This is superficial thinking, at best.

That s a lot better than what we have today.

The results are mixed, at best.

In short, the benefits are at best small.

This is a puzzling statement at best.

SO I believe very soon, we re not only going to have better movies, we'll have that original Nigerian movie.

Sometimes, this will be the best evidence we have.

And the CSF s track record is dismal at best.

Three years later, the results are mixed at best.

David's I usually do a top 10, we don't have time for top 10s.

ODA has, at best, a patchy record.

Regulation is at best a partial remedy for such problems.

At best, it is a safety valve for democracy rather than an engine of it.

And the incentive for authors to cooperate is, at best, mixed.

Yet compliance has been patchy at best.

For Russian leaders, 1989 s lesson was clear trusting the West was foolish at best, dangerous at worst.

Unfortunately, America s financial reforms have been half baked at best.

At best, it seems that the time path of extractions can be tilted toward the future.

It will also aggregate and evaluate the best ideas and strategies to overcome those obstacles.

In a world divided between two uncompromising superpowers, India s temporizing seemed like appeasement at best, and aid and comfort for the enemy at worst.

But Microsoft s ambiguous at best behavior is part of a pattern.

The future of Iraq, not to mention democracy there, remains uncertain at best.

Now, analysts predict that the economy will barely grow 1 this year, and that is the best case scenario.

With a new emergency Fund, we may have more predictable funding.

The bottom line is that deleveraging will ensure that growth will be modest at best in the short and medium term.

However, in the best case, the new army will not be ready before December 2005.

At best you can grab a mere crumb of this frenetic global kaleidoscope.

However, although GNI was the best approximation of capacity to pay, it was not the only one.

But if we believe that debt driven demand is different, demand stimulus will at best be a palliative.

Such an outcome cannot be ruled out, but the prospects are uncertain at best.

The transition from autocracy to democracy in the Middle East is likely to be bumpy and unstable, at best.

It is still not too late to change direction, but now we have only days and weeks, perhaps months, rather than years.

Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country s economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.

Think now of an 8 cylinder engine running not on five cylinders, but on two or three at best.

Europeans have become the Japanese of the West financial contributors who at best play a supporting role in global strategic affairs.

Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous and thus dubious channels.

Others point out that the US Fed s quantitative easing efforts have been modestly successful, at best.

Their links with Europe if they exist at all are at best rational, not emotional.

Although our central bankers are not perfect judges of financial stability, they are still the people who are in the best political and institutional position to ensure it.

Until recently, the record on evaluating responses to humanitarian emergencies has been patchy at best.

What poor nations get out of Chinese mercantilism is, at best, temporary growth of the wrong kind.

According to the available evidence, the best overall estimate of short term memory is about four pieces or chunks of information.

One such area not mentioned today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where we have much better access than in previous years.

With citizens of distressed countries bearing the fiscal burden of the crisis, the enduring presumption that they will not act responsibly is patronizing, at best.

At best, these are marginally useful more often, they are harmful in today s circumstances.