NGOs and citizen associations are increasingly filling in where the government cannot provide basic services to vulnerable groups like the hungry, the sick or the homeless.
Over the next two years, the plan was for Afghan forces increasingly to fill in for Western troops as they either withdrew or were deployed elsewhere, holding what General John Allen, ISAF's American commander, calls the "human terrain".
During the second half of the 17th century, for a variety of reasons, including abuse of the unanimity rule (liberum veto), sejm's effectiveness had declined, and the void was being increasingly filled by sejmiks, where in practice the bulk of government's work was getting done.
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grinds on, with many Palestinian militants now arrested or dead, the ranks are increasingly filled by eager youths, some in their middle to late teens.
Despite his cool exterior, the conductor was fully aware that this was a crucial concert date in a career increasingly filled with big evenings.
Rueful, struggling to negotiate their lives and lies in a world increasingly filled with unknown terrors, the play's two married couples spend the Fourth of July weekend in less than connubial bliss.
Fortunately, no one actually gets hurt in virtual reality experiments, but Kramer says it's a lesson worth taking seriously in a world increasingly filled with high-tech distractions.
It is a question that often comes to mind in a highly competitive city increasingly filled with cyclists.
Low-paying jobs are increasingly filled by foreign workers, who, rather than skiing in their spare time, commute to affordable enclaves in towns other than Aspen.
