Sami described Layla as evil almost beyond belief.

There is almost no statistical assessment nor the means to make statistical assessments.

Not a day goes by without a black African suffering from racial abuse.

The world today offers hardly more opportunities to young people than it did to Yaguine and Fodé.

Indeed, looking earthward, the beauty of the Arab Spring seems to have given way to an almost unbearable winter.

Due to strict supervision, entry via the official sea and air ports is insignificant.

For this reason, reform fatigue has become almost palpable in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

And, although Hu can barely hide his mediocrity, the bureaucrats are unconcerned.

European public opinion must be made aware that increasing interdependence means that the exchange rate stability and gradual completion of the single market implied by the euro really do benefit all participants.

Huang Zhiji was a boy, little taller than his rifle, when he joined the Red Army.

If, for example, terrorism almost never happens, it's really hard to judge the efficacy of counter terrorist measures.

In an almost unbelievable volte face, for reasons that remain somewhat mysterious, Obama s administration itself shot down this approach.

Indeed, average income in Latin America is now barely above its 1980 level.

Moussavi, Iran s prime minister between 1981 and 1989, is barely known to young voters.

But that pain is negligible compared to the pain that would be needed to fight runaway inflation later.

But the book is almost entirely non theoretical.

Your son is almost a copy of your father.

There is much data on some variables such as climate and water but none or nearly none on other variables such as rehabilitation.

It is hard to believe it is almost Christmas.

There is near universal loss of trust in institutions and leaders.

Few of the characters in the film, besides John and Alicia Nash, correspond directly to actual people.

The irony is that Medvedev has almost no room for maneuver, despite holding one of the most powerful presidencies in the world.

Apart from terrorism which is now appearing almost everywhere, and the list of whose victims and material damage continues to get longer natural disasters in various places are striking populations with unprecedented violence, leaving death in their wake.

The room is completely empty, three meters by two.

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent it is ready to burst like new bottles.

All of the eurozone s peripheral countries GDP is still either contracting (Spain, Ireland, and Greece) or barely growing (Italy and Portugal).

To be sure, the desire to live in a modern society and to be free of tyranny is universal, or nearly so.

Getting such patients to accept being put into a control group where no acupuncture is applied is almost impossible.

Without this nuance, an American citizen who is armed now has no obligation to withdraw when faced with a threat.

In the rest of struggling Europe, price adjustment is barely noticeable.

In a sense, the solution to this challenge is as plain as day.

An individual who didn t distinguish between his or her own child and an unknown child in a faraway land who felt the same love and the same obligation toward both would hardly be human anymore.

The tradable sector accounts for just 30 of the US economy (by value added), and employment growth in the tradable sector is negligible.

But translating those arguments into institutional reality will be a nearly impossible challenge.

Watching these countries progress is like watching a marathon.

Time barely passes before both of us are barely conscious.

Equally important, unlike the subject of WWII, Japanese history education barely addresses the two countries' post war relations.

Biofuels have become an almost unstoppable and unmitigated disaster.

Unfortunately, this is almost entirely incorrect.

In fact, The UNDP Latin America Democracy Report, published in 2004, barely mentioned it.

If he is right, the increase will turn out to be little more than a finger in the dyke of Japan s budget problems.

The government has maintained a sound fiscal policy, despite consecutive budget deficits in 2002 and 2003, and a negligible level of foreign debt.

There would seem to be little doubt that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which began the Gulf conflict, violated the treaty on friendly relations existing between the two nations.

But the unbelievers would like to stare you out of balance when they hear the warning , and say Surely he is possessed