So long as the US government does not default, whatever losses China may experience from the downgrade will be small.

We have little chance of winning.

Aid flows were tiny.

But they used to be small.

Meanwhile, job losses in the short to medium term can be minimized by focusing cuts in capacity on a relatively small number of large industrial vessels, as opposed to small scale artisanal fleets.

Those who voted affirmatively were only a tiny minority.

Cristina Kirchner, however, is no small woman.

But this is a big if .

The costs appear relatively small.

Financial crises are almost comforting by comparison.

Yet these mistakes are relatively minor and reversible.

Yet the cost would be anything but negligible.

In short, the benefits are at best small.

The challenges are many. The aid remains too little.

The children have very few opportunities to go to secondary school.

There are also trace amounts of mercury in coal.

Very few women marry two men.

There are numbers but little ability to draw correlations.

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I work with really amazing, little, itty bitty creatures called cells.

He and his fellow dissidents were a tiny minority, too.

But the prospects of success are desperately dim.

But here, too, the potential benefits are slim.

Shareholders used to put up with relatively meager dividends compared to today.

But there seems little prospect for a European revival.

Only a small percentage of these would be beamed towards Earth.

Access to reproductive health services is very weak.

And because methane is a much shorter lived gas than CO2, we can prevent some of the worst of short term warming through its mitigation.

The political right calls for more rapid deficit reduction by cutting spending.

Vicious circles of economic instability, devaluation, and capital flight have brought down seemingly unbreakable regimes throughout history. This probably explains the whiff of panic that followed China s tiny, but totally unexpected, devaluation of the renminbi.

But, as the rich have successfully pressed for tax cuts and reductions in government spending, children from poor and working class households are far less likely to receive a high quality education, and the US government has failed to provide for training or adequate infrastructure.

National security is treated as a low grade issue.

The chances of this are slim.

So they have little incentive to demobilize.

The numbers involved in those protests were miniscule compared to now.

Ukrainian exports of steel have boomed on China s appetite, but sooner or later that appetite will be sated, and Ukrainian steel producers will need new markets.

There is little reason for optimism.

A small minority cannot be allowed to veto the establishment of the Council.

The police profession was not well paid and women generally preferred the civil service.

Exports of goods of local origin were negligible.

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