Entities such as the Sun, Moon, Earth, sky, and sea were often deified.

Another Navy team also successfully scaled Everest from the north face, the technically more challenging route.

Developing the Skycar has been a real challenge.

However, poverty remains a major challenge for us.

The fiscal deficit continues to present a daunting challenge in Japan.

The illegal drug economy is also a great challenge.

This constitutes a critical challenge to the enabling environment.

In each instance, our expectations are defied.

This task is still a challenge for computer vision systems.

That is a complex challenge that has Kosovo as a nodal point.

Integrating those activities presents a major challenge.

It will be challenging, but maybe also healthy for our common future.

We are on the brink of a historic opportunity, and therefore of a challenge.

Tracking and measuring progress remains a challenge for the organization.

Increasing official development assistance remains an essential and continuing challenge.

My delegation sees this as a special challenge for Member States.

The scope and complexity of the issue of illicit trafficking in small arms is more than ever before a challenge to the international community to take prompt, effective and bolder measures to curb this scourge.

Reeve found the role offered a suitable challenge because it was a dual role.

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

The growth of electricity demand will constitute a challenge for many countries in the coming decades.

Building a reformed and effective judiciary system continues to be a critical challenge.

Data integrity at UNOPS remains a significant challenge.

A number of speakers pointed out that money laundering also posed a serious challenge.

The situation in the Middle East today remains a major challenge for us all.

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The ever increasing global demand for energy and industrial goods and services represents a daunting challenge.

Access to information and telecommunications technologies is also a challenge for our Government.

But, in addition to the issue of volume, improving the quality and effectiveness of aid is another challenge.

That struggle reflects the broader challenge of promoting development with social justice and political democracy.

Environmental protection is a threat that is a major challenge in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Having made this progress, there is now a fourfold challenge before us, in my view.

Let me show you some of them Chichen Itza, Rapa Nui and what you're seeing here are the cloud of points Babylon, Rosslyn Chapel, Pompeii, and our latest project, Mt. Rushmore, which happened to be one of our most challenging projects.

At the most basic level, crime challenges the security that is necessary for social and economic development.

The generation of data to support programmes specifically oriented to disadvantaged families and children remains a challenge.

Much of the debris was the result of carelessness by beach goers and represented an important challenge for local communities.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals poses a challenge for developing new and innovative policies and programmes.

Thus, we are faced with a paradox that throws up a challenge to both rich and poor countries.

Those issues will present persistent challenges for any genuine investigations, international or national.

That state of affairs represents a major challenge not only for Africa, but for the international community as a whole.

However, the conflict between traditions and statutory regulations continued to present a challenge for Member States.

The management of the agenda, in all its facets, is a challenge for States, international organizations and other participants.

With a population of 3.4 billion, Asia and the Pacific is faced with enormous challenges in the area of human development.

Poverty, in its different conceptual configurations, is a serious challenge to both policymakers and decision makers.

Ensuring that these expenditures rise over the medium term while fiscal adjustment also takes place is a significant challenge.

So, in a sense, the 18 minutes is challenging me to say, In life, this is what's important in terms of compassion.