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Religious institutions should study causes of terrorism and prevent them from compounding.

The Poisons Act 1984 regulates the importation, possession, manufacturing, compounding, storage, transport and sale of poisons.

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Protracted rescheduling negotiations and the associated onerous conditionalities are compounding the uncertainties facing policy makers in the region.

Further compounding the situation was the reassertion of discredited strategic doctrines which had created a pervasive sense of global insecurity.

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Several homes in the north have also been converted into offices, shops and restaurants, further compounding the prevailing pressures on housing and shelter.

Compounding these challenges is our heavy dependence on the natural environment to support our tourism industry, the lifeblood of the economies of our nations.

I don't know what the Bar Association thinks about its members compounding a felony, but I do know what the law thinks about it.

A government decree in the Syrian Arab Republic increased hospitalization charges by 460 per cent effective 2005, compounding the Agency's difficulties in supporting secondary care.

A compounding factor has been the multitude of competing priorities in disaster prone developing countries, leaving disaster prevention and mitigation among the less important ones.

Compounding the problem, no one truly understands the precise connections among Russian and European institutions and markets. The collapse of LTCM in 1998 was completely unexpected.

Compounding the economic impact already described is the desire of the United States Government to impede academic, scientific, cultural and sporting exchanges between the two peoples

For us to be unaware of what is being adopted here would mean compounding the lack of general awareness about decisions with an impact on vital areas of people's lives.

Rapid urbanization in most developing countries has caused deterioration in shelter conditions for the urban poor while conflicts and disasters are compounding the daunting task of creating sustainable human settlements.

Moreover, the travel restrictions imposed at times of closure of territories made the work and travel of UNRWA officials even more difficult, thereby compounding the difficulties faced by the Agency.

Complexity is the problem that any theory of biology has to solve, and you can't solve it by postulating an agent that is even more complex, thereby simply compounding the problem.

Compounding the problem was an erosion of community resilience after more than four years of military campaigns which had left communities bereft of assets, without shelter and unable to cultivate food crops.

Four factors, none of them new but each destabilizing on its own, are compounding one another lack of hope, dangerous governmental policies, a regional power vacuum, and the absence of active external mediation.

Compounding the problem is the general lack of technical and professional expertise in Liberia to replace those who may be removed from office after the elections in the context of a new political climate.

However, as I pointed out in last month's briefing, we are concerned by reports of a slow but steady increase in violent incidents, compounding a corresponding deterioration in trust and confidence between the two sides.

At the same time, it is clear that the root causes and compounding factors of these more serious humanitarian crises, whether they occur in Africa or elsewhere, do not lend themselves to an easy solution.

With reference to the Secretary General's report on assistance to Mozambique, he underlined the seriousness of the compounding effects of HIV AIDS, which mainly affected the most productive age group of the population, and repeated natural disasters.

Likewise, food scarcity is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand. At the same time, rising incomes are altering people s diets, which now include more animal based proteins, further compounding Asia s food challenges.

Compounding developments in the energy markets, output growth in two important sources of external demand in the region, the United States of America and Japan, slowed somewhat in the former and showed signs of a recession in the latter in the second half of 2004.

In past decades, owing to historical and other reasons, developing countries have not been able to overcome their financial difficulties. Compounding that is the shortage of domestic financial resources and the unfulfilled international financial aid commitments. As a result, a development deficit has persisted.

Domestic supply disruptions are now fueling inflation and compounding the problems of a subsidy laden national budget. They have also aggravated the weakness of external finances, contributing to a sharp drop in international reserves that has been contained only by exceptional loans and deposits from abroad.

It is a classic public goods problem in principle, it is in individual countries self interest not to take action, while the rest of the world does. Compounding the challenge further is the fact that the benefits of actions taken today accrue in the distant future.

Compounding the problem donors have also been shifting their focus from AIDS to other diseases, because there is a sense that more lives can be saved more cheaply. At a time when we should be scaling up to meet the AIDS challenge, we are dialing back.

Oil prices have fallen from above 78 per barrel in mid July to less than 60 in early October. The drop due in no small measure to an easing of tensions over Iran s nuclear program is costing the Iranian government money, compounding the regime s domestic problems.

Compounding the problem, the diversity in banks capital ratios also indicates a dramatic distortion of the international playing field, as increasingly competitive conditions in financial markets have led to national discretion in applying the rules. Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to impose.

Compounding the challenge are the economic sanctions imposed by the US and Europe in response to President Vladimir Putin s aggressive policies toward Russia s immediate neighborhood. Finally, Russia has a staggering demographic problem, characterized by a shrinking population, life expectancy far below the advanced country average, and a growing brain drain.

Moreover, Israel, the occupying Power, has tightened its comprehensive siege on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, in violation of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the entire Palestinian population. The siege has isolated the Palestinian population in their towns, further compounding their socio economic hardships.

Some countries hit by the tsunamis experienced the problem of internal displacement for the first time, while in others, the tsunamis struck areas of ongoing armed conflict and internal displacement, exacerbating pre existing humanitarian crises and forcing many persons previously displaced by violence to flee once again, further compounding their plight.

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues also recognized that (i)ndigenous women's roles have eroded due to the compounding factors of loss of natural resources and depletion of the ecosystems, their transformation into cash economies, changes in local, social and decision making structures, and their lack of political status within States .c

As underlined in the report of the Secretary General on progress made in the implementation of General Assembly resolution 49 158, quot the failure to incorporate crime prevention considerations in national planning has contributed to dysfunctional development, compounding inequities and precluding the enjoyment by all the people of the fruits of progress quot (A 50 432, para. 8).

Unless emerging market governments take advantage of the limited space provided by their foreign exchange reserves and floating currencies to enact vital structural reforms, the onus of adjustment will fall on interest rates, compounding the effects of slowing growth and the risks associated with bad debt. Whether this becomes a systemic issue affecting the entire global economy will hinge on China.

The ECB s rescue operations have hindered the internal depreciation lower prices for assets, labor, and goods that the troubled economies need to attract fresh private capital and regain competitiveness, while the euro s appreciation is now compounding the challenge. In short, Europe s rescue policy is making the eurozone s most serious problem the troubled countries profound loss of competitiveness even more difficult to solve.

(a) The inadequacy of the processes of evidence gathering and statement taking by the police may cause the prosecution either to dismiss the case or to disregard completely statements given by the child victim to the police, necessitating their being retaken and thereby compounding the trauma already suffered, especially when the prosecutor is untrained or insensitive to the rights of the child

Moreover, after the stock market crash, the maximum tax on dividends paid on stocks was slashed from 35 to 15 , giving a substantial new advantage to long term investors and boosting the compounding effect of reinvesting after tax dividends. Again, this tax cut was justified in terms of stimulating the economy, which can, of course, be said of practically any measure aimed at supporting the stock market.

Moreover, the blockade violates a number of international human rights instruments and conventions, including the Charter of the United Nations. 54. Similarly, it is no accident that the United States Government, in its escalating hostility towards Cuba, has also resorted to biological aggression by introducing plagues and vectors to spread disease and deprive the Cuban population of food, compounding the harm already caused by the blockade.