The proportion of women who have been elected is also higher as compared to the parliamentary elections.

The US also has more realistic migration restrictions than most European countries.

We clearly have to be small, compared to stars and planets otherwise we'd be crushed by gravity. And in fact, we are midway.

As I say, if you're in a swarm, your odds of being the unlucky one are reduced as compared to a small group.

Europe also dispenses half of the world s foreign assistance, compared to 20 for the US.

Botswana has a high level of economic freedom compared to other African countries.

The difficulties of coping with multiple address spaces are of secondary concern to speed of execution.

Blinder also predicted that the flexible, fluid US labor market would adapt better and faster to globalization than European labor markets would.

After all, real per capita income in the US is about 40 higher than in France, 22 higher than in Canada, and 31 higher than in Great Britain.

Overall performance improved in comparison to the prior reporting period, although this has not been uniform.

China s government expenditure on education is approximately 3 of GDP, compared to 5.4 in Brazil.

Finally, participants were asked to rate how they have been feeling for the past two weeks, as opposed to the past week as in the original BDI.

True, those walls did not work as well as had been hoped, but Japan was nonetheless much better prepared for a tsunami than Padang is.

In the US, less than 5 of individuals with ADHD get a college degree, compared to 28 of the general population aged 25 years and older.

They tell us that the recent financial crisis pales in comparison to the looming ecological credit crunch, which could presage a large scale ecosystem collapse.

It was an unprecedented act at the time because everybody thought, He'll look like a figurehead compared to these people.

Prices per acre of farmland in Iowa and Illinois rose more than 10 over the past year.

While earned revenues fell below projections, change management expenditures were contained and the implementation of some change initiatives was deferred.

He looks more reassuring than Sarkozy and sounds more competent than Royal.

True, when compared to the recent past, party politics has become more polarized.

McCain is a stronger advocate of free trade than Obama is.

This is small potatoes compared to the significant run up in prices that world markets have been experiencing recently, and it would in any case be swamped by the high volatility to which these markets are normally subject.

Only 15 would vote for Hamas MP s or a Hamas presidential candidate, compared to 55 for Fatah candidates.

The Israelis also see with greater clarity than many in the world the nature of the likely successor regime in Syria (hint it will probably not be comprised exclusively of Facebook and Twitter users).

Prostate cancer also experiences significantly less media coverage than other, equally prevalent cancers, with a study by Prostate Coalition showing 2.6 breast cancer stories for each one covering cancer of the prostate.

True, Georgia seemed a less appealing partner than the Baltic states.

An A bomb is millions of times more immoral than a spear or sword, hundreds of thousands of times more immoral than a rifle, thousands of times more immoral than a machine gun, and hundreds of times more immoral than salvo systems or cluster bombs.

These numbers are low and high, respectively, compared to other countries.

The reality is that the larger member states are more equal than the others.

It should be noted, however, that the appeals stage will require a smaller establishment compared to the trial stage.

This second operation will be both politically and technically more difficult than the first it is much easier to give money away than to take it back.

Granted, many studies have confirmed that wealthier nations tend to be happier than poor ones, and that rich people are generally more satisfied than their less affluent fellow citizens.

Not only is the market economy less popular in France than in all other European countries or the US, but it is less popular than in Russia or in China!

By comparing Islam in general not only Islamist terrorism to fascism, as the right wing populists do, and to suggest that Europe faces a threat comparable to the Nazis, is not just wrong, but dangerous.

As opposed to what? The death continuum?

E. Ring comparison

The table provides a comparison

I wish as the Fed does that some way could have been found to make financial sector equity holders bear an even larger share of the losses that are coming down the road than they have borne so far or are likely to bear.

Most States (74 per cent in the third reporting period, compared with 70 per cent in the second) had entered into bilateral agreements and many had entered into multilateral agreements (67 per cent, compared with 60 per cent during the second reporting period).

Both are important issues, but they are secondary to the problems of joblessness and poverty.

It is no secret that sovereign bonds carry significantly higher borrowing costs than concessional debt does.

Even inflation is likely to be lower in America than in Europe this year.

My delegation cannot resist drawing an analogy between today's important topic and Antarctica.

It was 80 higher in Japan back then than in Colombia today, 42 higher in old France than in current Tunisia, 250 higher in the old Netherlands than in current Turkey, and 470 higher in old Italy than in current Indonesia.

The fiscal response tax cuts and spending increases has varied considerably, being somewhat more tepid in debt averse Europe than in the US and China.