Equally though, we have noted that great challenges persist

We have noted an improvement in the quality and content of the report of the Security Council.

We've even, on Christmas, we saw some of the kids were doing it.

However, we have noted with dismay the trend the negotiations to elaborate criteria to disburse the funds are taking.

We also noted with concern the problems in drafting the outcome document.

We have noticed certain themes recur, though mainly, lots of death and lots of sex!

We noted also the fact that the Tribunals will continue to contemplate new ways of enhancing the effectiveness of their work.

As we have all observed, this environment has been exploited and exacerbated by extremists in all societies.

We have noted that Damascus began cooperating with the Mehlis Commission on the basis of the provisions of resolution 1636 (2005).

First, we have noted the increase in the Court's workload since 1990, and particularly since 1997.

We noticed a sharp increase in hate speech against Syrian refugees, especially on some of the radio stations.

On Monday the 12th of June, we noticed the beginning of blocking websites that provide VPN services.

We note the fruitful results of the African Union's intermediary efforts in settling conflicts on the continent.

In Zagreb, we have noted with great satisfaction the progress made over the past year in applying the Nairobi Action Plan

We have observed that public discussions on the Draft Constitution and on the Referendum are unusually muted, even though day of the Referendum is rapidly approaching.

We noted that the organisation was duly circumspect in the use and allocation of resources, bearing in mind budgetary constraints.

We note with deep regret and concern the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, causing thousands of deaths and extensive damage.

As a matter of fact, despite our costly campaign, we have witnessed an increase in the drug trafficking in Iran emanating from Afghanistan over the past year.

When we visited Cyprus late last year, we noticed how few women and young people were engaged in politics.

We note with satisfaction that the new US administration has not turned a deaf ear to responsible statesmen and scientists who are calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

On reform of the Security Council, we have noted that the Secretary General has wisely abstained from directly advocating any models for increasing the membership of the Council.

We have observed that regional and subregional organizations in Africa serve as an essential vehicle in the maintenance of peace and security and in the promotion of economic development and social progress.

We have also noted that the workload of the Court has significantly increased as it gains broader recognition by, and the confidence of, the international community.

As we noted last year during the open debate on this topic, sexual and gender based violence remains alarmingly pervasive in conflict affected areas.

We have noted that Mr. Abbas, the Palestinian leader, has gone to the Gaza Strip to bring the situation under control and that the Israeli side has postponed military action against Gaza.

Aren't you planning to tweet in Arabic? Don't you think English will limit your audience inside Egypt somehow?

... Months of preparation crammed into 18 minutes, raising the bar cruelly for the next generation of speakers, with the effects that we've seen this week.

And you have this very strongly to the extent that, even if you see when we talk about revolutions these days, these revolutions are not named anymore around ideologies or ideas.

During a period of crisis in which someone becomes depressed and suicidal, an association is learned between the various symptoms (low mood, physical pain, suicidal tendencies, and so on).

Although the Working Group considered the text of this article at its thirty ninth, forty first and forty fourth sessions, we have noted that so far no discussion had been conducted with regard to its title (Location of the Parties).

We have also noted the difficulties that the Court is facing in holding hearings in all pending cases directly after the closure of the written proceedings, owing to the increase in the number and complexity of cases before it.

And we all noticed immediately that this project had no economic benefits It had no clients, nobody would buy the electricity there, nobody was interested in irrigation projects.

And so I was wondering, when we were trying to reproduce the work with the skier, that we noticed that, of course, she had no oxygen consumption, and so maybe she was in a similar state of suspended animation.

So doing the screen, we discovered one mutant that took much longer than normal to calm down after the air puffs, and when we examined the gene that was affected in this mutation, it turned out to encode a dopamine receptor.

And after doing all of this dematerialization and reconfiguring of this, of these ingredients, we realized that it was pretty cool, because as we served it, we learned that the dish actually behaves like the real thing, where the cheese begins to melt.

But, perhaps as a consequence of concerted efforts to improve the recognition of bipolar disorder, during the past few years we have observed the emergence of an opposite phenomenon over diagnosis.

We have noted that the outcome document of this conference calls for a greater role for the African Development Bank, to enable it, inter alia, to play a key part in efforts to close the infrastructure gap.

Everyone agrees that sports contribute to economic development by creating jobs and energizing commercial activity. However, for the past few years, we have noticed that the economic benefits are short term.

We have therefore noted with great concern that, despite strong international objections, Prime Minister Sharon has publicly reiterated his commitment to the eventual implementation of the E1 plan aimed at connecting Jerusalem with the largest West Bank settlement, Maale Adumim.

As we have observed, the poverty statistics in many regions are discouraging, particularly with regard to sanitation, access to safe drinking water, child mortality, childcare, environmental degradation and access to basic quality education.

There are, as we noted, justified complaints about the lack of diversity in television broadcasting in Russia, yet Bush has not opposed efforts by America s Federal Communications Commission to weaken laws on media concentration.

A few years ago, Kevin Kelly, my partner, and I noticed that people were subjecting themselves to regimes of quantitative measurement and self tracking that went far beyond the ordinary, familiar habits such as stepping on a scale every day.

If the rate of infectious and parasitic diseases in a three year period in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is observed, it becomes evident that the trend is, more or less, constant with the exception of parotitis epidemical and virus hepatitis A.

In listening to his briefings on many occasions, we have noted a common thread running through his presentations his great sympathy and concern for suffering people and his willingness to fully carry out the role of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in order to alleviate that suffering.

But one area which is particularly intriguing for us is the northern region, you know, of Mars, close to the North Pole, because we see ice caps, and we see the ice caps shrinking and expanding, so it's very much like you have in northern Canada.