Sentence examples for scale of assessment from inspiring English sources

The peacekeeping scale of assessment had not been changed since 1973, though periodically the United Nations' regular operating budget had been adjusted.

For America will come up with the money only if its fellow-members agree to a new scale of assessment under which the Americans will regularly contribute rather less than they did and a handful of other countries rather more.

Flood risk reduction takes place at different spatial scales, from local to global, with the scale of assessment often driving data requirements.

The appropriate scale of assessment in any given situation is sometimes not readily apparent to rights-of-way managers, to land-managing agencies, or to cultural resource professionals.

In order to develop an objective decision methodology, various decision parameters, sub-parameters as well as the concept of scale of assessment were introduced, and its consistency among these parameters was also checked by calculating the consistency index (C.I).

Often >100 tree species (with DBH ≥10 cm) per ha are found, but at this scale of assessment the region's diversity cannot compare to the most diverse forests in South America and insular Southeast Asia where often >250 species∙hare arecordedded (Wikramanayake et al. 2002; Corlett and Primack 2011; Corlett 2014).

The scale of assessments for member countries to finance the United Nations was set up in 1946, in theory according to each nation's ability to pay.

In fact, they amount to 42% of the total.RAYMOND GIERISecretary, UN Joint Staff Pension FundNew YorkSIR You shed light on the complexity and unfairness of the present scale of assessments of the UN Regular budget, and illustrate why Japan considers them inequitable.

The scale of assessments for 1998-2000 was calculated on the basis of a six-year average of GDP data, from 1990 to 1995, which put America's share of the world economy at 26.2% and Japan's at 17.3%.

The Committee on Contributions prepares a scale of assessments for all members, based on the general economic level and capacity of each state, which is also submitted to the General Assembly for approval.

"The message I'm taking to all the capitals and, equally importantly, to dozens and dozens of meetings in New York, is that the present scale of assessments was established in 1974 and was based on economic data of that era," Mr. Holbrooke said.