The word naked nude has become synonymous to any woman who has decided, for any reason, not to adhere to the common costume worn by society.

In the United States, the word liberal, in the mouths of populist radio hosts and right wing politicians, has become almost synonymous with effete East Coast snob or, worse, New York intellectual.

The consulting firm McKinsey has christened Africa, long synonymous with economic failure, the land of lions on the move.

Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation.

The Arab Human Development Report has gained a great deal of visibility and recognition for UNDP. Indeed it is synonymous with UNDP in the region.

Indeed, Europe s community of attitudes is becoming synonymous with solutions to world problems.

With some exceptions, the office was synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union.

NEW YORK Vidkun Quisling, Norway s wartime fascist leader whose name has become synonymous with collaboration with evil, lived with his wife in a rather grandiose villa outside of Oslo. That villa is now the Norwegian Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, a fine transformation of a tainted place.

The US productivity miracle and the emergence of Wal Mart style retailing are virtually synonymous.

Much has become clear.

Lahoud has become irrelevant.

Today, they are a household name, synonymous with unruly speculation, boundless greed, and, ultimately, systemic instability.

Cost escalation may contribute to a project cost overrun but it is not synonymous with it.

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

Nor is democracy synonymous with strong institutions, and social protection cannot substitute for an efficient labor market.

Sami has become Layla's life.

It has become an obsession.

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?

Behold , Gehenna has become an ambush ,

UNOCI has become a stabilization force.

But to view them as synonymous with the entirety of the arts community is, by far, too short sighted.

In the case of both policies, efficacy is synonymous with legitimacy, which is thus an essential condition for success.

The consulting firm McKinsey Company christened Africa, long synonymous with economic failure, the land of lions on the move.

Today, some people espouse the view often loudly that the gold standard was synonymous with economic and financial stability.

The United States, for which international monetary reform is synonymous with diminution of the dollar s global role, is lukewarm.

Guro started to use certain expressions that indicate that the things she learns about Christianity are synonymous with good .

Japan has economically become a powerful nation.

Her daughter has become a beautiful woman.

Argentina has become a country without direction.

Instead, Asia has become an economic powerhouse.

The impact has become impossible to ignore.

This Samuel Huntington concept has become universal.

The Ministry of Railways has become history.

This has become known as Moseley's law.