He narrowly escaped death.

Weak, ineffective, corrupt, narrowly based or captive institutions create uncertainty and unfairness, discourage saving and investment, and lower growth rates.

Success needs to be defined narrowly.

In setting out to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, they understood that this enterprise could not succeed if it was narrowly based.

The negotiations failed only narrowly to yield positive results.

Deficiencies in the basic statistics at the global level have prevented an analysis based on a more accurate definition, in terms of narrowly defined agro industrial subsectors.

12. Island developing countries, particularly small and remote ones, have narrowly specialized economies, often based on a few export agricultural commodities with minimal ability to influence terms of trade.

Moreover, Europeans do not narrowly equate national security with military spending.

The match was played on March 30, with Pakistan losing narrowly.

Who's coming? he said, so startled that his costume narrowly escaped disintegration.

As in the Ellwanger case, restrictions on free expression should be defined narrowly.

Originally, we saw that focus very narrowly tailored as foreign intelligence gathered overseas.

Like the Bank of Japan in the 1990 s, it interprets its mandate narrowly.

The government, indeed, prefers to offer only hollow initiatives focused narrowly on the economy.

He narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions.

Another policy challenge relates to the growing realization that narrowly conceived country based peacebuilding strategies are unlikely to succeed in regional settings where conflicts have interlocking political, security, humanitarian and economic dynamics across borders.

Shaheen Begum, who narrowly survived an attack by militants in mid December, told the Sunday Telegraph

The third ranked organization was Interplast, which is more narrowly focused on correcting deformities like cleft palate.

But we are not so narrowly focused as to ignore what is happening elsewhere within our region.

On 2 October, former Minister Marwan Hemadeh narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded next to his car.

BUDAPEST This summer, Turkey s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) narrowly escaped being banned by the country s constitutional court.

Today s politicians focus narrowly on how high a carbon tax should be to stop people from using fossil fuels.

(c) Allowable exceptions, for instance the legality of coercive economic measures imposed for security reasons, should be defined narrowly

In spite of the fact that the force was established under Chapter VII, its functions have been narrowly interpreted and its focus limited to the provision of humanitarian assistance and that, too, based on the consent of the perpetrators of the aggression.

But the EU s demand that Yanukovych pardon Tymoshenko, who narrowly lost the 2010 presidential election, may prove harder to satisfy.

But if the conference focuses too narrowly on Al Qaeda s presence in Yemen, it will do more harm than good.

In general, a PROBE will seek to find a solution for a broadly applicable problem and avoid narrowly focused issues.

There were limits to what could be learned about this issue by focusing narrowly on positive contributions and best practices.

Secondly, proposals should not be made that are narrowly limited with regard to the nature of the expansion they propose.

Meanwhile, I lay quietly eyeing him, having no serious misgivings now, and bent upon narrowly observing so curious a creature.

Nevertheless, today s debates about how to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth are too narrowly focused on the role of governments and policymakers.

The Waxman Markey bill that narrowly passed the House of Representatives in the summer of 2009 essentially adopts the administration s guidelines.

The short length of the Group's mandate compelled the Group of Experts to narrowly focus on a limited number of issues.

Through counsel, the corporation chose to limit its evidence and define narrowly the legal question at issue before the national courts.

Christian Democratic parties first emerged in Belgium and Germany toward the end of the nineteenth century as narrowly focused Catholic interest groups.

In that view of the world, America does not stand alone against all others, issuing fiats and focusing narrowly on corporate profits.

16. There is an increasingly widespread acknowledgement of the need for a multisectoral response to the epidemic but, as the CEO assessment points out, this term is drawn from a narrowly focused analysis of the nature of the required response based on the perspectives of various institutions.

OSAKA Having seen a new prime minister every year for five consecutive years, Japan has just narrowly avoided having its third in 2010.

Colombia recently bucked this trend, and it now appears that the leftist candidate in Mexico s presidential election, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was narrowly defeated.

South Africa, which had narrowly failed to win the right to host the 2006 event, was thus awarded the right to host the tournament.

It's got to focus very narrowly and clearly on that little seed and be able to pick it out against that background (the grit).

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The founding governors of the Federal Reserve System interpreted their mandate narrowly, viewing the Fed as responsible for maintaining gold convertibility and a stable dollar.

That is true beyond the purview of narrowly macroeconomic problems as well for example, the need to address climate change can no longer be ignored.

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.