The situation has markedly improved now.

His words and actions markedly odd.

Look a decade ago, look two decades ago markedly different.

In some countries, primary education enrolment and adult literacy had increased markedly.

The situation is markedly worse among rural populations, women and the indigenous population.

This contrasts markedly with the situation in many other theatres of conflict today.

At end December 2002, lumber production showed mixed results, while exploitation activities had improved markedly.

UNLB has dedicated three warehouses for SDS and has markedly improved its material management capacity.

Ozone recovery will occur in an atmosphere that is markedly different from pre 1980 conditions.

The situation is markedly different if parties with clearly unequal bargaining power contract with one another.

They may also be both in French and in another language provided that French is markedly predominant.

In short, collections are down and that decrease markedly affects the cash position of the regular budget.

Between 1991 and 1993, xenophobically and racially motivated incidents, particularly targeting asylum seekers and other foreigners, increased markedly.

Relations between the North and the South who are still technically at war have markedly improved in recent months.

Secondly, the expectation that the United Nations should address the global challenge in a comprehensive manner had grown markedly.

Over the years the share of this age group in the total number of unemployed persons has risen markedly.

89. The situation of the Muslim minority is markedly less favourable, although on the whole it is not unsatisfactory.

By comparison with 1999, the number of women in economics and management in 2003 increased markedly (to 70 from 63.7 ).

Of particular salience, several procedural rules have been amended, markedly expediting our procedures without sacrificing the defendants' due process rights.

Since then economic performance has improved markedly, with the Government meeting or exceeding its major macroeconomic targets in 1996 1997.

Not all countries experiencing a decline of fertility have seen economic growth increase markedly as a result of the demographic bonus.

This contrasts markedly with previous years, when steady progress in the preparation of studies has resulted in a reduction in the backlog.

Regional variations were significant, and the turnout in areas with a majority of Arab Sunnis was markedly lower than for other communities.

4. The Board unanimously commended the Director for her fund raising activities, which markedly increased the financial resources available to the Institute.

Such occurrences, previously fairly isolated, have become markedly more frequent, to the point that there are now one or two lynchings a week.

In recent years, efforts have been markedly revitalized in all regions of Tajikistan to involve the female population in physical fitness activities and sports.

Without the use of these active labour market policies the number of unemployed persons and thus also the unemployment rate would be markedly higher.

524. The reports received also suggested that Afro Caribbean people were markedly over represented among those people who died in custody after violent incidents.

They also differed markedly in the extent to which and in the ways in which they shared budget information with citizens and other critical stakeholders.

The decrease in the number of employed men liable to pay social insurance contributions was markedly stronger 1.2 per cent less than the year before.

And the result is great comedy that's also an information delivery system that scores markedly higher in both credibility and retention than the professional news media.

5. The Chairperson said that, over the years, attitudes towards foreign investment had changed markedly, and FDI was now acclaimed as a powerful tool for development.

The degree of participation of women in the distribution of food and non food items improved markedly, but the challenge of participation in actual decision making remains.

Their contribution falls markedly to 8 per cent for pest control, 7 per cent for marketing, 7 per cent for pruning and 3 per cent for ploughing.

It was, however, pleased that the oral presentation by the delegation of the State party markedly better than the written report very extensively supplemented the periodic report.

By contrast, the payment amounts of other Member States have not differed as markedly from the amount assessed either on a year to year basis or cumulatively.

Since the Summit, the participation of non governmental organizations in the work of the Commission for Social Development has increased markedly from one session to the next.

18. Prior to the eruption of the Asian financial crisis, patterns of net long term resource flows remained markedly similar to the ones described in the previous report.

The scope, nature and degree of affliction, however, varies markedly between individual countries, and this information has yet to be measured with any degree of accuracy or confidence.

Special attention will be paid to voluntary agreements that improve the opportunities of migrant women returning to work, since certain ethnic minority women are markedly under represented in employment.

It was pointed out with regret that the participation of indigenous peoples in the Millennium Development Goal setting and implementation process, particularly at the national level, was markedly minimal.

42. Many United Nations agencies have decentralized their operations through increased delegation of authority to the field, combined with setting up or markedly strengthening regional and sub regional offices.

Imprisonment for violation of civilian service duties is thus now markedly shorter than it was under the previous legislation with unconditional prison sentences of about 11 to 12 months.

Between 1985 and 1996, the basket of goods exported increased markedly, and there was a clear switch in exports from commodity based products to products with high added value.

62. Subsequent to the convening of the Summit, participation of non governmental organizations in the work of the Commission for Social Development increased markedly from one session to another.