Extreme poverty is a major cause, and predictor, of violence.

Academic research has shown that the national ACSI score is a strong predictor of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, and an even stronger predictor of Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) growth.

Similarly, other studies have explored the extent to which shared leadership can predict a team's effectiveness or performance, and have found it to be a significant predictor, and often a better predictor than vertical leadership.

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In poorer countries, women s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children s well being than the stability of marriage.

Bernanke s defense was robust and unequivocal.

Finally, they will be robust democracies.

Although history is often a good predictor of future trends, every now and then something fundamental changes that makes for a new pattern.

Results of spirometry are also a good predictor of the future progress of the disease but not as good as the BODE index.

So this also turns out to be extremely robust.

And it shows you how robust the control is.

A more robust global financial system is urgently needed.

The threat of terrorism requires a robust security response.

These safeguards measures should facilitate robust peaceful nuclear cooperation.

Management, administrative and personnel practices are not sufficiently robust

For example, in a statistical linear model, it is assumed that a relationship is linear in the parameters, but it may be nonlinear in the predictor variables.

A robust international nuclear safety action plan is being implemented.

It is increasingly powerful, globally pro active, and economically robust.

This appeases public opinion, which demands robust anti terrorism action.

Today the essential concept of the United Nations remains robust.

But whatever measures of political qualities and ownership separation we use, the index of employment protection appears to be the best predictor of ownership separation in the wealthy West.

One study that directly compared a type instrument (the MBTI) to a trait instrument (the NEO PI) found that the trait measure was a better predictor of personality disorders.

Any robust solution must be reasonably simple to understand and implement.

Everyone in Europe and the world needs a unified, robust Europe.

The country s large and robust internal market accounts for the rest.

As a result, with investment demand remaining robust, inflation could spread.

Neither can be ignored if robust recovery is to be achieved.

Both South Korea and China are reluctant to support robust sanctions.

It impaired a number of European countries less robust than Germany.

Therefore, making satellites more robust may prove a more reliable option.

The current operational and tactical scenarios required robust rules of engagement.

Now it's bad enough that breast density makes it hard to find a cancer, but it turns out that it's also a powerful predictor of your risk for breast cancer.

This length of education in the L1 (language 1, first language), was the strongest predictor of both the children's competence and gains in L2, English, and of their school achievement.

So, I say that we have a 50 50 chance of reaching this RHR milestone, robust human rejuvenation, within 15 years from the point that we get to robust mouse rejuvenation.

Lack of robust credit growth will hamper private consumption and investment spending.

Coalition forces should take a more robust approach to the drug problem.

Economists have been trying to produce more robust answers to those questions.

But measures to make systems more resilient or robust would be incomplete.

Robust policy interventions are needed, but global policy platforms are in disarray.

It also puts at risk Turkey s robust economic penetration into Arab markets.

Consumer spending is particularly robust, as wages show signs of upward movement.

(b) In the fourth line, insert the word robust before the word monitoring .

88. In former paragraph 27C.6 (a), replace monitoring with robust monitoring mechanisms .

The EU s reluctance to match America s robust language on Iran is emboldening him.

They need a wider and more robust portfolio of ideas to draw upon.