Yet another area of regional and global concern was the spread of avian influenza, especially the real possibility that the virus might mutate at some point into a form capable of human to human transmission, leading to a possible pandemic.

And the danger is that they can cause roughly what's a pandemic.

The threat of avian influenza and other infectious diseases is far from over, and the possibility of the outbreak of a large scale pandemic still exists.

The spectre of avian flu threatens parts of Asia and Europe and the disease could become a global pandemic.

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Because of the massive displacement, the possibility for farming was drastically reduced, and this led to food shortages among the rural population.

It will probably increase, and the probability is enormously huge.

But he placed the likelihood of one such event above all others at close to 100 percent, and that is a severe flu pandemic.

Moreover, if China develops financial problems, capital outflows may accelerate. The Chinese authorities may then be forced to tighten the quotas made available to the clearing banks.

The problem is that the inherent volatility of financial flows may make the daily changes excessively large.

With an influx of itinerant labour into these remote and largely lawless regions, the potential for conflict over concessions is growing.

Our investment in trying to prevent pandemic flu is affecting the distribution of possible outcomes.

I wish that dream would come true some day.

She's an incorrigible flirit.

Massive liquidity injections carried out by the world s major central banks the Fed, the ECB, and the BOJ are neither achieving traction in their respective real economies, nor facilitating balance sheet repair and structural change. That leaves a huge sum of excess liquidity sloshing around in global asset markets.

You may think we can explain the Great Divergence in terms of geography.

We could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation.

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An electric current can generate magnetism.

Such models can help interpret such varied phenomena as atmospheric turbulence, human population dynamics, and superconductivity.

That she might be insane, too. That's not very likely, is it?

Government service entails a certain degree of mobility with postings and transfers to different areas of the country or the province.

Afghanistan has been challenged by the influx of returnees, a trend that is likely to persist following the successful holding of elections.

There was also significant mobility of capital and full convertibility.

Treaties exhibiting a very high likelihood of applicability

In fact, given the quantum leap worsening in the epidemic in recent years, the gap between need and action remains enormously wide and may even grow.

This could include exploring at the General Assembly the possibility of developing practical mechanisms to provide assistance to victims.

International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza Statement of core principles

Indeed, the study may actually significantly underestimate the costs for instance, climate change may lead to more weather variability, a possible disappearance or major shift of the Gulf Stream of particular concern to Europe and a flourishing of disease.

Some things are less likely than others, that's all.

There might be somebody on one right now, participating in multi dimensional engagement.

Aquifer means a subsurface layer or layers of geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a flow of or the withdrawal of usable quantities of groundwater.

(a) Risk of causing significant transboundary harm includes risks taking the form of a high probability of causing significant transboundary harm and a low probability of causing disastrous transboundary harm

Studying the feasibility and demonstrating the social and economic viability of the different energy generating approaches

Over the past year, Member States have discussed intensively and substantially possibilities for the expansion of the Council.

His plan sounds impracticable.

If this were to happen, the meetings of the Parties would be less likely to rotate among member States, and would be more likely to be held in the seat of the Secretariat.

By offering to lend freely against collateral, they liquify assets and prevent banks from being forced to unload loans or securities at fire sale prices. Anticipating such liquidity insurance, banks can make illiquid long term loans or hold other illiquid financial assets.

Chata's taking no chances.

The United Nations University is currently preparing a gender mainstreaming action plan.

The Scientific Committee might consider the possibility of undertaking research on individual countries and of giving technical assistance in determining radioactive contamination levels in countries that might request such help.

She is more likely to be helping her husband.

Therefore, the likelihood of overlap was limited.

Banks known to be healthy can borrow at much less than 5.25 . But banks facing possible liquidity problems which the Fed wants to be able to borrow at 5.25 are borrowing from the Fed itself at 5.75 , as are a few big banks that want more liquidity but don t believe they could get it without disrupting the market.

Noting that capital flows, in particular private capital flows, to developing countries have been increasing strongly but that not all countries have benefited from such flows and that short term capital movements can be unpredictable,