In addition, prudential regulations have lagged behind.

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Except for an old woman who lagged behind .

Except an old woman who was among those who lagged behind

Except an old woman who was among those who lagged behind

Progress in agriculture and the privatization of public enterprises lagged behind.

The report notes, however, that public attitudes have lagged behind policy.

For many years, India lagged behind many countries in the development of highways.

In 2010, inflation in some of the crisis countries lagged slightly behind that of their eurozone competitors.

Spending by China s consumers has lagged behind the Chinese economy s overall rate of growth for many years.

In contrast to human space flight, which has lagged behind expectations, the robotic space effort has exceeded them.

But We saved him and his family , except for his wife she was of those who lagged behind .

But We saved him and his family , except for his wife she was of those who lagged behind .

These lacked the government funding given to the University of Tokyo, so the quality of education there lagged behind.

The result is that the vision of the official Euro Mediterranean Policy (EMP) has lagged far behind its original goals.

But We saved him and his family , except his wife her We destined to be of those who lagged behind .

But We saved him and his family , except his wife her We destined to be of those who lagged behind .

Regionally, Sri Lanka compared well with the South Asian countries but it lagged behind the dynamic South East Asian economies.

Although a number of women had held Government portfolios, their participation in representative bodies lagged far behind that of men.

Similarly, life expectancy at birth in SSA countries lagged 16 years behind the developing country average, 14 years behind countries in South Asia, and 21 years behind countries in East Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

While Chinese are more free today than at any time in their history, China s political evolution has lagged behind its economic progress.

However, progress as measured by other indicators, inter alia, the share of seats in parliaments and non agricultural employment rates, lagged behind.

Their judgment was clear Muslims had sunk far below what their religion required them to be, and lagged far behind the accomplishments of their ancestors.

Those imbalances were most profound between developed countries and Africa, which lagged far behind in terms of development and growth and where social conditions were least favourable.

And, more deplorably, educational standards lagged.

China s urbanization has lagged behind its industrialization, which now is around 70 when measured by the percentage of the labor force whose income is derived mainly from non farm activities.

Progress in reducing extreme poverty lagged behind in the ECLAC region, resulting in the increase of the absolute number of extremely poor people by 3 million between 1990 and 2004.

In all countries of the world, no matter how advanced they were, women lagged behind men in many areas, such as education, health and employment, and globalization had further accentuated those inequalities.

While the largest number of Muslims live in Asia, they are influenced by the heart of this struggle in the Middle East, an area that has lagged behind the rest of the world in globalization, openness, institutions, and democratization.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

In Spain, for example, wages have risen too fast, and productivity has lagged.

Despite all the oil and gas below the desert sand, growth lagged and unemployment soared.

Many northern states, such as Bihar, have lagged in providing kitchens, storage facilities, and utensils.

Though privatization plans lagged, the Greeks won high marks for doubling down on fiscal austerity.

The build up of the Afghan army and police has lagged. The poppy crop has grown.

The arts, fashion, and cuisine of Asia s ancient cultures have had a strong impact on other parts of the world for centuries, but Asia went through a period of relative decline as it lagged behind the industrial revolution in the West, and this undermined its influence.

From the 1980 s through the mid 2000 s, employment has increasingly lagged GDP in economic recoveries.

But there is one sector of our lives where adoption of information technology has lagged conspicuously health care.

The more the policy response has lagged, the broader the set of questions about Europe s future has become.

As the General Assembly is aware, landlocked developing countries have lagged far behind and been marginalized in the world trading system because of their high transport costs, resulting from the lack of territorial access to the sea, remoteness from world markets, poor transport infrastructure, and burdensome border crossings.

Being the first time that Britain has lagged behind a South American country in this kind of ranking, the news evoked a humorous comment by Cebr Chief Executive Douglas McWilliams Brazil has beaten the European countries at soccer for a long time, but beating them at economics is a new phenomenon .

But the spread of the language to the masses lagged the founding of the Pagan Empire by 75 to 150 years.

Because of the lagged effects of monetary policy and the need to manage expectations, early tightening by the Fed would be appropriate.

Likewise, competitiveness losses have been partly reversed as wages have lagged productivity growth, thus reducing unit labor costs, and some structural reforms are ongoing.

Call me a worrywart, but I remain concerned by the extent to which our systems of economic governance have lagged in addressing these four outcomes.