Women were given the opportunity to speak mostly as ordinary citizens rather than as experts or opinion leaders.

Light (optical computing) Computers can manipulate information as light (rather than electricity or billiard balls).

Donors should support an education policy rather than build a photogenic school aid a health campaign rather than construct a glittering clinic or do both but as part of a policy or a campaign, not as stand alone projects.

Rather, evolution experiences jumps in complexity (such as the emergence of a self reflective universe, or noosphere).

White has no definite position in this diagram rather it is defined according to the color temperature or white balance as desired or as available from ambient lighting.

Using alternative energy sources such as solar cooking and electrical heating is effective, as is using fuels such as kerosene or coal rather than biomass.

Head banging or screaming can, for example, be misinterpreted as being part of the intellectual disability rather than an expression of discomfort or depression a phenomenon known as diagnostic overshadowing.

This in particular if, as proposed, the parties may selectively exclude or modify individual provisions, rather than the entire framework.

Rather, it highlighted soft or ad hoc structures, such as the Global Counterterrorism Forum, the Open Government Partnership, or the various G s, particularly the G 20.

What is more, the human rights instruments never appear as a bloc or a coherent whole, but rather as random items on a shopping list .

As in the past, the vast majority of households in core housing need in 2001 had affordability problems, rather than (or combined with) suitability or adequacy problems.

Rather, the carrier's standard terms of contract, as also contained in or referred to in transport documents, such as a bill of lading or sea waybill, will be incorporated into the service contract.

Beninese languages are generally transcribed with a separate letter for each speech sound (phoneme), rather than using diacritics as in French or digraphs as in English.

Or, rather, How on earth did mankind come so far?

The public also favors psycho social approaches, such as talking to someone and getting advice, or help finding friends or a job, rather than drugs, electro shocks, or admission to psychiatric hospital.

The amendments widen the definition of building site or construction or installation project rather extensively.

But nowhere is the problem as acute as it is in Europe, or, rather, the eurozone, where German savers are suddenly discovering risk across the European periphery.

Draft article 17 should be interpreted as referring not to coercive measures such as the imposition of protection by means of force or the application of mandatory penalties or selective measures, but rather to actions or procedures regulated by bilateral, regional or international treaties.

Such recovery as there has been in the luxury market has been largely limited to so called affordable luxuries shoes, handbags, or ties, rather than yachts or fast cars.

Would you rather be fat and ugly or thin and sexy?

GENEVA Industrial policy (IP) is back or rather, back in fashion.

But this has come at a price, or rather several prices.

Build on best practices rather than on academic or political theory.

Its reform or, rather, its re invention implies redefining what solidarity means, within both the member states and the EU as a whole.

This was viewed rather as a temporary solution.

acted as a lawyer rather than a suspect.

Now, I don't want to leave a misimpression by identifying either of these propositions rather, either of these phenomena, democracy or Islam as technologies.

There is no trial by jury rather, judges make rulings alone or, in the case of criminal trials, with two other judges as observers.

However, they come at the cost of extensive reliance on rules as controls and a concomitant focus on process, rather than results or effectiveness.

They should therefore be viewed as complementary rather than as mutually exclusive.

I see this process as an opportunity rather than as a crisis.

As a result, they often see buying trendy shoes or a great haircut rather than giving some money each month to a broker as an investment in their romantic futures.

Without either oil or weapons, just the dream of living this life with a smile rather than in sorrow. With love rather than poison.

Kegl's policy was to document and study rather than to impose or change the language or its community.

It is striking that such representations as have already been made appear to have been made bilaterally, rather than through a regional or international framework.

As it is, Russia is moving towards becoming a bigger version of Venezuela or Nigeria oil rich and dysfunctional rather than towards becoming a great European or Eurasian power of the future.

They see him as a damaging buffoon, rather than as a dangerous revolutionary.

These will be the new right and left or, rather, down and up.

Most people would rather work for an established company, or for the government.

These will be the new right and left or, rather, down and up.

Or do they say , He made it up ? Rather , they do not believe .

Or do they say , He made it up ? Rather , they do not believe .

) This allows them to see current key performance indicators in real time (or as quickly as sources provide data) and analyze trends, rather than wait for analysts to deliver periodic reports.

Under Latvia's national legal system, legislation was incorporated under specific areas of the law, such as civil law or administrative law, rather than being adopted as specific laws covering certain issues.

Yet these countries have so far played a rather unimaginative and timid role in international forums such as the G 20 or the World Trade Organization.