The debate about individual income supplements versus general public services has become lively everywhere.

Xi s criticism of the North s nuclear ambitions has become both unusually public and blunt.

Who can honestly say that public debate has become more rational and less paranoid when our governments have become more transparent?

Private investment in the supply of public and semi public goods such as infrastructure, health care, communications has become more widespread.

Our public education, once a model for the world, has become most noteworthy for its failures.

The parade of gaffes and subsequent groveling apologies has become a regular feature of public life.

Some ministers don t care much about public perceptions when using public funds, and it is clear that the political atmosphere has become poisonous.

As the perception of non partisanship in public administration has diminished, proximity to those in power has become another source of tension.

Public language has thus become the common currency of cultural exchange, and everyone is on notice to mind one s manners.

Most recently, the Internet has become a means of public control over civil rights violations by the authorities, as images taken with mobile phones become available instantaneously to all.

It is not only the activism scene that has changed over the past couple of years. The military has also become more present in public life and a mix of military police state has become very active and in control.

And liberal capitalism itself with its mediocre political leaders and cartoonish public discourse has become a poor advertisement for the Absolute Idea.

Unfortunately, Greece has become a special case, one that requires focused and specific treatment, most probably involving another round of public debt forgiveness.

Seeing only one side of the equation, public opinion has become polarized between northern and southern Europe, perpetuating a vicious cycle of mistrust.

In recent years, public attitudes in Iran have become more liberal.

Public sector higher institutions to become equitable in their fee schedules.

Liberalization of trade in services has become a concern for many stakeholders, particularly when reform reaches into areas previously considered the public sector domain.

Finally, access to official documents by civil society has become much easier since ODS was made available to the public, on 31 December 2004.

My Special Representative has assessed, at this stage, that public perception of the standards as a vehicle for improving the lives and futures of all people has become more positive.

With no public trust in the political class, Italy might become ungovernable.

Road traffic injuries have become an ever more serious public health problem.

Much has become clear.

Lahoud has become irrelevant.

Outside the stadiums, public screenings of the games have become joyous mass happenings.

As re nationalization gained momentum, the public economic rhetoric changed and become statist.

The subject has become more open to discussion, and it has become more acceptable to set limits.

LONDON Vladimir Putin may (or may not) enjoy 80 public support in Russia for his Ukraine policy but it has become increasingly clear that he has bitten off more than he can chew. The question is At what point will his position as President become untenable?

Sami has become Layla's life.

It has become an obsession.

As a result, the public has become increasingly bewildered as the unremitting questioning of the IPCC and its chair assumes almost witch hunting proportions in some quarters.

The media might become a bit drearier, but public life would be far healthier.

In any case, America is the first country in the recession stricken part of the global economy where public stimulus has led to enough private investment and growth that fiscal consolidation has become possible.

Accordingly, technology to monitor the Internet and analyse on line content has become available to the public, as well as security agencies, marketing companies and the press alike.

But to say that Turkey has become more democratic is not to say that it has become more liberal.

My brother has become a priest.

English has become my favourite subject.

Sami has become my Islamic teacher.

A convenience has become a burden.

The violence has also become crueler.

Currency undervaluation has become a substitute.

For starters, industrialism has become obsolete.

His unpopularity has become their unpopularity.

Yet this stance has become untenable.

What has become of your sister?

What has become of your sister?