Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

Its financial system was unstable and prone to panics, and its political system was immature and prone to populism and nativism.

I was a little prone to depression.

They are also prone to making mistakes.

Children andinfants are particularly prone to it.

Indeed, without adequate regulation, they are prone to excess.

Sarkozy is a man prone to following his instincts.

In short, the world has become increasingly prone to financial turbulence.

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

On a smaller scale, we are living in communities prone to conflicts.

China is also a disaster prone developing country.

The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

Left to their own devices, markets are prone to extremes of euphoria and despair.

Man is prone to say Shall I be raised to life after I die ?

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

Certain projects currently in progress in countries or pilot areas are endeavouring to produce vulnerability maps of degradation or the risk of land degradation.

Conventional development policy has been prone to fads, moving from one big fix to another.

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.

Being poor makes you prone to conflict, and being in conflict makes you poor.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Despite the fact that it is prone to shattering, it is very strong structurally.

Increasingly, such teams include emergency managers from disaster prone countries.

Other earthquake prone countries must take action on this matter.

We also have to confront the serious degradation of the environment.

Some crisis prone countries such as Latvia are already unable to sell any more debt.

He concludes, cautiously, that television is an institution where people are more prone to obey

Control In many countries around the world, waterways prone to floods are often carefully managed.

FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

Democracies such as India may seem at times to move too slowly and be prone to paralysis.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) attaches great importance to combating soil degradation.

Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.

And, if the BRICs slow down, they may be more prone to debt and currency crises.

For starters, the Sprague Dawley strain of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.

Declaratively, young people are more prone to division of duties in the household on equal footage.

Also, studies had shown that men who had committed acts of violence were prone to relapses.

In response to questions about the anaerobic degradation of appliances in landfills, Mr. Ashford said that research was only in its early stages and that it was important to establish the nature of the degradation products before looking at what could be done to look at enhancing the process of anaerobic degradation.

Statistics show that male workers (3.9 ) are more prone to occupational injuries diseases compared to female workers (1.5 ).

There are no oases of prosperity in a crisis prone globalized world.

A system governed by such rules is prone to give rise to various social conflicts, and perhaps to violence.

Syria states that samples were collected to evaluate the degradation of each artefact.

Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

China s economy is prone to rapid growth, with buoyant investment demand sustaining powerful short term inflationary pressures.