The time is counted once the temperature that is needed has been reached.

Some progress has been made in the new Evian approach, but greater transparency and flexibility are needed.

Major groups also note that progress has been made, but suggest that further clarification of social aspects is needed.

Four steps are needed to restart such a process. The first step, revival of the Quartet, has already been taken.

At no other time in its history has an effective, efficient and credible United Nations been more needed than today.

As many studies have shown, Brazil has not been able or has not wanted to adopt the modernizing reforms needed to promote a productivity boom.

Some progress has been made, but more is needed for example, getting China to join the World Trade Organization s Government Procurement Agreement.

The military has been actively recruiting Muslims with the linguistic skills and cultural understanding needed to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This has brought the region much needed stability.

In the process, a basic principle of modern capitalism that when debtors cannot pay back creditors, a fresh start is needed has been overturned.

The ICG doesn t do that, but it has always been absolutely insistent on saying whatever has needed to be said, and in practice governments have been remarkably tolerant of specific criticism, provided it is well supported and well argued.

A proposal has been approved for, and the Office of the Prime Minister has committed funding to unblock, an assessment of informal settlements needed to design a regularization strategy and action plan.

Although some progress has been made in improving regulation and enforcement, industry lobbies have largely succeeded in delaying essential reforms needed to ensure global financial stability.

One means of developing the knowledge and skills needed for developing the public private partnership modality has been the creation of dedicated public private partnership programmes.

In the past, the estimation of resources needed has not adequately addressed the amounts needed for human and institutional infrastructure.

The challenge has been to combine its mathematical insights with the kinds of adjustments that are needed to make its models fit the economy s irreducibly human element.

Several difficult areas remain, however, where further progress is needed for the European Commission to consider that significant progress has been achieved across all 16 reform priorities.

Questions had been posed and the organization needed to be given time to reply.

To date, the secretariat's work and its results have been found to benefit from coordination between the secretariat's programmes, so action has been taken to clarify mandates and streamline the links between different managerial groups where needed.

Without information, the Council cannot assess what has been done so far in terms of implementation and what additional measures are needed to improve our common defences against terrorism.

In co operation with UNHCR's Division of Information Systems and Telecommunications (DIST), the Protection Information Section has been working on making several needed changes to the Refworld customer database.

There have been some increases in capital requirements but far short of what is needed.

While progress has been encouraging, greater efforts are still needed, including in countries with low prevalence, to establish baselines and improve understanding of the impact of HIV AIDS on children.

In many ways, it's the most parochial, because for 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations.

The absence of a common denominator among EU governments positions has hardly been conducive to the emergence of the cogent and reliable diplomacy needed to address the Middle East s deep problems.

The monitoring of blogs has been going on for many years but needed two or three articles in the newspaper for people on the street to get used to such a development.

Iran has put into place much of what is needed to produce nuclear weapons.

Additional efforts and measures are needed, and have been announced, to combat HIV AIDS and other STDs.

But the country s leaders have been stalling on the terms of a much needed International Monetary Fund loan.

There had been some backlash and such measures needed to be applied carefully and in a balanced manner.

One prominent argument lately has been that what is needed most is Keynesian economic stimulus for example, deficit spending. After all, people are most creative when they are active, not when they are unemployed.

3 The importance of enabling the institutional environment needed to implement the Millennium Development Goals has been highlighted in the United Nations Millennium Declaration (see General Assembly resolution 55 2 and A 59 282).

Thus, a new social contract is needed, especially as a new, post Soviet generation of Russians has entered political life a generation that has not been poisoned by the fear that decades of state terror in the USSR implanted in their forebears.

Japan s political system requires the same sort of structural reform that its economy has long needed.

The Target of Opportunity programme has the advantage of making a large telescope available when needed.

Therefore, it is highly encouraging that since our discussion of this issue in April 2004, considerable progress has been achieved in mobilizing much needed international support and broader involvement on the part of all stakeholders.

Moreover, it has been observed that for microfinance institutions to be successful, an enabling atmosphere is needed which can best be guaranteed by a sound macroeconomic policy framework that avoids crises originating domestically and abroad.

Since there has been no rise in inventories, there has been no speculation.

In fact, it has been found within every population that has been studied.

Yet the global resources and instruments needed to manage (if not avert) the next crisis have not been secured.

Although significant progress had been achieved since the World Summit for Social Development, much more needed to be done.

While much has changed in the years since the Organization's creation, and while the United Nations has not always fulfilled our expectations, the hope and the ideals that inspired its founders remain just as alive and just as needed today as they have ever been.

The Secretary General has noted that while the international community's attention has been forcefully directed to the importance of such threats, there is concern that the financial and human resources required to solve the multidimensional interlinked problems will fall well short of what is needed.

But Russia s pressure on Georgia has been even heavier and has scarcely been noticed.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.