In short, the Kyoto agreement meant lots of short term pain for little long run gain.

He said By Allah ! thou wast little short of bringing me to perdition !

He said By Allah ! thou wast little short of bringing me to perdition !

In short, policies are becoming more unconventional, not less, with little clarity about short term effects, unintended consequences, and long term impacts.

Taking the path of least resistance, policymakers pay little attention to curbing energy consumption until supplies run short.

But if product quality, environmental protection, and economic efficiency are important as well, this state of affairs is little short of nightmarish.

With outcomes that fall far short of policymakers projections, it is not surprising that there is little harmony in official circles.

In short the remedies far too little and too late are based on a misdiagnosis of the problem and flawed economics.

Short of a few columns in one or two daily newspapers, there is very little informed political commentary in the media.

In the short time period I have, I want to show you a little bit of a sense about how we do this.

BL Well Daphne, we've been going short on gas and oil recently and casting our net just a little bit wider.

How is it that a short children's story written in the late 1940s is generating a hurricane of controversy today that is dividing little Costa Rica?

This report demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that the past two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

Unfortunately, there is very little that economic policy can do to create a strong exporting sector in the short run, except alleviate the social pain.

At the same time, while proposals for a banking, fiscal, and political union are being mooted, there is little discussion of how to restore growth in the short run.

The short term indicators regarding internal security are positive, with little probability of a return to civil conflict, while criminal activities are expected to remain at a manageable level.

It is, they claim, focused exclusively on extracting maximum, short term profit, with little regard for governance standards, let alone host countries longer term development goals.

Indeed, not only are governments running out of fiscal bullets as debt surges, but monetary policy is having little short run traction in economies suffering insolvency not just liquidity problems.

If countries that abide by the EU s new Fiscal Compact were allowed to convert their entire stock of government debt into Eurobonds, the positive impact would be little short of the miraculous.

What's good? Short, short bullet points.

With outcomes that fall far short of policymakers projections, it is not surprising that there is little harmony in official circles. Narratives increasingly conflict and in an astonishingly open and unsettling way.

The US and the international community focused far too little on building a suitable structure of governance after the 2001 intervention. In the name of short term expediency, too little was done to sack corrupt governors and police, or to counter involvement by high level officials in the narcotics trade.

In sum, there are tradeoffs. Too much short term debt makes banks more prone to failure, while too much equity places little restraint on bankers capacity to destroy value.

Although little is known about his life, he wrote a short autobiography before his death in 1905 in which he described his life as a printer in Victorian London.

While the legislation does too little to address America s problem of chronic and rising budget deficits, the damage that it inflicts on the economy in the short term is likely to be limited.

They would always see and want to grasp the benefits of lower interest rates and a little more demand pressure more production, more employment, higher wages, and higher profits in the short run.

We're short of something.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

And it may well be that academic economists have little to say about short term economic movements, so that forecasting, with all its errors, is best left to professional forecasters.

Little by little our knowledge of English increases.

Tom is short, but not as short as Mary.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

Such behavior is so odious because it brings little allocative benefit no significant increase in supply in the short run and carries a huge distributive cost, as those with resources take advantage of those without.

The presence of approximately 44,000 former combatants in Monrovia, in an environment that affords little hope of finding a job, is a source of concern for stability and security in the capital in the short to medium term.

The allocated budget was just 29 million, but its rapid death can also be ascribed to its short sighted design and to Barack Obama, who has shown little interest in the issue.

Short stories.

Short stories.

Short break

The mining activity at nearby Ruby Creek spurred growth for a short time in 1880, gaining the city a new hotel, but little else was accomplished when the mines proved to be shallow.

Short name of the external volume

They are grievously short of funds.

If simply leading the world in output is the goal, the Chairman s vision has been resoundingly vindicated. But if product quality, environmental protection, and economic efficiency are important as well, this state of affairs is little short of nightmarish.

BRUSSELS What is wrong with Europe s banks? The short answer is that the sector is too large, has too little capital, and contains too many players that lack a viable long term business model.