It would be hard to overestimate the importance of such a declaration.

Fourth, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of fiscal discipline to longer term growth.

It would be difficult to overestimate the role of the Agency in ensuring that balance.

But imprecision is one thing the systematic overestimate of the economic recovery in Europe is quite another.

Thus, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of regional issues particularly inter regional disparities for China s politics.

French President Jacques Chirac recently implied that we should not overestimate the seriousness of Iran s possessing nuclear weapons.

In the context of development, it is difficult to overestimate the significance of regional cooperation, especially in Central Asia.

And the fourth is people underestimate risks in situations they do control and overestimate them in situations they don't control.

As a result, not a few of them overestimate their actual influence and tend to compete for leadership rather than cooperate.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of restoring security in Afghanistan as a condition for the sustainability of the peace process.

This is an alarming prospect, because if there is one lesson from the 1990's, it is that nobody should overestimate the stability of international financial flows.

But the financial interests involved tend to distort the process by creating incentives to overestimate the benefits of new drugs, underestimate the risks, and, above all, boost prescriptions.

As people are often sized up initially from their basic language skills, these studies suggest that people speaking to autistic individuals are more likely to overestimate what their audience comprehends.

Four years later, the repeated failure of economic forecasters to predict the depth and duration of the slump would have elicited a similar question from the queen Why the overestimate of recovery?

America s third mistake was to overestimate how effective conventional military power would be in dealing with the weak states and networked transnational organizations that characterize international politics, at least in the broader Middle East.

The estimate for 2002 is probably an overestimate because it used 2002 data where reported, but where this was unavailable, it used 2001 data which does not reflect the reductions made to meet the freeze.

But, almost from the beginning and most intensely since 1971, when Time magazine published a special section entitled The New Genetics Man into Superman science and society alike have tended to overestimate the impact of genetics.

2 The estimate for 2002 is probably an overestimate because it used 2002 data where reported, but where this was unavailable, it used 2001 data which does not reflect the reductions made to meet the freeze.

Gender discrimination on the labour market is often related to the more vulnerable status of women already during the job seeking phase, as employers tend to overestimate aspects not related to job duties of the employee.

It is impossible to overestimate how significant a step Barack Obama s election is in this direction, but America s actions over the coming years will be the ultimate determinant of whether the power of America s model can be restored.

It is impossible to overestimate the services of the men and women who fought in the armed forces or worked back home, who sacrificed their energy and lives and made great efforts to achieve the main goal, our victory.

That is why we cannot overestimate the historic significance of the explicit inclusion of gender related crimes and crimes of sexual violence in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, for which 100 States will soon have deposited their instruments of ratification.

In a similar vein, it was impossible to overestimate the importance of the work of the Economic Commission for Europe in the organization and coordination of the implementation of the international agreements on sustainable development in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Al Khwārizmī corrected Ptolemy's gross overestimate for the length of the Mediterranean Sea from the Canary Islands to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Ptolemy overestimated it at 63 degrees of longitude, while al Khwarizmi almost correctly estimated it at nearly 50 degrees of longitude.

A recent assessment by the World Bank (2005 30) of its own policy line during the 1990s has acknowledged that there was a persistent tendency to overestimate growth prospects in regions implementing adjustment programmes and to underestimate growth performance in those that were not.

Even at the apex of American power, America s greatness was always based on inspiring others, and the opportunities for building market share in that particular category remain unlimited. It is impossible to overestimate how significant a step Barack Obama s election is in this direction, but America s actions over the coming years will be the ultimate determinant of whether the power of America s model can be restored.