Meanwhile, poverty rates in South America have remained relatively constant.

But home prices since then have been flat and show no visible trend.

Here, incomes and value added per employee remained largely flat.

Banks capital adequacy ratios were set globally, and, once set, remained fixed.

In fact, Turkey s external orientation has remained constant, because it rests on the values that we share with the free world.

But the thread that united all, the theme that remained unerringly constant, was the yearning for change immediate, real, and tangible, not a promise or a tantalizing, unreachable mirage.

In the case of the US, for example, Latin America s share of total imports, at roughly 17 , has not grown since 2000.

Opinion on this question within the majority Shiite community remained stable, with 23 strongly agreeing in both 2004 and 2006.

But this notion has been contentious in the West for centuries. Nowadays, gender equality has become the norm.

The independent expert is pleased to note that the peace process in Burundi has advanced steadily since February 2005.

As the demand for donor organs continues to rise, in large part due to the aging population, the supply has remained relatively constant.

The distinction between contextually appropriate sadness and depressive disorders remained largely unchanged for two and a half millennia.

Even after its property bubble burst 24 years ago, the authorities continued to believe that the country s growth model needed no adjustment.

Anaximander (c. 550 BC) believed the Earth was a short cylinder with a flat, circular top that remained stable because it was the same distance from all things.

In terms of activity abroad, the share of the manufacturing sector remained fairly consistent, hovering between 18 per cent and 25 per cent in the same period.

The SBI observed that total GHG emissions from Annex I Parties as a whole remained relatively stable between 2000 and 2002.

Contributions have historically been quite modest, and they have remained static even while the number of Basel parties has increased significantly.

Owing to better planning and close monitoring, the percentage of unliquidated obligations in relation to total programmed activities has remained relatively stable, despite a considerable increase in activities.

National prevention campaigns had been initiated in a majority of the responding countries (59 per cent, a figure that has remained almost unchanged since the second reporting period (2000 2002)).

The currency, the real, has been strengthening steadily, to nearly twice its value against the US dollar in October 2002, when Lula was first elected.

However, the geological record demonstrates that Earth has remained at a fairly constant temperature throughout its history, and that the young Earth was somewhat warmer than it is today.

The representative of Norway noted that the financial resources available for technical assistance had remained stable in 2004 that reflected the confidence of member States in UNCTAD's technical cooperation activities.

If nominal oil prices remain constant while the dollar declines, the real income of the oil producing countries declines, resulting in less investment in additional capacity and maintenance.

In contrast, real oil prices were flat leading up to 1929, and down nearly 50 in real terms from the 1925 6 fuel folly peaks.

Moreover, Fed policy remained constant despite rapid deterioration in America s real economy, indicated by accelerating job losses and rising unemployment.

Between 1999 and 2002, the incidence of poverty rose from 43.8 to 44.0 per cent, while the ratio of people in extreme poverty stayed at 19.4 per cent.

That is just a fact.

For example, land sharking the practice of coercing landowners to sell their land and then flipping it for huge profits is no longer as lucrative as it once was, because land prices have been flat for years.

While the overall number of refugees has slowly decreased since the early 1990s, internal displacement figures have remained relatively constant, at the 2001 level of an estimated 25 million (see graph).5 While the overall figure for internal displacement remains constant, the situation on the ground is not static.

She kept working.

The case for a soft landing remains solid.

This function requires a fixed buffer.

The direct or indirect discharge of pollutants, whether from point or non point sources

Here, a liquid and solid phase of fixed proportions react at a fixed temperature to yield a single solid phase.

Though reunification is yet to be realized between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the fact that both the mainland and Taiwan belong to one China has never been changed, and this is the status quo of cross Strait relations.

Sets consistent sound levels between tracks

Split track in parts with a fixed length

Conversions of temporary resources to established posts

Interests are not fixed or predetermined.

This is a trend rather than a rule.

Men go and come, but earth abides.

Other mowers have a fixed, pre set engine speed.

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

c. Conversion of temporary posts to established posts