This increased technical sophistication indicates increased investment on the part of mining supporters and demonstrates a concomitant growth in economic confidence (even though under the terms of the current mining licence moratorium most of this activity is illegal).

The sophistication of the plot has stunned investigators.

Ms. Lehto shared her experience on sanctions implementation in Finland and observed that in the light of the increased sophistication and complexity of sanctions regimes, the work of sanctions committees was not sufficiently transparent.

What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense phoniness, false sophistication, jargon.

The increased sophistication of traditional wooden dhows compounded by their lack of regulation and proper registration (at least in Somalia) has made them the mode of choice for arms embargo violators, in particular for arms originating from a neighbouring Gulf State.

The world has also witnessed an unprecedented rise in, and sophistication of, acts of terrorism.

The means by which perpetrators obtain personal information vary in terms of their technical sophistication.

These strategies typically involve far more risk and sophistication than the activities of traditional commercial banks.

Such an indicator provides information on the level of e business sophistication and interactivity in countries.

Another disadvantage of derivatives is that they require a high degree of sophistication both technical and political.

So, another thing that we do is to confuse adult sophistication with the actual understanding of some principle.

More sophistication is being introduced into the distribution chain to maximize value in each segment of the chain.

It now views the operation as class A, given the mechanical equipment and industrial sophistication that are being employed.

But the correct response is more transparency (and some statistical sophistication) about the mundane fact that Americans are mostly safe.

The smugglers had tried to evade detection by building a shielded container a worrisome level of sophistication on their part.

That is because home buyers are mostly ordinary people with little financial sophistication, unlike the professionals who trade in stocks.

China still has large areas of underdevelopment and per capita income is a better measure of the sophistication of the economy.

The growth of the financial markets sophistication has allowed risks to be sliced and diced and spread further than ever before.

In the view of Admiral Mike McConnell, America s former director of national intelligence, Sooner or later, terror groups will achieve cyber sophistication.

And we know that, across the spectrum of sophistication, the risk of destabilizing cyber attack beating cyber defense is getting ever higher.

There can be no doubt that the work of the Commission will be much delayed if a high level of sophistication is sought.

The case of Japan shows that, despite some of our financial markets great sophistication, we are still a long way from the theoretical ideal.

But these unions were often without the financial sophistication to judge whether the firm set aside sufficient capital to meet its commitments decades later.

These viruses, apparently developed by the US and Israel to disrupt Iran s nuclear program, embody a level of sophistication far beyond anything previously seen.

Since the issuance of my previous report, the level of insurgency in the country has risen, as has the sophistication of the insurgents' weaponry.

Moreover, in a given field, an array of clusters can often be found in different locations and with different levels of sophistication and specialization.

But the trend towards increasing sophistication and breadth of our financial markets suggests that we can expect to see much further growth in cat bonds.

But with increased power comes increased responsibility.

American officials stress that they will not try to negate Russia s strategic deterrent an impossible effort, given the size and sophistication of Russian s offensive nuclear forces.

Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages.

This is not to say that thinking cannot take place without language, but rather that it is mediated by it and thus develops to a much higher level of sophistication.

Numerous difficulties still confront the fight against prostitution, including the increasing sophistication of prostitution related activities, the income gap among the regions, unemployment, and the easy going lifestyle of some.

The global reach of the Internet, the growing sophistication of the banking sector and other advances in technology have dramatically reduced the importance to organized criminal groups of physical boundaries.

The role of women in decision making increased as their incomes increased.

On the contrary, some of the fixes that result from the sub prime crisis will probably take the form of still more innovation, further increasing the sophistication of our financial markets.

The popular upsurge in the Arab world shows that democratic empowerment hinges on two key internal factors the role of security forces and the technological sophistication of the state s repressive capacity.

Business mashups differ from consumer mashups in the level of integration with business computing environments, security and access control features, governance, and the sophistication of the programming tools (mashup editors) used.

Alarmed by the expansion and dimensions of transnational organized crime, terrorism and the links between the two and by the increasing sophistication and diversification of the activities of organized criminal groups,

As a result of their increased use of explosives collateral damage has increased.

But the US also has disturbingly low rankings in the quality of its infrastructure ( 24), technology availability and absorption ( 18), and the sophistication and breadth of its supply chain production processes ( 14).

Mr. Kapoma (Zambia), speaking on behalf of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said that the increasing sophistication and diversification of organized criminal activities posed a serious challenge to the international community.

Within 20 years, GDP increased four fold, while exports increased more than ten fold.

Moreover, developing countries compete in similar products consumer goods of varying levels of sophistication so that the politics of expanded South South trade looks even worse than the politics of North South trade.

That rapid expansion, together with the sophistication that the United Nations has acquired over the years, calls for an assessment of its strengths and weaknesses with a view to making it more effective.

Since the Panel conducted its last overflight in mid February, there has been a noticeable increase in the level of mining, as well as the degree of sophistication employed in methods of extraction.