It's a small world.

The world is a small village.

Old World flycatchers Order PasseriformesFamily MuscicapidaeOld World flycatchers are a large group of small passerine birds native to the Old World.

A small number of Black Swans, Taleb believes, explain almost everything in our world.

This blog, for instance, is just a small window in a world full of unlimited spaces.

Third World usage In many Third World countries, a smallholding is a small plot of land with low rental value, used to grow crops.

Early Confucian thinkers were writing in a world of small countries competing ruthlessly for territorial advantage.

BRUSSELS Interest in small countries economic policies is usually confined to a small number of specialists. But there are times when small countries experiences are interpreted around the world as proof that a certain policy approach works best.

In a stable world of confident markets, small countries can rest easy with their own monetary regimes.

Such events are extremely rare and can be seen only from a small part of the world.

And so, already small amounts of technology were transforming the world.

Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken around the world, only a small fraction are found on the Internet.

During World War II, Umberto and his mother Giovanna moved to a small village in the Piedmontese mountainside.

World War II Despite the country's numerically small and ill equipped armed forces, Greece made a decisive contribution to the Allied efforts in World War II.

As World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has put it, climate change is a big problem with small solutions.

A small world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but most nodes can be reached from every other by a small number of hops or steps.

The inside of the nanotubes is so small the smallest ones are 0.7 nanometers that it's basically a quantum world.

In the industrialized world, people were healthy, educated, rich, and they had small families.

The world in which we live is a small garden of well explored territory surrounded by a dim and dark forest of disasters.

Esther a woman who is full of strength, who provides for her family and shares her world with us through a small camera .

Tango lived with a small boy in a small village.

Because, for the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

Depending on the application of each network, one can start with one such ultra small world network, and then rewire some edges, or use several small such networks as subgraphs to a larger graph.

Ultimately, even Hurricane Katrina and other disasters of similar magnitude are small by world standards.

But there are times when small countries experiences are interpreted around the world as proof that a certain policy approach works best.

Sweden is a world leader in privatised pensions and pension funding problems are relatively small compared to many other Western European countries.

The whole emerging world joins the Western world with good child survival and small family size, but we still have the poorest billion.

Thanks partly to Chávez s policies, Venezuela is still a small player in the global oil market, with less than a 3 share of world production.

In large parts of the world, small arms and light weapons are weapons of mass destruction.

After all, Sudan is not a small, insignificant country it is the tenth largest the biggest in Africa and in the Arab world.

Join us as we see how small actions can change the world through the I Was Here campaign for the United Nations World Humanitarian Day.

This may still look small, but it is hardly a trivial sum in view of the short term growth outlook in the developed world.

In 1999, another sculpture, Omphalos (named after Omphalos, a small sculpture in the temple at Delphi, marking the centre of the world ), was created.

Hedge funds constitute only a small percentage of overall world financial markets, which, according to a recent study by the McKinnsey Global Institute, now exceed 120 trillion.

a) The creation of small scale business groups, focusing on small shops

After discovering that mathematics could be applied to understanding the physical world, a small group of natural philosophers turned toward experimental empiricism with practical objectives.

Our small industry had lots of its own stars, but only Steve had the charm and eloquence to be a star to the outside world.

The creation of a comprehensive monitoring mechanism should provide an effective barrier to the illegal trafficking in small arms and light weapons throughout the world.

Currently, 1.3 million Palestinians found themselves trapped in a small area with no link to the West Bank, to Israel or to the outside world.

Small arms and light weapons are now central to all civil wars and armed violence throughout the world.

This is true of a rather small group of rich countries (India is a partial exception), mainly in western Europe and its overseas offshoots, since World War II.

But, as long as the degree of insolvency is small enough that a relatively minor degree of monetary easing can prevent a major depression and mass unemployment, this is a good option in an imperfect world, this is a good option in an imperfect world.

We are trying to extrapolate the past experience of a small fraction of the world population that we have chosen to examine because they made a lot of money.

This was my mental model of the world exploding population, small planet it's going to lead to ugly things.

The constraints placed on small scale fisheries in many parts of the world are of critical concern to Nigeria.