Progress in achieving the MDGs is far from what was originally envisaged.

Requirements were also lower than anticipated under maintenance services for laundry, catering, waste disposal and for perimeter fencing and gates.

The variance of 521,600 under this heading is attributable to the rental of fewer than planned speedboats and pushers.

In particular, GDP growth is expected to be 1 per cent lower than predicted earlier in Sri Lanka owing to the effects of the tsunami.

If a smaller number than anticipated is received, and if no effective competition can be expected, a procuring entity may be required to withdraw the auction under paragraph 4 (d).

Neither the planned sanctions nor the recently published US Nuclear Posture Review, a far less revolutionary document than expected, will curb Iran s nuclear appetite.

At the same time, it reflects, in many ways, a lower than expected consensus and should be taken as the basis for further reform efforts.

Initially, there was little basis for re pricing them rationally, because the event (a peacetime decline in US house prices) was unprecedented.

There was less traffic than I anticipated.

Where limestone has been used, such as at Cwm Rheidol in mid Wales, the positive impact has been much less than anticipated because of the creation of an insoluble calcium sulfate layer on the limestone chips, binding the material and preventing further neutralization.

Too high, and you lost business too low, and you got less than people were willing to pay.

But, given the dire circumstances at the outset, we have done far better than could have been expected and, indeed, was expected by many in 2001.

Nonetheless, although progress has been somewhat slower than expected, the unification process in Mostar remains on track.

The unutilized balance resulted primarily from the fact that not all the planned conferences of the Eritrea Ethiopia Border Commission and meetings of the Military Coordination Commission took place, and requirements for military escorts for evacuations were fewer than anticipated.

The path to today s crisis was predictable.

The global economy and the US economy, in particular is growing faster than expected, and world oil prices are above 100 per barrel.

Iran has strengthened its influence in Iraq, and has helped to keep the Assad regime, a key ally, in power much longer than expected.

Our gross domestic product (GDP) has exceeded the goals we set, and investment in the fight against poverty, has, as a proportion of GDP, also been slightly higher than forecast.

For example, a study on chess players revealed that female players performed more poorly than expected when they were told they would be playing against a male opponent.

One of the highlights of the meeting was the fact that the Transitional Government of Haiti had more financial resources than expected, as revenues were higher and disbursements lower than anticipated.

As for Europe, it did nothing which was foreseeable.

He put less enthusiasm into the work, leading to escalating arguments with Lewis.

62. Notes with concern that the multilingual development and enrichment of the United Nations web site has been slower than expected because of a lack of resources, among other factors

However, owing to the slower than anticipated pace of trial activities in the biennium 2004 2005, various objects of expenditure reflect a lower than anticipated level of requirements.

Predictably, the Fed s critics are up in arms.

As expected, the arrival of summer has resulted in an increased level of activity of opposing militant forces.

(e) Deployment of fewer than projected vehicles resulting in lower costs for petrol, oil and lubricants

Thus, the entire geopolitical context is far less threatening than it was in the 1930 s.

In some respects, the Tibetans were treated less ruthlessly than the majority of Chinese.

Other reasons cited for revitalizing administrative systems, though less frequently than the preceding ones, are as follows

The present document was submitted late owing to the fact that sessional dates were generated on an experimental basis for New York based bodies through e Meets and the technical details required more time than expected.

Either the damage caused by the financial crisis was more serious than people realized, or the economic medicine prescribed was less efficacious than policymakers believed.

The HIV AIDS crisis is far worse than anticipated, and infant, child and maternal mortality remains unacceptably high in many parts of the world.

The negative impact of the fall in real estate investment since 2010 has been deeper and longer than expected indeed, almost all categories of imports that fell by 10 or more in August were related to real estate investment.

The better than expected cash position resulted from additional voluntary contributions received, interest income earned, savings on prior period obligations as well as delays in the liquidation of current period obligations.

The past three years have seen much less progress on freeing up world trade than almost any free trade advocate would have hoped.

America could have saved its banks, but let the shareholders go, for far less than it has spent.

In 2004, the Investigation Unit registered fewer complaints than in previous years.

Development is held back by too little government, too much government, too little credit, the absence of property rights, and so on.

All reputable scientific studies conducted so far have concluded that the impact of radiation has been less damaging than was feared.

Political pressure on the parties to enter serious and sustained talks was often uncoordinated, thereby rendering mediation efforts far less effective than they could otherwise have been.

In the process, ideas are disseminated and used less than they would be otherwise.

This analysis, while seemingly plausible, depends on the belief that it is the supply of credit that is essential to economic health too much money ruins it, while too little destroys it.

The current flows in a thicker layer in the metal, encounters less resistance and so produces less heat.

LaBeouf said production was only delayed two days after his accident because Bay made up for it by filming second unit scenes, and LaBeouf recovered a few weeks earlier than expected, allowing him to return to the set.