This is a positive trend.

Crime statistics show a positive trend.

These projects, which privilege the electoral over elections , are a positive trend.

Non core programme expendituresresources continued their positive trend, reaching 6.6 million in 2004.

A slow but gradual positive trend is reflected in the region's ability to improve trade performance.

That positive trend shows that the efforts made have been a step in the right direction.

The tables do demonstrate a mostly positive trend and women seem to be catching up with men.

A positive trend is the growing number of female candidates in both parliamentary and local government council elections.

Although these are over four times lower in developing than in developed countries, the trend remains a positive one.

Shall we suggest that this is a positive trend and just wait until they are all gone before the process of return starts?

The past two years had seen a positive trend in the funding of operational activities, although there was still insufficient predictable and continuous funding.

On the positive side, there seems to be a trend towards deeper, wider RTAs, moving away from the traditional preferential positive list based approach towards a zero tariff, negative list, that seeks to create larger economic spaces.

The trend remains positive, and the Provisional Institutions should continue to work hard on making the implementation of standards of tangible benefit to all Kosovars.

While some States developed positive legislation, the general trend was more restrictive, with legislative amendments being viewed through a restrictive migration or counter terrorism lens.

Shi Haiyong, Deputy Director of the Xiaoshan Forestry Bureau, said that the production of Xiaoshan s flowering trees and shrubs also grown rapidly along with the positive sales trend.

Countries are experiencing strong growth, inflation is low, and the threat of crisis has receded considerably. Few countries need to borrow from the IMF a highly positive trend.

Countries report a positive trend towards increasing stakeholder participation, stimulated both by the emphasis in the IPF IFF proposals and by more general national policies that promote such participation.

Although the indicators for monitoring the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals reveal a positive trend, progress has been uneven from the baseline year to the most recent indicators available.

For every trend on this planet, there's a counter trend.

The Government also had a strategic plan to reduce the high fertility and high population growth rates, and she hoped that by the next session the figures would reflect a positive trend.

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

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It took note of the marginal increase in the collection rate of 2005 assessed contributions in the first three months of the year, and hoped that that positive trend would provide impetus to improve service delivery.

There was a continued positive trend in regular resources levels in 2005, as well as in other resources, due to the unprecedented response from donors (private sectors and Governments) to the tsunami disaster and other emergencies.

Another positive development, and one that should be encouraged by both the Committee and the Council, appears to be an increasing trend of international, regional, and bilateral cooperation to protect porous borders and prevent travel related fraud.

We need to consolidate the positive trend observed in the response to the Indian Ocean tsunami and the earthquake in Pakistan by promoting even closer dialogue with those contributors that used to be outside the humanitarian circle.

While this downward trend is positive, the occurrence of assisted return highlights the need for reinforcing the system of verification of voluntarinesss through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the established Management and Coordination Mechanism (MCM) framework.

The IGAD success in the north south peace process, as well as the enormous efforts now under way by the African Union in relation to Darfur, mark a positive trend towards greater African leadership in resolving Africa's conflict.

In the case of Guatemala, the number of indigenous people in all age groups completing primary education is lower than the number of indigenous people, even though this traditional gap is gradually narrowing, reflecting a positive but slow trend.

These examples indicate a trend.

There is a trend here.

We have a decent trend.

That trend must be reversed.

That trend should be encouraged.

This is a welcome trend.

But this trend is less unambiguous.

So where does this trend stop?

The current trend is toward decentralization.

This trend seems to have continued.

And this is the trend in well being over that time, a small increase, but this is the trend in ecological footprint.

But you see a very clear trend.

The statements in question mark that trend.

With realistic hope for peace in our region, we will endeavour to sustain that positive trend and forge close economic partnerships with China, South Asia, Central Asia and East and West Asia, including the Gulf region, as well as with our developed country partners.

With a realistic hope for peace in our region, we will endeavour to sustain this positive trend by forging close economic partnerships with China, South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia and West Asia, including the Gulf region, as well as with our developed country partners.