But that judgment seems premature, at best.

You'll tell me, this is the confessional system, the respect of religious authority, the legitimacy they inspire, etc But I would say these are vague answers at best.

After all, the firm would gain only a temporary advantage at best.

And that means that growth will remain slow and difficult at best.

At best, the law is a great equalizer.

At best, it creates what one constitutional expert called an invitation to struggle.

At best, like in Sweden or Denmark, the welfare state stopped expanding.

Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best.

Unfortunately, progress in that respect has been very slow, at best, notwithstanding certain positive developments.

At best, the agreement maintains the current status quo, and in some respects even allows for further development of Iran s nuclear program.

The bottom line, though, is that better policies can at best mitigate the economic consequences of this horrible recession.

But, as Princeton economist Avinash Dixit likes to say, the world is always second best at best. An approach that presumes that we can identify and directly regulate problematic behavior is unrealistic.

Moreover, they unveiled the low percentage of profit given by these companies to Mauritania, that reach at the best 4 per cent of the price of mined gold and copper.

Mainstream parallel programming languages remain either explicitly parallel or (at best) partially implicit, in which a programmer gives the compiler directives for parallelization.

A no fly zone is by no means a solution to the conflict in Syria. But it would be a modest step in the direction of reducing the great harm currently being done.

Poor policy choices, on the other hand, will at best delay recovery and at worst do permanent damage.

Marx and Engels's point was not only that such beliefs are at best half truths they serve an important political function.

It also consists in proving the absence of resistance of viruses in treatment antiviral by viral genome sequencing to adapt antiviral therapeutics at best.

Renewable energy sources have come down rapidly in price, to make wind and solar, at least in the most favorable cases, competitive with fossil fuel electricity generation.

What good is it to build a zero carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

So when you think about your parents or your grandparents, at best they may have created some photos or home videos, or a diary that lives in a box somewhere.

For eurozone citizens who do not speak a major language, especially English, mobility across national borders within the single currency area is limited at best.

In fact, looking exclusively at the superficial symptoms of physical security and the prevention of terrorism or violence provides at best a partial, short term solution.

Tariffs are generally modest already, so gains from their further reduction would be modest as well.

In the best case scenario, this expenditure would reduce the at risk population by only 3 .

Kris was smart but unpretentious.

However, this proportion remains modest.

Many modest steps have been taken.

In most communist countries, the transition to collective farming involved an element of compulsion, while the collective farms within these countries, lacked the principle of voluntary membership, is often regarded at best as being pseudo cooperatives.

Following the liberation of Kuwait and the reinstatement of the Kuwaiti dinars, these claimants were left with Iraqi dinars that at best could be exchanged on the unofficial market at de minimus rates.

But other social indicators are unimpressive.

New economic evidence serves at best to nudge the views a little here, a little there of those inclined to be open minded.

These factors have inspired some China watchers to regard the country s economy as a bubble, if not to predict a hard landing in 2010. But that judgment seems premature, at best.

Sami lived a modest ordinary life.

They can all be fixed by means of modest reforms.

At worst, labor market failures impose modest inefficiency costs on society, whereas capital market failures harm society greatly, with workers, rather than the perpetrators of financial disaster, suffering the most.

However, the proportion of women participating in international activities remains modest.

The benefit is therefore modest.

The NAP implementation process has, in the best cases, complied with successive requirements of participatory formulation, coordination and mainstreaming, yet the resulting partnerships, on the whole, have not attracted adequate financing for combating land degradation.

As a result, their redistributive effects are modest.

The paper was published in a minor journal and is not very well cited.

During 2004 we took the modest first steps in a process of reviving our Conference.

And those payouts are modest compared to the research and development efforts they stimulate.

This is a modest amount, but the initial ambition was also modest.

We believe that large dividends in threat reduction can be achieved with a relatively modest investment.