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To make ends meet after the typhoon struck, Maricel would prepare daily meals of rice and sweet potato for herself and her children.

Rocky reluctantly agrees to Ginger, [...]

However, gender equality is only timidly recognized as a global priority in the draft resolution for Major Programme IV: a mere allusion in subparagraph (xvi) of Biennial sectoral priority 2 and a formal reference in paragraph 4 (“Requests the Director-General”).

(c) A total of 51,000 people were internally displaced in makeshift shelters that provided minimal protection, while others fled to homes of friends and relatives that seemed slightly safer.

[...] [...] judicial system was barely functioning and [...] [...]

[...] [...] system to survive stresses of the 2008-2009 [...]

The vulnerable members of society, migrants included, had to make do with what was left ― dilapidated homes, insecure tenure arrangements, settlements in peripheral areas without any infrastructure or basic services ― and faced the ambivalence of politicians who only promised and delivered when they wanted the votes of those vulnerable persons.

Although it may be considered that the Tribunal is still in its “start-up phase”, and that it is too soon to determine what the ongoing caseload and output of the Tribunal might be when that phase has passed (see A/66/7/Add.6, para. 19), it seems clear that the existing judges have barely been able to keep pace with the new caseload at the rate it is being generated and that delays are beginning to be experienced.

This flexibility is all the more necessary in that, with the proliferation of common markets and of customs and economic unions, the precedents constituted by the joint objections and interpretative declarations referred to above will in all probability recur with respect to reservations, given that such institutions often share competence with their member States, and it would be highly artificial to require the latter to act separately from the institution to which they belong.

(3) Some members of the Commission expressed hesitation regarding the chosen terminology, which in their view could introduce an element of confusion by unnecessarily and artificially creating a new category of reservations, because the Vienna Conventions had not defined an “established reservation”.

The world’s poorest people, he added, “are depleting their assets, depleting their wealth, just to be able to feed themselves.

I say this with reluctance, but to say that all Albanians are still living in Kosovo but Serbs are not begs the simple question: Are the 12,000 to 15,000 Albanians who were killed during the war really still living in Kosovo?

Mr. Khan warned that the issue was not information but weak enforcement capabilities, so that realistic information and advocacy about countries, whose governance structures were not ideal but managed to solve problems of political and economic development, would be a major contribution.

He is shown begrudgingly [...] [...]

The Tiger II was under-powered, like many other heavy tanks of World War II, and consumed a lot of fuel which was already in short supply.

The sense of powerlessness to achieve a decent standard of living — a right due to the vast multitudes who, in different latitudes of the Earth, subsist in the most precarious economic and social conditions — is undeniably a latent source of conflict.

When I asked Sana about the situation, she was gloomy, but still managed a smile.

North America experienced a severe downturn in 2009 but, with a weak recovery, managed to attain in 2012 the income that might have been expected in 2008; the region therefore lost four years of growth owing to the crisis.

Records show that, of the original 90 industrial enterprises owned by the Yumen government in 1996, only 8 survived the crash of 1998 and were still clinging on in 2000.

[...] [...] which continues to be followed to [...]