The value for money question is even more difficult to assess.

It may be difficult to assess the disruptive impact of our efforts against terrorist financing.

This makes it most difficult to assess with accuracy whether any given situation is improving or worsening.

Moreover, the persistent high vacancy rate makes it difficult to assess the needs for any particular organizational unit.

Accounting for overall revenues and expenditures in health care system is difficult to assess because there is no official accounting.

This lag makes it difficult to assess the effect that new forms of armed conflict are having on treaty relations.

However, it is difficult to assess the effectiveness of such committees when no detailed information has been forthcoming on their activities and findings.

In particular, the scarcity of pre invasion data and absence of post mortem reports make it difficult to assess the full significance of the post invasion data.

Other major groups consider that it is difficult to assess the contribution of the Forum to the progress made, and that progress is only partly reflected in official output.

In the absence of planned objectives and of measurement of progress compared with objectives, it was difficult to understand how UNHCR could assess whether the Office was adequately staffed.

The significance and economic impact of coronaviruses as causative agents of the common cold are hard to assess because, unlike rhinoviruses (another common cold virus), human coronaviruses are difficult to grow in the laboratory.

The extent of rape and sexual violence is difficult to assess, as many victims, particularly women, are hesitant to come forward due to fear of reprisals, intimidation, being ostracized or possibly even facing criminal charges themselves.

Assess the outcomes achieved to date.

In the absence of such conclusive evidence, it was difficult to assess that Al Hakam was a biological weapons production facility or that Iraq had produced bulk agent or had biological weapons, until 1995.

In the Government Performance Project, for example, while it was very difficult to assess the actual extent of information technology use by government employees, it was relatively easy to determine actual costs of the systems being analysed.

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Questionnaires could be helpful to assess individual workshops.

Another issue to consider would be the fact that different regional procedures apply to different treaties and take different forms the question thus arises whether it might be difficult to assess the extent to which regional remedies have in fact been exhausted.

Furthermore, many institutional investors do not yet have sufficient expertise to venture into infrastructure. And, because infrastructure is not yet a clearly defined asset class, investors often find it difficult to plan, assess, and manage their holdings in this area.

Expand development indicators to assess ethical and moral capacities

We also need to assess the quality of these packages.

So are the efforts to assess the needs of the Sudan.

It is always difficult to assess what is going on in North Korea, which seems to regard its opaqueness as a national security asset routinely keeping foreign observers guessing about even mundane issues like the precise date of current leader Kim Jung un s birthday.

The New York Office had 13 staff members, but, unlike other offices away from headquarters, had no formal planning of activities and no formal reporting on outputs and achievements reached. It was therefore difficult to assess how the Office meets its mission.

The Council shall biennially review and assess

The Council shall biennially review and assess

f. Monitor, assess and report on progress

It was very difficult to assess the proportionality of a reaction to an act. Regarding the proposal for a judicial investigation into cases of torture, although he had suggested setting up an independent committee, he was inclined to first give Israel a chance to handle that matter itself.

First, it is virtually impossible to assess individual plants risk profiles correctly.

(a) Conduct a comprehensive study to assess the situation of street children

Something difficult to explain.

While DPKO has put in place a mechanism to evaluate and assess armed military contingents prior to their deployment, no such mechanism has yet been developed to assess pre deployment preparedness of military observers.

Musharraf must assess what will be his legacy.

It is a major marker to assess the quality of health care delivery.

These studies are occasionally reviewed by some scientific committees to assess overall risks.

It is not possible for me to assess the veracity of these claims.

It facilitates the development of methods to assess climate change impacts and vulnerability.

It was necessary to assess how the positive was doing in relation to the negative.

To build capacity of local laboratories to assess the extent and impact of mercury pollution.

For without that, one difficult journey would be not merely difficult but close to impossible.

It is difficult to generalize.

Sketchy details are emerging of clashes with security forces, and the situation is all the more difficult to assess as telephone lines are jammed by the authorities, and scores of journalists and activists who are keeping the world informed of developments in Egypt have been arrested.

They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday they have difficult conversations with difficult people, sometimes during very difficult times.

This mechanism makes it more difficult for governments to see traffic, and thus more difficult to block it.

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