Even so, Secretary General Kofi Annan said in his latest report to the Security Council this week, there is now enough money to significantly mitigate civilians' hardships if the government managed it better.
But Lord Collins said he hoped that before the mortgage companies enforce their rights, they would do what they could to "mitigate any hardship" suffered by the tenants.
Jessica's father died when she was three, and her mother strove to mitigate the hardship of living in a tenement yard in Charlestown, Georgetown, instilling the values of independence, discipline, justice and loyalty that informed Jessica's life.
Some proposals for mitigating these hardships are presented.
Your organization might more effectively devote its money and time not just to mitigating present hardship but also to addressing its causes.
In this respect, ALMPs differ from "passive" measures such as unemployment insurance/assistance, which are designed to mitigate the financial hardship of unemployment.
He does grow weary of the road, on occasion, but whenever he's tried to mitigate or avoid the hardships of being on the bus, it hasn't worked out.
He is remembered for his flexible approach to Judaic practice, and he interpreted the Law so as to mitigate rather than introduce hardship.
Skeptics often speak of "shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic," when a modest measure is proposed to mitigate a severe, fundamental hardship.
The term "practices" is used here in place of "strategies" to distinguish between discrete activities used to mitigate acute food-related hardship and routine activities that were embedded in their daily lives.
The central government will continue to try to boost rural incomes through its scheme guaranteeing 100 days of employment to each rural household; this may mitigate some of the financial hardship for families in drought-hit areas, but bad harvests would still threaten the livelihoods of many rural poor.
