Increasingly the valuing of nature became an aspect of Western culture.

The number of death sentences carried out since the consideration of the initial periodic report had steadily decreased.

Financial resources of the Centre operations have been dwindling steadily over the years.

Recent trends Car travel increased steadily throughout the twentieth century, but trends since 2000 have been more complex.

The support of donor countries has been steadily increasing, reflecting growing confidence in effective programme delivery.

Since its introduction, that concept has engendered progressively greater interest from Member States, including my own country.

The number of countries that have created online databases and websites listing volunteer opportunities is growing steadily.

Between 1993 and 2001, this ratio rose steadily in rural areas and fell in urban areas.

The number of the new working poor rose steadily, as the informal sector was increasingly deprived of economic growth opportunities.

History The number of farms had decreased steadily in West Germany, from 1.6 million in 1950 to 630,000 in 1990.

Success in the 1990s built steadily on improving performance begun in the 1980s.

We are moving steadily to strengthen good governance through strong democratic institutions, establish the rule of law and eliminate intolerance in our society.

Pastoralism is steadily losing its margin of manoeuvre, as rangelands are being lost at an alarming rate.

Fiscal consolidation affects an estimated 80 of developing country citizens, and its impact is expected to intensify steadily through 2015.

Development in the solar water heating sector progressed steadily throughout the 1990s and growth rates have averaged 20 per year since 1999.

These troops were steadily pushed back, but the Australians brought forward elite veteran Second Australian Imperial Force units that the Japanese had not expected.

The reduction in non post resources relates largely to the reduction in general temporary assistance owing to reduced requirements.

The decrease was especially significant for crime projects, which dropped from 97 per cent to 54 per cent.

There had been steady progress in the utilization of the conference facilities in Nairobi.

The population of the Russian Far East has been rapidly declining since the dissolution of the Soviet Union (even more so than for Russia in general), dropping by 14 in the last fifteen years.

The space is recursively subdivided into quadrants until each subdivision contains 0 or 1 bodies (some regions do not have bodies in all of their quadrants).

The Tribunal continues to make steady progress in apprehending fugitives.

Brazil's population increased significantly between 1940 and 1970, because of a decline in the mortality rate, even though the birth rate underwent a slight decline.

However, the funding provided through that channel has been steadily declining in recent years, severely hampering the relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts of disaster affected countries.

There is a growing tendency of courts to rule upon compensation for the victims of trafficking.

The role of forests and forestry for energy is growing.

That means Japan should decisively abandon ultra low interest rates, albeit gradually so as to allow an orderly unwinding of speculative positions.

The decline was especially pronounced in the three largest countries Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina which comprise nearly 75 of the region s population.

The programme to reform the Liberian judicial system continued to make steady progress.

The population of Croatia rose steadily from 2.1 million in 1857 until 1991, when it peaked at 4.7 million, with exception of censuses taken in 1921 and 1948, i.e.

Abe is resolved to make steady progress on each of these key issues.

Erik Bailey The main purpose of EDL is to take a spacecraft that is traveling at 12,500 miles an hour and bring it to a screeching halt in a soft way in a very short amount of time.

How much drunken conversation will compensate for a drop in IQ (even if only temporary) the next day?

Average number of household members

The reduction can be broken down as follows

Growth has been strong, inflation is under control, and international reserves have increased steadily.

The population of Croatia rose steadily from 2.1 million in 1857 until 1991, when it peaked at 4.7 million, with the exception of censuses taken in 1921 and 1948, i.e.

In view of the serious deterioration in living conditions in the Palestinian territory in the past three years, it was worrying that the Agency's emergency appeals were receiving less and less support while the needs were steadily increasing.

The consumption of both alums is declining.

This explains the temporary drop in percentage.

The deployment of UNMIS military elements has progressed slowly but steadily.

Reforms have permitted sustained economic growth since 1993, except for a slump after the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

The cyclone began to strengthen steadily and turned southward, paralleling the eastern Australian coast through 31 December.

Slow but steady progress had been made in the universalization of the IAEA additional protocol.

decrease in average number of household members, increase in number of extramarital children, increase in average age of mothers at child birth and first child birth, decrease in number of entered marriages, decrease in number of divorces.