NATO is in Afghanistan largely owing to shared concerns about terrorism.

Social services and infrastructure have largely collapsed owing to a lack of resources for their upkeep.

But the organization was weak and inefficient, largely owing to the United States refusal to ratify its charter.

These are trying economic times for the US, largely owing to imperial overstretch financed by Chinese credit.

Some were killed after being falsely targeted as mercenaries (largely owing to the color of their skin).

The reduction in non post resources relates largely to the reduction in general temporary assistance owing to reduced requirements.

The other aspect of the problem is the long term increase in technology driven unemployment, largely owing to automation.

Data from the 2000 census show a soaring Hispanic population, owing largely to waves of new immigrants, legal and illegal.

Other senior Fatah officials have been banned from travel outside the West Bank, owing largely to their involvement in nonviolent protests.

In many countries, public administration remains weak largely owing to a shortage of human resources and to deficiencies in staff training and motivation.

Circuit judges have been appointed but are unable to function effectively, owing largely to logistics and a lack of suitable office space and supplies.

But now growth rates for Chinese exports and related indices in manufacturing have fallen, largely owing to weak external demand, especially in Europe.

The pace of the United Nations military deployment has increased but remains behind schedule, owing largely to delays in the force generation process.

Ireland had quickly adapted to the significant influx, and had not had major difficulties with racism against them, largely owing to the efforts of NGOs.

The release of the backlog of food stock that accumulated in Port Sudan in January owing to Darfur wide insecurity largely explains this increase.

Mr. Wali (Nigeria) noted that the Convention, valuable though it was, had from the outset lacked universality, largely owing to serious concerns regarding its scope.

SINGAPORE Luxury brand companies stock prices plunged in July, after their financial results disappointed investors, owing largely to slower sales in emerging markets, especially in China.

But Mercosur, too, is essential to Latin America s global economic integration, owing largely to its core country, Brazil, whose international connections and influence are unmatched in the region.

Most developing countries were already moving along these four tracks before the global financial crisis, owing largely to improvements in their economic policies during the previous decade.

1 Owing to the nature of Programme A.1, outcomes largely depend on external factors, such as contributions and support by Member States and services provided by UNOV.

And the worldwide Gini coefficient of inter country inequality fell from 0.653 to 0.556 from 1980 to 2007, owing largely to the astounding performance of the emerging countries, particularly China and India.

But the organization was weak and inefficient, largely owing to the United States refusal to ratify its charter. As a result, it failed to accomplish its primary objective of preventing another world war.

At the start of the biennium, the impact of suspension of recruitment was limited, largely owing to the completion of recruitment actions for already existing vacancies (i.e., those advertised in 2003).

Despite such low returns, China has continued to invest its reserves in the US, largely owing to the inability of its own under developed financial market to generate a sufficient supply of safe assets.

The global economy will probably triple in size in the next quarter century, largely owing to growth in developing countries as they catch up to developed country incomes and adopt similar consumption patterns.

Older persons are often afflicted by poverty, owing to a host of factors, and poverty among the rural elderly, in particular older women, tends to be severe since formal or informal social security is largely absent.

Three quarters of the world s poor live in rural areas, where agricultural workers suffer the highest incidence of poverty, largely owing to low productivity, seasonal unemployment, and the low wages paid by most rural employers.

NATO is in Afghanistan largely owing to shared concerns about terrorism. But NATO is also acting because some European countries want to show Washington that they can pull their security weight even though they refuse to go near the war in Iraq.

Wood stores carbon, owing to photosynthesis.

The Advisory Committee notes that the cost overrun of 1,530,100 under contractual services is due largely to additional requirements for defence counsel owing to the higher than estimated number of hours booked for the pre trial and trial stages in some cases.

Thus, firms have little pricing power, owing to excess capacity, while workers bargaining power is low, owing to high unemployment.

He pointed out that when transaction costs are low and property rights are well defined, innovative private contracts might solve collective action problems such as pollution but policymakers rely largely on fiscal instruments, owing to economists obsession with simplistic price theory.

By 2003, owing largely to the increase in outreach and communications efforts with staff outside Headquarters, cases were distributed more evenly, with 35 per cent coming from Headquarters, 38 per cent from offices away from Headquarters and 27 per cent from peacekeeping missions.

She largely lived up to the promise.

We owe that largely to Jan Egeland.

This is largely due to economic reasons.

Thirty years ago, most of the food was largely local and largely fresh.

Despite this progress, financial concerns persist owing to

The economic and financial headwinds from outside the US are strong and gusting, owing largely to the ever worsening European crisis, which is now entering an even more disruptive and unpredictable phase as depositors in some countries step up their withdrawals from local banks.

It is now largely up to Thaksin himself.

These achievements are largely due to European cooperation.

Today, they are largely confined to deep water.

Manufacturing productivity increased somewhat, owing to intense international competition.

Submission of the report was delayed owing to consultations.

But Indonesia is number three, owing to its rapid deforestation.