The United Nations is big enough to claim legitimacy, but too big to be workable.

I've decided that, for me at least, I don't have a big enough head.

For one thing, its balance sheet is not big enough.

But they are not big enough to fill the gap.

The resemblance is clear enough each activity yields big benefits and carries a tiny but explosive risk.

But the force is not big enough, and its deployment is too slow.

But in a climate of profound uncertainty, self help is not enough. Governments or central banks are needed, because only they are both big and quick enough.

The US is big enough to handle behemoths like Bank of America or Citigroup.

When they got to a certain stage, Pratham got big enough to attract some pro bono support from McKinsey.

One cannot contribute unless one feels secure, one feels big, one feels I have enough.

To be sure, an economy without a few big winners won t have enough disruption, economies of scale, and inspirational examples to be as dynamic as the US once was. Ultimately, however, an economy in which there are only a few big winners won t have enough customers to support them.

How big is big enough remains an open and interesting question. Major hedge funds are presumably looking for ways to become bigger and take on systemic importance.

Only Europe as a whole, focused politically on the idea of better regulation, is big enough to block the neo liberal tsunami.

Yes, if you are a bank, particularly a big one, you can raise money easily enough, thanks to sweeping explicit and implicit government guarantees.

That two of the hottest cars in the United States is a 55,000 dollar giant car, big enough to hold a mini in its trunk.

Paulson, the outgoing Treasury Secretary and another Goldman Sachs veteran, left a loophole in his rescue package big enough for a truck to drive through.

But it will not be big enough to dispel convertibility risk and hence demonstrate the ECB s credibility as a lender of last resort.

If the fund s losses are big enough that rounding off still leaves it short of a stable 1.00 value, the fund breaks the buck.

Each worshipper buys one piece of a cartoon, big enough to stand on while making the Friday prayers in the large square downtown Amman.

The ECB s latest program of bond purchases will be big enough to ensure that Draghi does not lose face.

And banks, when they get big enough that no government will let them fail, have the biggest incentive of all.

Could such changes in psychology be big enough to tip us into a world recession? While it is far from clear that they will, it is a possibility.

But there is a third possibility a motley collection of regional parties, together with the Communists, gets enough seats to prevent either of the two big parties from forming a government.

While other countries certainly support these values, only the US has been willing, healthy, and big enough to ensure that they prevail.

Pessimists now fret that Asia is not big enough for both China and Japan you can t have two tigers in one forest.

This means that the fiscal authorities have a big responsibility to target a structural fiscal surplus that is high enough to generate the space needed for real exchange rate depreciation.

So, let me tell you this when Wal Mart achieves 20 percent energy reductions, that's going to be a very big deal. But I'm afraid it's not enough.

For one thing, its balance sheet is not big enough. At a minimum, the central bank now needs the assistance of that part of the government that taxes and borrows.

And so we can accurately if the magnet is big enough, and your resolution is high enough you can actually detect all of the proteins in the body and start to get an understanding of the individual system.

Nonetheless Ban is sometimes criticized for not doing more, not listening enough, or deferring too much to the Big Five countries on the Security Council.

The big problem now is that unemployment continues to rise in the US and Europe, because growth is too slow to create enough new jobs.

If the losses are big enough that existing equity and debt holders are wiped out, government insurers should make up the difference to protect depositors.

That is why some people are advocating that China undertake a one shot, big bang appreciation large enough to defuse expectations of further strengthening and deter inflows of speculative hot money.

The big problems for most of humanity will be to find enough conceptual puzzles and diversions in their work and leisure lives to avoid being bored, and enough relative status not to be green with envy of their fellows.

Deah Barakat was a tall guy with a big smile and big ideas.

And it got big enough to the point where there was a float last year at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, and Rick Astley pops out, and rickrolls millions of people on television.

What a big dog!

We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big.

France will most likely play a critical role as well. France is big enough that if it threw its support fully behind the peripheral countries, Germany would be isolated and would need to respond.

One big test will be whether the estimated 100,000 displaced people, amounting to 10 of the population, many living in tent camps, feel safe enough to return home.

In theory, enough quantitative easing implies future inflation, motivating people to buy big ticket items, like cars and appliances, now to avoid the run up in prices later.

Big companies. Big companies.

Enough is enough.

Enough is enough.

Is that a big number?