It has been used as a surgical material since the 1940s, and has been shown to have a strong anti adhesive effect.

Those ugly and disruptive forces are having a severe impact on the bedrock of humankind's core values and human civilizations.

These investments are generally welcome, because of the jobs they create and their positive impact on local economies.

The meeting took place in parallel to the Abuja talks, and both meetings influenced each other positively.

Overall, there was positive progress in the areas of elections and financial accountability, which enjoyed strong donor support.

Those signals provided guidance and a strong positive momentum upon which to build and thereby to close 2005 with a major achievement in Montreal.

The war in Vietnam was raging, the Civil Rights movement was under way and pictures had a powerful influence on me.

Some evidence indicates that regular exercise has a positive effect on the physical and mental health of those with schizophrenia.

Will the export profile of African countries exporting to China and India have a significant positive impact on the poor in Africa?

The last question of the assignment is how do you plan to use your life to positively impact other people?

This precedent will not be easy to roll back, and will have a far reaching positive influence on China s political progress.

The Nashashibi family had particularly strong influence in Palestine during the British Mandate Period from 1920 until 1948.

There are several key areas where the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

Education is a human right and an essential as well as a powerful tool for achieving gender equality, development and peace.

Scope of application was a matter dealt with by draft article 1 and including a positive obligation in draft article 6 had no bearing on the question.

On the global level, if used consistently, sport and physical education can have a long lasting positive impact on development, public health, peace and the environment.

To be sure, if tax rates were decreased permanently this year, there would initially be a strongly positive effect on labor supplied.

Fortunately, there is still time for decisive rate cuts now to have a robust impact.

A second type of plasticity, experience expectant plasticity, involves the strong effect of specific experiences during limited sensitive periods of development.

Byzantium had a strong cultural influence on Bulgaria, which also led to the eventual adoption of Christianity in 864.

It is of essential importance that the process of implementation does not lose momentum, as it will have a strong impact on the aforesaid confidence building efforts as well.

Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean Basin and Europe.

The mission came away with the strong impression of overwhelming popular support and of high expectations for the elections, which will be the first in 40 years and are largely perceived by the Congolese people as a means of bringing about positive change.

Starting with this optimistic note from Lebanese Inner Circle who sees that the ongoing negotiations taking place between opposing parties will have a positive effect on the country in the long run

This might trigger a positive domino effect as well, as other states on grounds of international financial integration adopt similar procedures for controlled liquidation of their own insolvent banks.

Psychological erectile dysfunction can often be helped by almost anything that the patient believes in there is a very strong placebo effect.

Educational voucher programs, for example, took a knock when careful analysis of a Chilean program found no positive effect on students performance.

By aiding in the cultivation and growth of individual businesses, creating a legal regime that promotes secured credit can have a positive effect upon the general economic prosperity of a State.

Revolutionary period (1789 1804) Ogé's revolt (1789 91) The outbreak of revolution in France in the summer of 1789 had a powerful effect on the colony.

And then we were able to test them rigorously, in random assignment, placebo controlled designs, throw out the things that didn't work, keep the things that actively did.

Given that difficulty, the right way to assess whether the fiscal stimulus enacted in January 2009 had a positive impact is to start with common sense.

The most recent evaluation (August 2003) showed that, besides Aspasia's positive impact on the number of women now occupying senior lecturer positions, it has also boosted the number of women professors.

Indeed, when ODA is not determined by geopolitics, it can have a strong positive effect on long term growth, essentially because it supports investment in infrastructure and human development.

For these countries, it matters whether history suggests that there is a strong threshold effect once public debt exceeds 90 of GDP.

It was made clear that Sweden found itself in a difficult position, and that Egypt's failure to honour the guarantees would impact strongly on other similar European cases in the future.

In recognition of the existing inequalities, the Brazilian Government has sought to formulate policies that have a positive impact on the life of populations who are often invisible, such as incarcerated women, or companions and daughters of people in conflict with the law.

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Yet comments and criticism were denounced and disdained by netizens who said the Pope, regardless of his political stands, was a spiritual leader who had a strong influence over the lives of millions of Coptic Egyptians.

Public opinion survey conducted by Zogby International (June 2004), selected Arab countries responses to the question, In general, is your overall opinion of the United Nations very favourable, somewhat favourable, somewhat unfavourable or very unfavourable?

It's a pregnancy test and it's positive.

Although no one single measure will be sufficient to ensure that all staff remain with the Tribunals until completion of the mandate, it is apparent that certain incentives, if offered, could have a positive impact on retaining staff for a longer period of time.

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210 million ( 1 million per constituency) towards competitive sports for youth countrywide.

The majority of such studies show a positive linkage.

The Convention requires countries to prepare a national biodiversity strategy (or equivalent instrument) and to ensure that this strategy is mainstreamed into the planning and activities of all those sectors whose activities can have an impact (positive and negative) on biodiversity.