National requirements have been the driving force.

As this emotion represents a thirst for knowledge, curiosity is a major driving force behind scientific research and other disciplines of human study.

As a major driving force of policy and economic change, this process has had significant impacts on most sectors in countries undergoing decentralization.

The real driving force has been two fold.

The Government of Sri Lanka regarded the urban centres that were emerging all over the country as a major driving force in the expansion of its economy.

The driving force in littoral cave development is wave action.

The key force driving this trend technology is playing multiple roles.

The dynamic transition from agricultural to industrial production is a major driving force of economic and technological transformation and often marks the beginning of the path out of poverty.

The US remains the driving force behind the IST, supplying the needed expertise.

North argues that competition is a key force driving adaptive efficiency among institutions.

They are also the driving force in implementing those policies, programmes and targets.

Even so, the EU remains dependent on France and Germany as a driving force.

CAMBRIDGE The driving force of Europe s economic policy is the European project of political integration.

The long term driving force of modern economic growth has been science based technological advance.

China s people have the biggest stake in environmental protection, and so must become the driving force.

He saw their effect as a driving force behind the predominant trend towards liberal capitalism today.

Now this area is the economic driving force behind central Zeeland, generating many thousands of jobs.

To be sure, impatient dissatisfaction has been a driving force behind European integration since its initial years.

Achieving this requires, among other things, the recovery of the Franco German axis as Europe s driving force.

Today, ASEAN already serves as the driving force towards the development of an East Asian economic community.

The driving force is external demand, as Germany, the world s second largest exporter, profits from the global boom.

Major General Alain Pellegrini (France) continued as Force Commander.

But within that infrastructure, we have to remember that the driving force of biology is really coming from evolution.

In August 2001, he wrote that, The driving force behind the current slowdown is a plunge in business investment.

UNDG could be the driving force in the efforts to achieve simplification and harmonization over the next three years.

Multinational companies were a driving force in Eastern Europe s postcommunist transition, bringing new skills, technology, training, and better working conditions.

The real question has more to do with France s credibility and its capacity to remain a driving force in Europe.

A major driving force for the establishment of the Strategic Approach has been the recognition of the growing gaps between the capacities of different countries to manage chemicals safely the gaps between existing agreements and processes and the gaps between ambition and reality.

If Germany no longer acts as the driving force of European integration, then European integration is a thing of the past.

Indonesia fully recognizes that information and communication technology represents a key driving force for growth and job creation in other sectors.

And it is our Organization that, more than ever, must be a driving force, play a leading role, in that context.

The United Nations reform agenda of the Secretary General remains the driving force behind the strategy for the 2006 2007 budget.

It is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command, one of the major commands of the Air Force.

Its driving ideological force was a European inspired secular nationalism, which strove for political and social modernization through top down government action.

For the last 12 years, the Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger by 2015 has been the driving force for hunger reduction.

The often very high surface area to volume ratio of nanoparticles provides a tremendous driving force for diffusion, especially at elevated temperatures.

(b) It is important to emphasize that poverty reduction is becoming the main force driving the reforms of United Nations development assistance.

He also wants to restore Egypt s position as a major regional force.

Scientific curiosity, given sufficient space and autonomy, remains the most powerful driving force behind the completely unforeseeable transformations in how our societies develop.

Given the scope and diversity of their domestic and economic concerns, Guinean women remain the driving force of the family and of society.

Since the beginning of 2003, the Brazilian Government has also been the driving force behind a broad process to reform the Judicial Power.

Young women and young men are today a major force in global development.

Second, the Hegelian struggle for recognition has been a pervasive driving force of mankind, powerful enough to lead countless individuals to the ultimate sacrifice.

Forming a new, smaller and more functional human rights council will help the United Nations become a real driving force behind human rights protection.

The issue of national ownership and sustainability of activities from the very outset has not been a principal driving force or a key objective.