It was love at first sight.

She attracted me at first sight.

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight.

He fell in love with her at first sight.

At first sight, China seems to be an exception.

At first sight, the regime appears to be almost intact.

At first sight, the reasons to dismiss this scenario seem overwhelming.

At first sight, they could include volcanoes, earthquakes, tidal waves and rising sea levels.

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight. But, on closer inspection, things are not so simple.

At first sight, the Ivory Coast s post colonial history looks like a variation on standard themes.

And, given such riches, competition might appear lucrative at first sight. But cooperation stands to enlarge the pie.

This idea is attractive at first sight. But here, too, the reference to the US experience is misleading.

The difference is actually much smaller than often assumed, but at first sight a growth rate of 0.6 qualifies as a lost decade.

Usage At first sight it appears confusing to the novice user, for the numbers on the compass dial ascend in an anticlockwise direction.

At first sight, it could be concluded that there is a high percent of participation of women in the parties and party branches.

One idea that has been mooted repeatedly in Europe is to create some European, or at least eurozone, unemployment insurance fund. This idea is attractive at first sight.

At length , when the sight is dazed ,

At length , when the sight is dazed ,

At first sight, this might seem like another dispute between economists and non economists, but the rift runs within, rather than between, disciplinary boundaries.

At first sight, the easiest question to address is the issue of the rights of the affected populations vis à vis their own States.

Since security is a key element of many other domains of human life and development, the stakes are much higher than those visible at first sight.

The first European explorer to sight New Zealand was Abel Janszoon Tasman on 13 December 1642.

BERLIN German chancellor Angela Merkel likes to navigate politically by line of sight and a very short line of sight at that.

As with all marine gas and oil deposits, the rights to the waters and the riches below are critical. And, given such riches, competition might appear lucrative at first sight.

Mandela found work as a night watchman at Crown Mines, his first sight of South African capitalism in action , but was fired when the induna (headman) discovered he was a runaway.

At this time, it is essential not to lose sight of the overall goal.

Bruno Giussani Look at them first. Look at them first.

At least at the first sight, these data suggest a reduction of fertility in relation to past decades from 7 children per woman, in the 50's and 60's, the TGF was estimated to be 6.4 in 1980 and 6.2 in 1991.

One sight at LUMS, a leading private university in Lahore, heartened me how women were dressed.

At the same time, focus on slums and youth at risk must not lose sight of broader issues of youth and development.

You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.

Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.

And the wonderful thing is that superstring theory has nothing to do at first sight with this idea of extra dimensions, but when we study superstring theory, we find that it resurrects the idea in a sparkling, new form.

At the same time, however, one shouldn t lose sight of the joint interests linking Russia and the West.

At first, I chuckled at the jokes.

For the past five years, I've been taking my wife and kids to Southwestern Montana, where I worked as a teenager on the hay harvest. And Montana, at first sight, seems like the most pristine environment in the United States.

Market efficiency and market completion theories can help reassure major financial institutions top executives that they must in some subtle way be doing God s work, even when it looks at first sight as if some of their trading is simply speculation.

At first sight, the second view may find support in a statement by the International Court of Justice in its opinion on the Interpretation of the Agreement of 25 March 1951 between the WHO and Egypt, in which the Court said

Iranian blogger Sight writes

Now we are already at the second rung of intervention, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

At first sight, that looks like a hard task. Since Copenhagen, climate change has slipped down the global agenda, as the restoration of economic growth, voter concern about jobs and living standards, and violent conflict in key trouble spots have taken precedence.

Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see how your brain works. This fun, first hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's really out there.

Some of them look fixedly at you but can you make the blind see , bereft as they are of sight ?

Some of them look fixedly at you but can you make the blind see , bereft as they are of sight ?