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[...] [...] through personal sacrifice and risk, act [...]

[...] [...] obtained at great sacrifice and desire to preserve [...]

The rich and powerful countries continue to exercise an inordinate influence in determining the nature and direction of international relations, including economic and trade relations, as well as the rules governing these relations, many of which are at the expense of developing countries.

In anticipation of the next biennial budget, virtually all members of the Commission pronounced that UNESCO should stop funding its other programmes and activities at the expense of Major Programme II, and that there should be no further cuts in the science programmes which would rather require budgetary strengthening.

Approximately 70 per cent of the workload of a staff member deployed in a temporary position was dedicated to administrative tasks associated with the development and maintenance of lists of critical functions and staff, along with the coordination of associated training and issuance of equipment, at the expense of making progress in substantive contingency planning.

[...] arena should not be sacrificed, and Headquarters [...]

A recently highlighted move of the Government, called the "Enhanced Productivity Programme" (EPP), has meant less pay or other welfare for many staff, particularly the basic ranks.

[...] [...] be prepared to sacrifice good working conditions [...]

[...] [...] they have already sacrificed so much.

For more than 60 years — a painful reminder that the United Nations had failed to solve the refugee problem — UNRWA staff had, sometimes at the cost of their lives, worked devotedly and unselfishly to help mitigate the sufferings of millions of Palestine refugees, just as the countries which were hosting Palestine refugee communities had been generously cooperating with UNRWA.

We reject techno-fixes like genetically engineered food and geo-engineering, intensive industrial agriculture and market-based mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs) and carbon credits that allow the developed countries to continue business as usual at the expense of the poor.

[...] [...] held in honour of fallen colleagues; the [...] [...]

[...] strengthening efforts to combat violence against [...] [...]

In the supplementary information provided to the Advisory Committee, the Secretary-General states that one of the lessons learned with regard to compliance missions was that, irrespective of the professional competence of the individual compliance officers, when dealing with Chief Security Officers at the P-5 or senior P-4 levels or debriefing designated officials at the level of D-2 or above, a P-3 compliance officer has neither the seniority nor the field experience to be credible.

[...] without having to sacrifice the convenience [...]

The focus on inflation, deficit and debt rendered macroeconomic policies procyclical, and the goals of low inflation and fiscal deficit were achieved by many developing countries, usually at the expense of growth and more effective employment of both labour and capital.

[...] [...] up prayers and sacrifices for his benefit, [...] [...]

In response to decision 54/39(h) on potential financial incentives and opportunities for additional resources to maximize the environmental benefits from HPMPs pursuant to paragraph 11(b) of decision XIX/6 of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Parties, UNDP indicated that the focus of the Government of India and the industrial sector has been to ensure that environment-friendly, safe and cost-effective alternatives to HCFCs that do not compromise performance are selected and promoted.

[...] [...] of the Moloch sacrifices of Manasseh (II [...]

[...] [...] rather than the sacrifice of one member (and [...] [...]

It will be necessary for the NLD to ensure that its expected electoral success in 2015 does not come at the expense of the broad representation needed to reflect the country’s diversity and ensure an inclusive and stable transition – whether by introducing some form of proportional representation, reaching a transitional national unity agreement with the current government, or building coalitions with other parties.

[...] implemented without sacrificing its social mission, [...] [...]

In addition to the geographic dispersion and mobility of the artisanal and small-scale mining activities, which make them inherently difficult to control, failure of many formalization programmes has been attributed to the following shortcomings: insufficient knowledge of the populations involved in artisanal and small-scale mining and their dynamics; absence of credible and viable alternative livelihoods, especially in many donor-funded projects that have sought to promote alternative livelihoods to such mining; insufficient economic incentives for miners to formalize, given high monetary and non-monetary costs of the administrative processes involved, and the low probability of getting licence requests accepted; and the disconnect between legally permitted areas for small-scale extraction and the geographic distribution of mineral deposits.

This revolutionary combination of continuous processing and flexible glass will make low-cost processing of thinner and lighter touch modules, smart phones, tablet PCs, Notebooks, OLED lighting, solar cells and mobile touch-control devices a reality without sacrificing device performance and reliability.