But often overlooked or at least underestimated is Japan.

Unfortunately, these benefits did not materialize, or at least not everywhere.

Good. Then I shall attempt the impossible or at least the improbable.

The problem was exacerbated by fraudulent, or at least dubious, evaluation practices.

With sensible reforms, many barriers can be removed or at least eased.

At this stage, Iran still needs at least a year or longer to assemble one or two crude Hiroshima type bombs.

Politics, or at least the exercise of power, was traditionally a family affair.

But the US or at least Congress and the media doesn t get it.

Yet today, those same markets intimidate governments, or at least some of them.

Some outcomes may be more positive, or at least less damaging, than expected.

Against this background, Germany s neighbors have been showing their love or at least admiration.

At times, they are complimented by negotiated settlements, or at least cease fire agreements, and peacekeepers are deployed.

It was traditionally understood that treaties of a political or commercial nature would be abrogated or at least suspended.

Canadian nationality is typically obtained by birth in Canada, birth abroad when at least one parent is a Canadian citizen and was born or naturalized in Canada, or by adoption abroad by at least one Canadian citizen.

At least 94 people were infected, of whom at least 68 died.

Regulators have the power to require that boards become more powerful or at least minimally effective.

But we or at least I have gotten significant components of the last four years wrong.

At least 24 native species from 17 plant families are targeted for nectar or pollen consumption.

Atlanta, or at least what was left of it after devastating fires, fell on September 2.

Lisa may have lived until at least 1551, when she would have been 71 or 72.

knowledge by the offender of the criminal nature of the group or at least one of its criminal activities or objectives

At the ECB press conference in early July, Trichet signaled at least one more rate hike either in September or October.

And we collude. We design tests, or at least in Britain, so that people pass them. Right?

That may or may not be true today, but at least the people of Taiwan are watching.

No surprise, then, that many EU citizens refuse, or at least hesitate, to embrace the European cause.

However, of this 150 of GNP, at least half is or will be official in some form.

From a military perspective, Israel eventually won all of these wars or at least didn t lose them.

This yearning for providential men or women in our global age results from at least three factors.

Many of these parties used to advocate market radicalism, or at least strong doses of economic liberalization.

When tsunamis, hurricanes or earthquakes strike and cause destruction, we act swiftly at least in most cases.

At least the measures involving major reforms or amendments to the Charter must be adopted by consensus.

We bring a better verse or at least the like of it for whatever we abrogate or cause it to be forgotten .

There have been encouraging moves to declare mandatory sentences unlawful or unconstitutional, or at least to mitigate the effects of mandatory sentences.

At least six months

At least a year

Throughout his custody, the complainant was subjected to torture, at least once a week for two or three days at a time.

A Universal Monarchy is a concept and a political situation where one monarchy is deemed to have either sole rule over everywhere (or at least the predominant part of a geopolitical area or areas) or to have a special supremacy over all other states (or at least all the states in a geopolitical area or areas).

We can produce better work if we're working together, after all, or at least learn from each other.

This objective seemed to be entirely within reach or at least possible until the first half of 2003.

If a candidate emerges with at least 50.1 of the popular vote, he or she is declared president.

True, external factors, such as foreign liquidity, were conducive or at least permissive to such periods of euphoria.

Or they hesitate to use it approvingly, as a desirable ideal that social reality should at least approximate.

Exchange rate flexibility has not helped them much, or at least they have chosen not to exploit it.

Urtecho's former workers should also be sanctioned for their complicity, or at least demonstrate that they were deceived.

(3) We would be much better off if X were done away with, or at least radically transformed.