As a long term strategy, energy embargoes have always proven to be futile. Saudi Arabia saw its share of world oil exports drop sharply in the 12 years after the 1973 1974 embargo.

A final reason for the West to change course is that Western sanctions are proving increasingly useless.

For thirty five years, it has proven its effectiveness, above all in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

The crime prevention instruments have proved useful in feeding discussion about general standards developed in other parts of the United Nations system.

Visiting missions had proved useful in that regard and she hoped they would continue in the same spirit of cooperation.

But even a joint expert level mechanism set up in 2007 merely for interaction and cooperation on hydrological data has proven of little value.

A variety of tools such as gender disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems and gender sensitive indicators have proven useful.

7. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, to prepare a handbook, for use by competent authorities, of proven and promising practices in the fight against kidnapping, including

Factors that impede the optimal effectiveness of such resources include the failure of programmes to target those who need them the most, the failure to implement interventions with proven scientific effectiveness and bureaucratic obstacles to the rapid disbursement and use of available funds.

Additional technical parameters applied in the course of ongoing monitoring and verification, that could be practicably verified with a minimal degree of ambiguity, have proven to be effective tools that prevented Iraq from developing proscribed missiles in the presence of international inspectors.

They put money into unproven policy initiatives.

The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.

Satisfied that the current working methods of the Commission have proved their efficiency,

For example, in the face of investor pressure, pharmaceutical companies have cut their research activities dramatically, relying instead on acquisition strategies. The aim is to de risk by buying up firms that have already carried out all of the costly blue skies research and have developed proven drugs.

The 1990 s concept of a European Defense Identity within NATO proved to be unviable and since then expansion of the alliance and proliferation of NATO partners has made the idea of a special collective role for EU members all the more improbable.

Moreover, he appears to believe that confrontations between the state and civil society are counterproductive.

Now the Fukushima tragedy is being used to justify continuing these economically dubious programs.

Its inclusiveness and open ended nature were highlighted by many delegations as indicators of its relevance and success.

They will also be intended to ensure the quality of UNIDO services in terms of relevance and impact to target beneficiaries.

But America s strategy has failed.

Such activities have proven to be successful.

Sadly, his prediction proved correct.

The facts have shown the opposite to be true.

Events are showing that to be so.

The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable. The second is undesirable because it buys stability at the cost of growth.

It is not naïve to believe that nuclear deterrence is both fragile operationally, and of thoroughly dubious utility in sustaining the peace.

That extreme expedient can be considered only when all other efforts have been exhausted and peaceful solutions have proved not to be viable.

Vietnam proved to be the end not the beginning of the line.

By and large, that prediction has proven to be correct.

Even the experiment with electronic voting machines was a qualified success.

The crisis proved that this was inadequate.

If it were to be other than such a compilation, any document would probably be so controversial as to lose any potential usefulness.

Two decades later, these efforts have proven to be a spectacular success.

The last few years demonstrate that neither approach will work.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

The UN process worked. It was US policy that failed.

It has shown that it can defeat Georgia s army.

Only Einstein's theory proved to be consistent with experiments and observations.

That has proved very beneficial and will be continued.

Further requests the Executive Director to review the options included in its resolution 46 9 and to consider their viability in the current situation

While voluntary contributions could theoretically yield immediate cash resources, its feasibility depends to a large extent on the likelihood and timing of necessary donations.

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war. The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.

But huge damage was done in 2001, when then Prime Minister John Howard s government refused to allow the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 438 rescued Afghans from a distressed fishing vessel, to enter Australian waters.

Brazil has demonstrated the ability to be a technological export power.

Repeated studies have shown that well designed buildings are more comfortable.