It concludes with recommendations for improving and stepping up policy.

Australia is stepping up its regional outreach efforts.

Some countries are already stepping up to the challenge.

Often called the ratchet mechanism, it could push countries to keep stepping up and help bridge the gap between policy and science.

Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.

It was important for the transitional government to find ways to improve the daily living conditions of Iraqis, by stepping up reconstruction, development and humanitarian activities.

a great stepping stone for the Ministry to come up with its first ever major national policy document.

Arbitrary detentions and police raids constitute an invasion of privacy, stepping up the risk of gender based violence.

For our part, both the World Bank and the IMF are stepping up financial, technical, and analytical trade related assistance.

It is significant that Bernanke will be stepping down at the beginning of 2014.

This increase was partly the result of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations stepping up its policy, as outlined above.

We are also stepping up our technical assistance to strengthen economic policy making in Africa, and opening two new regional technical assistance centers.

That is why we favour stepping up international efforts agreed within the United Nations to reduce the spread of that pandemic in Africa.

Burkina Faso had established specific sub sectoral programmes with a view to stepping up the protection of natural resources and improving their management.

The Government of Kazakhstan is stepping up its measures to strengthen national systems aimed at the monitoring, control, transport and physical protection of nuclear materials.

As one Indian family described their visit to McDonald s, it was stepping out for a slice of America.

Happily, we see that leadership is stepping forward forcefully.

Lastly, it had discussed the work of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications and he was pleased to note that the Programme was stepping up its efforts to help countries develop and implement new projects as a follow up to various programme activities.

We are also determined to continue to work at the international level with a view to stepping up our mobilization to meet their needs and legitimate aspirations.

The US must move to reduce its budget deficit in the medium term. Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.

Syria is also stepping up its production and the effectiveness of its human resource development by reforming education, undertaking research and development, and developing professional and manufacturing facilities.

Secondly, the round table recommended stepping up programmes for children at greatest risk by, among other things, eliminating the cost of schooling and expanding nutritional programmes in schools.

So, it's very indiscernible, but it's actually a continuous stair stepping.

And what you end up seeing is the whole phenomenon of the fact that we are actually stepping forth and basically leveraging future education, future children in our households.

The International Monetary Fund is also stepping up its work in this area, through spillover reports on China, the euro zone, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The international community, for its part, should respond to that dire humanitarian situation by stepping up its assistance and engaging with the Government with a view to promoting dialogue.

The Russian Federation referred to the main anti terrorism instruments prepared within the framework of CIS as a firm basis for stepping up effective joint efforts to combat terrorism.

In fact, stepping out of one s comfort zone may offer significant benefits.

Of the 46 goals that were set in 1999, 34 (74 ) had been implemented by 2002. The majority of these have contributed to stepping up the ministries' own emancipation policy.

And yet, if I've learned anything in nearly 12 years now of dragging heavy things around cold places, it is that true, real inspiration and growth only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what's comfortable and familiar and stepping out into the unknown.

As former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put it shortly before stepping down, any adviser recommending such action should have his head examined.

So we need to focus more on adapting to the effects of global warming for example, by stepping up efforts to cope with inland flooding and the urban heat island effect.

For us developed countries that means significantly stepping up our official development assistance (ODA) and establishing timetables to reach the agreed ODA target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income.

Members of the international community can provide critical support to Iraq's transition process by stepping up their reconstruction and development assistance, both through the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq and bilaterally.

That award comes at a crucial moment in Chinese politics, as it may well become a stepping stone on China s long march toward greater freedom.

In this case, the driver stepping on the brake will give the passengers more confidence.

Stepping off the plane at Xieng Khuang province we were in a very rural area.

It's more about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going, emotions coming and going without judgment, but with a relaxed, focused mind.

It is for this reason that, while Nigeria welcomes the Declaration for now, it cannot help but see it as only a stepping stone to a comprehensive convention on the total banning of human cloning.

The countries of the Horn of Africa are now stepping forward to help themselves through this approach.

So, before stepping down, Mahathir went so far as to declare Malaysia a de facto Muslim state.

Stepping out of that unwelcoming mindset can be beneficial both for the refugees and the host countries.

Therefore, adequate attention should also be given to the international dimension of implementing the Plan of Action, namely, the need for stepping up efforts aimed at fulfilling the commitments under section C of the Plan of Action.

Some have been assassinated, one committed suicide, and others were arrested and condemned to death after stepping down.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.