These figures hide even more striking changes within the period 1999 2003.

The United Nations must play a more prominent role in the consideration of the issues of global economics and development.

Alarming new security doctrines gave an even broader role to nuclear weapons, jeopardizing the authority and relevance of the Treaty.

They first get a more prominent role in the later story Only a Poor Old Man .

Almost without exception, Iraqi interlocutors want the United Nations to assume greater responsibilities and greater visibility in Iraq.

Although such rights had become more prominent in the work of the Organization, the mechanism for defending them had remained unchanged.

Leaving the series, Grace was keen to work more prominently in film, having starred opposite Tom Welling in The Fog in 2005.

In a number of countries in these regions, the trend towards formalizing the position and role of volunteers through legislation is becoming more pronounced.

Since then, issues of conflict, displacement and refugees have figured more prominently in global and regional strategies on prevention, education, food and nutrition, and interventions in emergency settings.

Thus, institutions are rendered more democratic and governments become more transparent and responsible.

As a rough empirical characterization of stylized facts, it was received somewhat skeptically by the academic community, and both authors were known for much more noted contributions.

More recent studies tend to use the (CINC) score, which focuses on measures that are more salient to the perception of true state power beyond GDP.

In an environment of transparency, accountability becomes all the more important.

Our biggest banks must become simpler.

The United Nations must become more efficient.

Reiterating that training activities should be accorded a more visible and larger role in support of the management of international affairs and in the execution of the economic and social development programmes of the United Nations system,

As that reality sinks in, economic prospects darken.

Most likely, he would have done worse.

In the long term, the challenge is more vague, but deeper.

This list is a long one, but it could easily be much longer.

Its democracy would not grow weaker by becoming tidier rather, it would grow up.

During his mission, the independent expert was advised that several issues regarding such a commission were still to be clarified how to make the reconciliation aspect more explicit what would be the source of funding what would be its structure.

When the metropolitan scale is recognized, the importance of leading urban areas is even more remarkable.

Over time, they will be bypassed and replaced by more resilient alternatives.

But, if the regulators were right, the French institutions would be more stable.

Nikko is more than temple town. It's also a popular outdoor destination.

Our globalizing world increasingly compels our societies to become more interdependent.

Afghanistan, and hence the US, would be far safer, the world would be far healthier, and the US economy would benefit enormously.

Conversely, the outer, older portions of the plaque become more calcified, less metabolically active and more physically stiff over time.

They have been weighing heavily on my mind since I got back and this is where my post becomes serious.

This is an opportunity. Not just this, but connected to the ideas that are here, to bring more coherence to them.

Dr. Khan's proliferation activitiesIt could scarcely be more blatant.

As external imbalances grow larger, each phase of this cycle becomes more painful.

With such progressively smaller circuits, more can be fitted on a computer chip.

For a start, financial institutions and investors are more reluctant to lend in such an environment.

But make no mistake the ground for populist economics is becoming more fertile by the day.

First, it must become more comfortable playing an active and constructive international role.

Many wish that it were also more European in its outlook and behavior.

Until the gas market becomes more liquid and more global, this spread will remain.

Some argued that regional cooperation may offer opportunities for smaller countries to make themselves more attractive.

If Latin America is to become a strategic partner for the EU and a more attractive market for European companies, European institutions must become more open to the region s needs.

From commodities to financial assets, price formation should become more market based and transparent, while capital allocation should become more efficient and the scope for rent seeking and corruption should be reduced.

International relations in northeast Asia will become more subtle and unstable as the Kim Jong il era ends. After six turbulent but somewhat predictable decades, we may be entering into a new era of greater turbulence but less predictability on the Korean Peninsula.

Thus, the immediate benefits become more politically salient than potential future costs.

Governments need to set standards that become progressively tighter over time.