This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them.

Just because systemic effects are difficult to quantify does not mean that they are not real.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

It is difficult to quantify the precise impact of ISIS' efforts to promote its mission and recruit new members.

Though very difficult to quantify, it is estimated that millions of people die prematurely due to air pollution each year worldwide.

Speculative activities have plusses and minuses, much that is good and some that is bad, and these are very difficult to quantify.

We argue that such shifts reflect changing stories, epidemics of new narratives, and associated views of the world, which are difficult to quantify.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

But these interests are hard to quantify.

Europe s image and soft power have undoubtedly continued to fade around the world (thought such a trend is difficult to quantify), while member states continue to cut defense and development budgets.

Can you quantify your openness?

Likewise, increasing women's political representation would cost little, whereas the benefits would often be welcome but difficult to quantify. Essentially, women's priorities would begin to take equal precedence with those favored by men.

Because the GM is a resource mobilization mechanism that is not primarily responsible for providing project funding, it is difficult to quantify the GM's direct effect on financial assistance flows to affected developing country parties.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

The Cobb method was also one of the first techniques used to quantify sagittal deformity.

These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them. They are often passed down within families, so they elude social policies that are based on the notion that equality of opportunity can be created by government action.

Training Courses Conducted in the Countries Visited Although difficult to quantify, the effectiveness of import licensing and prevention of illegal imports of ODS is highly dependent on the ability of customs officers to apply the legal regulations in force and to identify illegal shipments of refrigerants.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

In each case, index roads are used to help quantify total impact of vehicle collisions on specific vertebrate taxa.

This is, I think, the best metric to use to quantify the decidedly sub par pace of today s jobless recovery in the US.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

Some countries, for example Kenya and the Republic of Korea, reported on efforts to quantify women's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP).

More progressive clinicians have begun using IMT measurement as a way to quantify and track disease progression or stability within individual patients.

They enable all team members to quantify the extent of problems, even in areas of functioning where one is not a specialist.

Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

Part of the difficulty of contending with a crisis of confidence is that it is hard to quantify confidence in the first place.

It is a useful tool for ranking projects because it allows you to quantify the amount of value created per unit of investment.

At some point I added a question to the release form that asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product. Integrated household surveys are regularly undertaken in Pakistan.

There has not been sufficient study to quantify the effects of pollinator decline on wild plants and wild life that depend on them for feed.

Some experts endeavoured to quantify the losses arising from inefficiencies, which in the example of textiles could amount to more than 12 per cent of total value.

Something difficult to explain.

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

It is difficult to generalize.

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.

The Panel also finds that there is insufficient evidence to quantify damage to mangroves and coral reefs, if any, that can be attributed directly to Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

With regard to the process and methodology used by Saudi Arabia to quantify the loss resulting from damage to its terrestrial resources, the Panel finds that Saudi Arabia's approach is reasonable.

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

And then we have two parameters which we were not able to quantify air pollution, including warming gases and air polluting sulfates and nitrates, but also chemical pollution.

Another approach for policymakers is to quantify the economic benefits of ecosystem services the miraculous yet mundane things that nature provides like erosion control, water management, and purification.

It is the Chinese who have endowed the term financial center with such weight and meaning by trying to dissect the functions of such cities and quantify every detail.