Whatever one makes of the data, the number of people leading lives of quiet desperation in these countries is unconscionably large.

Hygienic conditions were bad, including an epidemic of head lice.

was arbitrary or reasonable in the circumstances of the case.

The fish are often kept in poor conditions and millions die every year.

Rules that are beneficial in some circumstances may become counterproductive in others.

To have access, on general terms of equality, to public service.

Over 50 per cent of the primary schools are now functioning, although often under very poor conditions.

The speed of the vessel under sea trial conditions is 32 knots.

Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness.

The results of the survey show that almost a third of Estonian households live in poor conditions or in conditions not suitable for their housing needs.

Some of these fires have raged under abnormal conditions some have not.

They may also be less safe and reliable under operational conditions.

Under dramatically inauspicious circumstances, Mexico has finally got itself a new president last Friday.

For him, this is what power is about taking hard decisions under unfavorable circumstances.

The Committee had been informed that pre trial detention conditions were poor, and the delegation's comments on that question would be welcome.

Steps like these may have been overlooked in better economic times.

Most of the toxins and adhesins under BvgAS control are expressed under Bvg conditions (high BvgA Pi concentration).

Last July, the Council s military leader, Abdul Fatah Younis al Obeidi, was assassinated under ambiguous circumstances.

We are interested in what the multiplier is under more normal conditions, and when the unemployment rate is 10 .

The counterfactual needs to be made explicit and assessed carefully and in context.

Ideally, this cooperation would take place within the EU s institutional framework.

The African Union mission has performed admirably under extraordinarily difficult circumstances and with limited means.

We are too conscious that Mr. Jessen Petersen has a tough job and is working under difficult circumstances.

MINUGUA staff, representing dozens of nationalities and fields of work, performed admirably under difficult circumstances.

The Tribunal accepts the recommendation and notes that no other contracts have been awarded under similar circumstances.

But they will only be respected in a society where the State upholds the rule of law, even under difficult circumstances.

In Georgia, he concluded that torture and ill treatment by law enforcement officials still exists, and that conditions of detention are, in general, poor.

The faintest stars visible to the naked eye under good seeing conditions are about magnitude 6.

Since September 2000, 13 UNRWA staff members have been killed.

Accordingly, figuring out which remedy works best in a particular setting is a craft rather than a science.

One would then find that government spending cuts or tax hikes tend to be followed by bad economic times, even if the causality runs the other way.

Under ideal diplomatic circumstances, Russia and China would be persuaded to join with NATO in a joint declaration.

It would become, instead, a willing and unimpeded exchange of goods and services in conditions of mutual advantage.

Aware that development is difficult under occupation and best promoted in circumstances of peace and stability,

In particular, the Committee is concerned about the lack of juvenile courts and about the detention of persons below 18 with adults, in very poor conditions and without access to basic services.

MONUC quick impact project funds are being used to rehabilitate prisons where conditions are particularly poor, including in Lubumbashi, Kindu, Kinshasa and Kisangani.

Domestic and international agencies involved in reconstruction must continue to do their best in what are, in several provinces, difficult security conditions.

Noting that the dreadful living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied territory were hardly conducive to development, he wondered whether or how ESCWA had addressed that issue in the report and whether it would be dealt with in future reports.

When, after the 2007 election, Kibaki was declared the winner under questionable circumstances, Kenyans patience ran out.

But it is becoming increasingly difficult for factories in the region to remain in business under conditions of weak global demand and strong local currencies.

The lack of access to justice is particularly egregious in the provincial areas, where poor working and living conditions discourage qualified judges from serving.

Under these circumstances, revaluation of the exchange rate will not have a severe impact on an economy s development.

The objective to restore peace and stability in Afghanistan in very difficult circumstances, internal and external, inherited from the past remains to be met.

It commends the dedication of MONUC's personnel, who operate in particularly hazardous conditions.

The term is sometimes used in a different sense reasoning under conditions of uncertainty, such as those commonly obtained in a court of law.