Growth may be close to zero by the end of this year, as fiscal austerity kicks in and stock markets fall.

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight.

Towards the end of the year, we were close to meeting them for food, nutrition and health services, though not for water, sanitation or shelter.

The aim should be that by the close of Poland s EU presidency at the end of that year, all the countries will have completed screening and achieved candidate status.

Comment by the Administration. UNFPA was able to close its accounts and publish a set of financial statements for the 2004 financial year by the end of May 2005.

Education and end of year examinations

Finally, the end of the UNMISET mandate brought the serious crimes process to a close.

Six year old Wigdan woke up to bullets and shrapnel close to her bed.

At the end of my first year in school, in the summer of that year,

Country office staff are reminded that these reports are due by year end each year.

UNFPA reminds country office staff that these reports are due by year end each year.

Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897, close to the end of his imprisonment.

Current year obligations have been revalued at the year end United Nations operational rate of exchange.

State media recently started releasing year end mass incident statistics.

Superficially this looks about right to close the output gap if it is spent this year .

Management continues to pay close attention to the amounts recorded as unliquidated obligations throughout the year.

However, the defence is now presenting its evidence and will close its case early next year.

He commended UNRWA for ending the year 2004 with a budget surplus, but expressed concern that the current year might close with a deficit.

Despite this, Iraq won the 2004 AFC Team of the Year award by the end of the year.

Let us establish this Commission before the end of the year.

The talks could be finalized before the end of this year.

Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year.

The bottom may be near perhaps by the end of the year.

However, fewer than 40 days remained before the end of the year.

It was noted that, although imprest account levels had increased from USD 0.9 million (2002 year end) to USD 1.8 million (2004 year end), the administration of these accounts was well managed.

At the end of this month, James Wolfensohn s ten year tenure as President of the World Bank comes to an end.

The projected year end revenues and expenditures constitute a most likely case' scenario.

At the end of the following year, generator number 3 was also replaced.

It was hoped that 35,000 would return by the end of the year.

They accounted for 86 per cent of Singapore's OFDI at year end 2002.

All remaining suspense items have been investigated and addressed for year end closure.

We look forward to its becoming functional by the end of this year.

The emerging consensus among economists is that growth next year will be close to the trend rate of 2.5 .

Instead, GDP has collapsed, with the Spanish and Italian economies expected to contract by close to 2 this year.

The Court must have a solid financial basis as its business came to a close over the following year.

At the end of the year, one of the twelve Playmates of the Month is named Playmate of the Year (PMOY).

(c) Lift local curfews, end road closures and close checkpoints and allow free access to schools, hospitals and places of work

Only this year, the city administration has started to close down some brothels because of their ties to criminal organizations.

Some Council members are known to support two more rate hikes before year end.

Reserves at year end decreased to 142 million, back to their level of 2001.

To this end, about 500 Reception Classes and 700 Tutorial Courses operated last year.

It is still intended to hold the elections before the end of this year.

The project will run up to the end of the 2003 2004 school year.

They have called for a review of progress by the end of this year.

Only an acceptable deal on the refugees can definitely close the 1948 file and only then can the conflict in Palestine end.