Difficult decisions had been required but the efforts made had proved worthwhile.

The Note by the President summarizing this debate has proved very useful in the elaboration of the subject.

As a long term strategy, energy embargoes have always proven to be futile. Saudi Arabia saw its share of world oil exports drop sharply in the 12 years after the 1973 1974 embargo.

The Inter agency Standing Committee has demonstrated its usefulness in facilitating a coordinated and comprehensive humanitarian response to both complex emergencies and the generic problems that emerge.

So yes, it depends on the moment, when we are going to put emphasis on strenghs or on weaknesses.

The crime prevention instruments have proved useful in feeding discussion about general standards developed in other parts of the United Nations system.

We also collected and activated power ups.

Keeping in mind that forces can be used to correct weaknesses.

His packaging, distribution, sales, and strong and weak market areas.

A final reason for the West to change course is that Western sanctions are proving increasingly useless.

For thirty five years, it has proven its effectiveness, above all in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

Checkpoints the only authorized checkpoints will be those established and manned by the United Nations force.

But even a joint expert level mechanism set up in 2007 merely for interaction and cooperation on hydrological data has proven of little value.

The contact network, currently operating in about 40 countries, had proved to be effective in cases involving computer related crime.

The self evaluation exercise looked at strengths and weaknesses and pointed to areas where the Office could be improved.

It highlighted strengths and weaknesses that, in general terms, can still be observed in 2004.

Preliminary contacts with the European Union proved to be positive, and the European Commission made an offer to the United Nations Office at Geneva to broadcast its invitations to bid free of charge in 11 languages.

The new brigades that appeared were mostly divisions that had broken down until they happened to be at the proposed brigade strengths.

Visiting missions had proved useful in that regard and she hoped they would continue in the same spirit of cooperation.

As Iraq has shown, hard military power alone cannot provide a solution.

Adopt a secret identity, recruit your allies, battle the bad guys, activate the power ups.

In Germany, the post 2000 reforms that reset the economy s productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness have proved crucial to the country s current economic strength and resilience.

Factors that impede the optimal effectiveness of such resources include the failure of programmes to target those who need them the most, the failure to implement interventions with proven scientific effectiveness and bureaucratic obstacles to the rapid disbursement and use of available funds.

Instead, the war showed its limitations.

In fact, some small states have proven highly adept at smart power strategies.

Adopting this more strategic approach to FDI will require policy makers to have full knowledge of the policy instruments that have worked in the past and to assess their relevance to current conditions.

The initiative of former Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and the continued efforts of Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali have proved fruitful in securing the participation of major industrialized States in the Convention for achieving universality.

2. The neutral international force shall be responsible for preparing the assembly points and billeting stations.

A variety of tools such as gender disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems and gender sensitive indicators have proven useful.

So these are simple ideas, but we didn't know.

Reform should be undertaken gradually and structures which had proved their usefulness should be maintained.

7. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, to prepare a handbook, for use by competent authorities, of proven and promising practices in the fight against kidnapping, including

These strengths can then be turned into competiveness in the domestic and international markets.

These camps shall be monitored by the neutral international force and shall conform to the conditions established for other assembly points and billeting stations

The Committee has summarized the main features of these studies, including their strengths and limitations.

I looked at Islamic tradition and the history of Islamic thought from the perspective of individual liberty, and I tried to find what are the strengths with regard to individual liberty.

I think the strengths of UK Parliamentary system, and I woul d almost answer this in the same breath as what are the weaknesses, the real answer is that the system is as effective as its Members want to make it.

Those assets would be strengthened also by better coordination among all United Nations bodies and organs.

Global attention has been focused on weighing the three candidates strengths and qualifications, particularly their economic and financial credentials.

The supervised inspection at the entry points at each end of the throughway by the United Nations force.

They put money into unproven policy initiatives.

It should build on the strengths of the Commission on Human Rights and its members must undertake to abide by the highest human rights standards.

The subsequent unfolding of events testified to the above.

For example, in the face of investor pressure, pharmaceutical companies have cut their research activities dramatically, relying instead on acquisition strategies. The aim is to de risk by buying up firms that have already carried out all of the costly blue skies research and have developed proven drugs.

There are continuing media reports about excessive use of force at checkpoints and during searches by Iraqi forces and by the Multinational Force.