Perhaps not surprisingly, many financial bosses are up in arms over such moves.

Your son is almost a copy of your father.

It is hard to believe it is almost Christmas.

Not surprisingly, she won re election resoundingly.

But the book is almost entirely non theoretical.

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

Unsurprisingly, the fate of the Cairo talks is anything but certain.

The room is completely empty, three meters by two.

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

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.

Morsi will almost certainly not be removed without the involvement of the army and the security establishment.

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

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

Not surprisingly, that prospect offers scant comfort to China.

Second, the EU is the only natural American ally in terms of values.

His justification if not now, never is almost certainly true.

Biofuels have become an almost unstoppable and unmitigated disaster.

Unfortunately, this is almost entirely incorrect.

Given such countless precedents, it may be surprising that the rhetoric of sacrifice under the banner of austerity has proven so ineffective in Europe s current crisis.

Mars, by contrast, is nearly (or perhaps totally) geologically dead and has lost much of its atmosphere.

However, it is almost certainly true that in some cases the sanction was simply too light.

Job insecurity back then was mostly unknown and mass poverty had disappeared.

A nearly unbridgeable mental gap now separates Russians and Caucasian young people.

Almost inevitably, the biggest banks in the world got into trouble.

Burglaries have now become almost a nightly event for the non governmental organizations in Nyala.

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

It is almost impossible for any outsider to understand Iran s real internal political dynamics.

And, since companies cannot make executives pay out of their pockets for bad performance, the shift in focus ended up justifying an increase in pay.

These almost certainly reflect divergences in terms of that system s distributional impacts.

Annan's failures in such situations are almost invariably glossed over.

But one thing has not changed it is still the Middle East, where it is nearly impossible to know what might be waiting around the corner.

PARIS It is almost taken for granted nowadays that this is to be the Asian Century, marking an irreversible political economic shift in global power from West to East.

Beyond this pandemic, there almost certainly lurks another down the road potentially far more serious.

It is no surprise, then, that many people think of themselves as priceless.

Not surprisingly, emphasis on good governance can sometimes be equated with promoting democratic government.

And Hayek found it reassuring to know that he and Keynes agreed so completely.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the Iranian economy is almost totally controlled by political actors.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

The European Union s successful track record could therefore provide an almost perfect model.

Similar actions have been implemented by almost all existing structures, in the context of combating social exclusion.

Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.

It should come as no surprise that there is little consensus on a comprehensive accord that would have a meaningful impact on the world s climate.

Their access to economic and legal information is limited because of the absence of relevant education, the absence in rural areas of a broad network of legal information centres, etc.

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.