The standard of living was low.

And the native language for a child with such a brain is degraded.

Some are already deserts others are being seriously degraded by the sand.

After all, it is difficult to be a good house in a deteriorating neighborhood.

The world must get used to a twilight security environment of sudden and peripheral emergencies.

Roads are considered vital to the improvement of the economy of Afghanistan, where the roads were already in bad condition.

244. The health situation in Madagascar was deteriorating despite the fact that free health services were available to all.

In many developed countries, the current economic outlook is either poor or deteriorating, but this must not be allowed to be an excuse for passiveness.

Incautious and expensive advice from McKinsey and other private consulting firms could help turn Bhutan into a degraded tourist zone.

Second, access agreements threaten the ability of local communities to generate future revenues from tourism because fewer visitors will come to an environmentally degraded destination. Finally, the cultural

The benefit could occur whether the new growth resulted from reclaiming degraded lands through reforestation or upgrading marginal lands through afforestation programmes.

In 1349, the Black Death radically altered Norway, killing between 50 and 60 of its population and leaving it in a period of social and economic decline.

For, while we have recently begun to experience high growth rates, the economy continues to be weak unemployment is high human and financial resources are scarce and basic infrastructure has deteriorated, leaving the social sectors vulnerable to all the ills of poverty.

One of the most devastating experiences is to see youth wasting away because they are unemployed, even after they have completed secondary and tertiary education, or because their health has deteriorated.

Desertification, which already affects one sixth of the world apos s population and one fourth of the total land area of the earth, continues to claim vast areas as it creeps ominously across vulnerable land degraded territories.

Mike Rowe, the host of Dirty Jobs, tells some compelling real life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how it s been unjustifiably degraded in society today.

7. In this connection, I should like to stress that UNPROFOR has been performing a difficult task with courage and determination amidst seriously deteriorating conditions, both in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On Somalia, we strongly believe that the continued presence of United Nations peace keeping personnel is critical in the pursuit of peace and security in the country if we are to avoid the deterioration of a situation that is already unacceptable.

Rehabilitation of existing but inefficient or deteriorated water supply systems, together with planning and construction of new systems, can expand access to safe drinking water.

Efforts to grow biomass for energy may increase the uptake of atmospheric CO2 on land that was previously degraded, lightly managed or economically unproductive.

Unfortunately, after more than two years of negotiations, the problem of distributing those assets had not yet been resolved since, according to some, the shared past had only yielded the right to an anaemic and bloated economy, an obsolescent infrastructure and an environment in a critical state.

Furthermore, the euro will contribute to the marginalization of middle aged workers by preventing national governments from using competitive devaluation to preserve declining industries. Likewise, European countries massive public debt is limiting policymakers ability to protect vulnerable sectors.

In the other half of the known planet, scientists were punished, even killed. Mathematics was outlawed as irreligious and alien, and was later made subservient to religion.

Letter dated 4 May 1992 (S 23867) from the representative of Iraq addressed to the President of the Security Council, requesting an urgent meeting of the Security Council to consider the grave situation in Los Angeles and other places in the United States of America and the hazardous and deteriorating conditions of the civilian inhabitants of those places.