It sounds like an infection at best. Maybe a medical instrument.

At best, it is a mixed record.

His Palestinian counterparts are hardly in a better position.

But to frame the issue in this way is, at best, to engage in delusion.

Responses to America s call for democracy in the Middle East have been tepid at best.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

At best, it offers the prospect of several years more of sub normal activity.

But a best case scenario provides a poor policy framework in our imperfect world.

Soft power is not good per se , and it is not always better than hard power.

Our ability to assist those who seek freedom from fear will then be partial at best.

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These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

Second, Germany s experience with this kind of agency shows that it is impossible to sell off large parts of an economy simultaneously.

So, as austerity undermines growth, debt reduction will be marginal at best.

He stressed, however, that even if the legislation were passed, the building would not be ready for occupancy until 2010 at the earliest.

But to frame the issue in this way is, at best, to engage in delusion. At worst, however, it creates an image of arrogance that can only undermine the credibility on which central banks authority rests.

But, as Princeton economist Avinash Dixit likes to say, the world is always second best at best. An approach that presumes that we can identify and directly regulate problematic behavior is unrealistic.

If lower is always better, why not set the target at 1 , or even zero? In fact, there are times when 3 4 is better than 2 .

The very poor can at most be used for occasional demonstrations of anger, but they are not the stuff from which either terrorists or revolutionaries are made.

So a US hard landing and global slowdown is unavoidable. Much greater and more rapid reduction of official interest rates may at best affect how long and protracted the downturn will be.

For Russia, this could mean (in the best case) tens of thousands of refugees or (in the worst case) the arrival of armed militias on its territory.

In the best of all worlds, it would be foreigners with ample reserves who suffer the losses, but those investors might be needed to finance future deficits.

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We're at best ignored and maligned and abused, at worst, by negligent regulatory agencies, pernicious zoning and lax governmental accountability.

It is time for all countries in East Asia to remember Winston Churchill s famous advice To jaw jaw is always better than to war war.

At best, Russia is a potential partner in the effort to manage globalization s challenges at worst, it is a potential problem.

But it is ethically questionable to test a drug for non inferiority, because patients are exposed to potential risks while contributing, in the best case, to the development of a drug that is no better than those already available.

Adjustment mechanisms are needed, but external devaluation and inflation are not available, while labor mobility is partial at best.

The United Nations has the best credentials to assist Iraq in its political process as well as to create the right conditions to enable Member States to take part in peacebuilding and reconstruction in Iraq.

But anyways.

Blame the French Revolution for having bequeathed to us the idea that self government is always better than good government.

At worst, the efficiency costs would be minor at best, the tax would discourage excessive short term speculation.

What can be done? First, new drugs should always offer added value better efficacy, lower toxicity, or greater ease of treatment.

The police are at best useless and at worst outright employees of the drug lords the army is less tainted, but unprepared for the role.

For most economists, the extent to which modern capitalism has been shaped by earlier cultural predispositions is a source of puzzlement at best, if not merely a factor to be dismissed.

At best, we face a protracted period of anemic, below trend growth in advanced economies as deleveraging by households, financial institutions, and governments starts to feed through to consumption and investment.

Recent events have considerably weakened the financial position of commercial companies and businesses and, put many sources of State finance out of business.

He was describing democracy at its best, its most noble, as it should be, but not always is freely mobilized men and women able and willing to change the course of their destiny.

Barack Obama s 2008 election created high expectations in this region, too but his administration s approach has been reserved, at best, and often obtuse.

Above all, multilateralism is never preferable to a good bilateral solution a view that has reinforced behavior that undermines, rather than strengthens, the capacity for effective international action.

These actions are usually not known explicitly a priori, instead the robot can, at best, receive a value indicating the success or failure of a given action taken.

The bailout is no solution to the fundamental problems that the eurozone confronts at best, it buys time to spread the inevitable wrenching adjustments over time and across people.

How is it going in the fish market?

Indeed, democracy is fragile, at best, across North Africa and, in the Middle East, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia have only begun to feel the ripples of the tidal wave sweeping the region.

Whatever one thinks of those measures, taking counter cyclical policy action is almost always better than doing nothing when an economy is overheating.