This assertion does not withstand scrutiny.

Many observers would find this assertion shocking.

Certainly you have made an abominable assertion

Certainly you have made an abominable assertion

This level of borrowing poses a new type of financial risk for China. But how big and dangerous is that risk?

This level of borrowing poses a new type of financial risk for China.

Self assertion became the watchword of German foreign policy.

Political leaders were thinking about national revival and assertion.

There is a core of truth in this assertion.

Most important, States should also conceive mechanisms that allow bottom up disaster risk reduction initiatives, originating at the community level and contributing to the shaping of disaster risk reduction policy and programmes at the national level.

American election year politics may also be behind this assertion.

increasing assertion of the role of nuclear weapons in military doctrines

More would not accept the king s assertion of supremacy over the church.

National assertion is a way of combating impersonal forces and remote authorities.

The author has not rebutted this assertion, which she herself passed on.

The Conference attracted worldwide attention and assumed an unprecedented level of significance with regard to disaster risk reduction.

Many consider India s increasing mobilization along caste lines a welcome assertion of identity.

As real interest rates and risk premia begin to rise, the level of global trade and investment will decline.

Populist political movements in many countries were still thinking about national revival and assertion.

The pro austerity argument is pure assertion, but it is meant to be a testable assertion, so econometricians have been busy trying to prove that the less the government spends, the faster the economy will grow.

UNDP has leveraged the pro bono services of an external independent firm to conduct a preliminary risk inventory and high level road map for the implementation of enterprise risk management in UNDP.

Given the high risk premiums currently prevailing in Europe, this percentage is too low to constitute a level playing field.

Greater awareness in respect of natural disaster risk management planning and capacity building at the national level will be crucial.

Countries in North America, Europe and Oceania indicated a high level of specific types of intervention targeting at risk groups.

We concur that strengthening community level capacities to reduce disaster risk at the local level is especially needed, considering that appropriate disaster reduction measures at that level enable the communities and individuals to reduce significantly their vulnerability to hazards.

The right to national self determination does not imply an assertion of de jure independence.

This assertion is substantiated by the number of girls with disabilities (43) rehabilitated and integrated in the educational system at primary school level, in the rehabilitation program known as known as the Basic Community Attendance in progress in Mozambique, since 1993.

Similarly, the alarmingly high level of youth joblessness increases the risk of relatively new entrants into the labor force becoming unemployable.

We need to take additional measures to reduce the level of systemic risk including limiting the size of our largest banks.

With this behavior, Moscow is again testing resistance to its assertion of regional dominance in Ukraine.

We welcome the Secretary General's assertion that Article 51 of the Charter should not be changed.

In order to reduce disaster risks, countries and communities must first identify risk factors, decide what level of risk is acceptable, and then take steps to reduce risks or transfer them away from affected areas.

But it also demonstrates the robust assertion of national interest by new players on the global scene.

Moreover, all the relevant national legislation is unambiguous in its assertion of equality between women and men.

Although it is not yet in force, such procedure is occasionally used in Portugal, namely in flights with a certain level of risk.

United Nations and associated personnel at particular risk should be afforded a similar level of protection to that provided under the 1973 Convention.

Street level interventions and prevention measures for groups at risk nevertheless require significant expansion to actually address the full dimension of the problem.

What does that mean? Well, explanation is an assertion about what's there, unseen, that accounts for what's seen.

The assertion that the eurozone could be transformed into a United States of Europe is no longer convincing.

(a) The activities of Mr. Choi, contrary to the assertion of the Government, were not illegal and criminal.

Should a risk exist, it would probably be of a local character since the complainant has only been politically active at the local level.

And, in all of today s hotspots, the assertion of interests by neighboring or nearby countries has complicated matters further.

One frequently hears the assertion that democracies electoral cycles are poorly suited to implementing long term, forward looking policies.

In other words, Russians looked only for the agenda, the motivation behind the assertion. The actual truth was irrelevant.

4.1 In its submissions of 21 June 2002, the State party's principal assertion is that the communication is inadmissible.