, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just the opposite was the case with little to no population concentration in major industrial centres as the predominantly rural resource-dependent Maritime economy continued on the same path as it had since European settlement on the region's shores.

However, there was little support toward cleaning up the river, because it would negatively affect Detroit's industrialism and economy.

In power since 1979, the Obiang government has made little progress in stimulating the economy.

Seddon claims that arguments for economy of scale are a mix of a ) the plausibly obvious and b ) a little hard data, brought together to produce two broad assertions, for which there is little hard factual evidence.

Farmland accounts for a little over 80 % of the Falklands land area and a sheep appears on the islands ' coat of arms, but agriculture is now less than 2 % of the economy.

This has provided some local employment and the mainly foreign technicians, and hundreds of troops stationed in the region to prevent sabotage, bring a little income to the local economy.

" However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle of the Manchester School and William Gladstone.

Agriculture is presently of little importance in the economy but climate change in southern Greenland, the growing season averages about three weeks longer than a decade ago has enabled expanded production of existing crops.

The impact of Visigothic rule was not widely felt on society at large, and certainly not compared to the vast bureaucracy of the Roman Empire ; they tended to rule as barbarians of a mild sort, uninterested in the events of the nation and economy, working for personal benefit, and little literature remains to us from the period.

But the government did little to address the historical, underlying structural problems of the economy — its overdependence on too few traditional commodities and lack of investment.

His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country, and he paid little attention to the collapsing Confederate economy, printing more and more paper money to cover the war's expenses.

Even though very little of Lesotho is covered in water, the rivers that run across the country are an important part of Lesotho's economy.

Moreover, little attempt was made to develop the country's economy.

As a result of its distance from the rest of the empire, Paraguay had little control over important decisions that affected its economy.

Government economic policies deviated little from 1954 to the late 1980s, consistently favoring a strong private-enterprise economy with a large role for foreign investment.

The limited action of Secretary Richardson did little to increase confidence in the general economy.

The national economy was self-sufficient, with little trading with other countries.

Short of dissolving parliament and calling for new elections, the president was left with little power to influence public policy regarding crime, the economy, and public services.

While the initial embargo showed little effect on Venice, Otto II imposed a second embargo in 983 which dealt considerable damage to the Venetian economy.

** The Belgians had little influence over the traditional economy of trade centered in Amsterdam.

After the decisive Battle of Pavia, the Duchy of Milan became a possession of the Habsburgs of Spain: the new rulers did little to improve the economy of Lombardy, instead imposing a growing series of taxes needed to support their unending series of European wars.

Unfortunately, these changes did little to help either economy.

A site may be a rundown slum or a desolate piece of desert in appearance today but have excellent potentials for the future with a little development or water.

The British defending lawyers, who today increased from three to four, demanded to know if they could make the information involved seem of little value to a jury, the chances of their clients would improve.

Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today.

This in turn led to the building of a deeper water pier a little around the bay at Hawkcraig, and to the development of hotels and many of the other services still on view today in the village.

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and was subsequently mostly demolished, with little of its physical structure remaining today ; the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain near the Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree preserves a portion of the Wall.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

In the early history of curling, the playing stones ( or rocks ) were simply flat-bottomed river stones that were sometimes notched or shaped ; the thrower, unlike those of today, had little control over the stone, and relied more on luck than on skill and strategy.

This does not mean, however, that little British opium clippers from prior to 1830 were not called " opium clippers " just as they are today.

Petrarch, for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic on Scipio Africanus, but this work was unappreciated in his time and remains little read today.

He also wrote some books in theology and philosophy, controversial in their time but little remembered today.

Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

The Roman occupation of Athens led to a resurgence of monument-building, although little is left of them today.

' ' Do the little things in life ' (' Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd ') is today a very well known phrase in Welsh.

How much of the rest of the New Testament he then revised is difficult to judge today, but little of his work survived in the Vulgate text.

Whale oil is little used today and modern commercial whaling is done for food.

This is why prayer ropes today are still tied using knots that each contain seven little crosses being tied over and over.

There is little sign of any orchards today, although there is a wide proliferation of fruit trees in the backyards of many residences in this area of town.

Many mountains and mountain ranges throughout the world have been left in their natural state, and are today primarily used for recreation, while others are used for logging, mining, grazing, or see little use.

Even today, relatively little is known about the discourse produced in on-line communication contexts.

Although the CIA insists that MKUltra-type experiments have been abandoned, some CIA observers say there is little reason to believe it does not continue today under a different set of acronyms.

While Patton has a reputation today as a senior general who was both impatient and impulsive, with little tolerance for officers who had failed to succeed on the battlefield, the truth is somewhat different.

There is now little debate about the general legal status of involuntary population transfers: Where population transfers used to be accepted as a means to settle ethnic conflict, today, forced population transfers are considered violations of international law.

Many of science fiction's triumphs, even from as little as ten years ago, are unreadable today ; they were shoddily put together, not meant for re-use.

Around 1943, presumably to reduce the risk of Luftwaffe bombing, a new dispersed design office was opened at Fairmile Manor in Cobham, Surrey ; little is known of this establishment and nothing survives there today.