Following each successive request, there was a decrease in the number of Parties responding.

The Commission on Human Rights has been following the human rights situation in Colombia with concern for a number of years, as reflected in successive statements of its Chairperson.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

Tony Blair has achieved a remarkable third successive electoral victory.

And it s been split up in successive bits and a chord.

Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.

Since then, successive Polish governments of varied orientations have taken turns.

On the other hand, Republika Srpska does not limit work contracts by defining justified cases, or a number of successive contracts it imposes an overall limitation to two years of assignment to a definite term.

ATHENS European integration implies successive transfers of national sovereignty to the Union.

Iraq s children have suffered more than just successive wars and economic sanctions.

Even though the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina allows work contracts to be renewed only if justified , in numerous, law defined cases, it does not limit the number of successive contracts, or maximum cumulative term of contracts.

More consistent and harmonized management by the successive Presidents could facilitate consensus building.

Between successive sessions of the Assembly, the Council of IMO, who is the governing body meets in regular sessions every six months and performs the functions of the Assembly between successive sessions of the Assembly.

But, successive presidents since Jacques Chirac have failed to reconcile the French with politics.

Successive General Assembly resolutions and Executive Board decisions have expanded the role of UNIFEM.

Women's health is in a precarious condition, because of a number of interrelated factors, such as successive childbirths, food taboos, harmful traditional practices, heavy domestic and farm chores, that adversely affect their capacity to work and undermine their health.

This crucial link facilitates change in a trait s average value over successive generations. For example, if larger individuals produce more children than smaller ones, the number of larger individuals would grow, thereby increasing the average size of individuals in the population.

In general, Marxism identified five (and one transitional) successive stages of development in Western Europe.

After the Indian rebellion of 1857, successive British governments saw Afghanistan as a buffer state.

It has been the same in France, which has been built by successive waves of immigrants.

The purchasing power of the population is steadily deteriorating, resulting in successive strikes by civil servants.

Successive speakers have pleaded helplessness in the face of such determined obstructionism by the principal opposition party.

Nigeria endured almost 15 years of it, despite repeated pledges by three successive dictators to restore democracy.

Having examined the grave situation resulting from the continued policies of successive Israeli governments hostile to peace,

But political parties advocating for implementation of Sharia have lost ground in successive elections from 1955 to 2009.

Successive regimes of the 19th century responded to such pressures with a combination of halfhearted reform and repression.

Following the appointment of two successive special rapporteurs, the first independent expert was appointed on 26 July 2004.

The discovery is the result of a strategic policy maintained through successive Brazilian administrations, something unusual in Latin America.

But, after a short lived non LDP government, successive coalition governments until 2009 had the LDP at their core.

Dr. Khan's export of centrifuge technology was unknown to successive governments in Pakistan, says the country's leader, General Pervez Musharraf.

Fourth, gold prices rose sharply when real (inflation adjusted) interest rates became increasingly negative after successive rounds of quantitative easing.

Successive waves of QE would amount to debasing the value of the dollar, and thus inflating away massive US debts.

The fate and whereabouts of allegedly disappeared people had occasionally been clarified in successive reports prepared by an investigative committee.

The commitment in the Charter's preamble, often quoted this morning, was to save successive generations from the scourge of war .

It is crumbling because of the devastating effects of successive natural disasters and the ecological damage to its deteriorated environment.

They had fought against the attitude of successive governments that based their policies on silence, lack of information and manipulation.

Moreover, successive national constitutions had proclaimed equality between men and women, and the courts had regularly upheld the constitutional provisions.

The turning point was the April 2006 people s movement, when hundreds of thousands took to the streets for nineteen successive days.

2010 was the third successive year in which natural change contributed more to population growth than net long term international migration.

There is currently some confusion of the identity of these metal ions, as successive attempts to identify them yield different answers.

The accounting for advances made to UNDP and the recording of expenditure in UNHCR books has been done through successive steps.

The accounting for advances made to UNDP and the recording of expenditure in UNHCR books has been done through successive steps.

Delays have led to successive strikes in the prisons of Mpimba in Bujumbura as well as in Ngozi and Muyinga prisons.

The need to expand training for procurement staff has been reiterated in successive General Assembly resolutions on procurement reform since 1996.

But its bridge building agenda foundered on growing Chinese assertiveness, leading successive DPJ governments to bolster Japan s security ties with the US.