If challenged, all three would undoubtedly do what they must to preserve their security.

By losing its geographic focus, NATO is now confronted with a major identity challenge.

For it now seems that the only way for Kim Jong il to defend his family dynasty against any domestic challenge is to make a show of force as a nuclear power.

Currently, however, Obama s smart power strategy is facing a stiff challenge from events in the Middle East.

Faced with severe supply constraints, Asian economies are increasingly tapping other continents fossil fuels, mineral ores, and timber.

Labor regulations also limit the age at which people are allowed to work and how many hours and under what conditions they may work.

We cannot succeed on one without succeeding on the other.

After months without pay, the government, headed by Hamas s Ismael Haniyeh, was confronted with a serious challenge in September, when civil servants went on strike, demanding to be paid.

Finding it was another.

These are some of the capabilities that will maintain our forces ability to project power should our access and freedom of action be challenged.

And lower profitability will reduce pay more effectively than any direct regulatory controls.

It was implicit in treaty practice that the provisions of a private law convention did not derogate from mandatory public law.

That way, no one would be left exposed to Russian pressure.

Ending that situation is the challenge of our generation.

Two decades ago, geopolitical conditions limited blowback from America s foreign policy vacuum.

It is bordered by Chile on its western side.

We are in an environment that limits our options.

It is a challenge that is not only national, but global.

That is the greatest challenge related to the MDGs.

The Syrian presence in Lebanon remained generally unchallenged until Israel withdrew its forces from South Lebanon in 2000.

The negotiations are mainly about which groups of countries should cut their emissions, by how much, how fast, and relative to which baseline year.

Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo.

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Collecting data to measure results also presents a challenge.

Obviously, this is an important challenge for the Peacebuilding Commission.

Achieving the target of environmental sustainability is also a formidable challenge.

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It is the fixed costs that limit the diffusion of the networks. So, a strategy for inclusive growth has to focus on ways of either lowering or paying for the fixed costs that connect people to networks.

And, in any coming showdown, we must hope that all leaders will refuse to use innocent people s lives as bargaining chips.

Neither of these responses to populism is likely to boost democracy.

A key challenge was how to manage funding for joint programming.

15. Also requests the Secretary General to ensure that the experiment shall in no way limit opportunities for external recruitment for posts at any level

Any plans to defend Yanukovich and the eastern part of Ukraine by military force must be confronted.

Our ultimate aim should be to see the day when the international community is able to deal with each and every security challenge anywhere and any time by better pooling existing resources and capabilities for responding to violence.

These hospitals and clinics in turn reduce the burden of illness and deaths from other causes as well.

The current situation in Egypt is a challenge for everyone diplomats, citizens and commentators.

Explaining where exactly their farm was to an Egyptian taxi driver was my first challenge.

Determining an optimal level of accountability for results is also challenging.

That is why the fight against AIDS may be the great challenge of our age and our generation.

There is no greater challenge facing humanity today than poverty and underdevelopment.

Another crucial challenge to be addressed is that relating to the sustainability of reforms.

The democratic challenge today is, above all, a social and human challenge.

OIOS sees that as a serious challenge.

Today, the most serious challenge is that the culprits are assuming the role of the prosecutor.

There were no reasonable grounds for granting immunity to United Nations and associated personnel who violated national laws, and such immunity would be inimical to the universality of the protocol.