Little progress has been made on domestic support.

It has evolved piecemeal, with little coordination among its various parts.

And that question has attracted surprisingly little interest.

Spending a large amount of money to do a little amount of good is not a sound investment.

The kinds of things that advertisers and salesmen typically promote were relatively unimportant.

This see no evil policy has yielded precious little stability.

But if effective demand is adequate, average skill and average good fortune will be enough.

A small amount of additional scientific expertise and lab equipment would need to be added to a public health system that serves ordinary needs.

Indeed, this media frenzy has little or no scientific backing.

A small segment of psychiatric nursing is taught at the Nursing College but there are no programmes to promote the mental health of the population.

There is little waste to cut from domestic spending, and many areas where increases in public spending are needed.

In short, policies are becoming more unconventional, not less, with little clarity about short term effects, unintended consequences, and long term impacts.

So they contemplated only a thin globalization, with capital flows restricted largely to long term lending and borrowing.

There was a lot of public commentary about the work of the Council, but very little solid information on its procedures, precedents, and working methods the kinds of things new members most need to understand.

On the surface, writers, directors, and performers seem free to plan and produce their shows with little or no supervision or monitoring.

The population sees little improvement in living conditions and expects Western forces to leave after a few years.

In low income countries, diets consist primarily of starches, such as rice, and legumes, like peas, that contain very little protein.

If donors keep giving only a little bit of help, but not enough to solve the problems of the poorest countries, these countries will never escape poverty's grip.

Many were drawn by the colonial powers, Great Britain and France, after World War I, and most, with the exception of Iran s and Egypt s, have little legitimacy.

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On the economic front, annual foreign investment inflows have plummeted from 3 billion in the mid 1990's to a minuscule 300 million in 2003.

Moreover, since South Korea s new government took office earlier this year little progress has been made in relations between the two Koreas.

There is little agreement between them and Russia or China both P 5 members with regard to political values or to fundamental questions of international order.

In a coordinating role, a regional centre requires little technical infrastructure and, being housed in the UNEP regional office, has the required administrative support to undertake its work successfully.

In the end, there is very little difference.

At the slight risk of overgeneralization, one can say that the first camp was made up mainly of northern Europeans, while the second was dominated by the south.

But studies tend to show that the majority of income transfers by government occur within the middle class, while only a relatively small proportion are from rich to poor.

The fault was not only in the magnitude of the tax cut, but also in its design by directing the cuts at upper income Americans, it provided little economic stimulus.

Chinese exports (up to now) have contained little added value and a lot of cheap manpower, and the sophisticated products that it does produce, such as smart phones, have been conceived in the West.

For the most part, poor countries have been paralyzed by debt service payments and rendered unable to do little, if any, development infrastructure construction for the systems needed by their own people.

As a result of the challenges faced by UNOPS and the resources required to address the problems with its general ledger module, there are few resources available to address other initiatives, such as the development of a comprehensive internal control framework.

Indeed, the sum of money is minuscule.

Not only was Abbas politically weak, with few friends among Fatah militants, but he also didn t show much interest in what was happening in Gaza.

But borrowing money from international financial markets is a strategy with enormous downside risks, and only limited upside potential except for the banks, which take their fees up front.

Moldova appears set to cave in to Russia s pressure, partly to attract desperately needed inward investment at a time when little aid has come from the West, particularly the EU.

The encrypted mobile messaging app Signal received its first federal grand jury subpoena for a customer s data this year, but only shared limited information with the FBI.

On the surface, writers, directors, and performers seem free to plan and produce their shows with little or no supervision or monitoring. So how does such a system block offending content?

It might be fashionable to talk about just a couple of the globe s challenges, but we could achieve a lot more if we focused first on where our spending would be most rational.

It is often assumed that modern feminism has no place, and thus can make little headway, in societies undergoing a religious revival, particularly in the Islamic world.

What about bypassing governments and giving aid directly to the poor? Certainly, the immediate effects are likely to be better, especially in countries where little government to government aid actually reaches the poor.

Little is certain about the history of the kingdom, as nearly no written records from that time survive, and the histories about it that were written during the Republic and Empire are largely based on legends.

It is a matter of regret that there was precious little time left for a full fledged discussion of these important issues and that no specific session of the Conference was devoted to human rights or to the proposed institutional changes at the United Nations other than reform of the Security Council.

Agriculture represents a very small fraction of the Alaskan economy.

This happens if the problem is well conditioned , meaning that the solution changes by only a small amount if the problem data are changed by a small amount.

Almost a decade after the start of the ICTY s work, debate still rages over responsibility for war crimes, with little agreement on even the most basic facts of the conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo.