Nor is India or Russia likely to pose a serious challenge.

For Israel, of course, developments in Gaza pose a great challenge.

Systemic risks drive most crises, and pose a challenge for several reasons.

The challenge that small arms and light weapons pose for us is complex.

Problems of landlessness and lack of housing facilities pose a significant challenge to sustainable returns.

After all, China is not alone India and other competitive developing countries pose a similar challenge to the US.

Small arms and light weapons pose a great challenge to the maintenance of peace and security in the Caribbean region.

We recognize that trafficking in persons continues to pose a serious challenge to humanity and requires a concerted international response.

On balance, the impact of technological progress will be positive. But that does not negate the massive challenge it will pose.

The second act will be about restoring growth prospects for the EU periphery, which will pose an even more difficult challenge.

30. We recognise that the continuing high oil prices pose a major economic challenge to many developing countries in reaching MDGs targets.

Third, those developments, together with a weakening dollar, will pose a major challenge to maintaining growth and macroeconomic stability in the months ahead.

Such a resounding collapse of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty would pose a formidable challenge to the world community, particularly to the Middle East.

International standards, including technical standards and sanitary and phytosanitary standards, can also pose an additional challenge to developing countries with regard to accessing international markets.

They see in the West a mixture of respect for their achievements and apprehension for the challenge they now pose, and that fills them with pride.

While quantitative restrictions have been banished, properly identifying, defining, classifying and disciplining a plethora of non tariff barriers and market entry barriers pose a major challenge.

As long as protests remain local, however, they can be managed as isolated cases that won t pose a broader challenge or spark a movement toward systemic change.

In this case, large diameter branches pose a greater challenge, since the animal cannot place its forelimbs closer to the center of the branch than its hindlimbs.

Insufficiently clear targets for child protection continue to pose the challenge of ensuring that this priority area is appropriately considered in macro level plans, including in PRSs.

But that acknowledgement of reality does not end the drama. The second act will be about restoring growth prospects for the EU periphery, which will pose an even more difficult challenge.

Bearing in mind the recent nuclear tests, as well as the regional situations, which pose a challenge to international efforts to strengthen the global regime for non proliferation of nuclear weapons,

Bearing in mind the recent nuclear tests, as well as the regional situations, which pose a challenge to international efforts to strengthen the global regime for non proliferation of nuclear weapons,

They pose a particular challenge in the developing world, where a demographic bulge equal to the great baby boom that occurred in the West at the end of World War II is growing.

The continuing violence and insecurity affecting the population pose a major challenge to the national and international actors involved in the Congolese conflict and to those trying to find a solution to it.

Recognizing that contemporary forms of slavery violate human rights and that trafficking in persons impairs the enjoyment of human rights, continues to pose a serious challenge to humanity and requires a concerted international response,

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear programmes pose a serious challenge to the international non proliferation regime, centring on the NPT, and constitute a direct threat to peace and stability in North East Asia.

Other feedback loops pose a similar danger.

New medical devices pose equally difficult dilemmas.

Dangerous financial systems pose big fiscal risks.

They pose both conceptual and practical challenges.

Noting further that the Caribbean region has been hard hit, and in some cases devastated, by hurricanes in 2004, and concerned that their frequency, intensity and destructive power pose a challenge to the development endeavours of the region,

Near Earth objects (NEOs) pose a global threat.

Power outages and computer crashes also pose problems.

Noting further that the Caribbean region has been hard hit, and in some cases devastated, by hurricanes in the recent past, and concerned that their frequency, intensity and destructive power continue to pose a challenge to the development of the region,

But a modified and more pragmatic stance that focuses on Hamas s behavior on the ground, rather than on abstract conditions, would not only be demanding for Western decision makers it would pose a major political challenge for Hamas as well.

Christian Democrats pose no danger to democracies in Europe.

The Chairperson invited Committee members to pose additional questions.

In introducing item 4, the Chief of the International Arrangements Section, DITE, said that the number of international disputes arising from investment agreements had increased dramatically over the past five years, and that this development would pose a particular challenge for developing countries.

Fortunately, Straw s example does not pose such a sharp dilemma.

New cohorts will pose a danger for years to come.

Articles 11 to 14 did not pose any special difficulties.

The discussions at the Second Biennial Meeting of States highlighted the fact that illicit small arms and light weapons continued to pose a complex and multifaceted challenge to international peace and security, social and economic development, human security, public health and human rights, among others.

Sometimes it might even pose high costs for the alleged beneficiaries.

Nor does Ukraine s relationship with NATO pose a threat to Russia.

Finally, it identifies particular issues which are likely to pose difficulties.