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

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

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

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.

Sami described Layla as evil almost beyond belief.

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.

Today, the prospect of either country launching a nuclear attack against the other seems almost ridiculous.

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.

The economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart argue that recovery after a financial crisis is almost always slow.

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.

In Iraq, a technical majority in a wholly legal election is almost meaningless if the position of Sunni Muslims and Kurds is not explicitly recognized.

Given this multiplicity of issues, it is almost impossible to give a short term assessment of achievements, failures, progress and setbacks in any particular place.

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.

Moreover, the customs union makes it almost impossible for Russia to conclude any free trade agreement with the EU.

The irony is that Medvedev has almost no room for maneuver, despite holding one of the most powerful presidencies in the world. His popularity has been bestowed, not earned, so it can be taken away as easily as it was given.

This is not to say that the US should never support insurgencies against established governments but doing so is almost always a lonely affair, without any realistic expectation of enlisting many partners in the process.

The Viet Nam War was a military conflict fought in Vietnam from 1959 through 1975 between South Vietnam and the United States on one side and North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front (NLF) on the other side. As with Korea, Dietrich Schindler noted that we can assume that there were hardly any treaty relations, particularly no bilateral treaties, between the Northern and the Southern parts of Viet Nam which could have been affected by the hostilities.

The Republican Party, with its 40 Senate seats, is simply filled with too many ideologues and, indeed, too many senators intent on derailing any Obama initiative to offer enough votes to reach the 67 vote threshold.

They probably contemplate with barely disguised pleasure the difficulties currently encountered by the US in Iraq and elsewhere, but they do not feel any sense of a compensating responsibility for global stability.

It is hard to believe it is almost Christmas.

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

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.

Am I ( not ) better than him who is contemptible , and cannot even express himself clearly ?

Or that I am better than him , for he is lowly and he does not seem to talk plainly .

Or am I better than this man , who is contemptible and scarcely makes things clear ?

Aye ! I am better than this one who is depicable , and well nigh cannot make himself plain .

Am I not better than this one Musa ( Moses ) , who is Mahin has no honour nor any respect , and is weak and despicable and can scarcely express himself clearly ?