Those protracted conflict situations are terrible problems for the regions in which they linger.

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

The protracted nature of the conflict and lack of active hostilities meant that international attention had also faded.

But the protracted conflict contributed to the decline of both empires and devastated Iraq, leaving behind a deep sectarian cleavage.

Olga Kyryliuk (OK) Freedom of expression is gradually deteriorating in Ukraine as the conflict in the East of the country gets protracted.

Now, however, a new generation of organized criminal groups is emerging from States embroiled in or emerging from protracted periods of conflict.

Human rights violations in the form of violence are pervasive throughout the OPT as a result of the protracted conflict and occupation.

Protracted situations

Our young democracy is struggling with the difficulties of transition and suffers as it has for more than 13 years from a protracted, unsolved conflict inspired and supported from abroad.

Everything about the man was, indeed, protracted.

However, despite this positive picture, a climate of protracted social and humanitarian crisis endured through the year, punctuated by an intensification of the conflict, ongoing barrier construction and persistent fiscal crisis.

He carried out a protracted war of national liberation.

Moreover, it is likely to be a protracted performance.

Unfortunately, over the same period a number of protracted conflicts have continued to keep millions of people displaced and in conditions of great insecurity. The conflict in northern Uganda has continued for over 18 years.

Particularly troubling is France's protracted incarceration of pre trial suspects.

Yet high and protracted unemployment plagues many less skilled workers.

They should include more peacebuilding activities, particularly during protracted conflicts.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

The result of protracted US weakness is also a weaker Europe.

He rejected recent allegations that countries affected by the protracted armed conflict used the refugees as pawns, and stressed that it was lack of political will to address the root causes of displacement that had led to the prolongation of the armed conflict and the continued occupation of parts of his country.

The same applies to the protracted negotiations between developed and developing nations.

They have also accumulated large protracted arrears with the international financial institutions.

Microsoft s advantage, and its business model, goes back to another protracted legal struggle.

Future efforts will focus on situation specific approaches, notably for protracted refugee situations.

As the Security Council knows and as is normal in any situation of protracted conflict, such as that in Côte d'Ivoire deep seated mistrust among the Ivorian leaders continues to hamper the advance towards the resolution of the Ivorian crisis.

He died of pneumonia in Paris on 6 March 1950 after a protracted illness.

As I observed in my last report, however, the protracted stalemate is inherently destabilizing.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

New Zealand was not prepared to continue the protracted and inconclusive process for another decade.

Protracted check ins and check outs reduce the effective stay of UNMOs in the field.

But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can hurt competitiveness and require costly resource allocation.

Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis.

They were aimed at improving Germany's ability to survive a long, protracted war in the West.

Protracted civil conflicts have provoked some of the largest occurrences of forced displacement in recent times.

In 2004, some two thirds of the global refugee population remained in limbo in protracted situations.

He withstood a series of protracted sieges in Amman (1970), Beirut (1982), and in Ramallah (2002 2004).

All of this, according to Reinhart and Rogoff, involves a protracted and pronounced contraction in economic activity.

Fortunately, an L shaped period of protracted economic stagnation Japan s experience in the 1990 s is unlikely.

But none of the reserves could be exploited until 1988, when Chad s protracted civil war finally ended.

Protracted refugee situations, which had lasted for more than five years, were a different type of obstacle.

Strikes were not illegal although a protracted procedure of mediation and reconciliation had to be exhausted first.

Advanced economies will face sluggish (call it 2 ) growth and persistently high, increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment.

World monetary conditions seem to point to a protracted period of high liquidity and low international interest rates.

Resettlement was another important solution for refugees, particularly for the many who lived in limbo in protracted situations.