1. Risk that the situation will worsen

99. Some new laws worsen the situation.

The human rights situation in Côte d'Ivoire has continued to worsen in the reporting period.

Meanwhile, the causes of global imbalance on the US side also seem unlikely to disappear any time soon. And now, with the Fed s QE2 on the table, conditions may worsen before they improve.

83. The problem might well worsen, however, and become complicated with the large scale return of refugees.

Yet lessons learned in dealing with exotic species, combined with recent mathematical models of the evolutionary dynamics of tumors, indicate that eradicating most cancers may be impossible. Trying to do so, moreover, could worsen the problem.

The liberalization of services can provide significant benefits to women but can also create or worsen inequalities.48

The reason for the ranking decline is that Brazilian GDP growth is expected to worsen in the medium term.

The impact of the embargo on care for boys and girls with special educational needs has continued to worsen.

The situation could only worsen if the level of resources for such work was reduced over the next biennium.

Such imbalances will continue to worsen as long as world economic structures are marked by unequal terms of trade.

Without success in diversifying their economies, therefore, these countries are likely to find their relative position continuing to worsen.

80. Violations of property rights, which are likely to worsen, have led the authorities to take a number of measures.

Without success in diversifying their economies, therefore, these countries are thus likely to find their relative position continuing to worsen.

Another caveat is that technological change may worsen the income distribution if the jobs that are destroyed are those filled by unskilled workers. Less demand for their services will cause their relative (and perhaps absolute) wages to drop, causing income inequality to rise.

For too long now, children with developmental disorders have suffered from misdiagnosis while their real problems have gone undetected and left to worsen.

The international community must continue to monitor the evolution of the debt problem, and take measures to ensure that it did not worsen.

For too long now, children with developmental disorders have suffered from misdiagnosis while their real problems have gone undetected and left to worsen.

This regional stasis may worsen as a result of growing nationalism an increase in social divisions within states weapons proliferation and an increase in military spending and environmental degradation. It seems that Latin America has abandoned the principles, commitments, and foundations of full regional integration.

In his preliminary report, the Special Rapporteur warned that the situation in Ecuador could worsen if the normal working of the country's institutions was not restored.

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

Conditions in the drought affected areas in central Somalia continued to worsen as evidenced by high levels of malnutrition, ranging from 19 to 22 per cent.

For sub Saharan Africa, it is unacceptable that, despite our commitment at the Millennium Summit five years ago, the prediction is that conditions will worsen by 2015.

Lower down the economic scale, most people, though enjoying easy access to technology and low prices, have lost ground, with real wages falling for many years. This is not a temporary decline labor in advanced Western economies can no longer command a large wage premium, and workers situation may worsen further.

However, economic recession in Japan, the Republic of Korea and South East Asia in 1998, among other factors, has depressed oil prices, which may once again worsen the trade and fiscal balances of oil exporting countries, again making the region a net absorber of financial resources. For offset Table 1

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of the ongoing drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of the ongoing drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

Recent events have shown again that, all too often, United Nations peacekeepers are placed in very volatile situations and would find themselves without adequate protection when circumstances worsen.

121. Despite the authorities apos efforts to relieve congestion, Rwandan detention centres are still overcrowded and conditions in some centres continue to worsen. The prison population has kept increasing.

The fact that building industry enterprises and security companies were sometimes linked to organized crime could be seen as an additional element which would definitively worsen the general picture.

Because of climate panic, our attempts to mitigate climate change have provoked an unmitigated disaster. We will waste hundreds of billions of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.

The other is that, until and unless we control this epidemic, it will continue to expand and worsen for decades, killing unbelievably large numbers of people and wrecking entire societies.

It was disheartening that each year their situation continued to worsen, particularly with the escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, over the past five years.

In 2002, the US Census Bureau reported that health insurance coverage, considered a prerequisite of adequate medical care, was not only eroding but would likely worsen over the next several years.

Socio economic conditions in the West Bank continued to worsen, a trend exacerbated by the prolonged closures, which hindered economic activity, in particular by preventing Palestinian labourers from working in Israel.

Conferring additional powers on the human rights treaty monitoring bodies, which were becoming more numerous, would only serve to complicate matters and worsen the already existing confusion in the current regime.

Unfortunately, conditions across the Union will likely worsen before they begin to improve. The type of social unrest recently witnessed in Greece may spread, because the downturn is likely to take a disproportionate toll on Europe s young people, who are seeking jobs at a time when hard pressed European businesses will be able to offer them very few.

Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low carbon economies. But this threatens to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

European leaders need to get serious about Europe s cocaine problem. The white lady is seducing a steadily growing number of Europeans, and remaining in a state of denial will only worsen the consequences.

52. There was also a need to increase the share of regular budget resources for the United Nations human rights system, whose chronic under funding was projected to worsen during the biennium 1998 1999.

The sharp rise in unemployment in a number of countries in Asia is a trend that is expected to worsen as a result of waves of lay offs due to corporate and financial retrenchment.

By contrast, if global populations continue to rise rapidly, the stresses on the world's resources will worsen. Governments should therefore refrain from deliberate policies to raise birthrates, even in places where birth rates are low.

32. Conditions of safety, shelter, nutrition and hygiene were inadequate in the regroupement camps, which held 10 per cent of the country s total population, or 600,000 people that tended to worsen the sufferings of displaced persons.

Second, China s fiscal position will worsen rapidly because of massive local government debt. And, third, the collapse of underground credit networks in bustling cities such as Wenzhou will lead to a broad financial crisis across the country.

7. UNRWA apos s humanitarian work during the reporting period was overshadowed by concern regarding its financial situation, which continued to worsen despite vigorous efforts by the Agency to reduce expenditure and seek new sources of funding.