Progress in achieving these Millennium Development Goals may have fallen short of expectations, but we are not totally disheartened.

The climate is tropical monsoonal, slightly less humid than the average in this part of Indonesia.

I also joined Global Voices four years ago or a little bit less.

The extreme length of the city was little less than a mile, and the whole intramural area is still thickly strewn with architectural remains.

With global warming, prices will most likely be slightly lower.

Now those projections have been cut to less than 2 , which is too slow to make a dent in the very high rate of unemployment.

But the Netherlands, and Austria and, to a lesser extent, Germany and France are faring slightly better.

As a result, predictions for the United States where household deleveraging continues to constrain economic growth have fallen short only modestly.

We realized that if you just cleaned up our Gossamer Condor a little bit, the power to fly would be decreased a little bit, and if you decrease the power required a little, the pilot can fly a much longer period of time.

Slightly less than 50 respond to this treatment and need to take supplemental vitamin B6 for the rest of their lives.

A little less than half of men and 10 per cent of women of working age were employed.

We de linked that, and once we did it, we began to budget at a price slightly lower than the oil price and save whatever was above that price.

This places his voice lower than the tenor range on the low end, and just short of tenor C, and therefore above the baritone range, on the high end.

360 million in a market in a country that is a poor country, with an average per capita income just under 500 dollars per capita.

Colombians were in a funk, and they took it out on Santos. He recovered by the second round, but won by a much smaller margin than anyone expected six months ago.

The population in 2011 was 1.8 million, having grown 7.5 over the previous decade from just under 1.7 million in 2001.

Even as expectations adjust, there is a growing loss of confidence among investors in the adequacy of official policy responses in Europe and the US (and to a lesser extent in emerging economies).

The macroeconomic outcomes have consistently fallen short of expectations, and there is reason to believe that it will be even more difficult in Japan for monetary policy alone to gain sufficient traction.

Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

If, however, the slightest doubt about the OMT s effectiveness arises, the expectation game will shift into reverse, and both countries bonds will quickly come under attack.

Finally, in order to stand a chance of preventing inflation from increasing much further, real interest rates must, at the very least, be equal to zero or slightly positive.

An Age of Diminished Expectations?

The Summit of Low Expectations

This expectation was not realized.

Have some coffee, Jamal.

When it came to bargaining, the Germans were willing to contribute a little more and take a little less than others, thereby facilitating agreement.

We shall punish those who deny Our revelations slowly in a way that they will not know .

And those who denied Our signs We shall soon steadily lead them towards the punishment , from the place they will not know .

And those who cry lies to Our signs We will draw them on little by little whence they know not

And those who belie Our signs , step by step We lead them on in a way they know not .

Those who reject Our Ayat ( proofs , evidences , verses , lessons , signs , revelations , etc . ) , We shall gradually seize them with punishment in ways they perceive not .

As for those who reject Our messages , We will gradually lead them from where they do not know .

As for those who reject Our signs as false , We shall lead them , step by step , to their ruin without their even perceiving it .

And those who deny Our revelations step by step We lead them on from whence they know not .

As for those who deny Our signs , We will draw them imperceptibly into ruin , whence they do not know .

As for those who belie Our verses , We will draw them on little by little , from where they cannot tell

But those who deny Our signs We will progressively lead them to destruction from where they do not know .

We gradually lead those who have called Our revelations mere lies , to destruction . Their destruction will be such that they will not even notice how it seized them .

And ( as to ) those who reject Our communications , We draw them near ( to destruction ) by degrees from whence they know not .

We shall gradually seize those who reject Our signs from a place they do not recognize .

Those who reject Our signs , We shall gradually visit with punishment , in ways they perceive not

A half of it or a little less

For half the night , or reduce some from it .

( a half of it , or diminish a little ,