Difficult decisions had been required but the efforts made had proved worthwhile.

The Note by the President summarizing this debate has proved very useful in the elaboration of the subject.

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.

The Inter agency Standing Committee has demonstrated its usefulness in facilitating a coordinated and comprehensive humanitarian response to both complex emergencies and the generic problems that emerge.

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

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.

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

Preliminary contacts with the European Union proved to be positive, and the European Commission made an offer to the United Nations Office at Geneva to broadcast its invitations to bid free of charge in 11 languages.

With the talents the soldiers have,

They were not alone there was a lot of talent.

You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

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

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.

Adopting this more strategic approach to FDI will require policy makers to have full knowledge of the policy instruments that have worked in the past and to assess their relevance to current conditions.

The initiative of former Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and the continued efforts of Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali have proved fruitful in securing the participation of major industrialized States in the Convention for achieving universality.

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.

I am multitudes. (Laughter)

He has lots of talent.

You're a very versatile man, Mr. Sears.

So these are simple ideas, but we didn't know.

Reform should be undertaken gradually and structures which had proved their usefulness should be maintained.

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

Perhaps he's have too many talents.

It's true. The little lady has her limitations.

Many, many of you have seen the talents of Africans, but there are few who are going to school.

What do you think of these new talents?

We're having lunch with a talent scout.

When all around me there is such a talent for violence?

They put money into unproven policy initiatives.

Previously dominated by a small cabal of singers and music directors, the market has been transformed by TV talent contests, similar to American Idol, which provide a national showcase for the wealth of India s talent.

No more little Knicks and little Nets.

A jack of all talents?

The subsequent unfolding of events testified to the above.

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 first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.

After the host said it's time for individual talent time

I began to believe Mozart's talent because of this guy.

And third, and maybe most important, we need talent.

These math phobes deprive science and medicine of immeasurable amounts of badly needed talent.

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.

The rationale behind it was our desire to create an audio platform that would manage to encompass a wide array of emerging talent in the region, in their respective arenas.

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

Even if you learn how he moved energy, what's the use?

Means to accomplish this aim are two festivals (Eurosonic and Noorderslag), a conference, a talent exchange program (European Talent Exchange Program) and the presentation of several music awards.