The continent has made some significant socio economic gains over the last decade.

Students using the GenScope software showed significant gains over the control groups, with the largest gains shown in students from basic courses.

Most important, significant gains in health could be attained with adequate financial resources.

Given the oppression from which Afghan women emerged in late 2001, the gains they have made in the past few years, including in the legal, political and educational areas, are significant.

The gains made in water supply coverage are increasingly threatened.

The DPRK has made impressive gains in education since 1945.

In fact, in all of the strategic challenges to US security that Obama inherited Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Israeli Palestinian conflict he has made virtually no significant political gains.

Global competition has whipped many of the region s industries into shape and fostered significant productivity gains in advanced sectors, but these gains have remained limited to a narrow segment of the economy.

At this crucial juncture in the peace process in Côte d'Ivoire, we cannot ignore the significant gains achieved so far.

The Chiang Mai Initiative has made significant progress.

But gains are being made in poverty reduction, health, education, gender equality, the environment and more.

Gains continue to be made with respect to the situation of human rights in the country.

At the same time, significant inroads have been made.

Only such a presence can consolidate the palpable, but still reversible, gains made over the past year.

It has made short term military gains, but over time it will feel economic and political losses.

In these elections, the CDA remained the largest party and the Socialist Party made the largest gains.

Aftermath The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia made major gains in industrial production in the 1960s and 1970s.

This situation had to be reversed if the gains from the FDI were to be made concrete.

UNICEF increased its involvement in water quality improvement in 2004 and gains were made in arsenic mitigation.

Significant progress has been made in a variety of areas.

The equivalent of today s policy rate rose to 22 as he launched a bold anti inflationary crusade, accepting significant upfront costs for gains down the road.

Though there are gains to be made from liberalization of key infrastructural sectors that have significant downstream effects and in which, historically, protection has resulted in considerable inefficiency costs to society, the extent to which these services can be liberalized depends largely on the progress made in laying the institutional foundations for reforming regulations.

Consider, for example, Latin America s growth model of the last two decades. Global competition has whipped many of the region s industries into shape and fostered significant productivity gains in advanced sectors, but these gains have remained limited to a narrow segment of the economy.

The passage of those two hurricanes reversed all the gains we had made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Neither the two parties nor any of us must move backward we must preserve the gains made so far.

Syria s readmission into the Arab consensus and financial support from the Gulf monarchies for abandoning the Shi a alliance with Iran and Hezbollah would also be significant gains.

The Summit made a significant step in the direction of universalization.

While significant progress had been made, much remained to be done.

The report duly acknowledges the significant progress that Afghanistan has made.

Malaysia had made significant progress since the World Summit for Children.

Outsourcing some operations also allows significant productivity gains ranging from 15 to 25 per cent, access to additional skills, and improvements in the quality of the services provided.

The opportunity for personal gains through public office has made electoral politics an automatic career choice for Indian politicians progeny.

Gains for developing countries hinged as much on their own liberalization as on the market opening made by trade partners.

Third, China has made significant progress in building its social security system.

Europe remains strong, while Asia and the Caribbean have made significant headway.

Significant progress has been made in the preparation of UNMIS team sites.

In Kenya, we have made significant progress in a number of areas.

United Nations technical agencies have made significant investments in the education sector.

This judgement made a significant contribution to the Tribunal's jurisprudence on rape.

Significant progress had been made at the regional level in combating terrorism.

In the final peace treaty, Venice retained a few isolated island fortresses off Crete, and made some territorial gains in Dalmatia.

For small island developing States, economic gains made over the past 10 years are being wiped away by spiralling fuel prices.

77) The DPRK made substantial gains in bringing women into the labour force by 1998 women accounted for 48.4 per cent.

Significant efforts have been made to enhance networking among universities and research institutions.

Significant progress has been made, with all regions fully engaged in data collection.