That is why parents prefer sending their sons to school, to the detriment of girls.

Girls are expected to marry at a very young age, to the detriment of their education.

2. Risk and detriment

To the detriment of their own people, its leaders, Haled Mash'al and Ismail Hanieh, want neither peace nor compromise.

His success was never to the detriment of others.

10. Membership at both levels implies no detriment to either.

But European elites, preoccupied with short term fixes, have not considered the long term need for such revisions to their own detriment.

This would ensure adequate representation without detriment to the efficiency of the system.

To the detriment of their own people, its leaders, Haled Mash'al and Ismail Hanieh, want neither peace nor compromise. Like their friend and supporter, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran, they want Israel dead.

The peoples of small countries will eagerly accept civilizational integration if it is not to the detriment of the individual quality of their State, culture and economy.

It would also be ineffective, because developing countries will legitimately refuse to assume by themselves the burden of protecting the world s biodiversity to the detriment of their economic growth.

But Europe cannot build up its own agriculture to the detriment of the less fortunate.

This would be to the detriment of the other party relying on the signor's signature.

This gives less time for late effects to develop and thus reduces the relative detriment.

gt gt In this country, being stupid is no longer considered to be a detriment.

Here is the dilemma Governments with substantial assets have flexibility and the capacity to act, but they can also mismanage their assets to the detriment of markets and economic dynamism.

Draft guideline 3.1.5 seemed to stress the letter of the treaty to the detriment of its spirit.

During the twentieth century, the terms of trade had changed to the detriment of developing countries.

The shortcomings work, in my opinion, to the detriment of the best interests of the child.

It has used all means available to found settlements, bringing settlers from all over the world, to the detriment of the inhabitants of the Syrian Golan, who have been deprived of their basic freedoms and their human rights.

The areas where cybertechniques can be used to the detriment of the community are being gradually identified.

So whoever is faithless , his unfaith is to his own detriment . The unfaith of the faithless does not increase them with their Lord in anything except disfavour , and their unfaith increases the faithless in nothing except loss .

So whoever is faithless , his unfaith is to his own detriment . The unfaith of the faithless does not increase them with their Lord in anything except disfavour , and their unfaith increases the faithless in nothing except loss .

They had thus liberalized their economies and their trade, which was economically rational, but their example had not been followed by the industrialized nations, where short sighted special interests were acting to the detriment of society and the global economy in general.

That would encourage the major Powers to bypass it and would undermine the Council, to the detriment of all.

Very clever Buenos Aires street vendors decided to practice price discrimination to the detriment of any passing gringo tourists.

The big Powers seek to use it to the detriment of the rights of the developing countries, which they selectively accuse of violating human rights with a view to interfering in their internal affairs.

The agency's involvement in action on behalf of displaced persons should not be to the detriment of its main task of coordinating international action to protect refugees and find durable solutions to their problems.

The reasoning is simple and logical if someone fraudulently borrows money in my name, I am not expected to pay it back, and neither should a country s population when an unrepresentative leader borrows in their name and to their detriment.

Many unmarried young women with children still receive support from their families but there are indications that this may be changing, to the detriment of the child and the young mother.

This is why most of the insurrections, rebellions and fratricidal conflicts have their origins in violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms to the detriment of large swathes of the population.

He who commits a sin , commits it only to his detriment . Surely Allah is All Knowing , All Wise .

He who commits a sin , commits it only to his detriment . Surely Allah is All Knowing , All Wise .

That works to the detriment of Bolivia and of all countries involved in this struggle against the odds.

Economic and political capital appeared to be focusing on the economies in transition to the detriment of the developing countries.

One approach to this issue is to consider whether the savings to creditors collectively would outweigh the incidental detriment to individual creditors.

But such a consensus could produce results only if Governments, the Bretton Woods institutions and transnational corporations refrained from pursuing only their own objectives and priorities to the detriment of global interests.

Membership in any national minority or ethnic group may not be used to the detriment of any individual and

Any precipitous withdrawal, however, would be to the detriment of innocent Somali people and is likely to reverse the whole process.

We see no need to transform the Commission on Human Rights into a small Council which could be used selectively by certain influential forces and groups as an instrument to promote their interests, to the detriment of others.

(b) All principles and norms must be fully present, and no norm must be made to predominate to the detriment of another.

To support its allegation that the detention of Dr. Al Faleh, Dr Al Hamed and Mr. Al Damini was necessary to protect public interest, even to the detriment of their freedoms enshrined in international law, the Government ought to have specified why and how their activity endangered public order.

The comparison of doses in diagnosis and therapy may not, however, correctly reflect the relative detriment.

The granting of such relief may need to be balanced against potential detriment to the interests of creditors generally or to the debtor's assets.

A country that takes in those without other places to go... that opens its arms and its heart often at detriment to itself.