Too high, and you lost business too low, and you got less than people were willing to pay.

Unfortunately, Obama s administration, for all its lofty rhetoric, appears too willing to perpetuate it.

Only a few economic journalists and university professors are willing to object.

Only three companies were willing to work in Cuba's exclusive economic zone.

In Great Britain, too, leading Conservatives have recently proved willing to raise taxes and attempted to limit future spending.

They were only too willing to advise Europe to work harder and spend less, as legitimate pride mingled with an understandable desire to settle historical scores and attenuate their legacies of colonial submission and humiliation.

Japan tried and failed banks were too willing to hold the reserves that the central bank released as it bought back bonds.

Sustainability can be achieved only when the haves become willing to sacrifice for the have nots.

Those who both persecuted and were persecuted are willing to talk only about their being victims.

And others have been far too willing to accept at face value submissions from countries where the rule of law is routinely abused.

This also explains why Bernanke s only rivals are from his peer group the only people whom financial markets would be willing to accept.

After all, export led growth policies can succeed only if other countries are willing to run deficits.

he has power only over those who are willing to follow him and associate others with God .

he has power only over those who are willing to follow him and associate others with God .

Only the US, the United Kingdom, and France remain willing to use force if it is deemed necessary.

Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.

Yet this, too, seems to be only a partial explanation.

The resulting mayhem has served only to spawn new suicide bombers willing to bring fresh terror to Russia s heartland.

Women are too often seen only as victims of armed conflicts.

Santos may be less willing to avoid confrontation, if only because the personal antipathy between the two leaders is immense.

Only then will the developing world view the US as truly willing to assume its role as a global leader.

But the STLF still requires a burdensome application process, which only Mexico, Colombia, and Poland have been willing to endure.

God willing...

God willing!

Too many observers forget that China s nuclear force is a deterrent only far too small to be a first strike force.

Here too, however, actual military intervention should only be a last resort.

But it is only a matter of time until they fall, too.

You should only count on yourself but even then, not too much.

A coalition of the willing that intervenes in an Arab country cannot be composed only of European powers and the US.

Of eight highly qualified female judges and constitutional law professors who were approached, only one was willing to accept the nomination.

The Council must be not only more representative but also more able and willing to take action when action is needed.

While other countries certainly support these values, only the US has been willing, healthy, and big enough to ensure that they prevail.

That, however, could be achieved only if Member States showed themselves willing to provide the Organization with the necessary staff and resources.

This, too, will be possible only if religious authorities back the necessary reforms.

The financial system has become even more concentrated, exacerbating the problem of banks that are not only too big, too interconnected, and too correlated to fail, but that are also too big to manage and be held accountable.

Germany recognized that it could be reunified only in the context of greater European unification, and it was willing to pay the price.

With international investors no longer willing to finance this deficit, and even shying away from refinancing existing Greek debt, only three possibilities remain.

Indeed, it seems that only retiring central bankers, such as Mervyn King of the Bank of England, are willing to raise concerns publicly.

Not only has Americans idealism led them to expect too much of themselves, but the rest of the world has often expected too much of America.

If so, we can only hope that this crisis will not have come too late.

History teaches that diplomacy all too frequently produces results only when backed by overwhelming power.

The Iranian photo blogger's camera does not only see celebrities, but life in motion too.

But the only thing that Russia appears to be concerned about is that, whatever successor regime emerges, it is willing to do the Kremlin s bidding.

It sometimes seems that the only eurozone leader who is willing to face the likely prospect of future debt restructuring is German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

After all, as we now know only too well, systemic risk can emerge in unexpected places.