According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

He would call in advance to make sure there was no alcohol at the party.

I would like to warn you in advance that if you smoked here you would be fined.

In advanced concepts and even philosophy—and they will soon discover that toknow feels more like a club than just a magazine.

It was often announced in advance.

It's not all that hard to build an advanced and large vocabulary.

Scientists have advanced many theories about why human beings cry tears, none of which has been proved.

Since then, I have taken courses like data science and advanced mathematics.

Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication.

The competition has two levels, the beginners and the advanced.

The first prize is 300 dollars for the beginners and 750 dollars for the advanced.

The inspections were supposed to be a surprise, but keeper sometimes had advance notice.

To catch the early flight, we ordered a taxi in advance and got up very early.

We require the student's full details at least 4 weeks in advance.

It contributes greatly to the advance of society as a whole.

Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.

It may prevent your business and career from advancing.

Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind, providing heat, protection, and cooked food (which is much easier to cat and digest).

Parents and students who have invested heavily in higher education worry about graduates' job prospects as technological advances and changes in domestic and global markets transform professions in ways that reduce wages and cut jobs

Useful thinking skills for advanced academic research.

Instead he was keenly interested in product design and aesthetics （美学）, and in making advanced technology simple to use.

But not all schools show advances after downsizing, and it remains to be seen whether smaller schools will be a cure-all solution.

Perhaps they prefer going into a nursing home and can select one in advance.

Planning everything in advance.

Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin

It seems to me that a compromise would be receiving the exam questions a day or two in advance, and then doing the actual test in class with the ticking clock overhead.

like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.

The summer program run by a nonprofit organization has helped many underserved students learn advanced math.

The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.

Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.

Math circles provide students with access to advanced-math training by university professors.

It's no secret in the advanced-math community that diversity is a problem.

In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers ( ' , 下水道).

Technological advances.

It represents the rapid technological advance in people's daily life.

There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades from now.

Advanced batteries are moving out of specialized markets and creeping into the mainstream, signaling a tipping point for forward-looking technologies such as electric cars and rooftop solar panels.

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

Our mission is to promote, protect and advance the social work profession.

It advances with the times.

But this vote of confidence in Oprah sends a troubling message at precisely the time when American universities need to do more to advance the cause of reason.

The equipment in American studios was more advanced than anything in Britain, which had led the Beatles' great rivals, the Rolling Stones, to make their latest album, \Aftermath\, in Los Angeles.

It is essential to advanced manufacturing.

According to the college, the plan is designed for high-ability, highly motivated student who wish to save money or to move along more rapidly toward advanced degrees.

There are three dozen universities in the UK which are actively engaged in advanced research training and commercialisation work.

Only two countries in the advanced world provide no guarantee for paid leave from work to care for a newborn child.

As sisters and brothers advanced into old age, closeness increases and rivalry diminishes, explains VC, a psychologist at Purdue University.

Devotion to the advance of science.

In a division of electronic engineers, who were designing equipments so advanced that they work in teams of up to 150, co-workers and managers were asked to nominate the standouts- the stars in productivity and effectiveness

Do you think I should tell her in advance that I'm a vegetarian?

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

Spencer argued that all worldly phenomena, including human societies,changed over time, advancing toward perfection.

He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the “survival of the fittest,” in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger, more advanced races and societies.

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

It doesn’t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another.

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them.

Consider the person that you re dealing with in advance and what will get you to your desired outcome.

first two hours, now three hours一this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

Impulsive spending isn't an option, so plan your week's menu in advance, making shopping lists for your ingredients in their exact quantities.

The advance is driven in part by vehicle manufacturers, who are placing big bets on battery-powered electric vehicles.

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi