Civilian service was considered less onerous than armed service because the latter was performed within the military structure.

The number and scope of conditions attached to certain types of assistance should be made less onerous on recipient countries.

While acknowledging that alternative service was less onerous than military service, he nonetheless wondered how the extended terms of unarmed and alternative service were calculated and whether their duration truly reflected their nature and difficulty.

Certain delegations noted that an obligation to regulate such matters might be onerous.

It is an onerous and solemn undertaking, uplifting one day and extremely frustrating the next.

In any event, such a process of litigation would be laborious, onerous and the costs prohibitive.

Any country can leave the EU, and thus the eurozone, when the perceived burden of its obligations becomes too onerous.

That has no doubt added to its already onerous responsibilities in its capacity as the presidency of the European Union.

That is why, after more than two years, interest rates are rising, not falling, in countries crushed by onerous austerity measures.

President Mugabe Let me begin by congratulating the Co Chairpersons for accepting the onerous task of presiding over this epochal event.

Several other representatives supported the suggestion noting that the heavy agenda of MBTOC made onerous demands on the temporary co chairs.

Such tardy reports are evidence of the frequent difficulties involved in their compilation, which, if undertaken in earnest, can be quite onerous.

Moreover, although the European Commission clearly has a duty to prevent mismanagement and fraud, every application for EU funding requires extremely onerous procedures.

But, as the Nelson case shows, women are not just subjected to the straightforward equally onerous lookism that men, too, might face on the job.

Funding would also be more likely to become available if the programme envisaged was not too onerous or demanding on existing national or agency budgets.

Europe means nothing but sacrifice northern Europeans paying for southern Europe s woes through large transfers, or southern Europeans repaying onerous and maybe impossible levels of debt.

My delegation is pleased to note that the Court has continued to discharge its onerous mandate as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations with veracity and diligence.

This would generalize and extend its Flexible Credit Line (FCL), under which countries with impeccable credentials are prequalified for automatic access to IMF credit without having to accept onerous conditions.

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

It is essential, in particular, to create reliable large scale financing for developing countries during crises, through a mix of counter cyclical issuance of SDRs and emergency financing without onerous conditions.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Sami started hearing from Layla less and less.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego.

It pressed the International Atomic Energy Agency for greater scrutiny. It got the United Nations Security Council to agree to impose increasingly onerous economic sanctions and roped allies into even stronger sanctions.

Combined with their low and declining GDP growth prospects, their debt burdens are becoming sufficiently onerous to raise questions about whether they can stabilize the situation and restore growth on their own.

The IMF has also put in place a Flexible Credit Line to disburse funds quickly and free of onerous conditions to countries buffeted by financial crosswinds through no fault of their own.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

Reporting requirements are onerous and often impose huge administrative burdens on developing countries, which must devote the scarce skills of educated, English speaking personnel to writing reports for donors rather than running programs.

The least developed countries faced a worrying situation with regard to the development of multimodal transport, and challenges included the limited availability of transport equipment, precarious infrastructure, and complex and onerous administrative procedures.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

There are Tunisians who want less rights, less freedom and less democracy to fight those who oppose freedom and democracy

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

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It was thought that, while drafting adjustments were required, this approach provided an appropriate structure for protecting the parties to the contract without making the conditions of protection so onerous as to be commercially impractical.

This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.

Multilateralism may have to be less comprehensive and less formal, at least initially.

Trial by jury, which was infrequent anyway, is being seen less and less.

Its youth are less conformist and more demanding, less passive and more pluralistic.

Less noise, please.

Less noise, please.

Also, a basic social pension and the protection of pension rights could provide support for the elderly, especially in low income countries, where their nutritional status was threatened by poverty, onerous family responsibilities and age related disabilities.

The threat they pose may be less dramatic, but it is no less pernicious.