Building a nation demands more than steel and concrete.

I needed a more concrete understanding of social conditions.

It would have been very useful to have more concrete guidance in those cases.

So a more concrete undertaking, one that preserves South Korea s bedrock security concerns, is needed.

I'll show you something a little more of a concrete example here, as this thing loads.

However, more concrete and accelerated action aimed at implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is needed.

Attempts to stop students from being lured into the sex industry have also been more concrete.

Provisions on the right to union organizing are far more concrete and detailed in branch collective contracts.

Overall, it is clear that more needs to be done to obtain further concrete and measurable results.

Overall, it is clear that more needs to be done in order to obtain concrete, measurable results

We need a Europe that is more concrete, less rhetorical, and better suited to the current global economy.

Even more important, we must take concrete steps to reduce selective application, arbitrary enforcement and breach without consequence.

Foreign voter participation is clearly bound to work best at a local level, where the issues are more concrete.

Indonesia will certainly present its views and proposals regarding those issues in more concrete terms during the thematic discussions.

More concrete and visible efforts are needed to ensure civil society and minority community involvement in economic decision making.

Concrete objectives

Part of this task implies taking more concrete and appropriate steps to sever links between public servants and paramilitary groups.

In order to achieve more concrete progress, the international community must act in a more concerted manner and with greater determination to put the basic framework in place.

We are concrete.

THE CONCRETE REALITY .

THE CONCRETE REALITY .

But, to lawyers like the ICC prosecutor, the abstract claims of justice are more vivid than any concrete duty of protection.

The new runway has a more durable concrete surface, and opened in time for the peak of the FedEx shipping season.

More detailed and concrete plans are needed, however, and we will be watching closely to see how well the project works.

The Organization was exploring ways and means of giving more concrete effect to the measures envisaged in the Memorandum of Understanding.

The more tons of steel produced, slabs of concrete poured, and gallons of crude oil pumped out of the ground the better.

But the public, despite its concern about unemployment, is not very interested in the details of concrete plans to create more jobs.

For example, the United Nations has given concrete support for elections in more and more countries, often at decisive moments in their history more than 20 in the last year alone, including Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and Burundi.

Migration is a concrete example.

So concrete, transparent and efficient.

Detailed, concrete, no bureaucratic speech.

What is the concrete reality ?

What is the concrete reality ?

The frustrations of dealing with an undecided Europe have led Turkish policymakers to focus their efforts on an area where the expected return on their investment is more immediate and more concrete.

More specifically, in highly indebted countries and least developed countries (LDCs), the conviction that reform is needed does not always translate into concrete action.

Ms. Karaborni concluded by underlining the need and impact of more concrete proposals to move forward and efficiently improve the lives of the poor.

Bricks, concrete, and asphalt the building blocks from which cities are made absorb much more heat from the sun than vegetation does in the countryside.

Encourages the Evaluation Office to pay more attention to concrete development results that have been achieved and follow up on the recommendations of previous evaluations

The World Congress on Disaster Prevention, which opened in Kobe, Japan, earlier today, is an excellent opportunity to pursue this issue in more concrete terms.

Yet no concrete action is taken.

Concrete steps have already been taken.

The concrete measures are summarized below.

Tartous, the dreamy little town by the sea is no more. It has physically mutated over the last three decades into a pathetic jungle of concrete.

But this does not justify its failure to produce more concrete measures, especially given that its member countries are Latin America s most receptive to trade liberalization.

I emphasize the importance of that resolution, and would like to see more steps taken to deal with this issue in a concrete and efficient way.