Few countries need to borrow from the IMF a highly positive trend.

These projects, which privilege the electoral over elections , are a positive trend.

Non core programme expendituresresources continued their positive trend, reaching 6.6 million in 2004.

The positive trend continued during the first half of 2008, but the rate of increase slackened.

A slow but gradual positive trend is reflected in the region's ability to improve trade performance.

That positive trend shows that the efforts made have been a step in the right direction.

The positive trend was observed in all member states with the exception of Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal.

The tables do demonstrate a mostly positive trend and women seem to be catching up with men.

A positive trend is the growing number of female candidates in both parliamentary and local government council elections.

We are not quite there, but we are getting there. Missile defense can be part of that positive trend.

Although these are over four times lower in developing than in developed countries, the trend remains a positive one.

Levels of serious crime are low indeed, not higher than other comparably populated areas of Europe and the trend is positive.

Shall we suggest that this is a positive trend and just wait until they are all gone before the process of return starts?

The past two years had seen a positive trend in the funding of operational activities, although there was still insufficient predictable and continuous funding.

The trend remains positive, and the Provisional Institutions should continue to work hard on making the implementation of standards of tangible benefit to all Kosovars.

While some States developed positive legislation, the general trend was more restrictive, with legislative amendments being viewed through a restrictive migration or counter terrorism lens.

What was at the beginning of this spring no more than a glimmer of hope, to use Obama s phrase, has become a more serious and positive trend.

Countries are experiencing strong growth, inflation is low, and the threat of crisis has receded considerably. Few countries need to borrow from the IMF a highly positive trend.

Countries report a positive trend towards increasing stakeholder participation, stimulated both by the emphasis in the IPF IFF proposals and by more general national policies that promote such participation.

This positive trend is likely to persist, given that it is based on structural geographic and demographic factors, such as rising exports, improved trade conditions, and steadily increasing domestic consumption.

Although the indicators for monitoring the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals reveal a positive trend, progress has been uneven from the baseline year to the most recent indicators available.

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

The Government also had a strategic plan to reduce the high fertility and high population growth rates, and she hoped that by the next session the figures would reflect a positive trend.

Mr. Jessen Petersen The three months since my last report to the Security Council have been marked by a positive trend in what is a crucial year for Kosovo and for the region.

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There was a continued positive trend in regular resources levels in 2005, as well as in other resources, due to the unprecedented response from donors (private sectors and Governments) to the tsunami disaster and other emergencies.

Revaluation would accelerate this trend.

This trend must be reversed.

There is clearly a trend.

Part of a regional trend

That trend must be reversed.

That trend should be encouraged.

This is a welcome trend.

Another positive development, and one that should be encouraged by both the Committee and the Council, appears to be an increasing trend of international, regional, and bilateral cooperation to protect porous borders and prevent travel related fraud.

We need to consolidate the positive trend observed in the response to the Indian Ocean tsunami and the earthquake in Pakistan by promoting even closer dialogue with those contributors that used to be outside the humanitarian circle.

Crime statistics show a positive trend. Low levels of serious crimes against members of minority communities are reported two Kosovo Albanians are on trial for the only case of murder of a Kosovo Serb since March 2004.

The rise of GDP over the next ten years will reflect the very positive effect of the eventual recovery from the current deep downturn, combined with a below trend rise in the economy s potential output at full employment.

While this downward trend is positive, the occurrence of assisted return highlights the need for reinforcing the system of verification of voluntarinesss through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the established Management and Coordination Mechanism (MCM) framework.

The IGAD success in the north south peace process, as well as the enormous efforts now under way by the African Union in relation to Darfur, mark a positive trend towards greater African leadership in resolving Africa's conflict.

Unfortunately, that trend may be reversing.

Reversing this trend demands urgent action.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

This trend seems to have continued.

In the case of Guatemala, the number of indigenous people in all age groups completing primary education is lower than the number of indigenous people, even though this traditional gap is gradually narrowing, reflecting a positive but slow trend.

This trend is not hard to understand.