The world is facing serious, new challenges today.

With respect to Iraq, the people of Iraq face appalling challenges from terrorism.

Progress on the social and economic front will continue to face several challenges.

But this stability will face new challenges in 2006.

Nonetheless, the alliance faces three major challenges in a new external environment.

Five years later, the world is still faced with the challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy.

The Board also notes that UNOPS experienced challenges relating to the integrity of its financial data.

Today s challenges finance, food, and energy, for example are many.

These promises meant a great deal to Sharon as he faced domestic political challenges. What is needed now is a parallel letter from Bush to Abu Mazen.

However, the current generation of young people is facing even more complicated challenges than those envisaged 10 years ago.

But let us be clear the people of the Sudan, the donor community and the United Nations face extraordinary challenges in implementing the Peace Agreement.

While stability has been successfully restored in Sierra Leone, serious challenges continue to be faced in building durable peace.

ANKARA As the Arab Spring enters its fourth month, it faces challenges but also presents opportunities.

My country continues to face critical challenges in determining our political agenda, which in turn affect our development efforts.

The country was still facing challenges, with 67,000 people living in emergency shelters built on sand.

By contrast, Cameron will face 27 distinct countries (including Croatia, which will join later this year), many of which are facing serious domestic challenges.

The Islamist Ennahda party leads the government, but it faces a serious challenge from the ultra conservative Salafists of Hizb Ut Tahrir.

Of course, every year has its growth challenges, and 2007 will be no exception.

As the world faced new challenges, it was of paramount importance for Member States to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without conditions.

In some countries, however, the provision of social services poses extreme challenges owing to the large number of families living in poverty.

National systems are expected to deliver security and respond to growing public expectations. In addition, many criminal justice systems are facing other difficult challenges, such as corruption, inadequate resources, political interference and inefficiency.

In a world confronted with the challenges of poverty and growing inequality, and exposed to the risks of violence and terrorism, organized and constitutional Government becomes the only guarantee of personal and collective security.

No State can hope today to resolve on its own the common challenges and threats to the coexistence and well being of our peoples.

In spite of the commendable drop in the infection rate, Kenya's health sector continues to face serious challenges from malaria and other communicable diseases.

Ms. Holguín Cuéllar (Colombia) said that, despite significant achievements, her country still faced many challenges in promoting the advancement of women.

I believe it will be referred to as a revolution, so to speak when society, faced with great challenges, made a seismic shift from individual getting and spending towards a rediscovery of collective good.

She recommended that the participants reflect upon those challenges, review the way in which mandate holders performed their tasks, think about the way they interacted with the broader system, and identify the steps to be taken to ensure that human rights were protected in the most effective manner.

The President said that the world faced enormous challenges affecting children, including poverty, AIDS, conflict and the critical issues of violence and exploitation.

The world cannot afford an expensive competition in outer space when there remain so many challenges before us, such as poverty, hunger, disease and deprivation.

Sustained economic growth is likely to become increasingly challenging, as donor aid for post conflict needs is being gradually phased out.

Prioritizing public policies, designing programmes, delivering services and evaluating government performance face challenges related to the strengthening and safeguarding of integrity, transparency and accountability in the management of public affairs.

Likewise, China has been posing new challenges to India, ratcheting up strategic pressure on multiple flanks, including by reviving old territorial claims.

Similarly, preference dependent developing countries would face challenges arising from preference erosion consequent to a multilateral reduction of tariffs and the proliferation of regional integration agreements.

While Hezbollah has tried to convince other Lebanese that its presence helps maintain the country s security and stability, regional and international developments suggest that it faces mounting challenges.

Whereas country programmes support a single country and regional programmes support a single region, the global programme addresses development challenges, as identified by multiple developing countries in several regions.

Despite the country's great accomplishments in its efforts to ensure equal rights and opportunities for women and men, it still faced serious challenges.

At the same time, many developing countries face serious challenges for the establishment of their information societies and will need sustained international efforts in order for the economic and social benefits of ICT to reach their populations.

Having assessed the increasingly complex and fast changing world economy, the evolving unjust and inequitable international economic order and the resulting new and multifaceted challenges

I think the CD must face the challenges of today's world, and muster the necessary courage to overcome these challenges, to start sailing uncharted waters, to take up opportunities which all of us know are out there.

Iraq's challenges are also the challenges of the international community.

Undoubtedly, South Sudan would face colossal challenges as a sovereign state, but the alternative an inevitable return to war would be incalculably worse, both for Sudan and for Africa.

It highlighted the ever more complex challenges facing the young and called on Governments to evaluate their youth policies continuously, with the involvement of young people, so as to ensure they remained relevant.

Obama is right to say that the West faces not only great challenges, but also great opportunities. In the last decade, the global economy was transformed by one billion Asian workers entering the ranks of industrial producers. In 2011, for the first time in two centuries, Europe and America face being out produced, out exported, and out invested by China and the rest of the world.

Cultural challenges

Bernanke Meets the Press