship between disarmament and development deserves particular attention because of the increasing resources poured into military expenditures despite the prevalence of poverty throughout the world.

Despite the high level of initial resistance that each report has met, over time they have all gained increasing currency and acceptance both within the region and among donors.

Despite increasing incomes, Russians are less educated and less healthy than they were when Putin came to power they still die at a shockingly young age.

Thirty six per cent of Europeans will be aged 60 or over by 2050, and, despite increasing life expectancy, continued low fertility will mean the continent s population will begin to dwindle by 2020.

Despite the emergence of increasing numbers of migrant women workers and the growing importance of remittances for the economies of many families in developing countries, very little systematic research has been conducted on the gender dimensions of remittances.

(h) Despite the increasing importance of statistics and the push towards evidence based decision making for assessing the effectiveness of programmes, the statistical activities of several regional commissions have been downgraded since the initiation of the MDG initiative.

Despite notable progress in the implementation of the HIPC Initiative, there is an increasing recognition that the HIPCs are falling short of their Millennium Development Goals and will need substantial additional development assistance, including full debt cancellation.

The issuance of risky junk bonds under loose covenants and with excessively low interest rates is increasing the stock market is reaching new highs, despite the growth slowdown and money is flowing to high yielding emerging markets.

The economy contracted in 2012, and wages declined, despite increases in Germany and some northern countries. Reliable statistics are not yet available, but poverty in Europe s south is increasing for the first time in decades.

Increasing transparency

With the rate of divorce increasing and the number of children born out of wedlock increasing, the number of children that are born into or fall into single parent households is also increasing.

But, to get on a process of increasing income, increasing skills led to very rapid growth there.

Increasing the rate of health coverage

After steadily increasing the frequency of those incursions since September 2012, China has recently begun increasing their duration.

We found that the pay slice of CEOs has been increasing over time. Not only has compensation of the top five executives been increasing, but CEOs have been capturing an increasing proportion of it.

Apart from the declining reimbursement rates, the euro dollar exchange rate was unfavourable for the operational budget during 2003 and 2004, resulting in a lower support cost income in the euro currency, despite an increasing volume of technical cooperation delivery.

Afghans complain of increasing pollution in Kabul.

The interdependence of States is sharply increasing.

Increasing aid to Africa

(a) Increasing number of retirements and increased longevity

The participation of women in sport is increasing.

In relation to PSD, he drew the Board's attention to the fact that an increasing receivable was an indication of increasing income.

However, despite an increasing awareness throughout the world that shareholder requirements must be met in order to attract and retain long term, low cost capital, the emphasis on shareholder value maximization has not precluded a growing emphasis on other corporate objectives.

Gravely concerned that the drug problem, despite increasing efforts by States, relevant international organizations, civil society and non governmental organizations, is still a challenge of global dimensions which constitutes a serious threat to the health, safety and well being of all humankind, in particular young people,

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Trends are also following similar patterns use of cannabis is increasing heroin use is stable or decreasing and use of ATS and cocaine is increasing.

The urbanization of poverty and the increasing vulnerability of youth

Nationalist sentiment is also increasing.

Generally speaking, savings are increasing.

Increasing impunity for such violations

These increasing liabilities are unfunded.

She displayed increasing suicidal tendencies.

Hygiene related diseases are increasing.

Quantitative easing works by increasing the value of wealth.