Compared to the numbers who fall ill with diseases such as HIV AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, however, leprosy almost pales into insignificance.

Yet, the international community allows poverty to destroy lives on a scale before which the impact of all of the world's natural disasters pales into insignificance.

What if that Copernican insignificance was actually all wrong?

If a clean start is impossible, the best that can be done is to try to bury the old information with such an inflationary flood of new data that it simply dwindles into insignificance.

Of course, compared to Japan s two lost decades since 1990, even this year s triple disaster pales in significance.

This tells us that that insignificance paradigm that we somehow got to learn from the Copernican principle, it's all wrong.

Today, we don t need to rely on such verbal descriptions of our planet s insignificance against the background of our galaxy.

An Indian beauty queen, Madhu Sapre, once became an unwitting victim of Indians sense of national shame at our sporting insignificance.

And half the time, what's happened is it's related this kind of sense of insignificance to humankind, to the Earth in a bigger space.

Employing CSF troops in the sensitive border region where jihadis have established their strongholds is similarly indicative of Sinai s insignificance in Egyptian military thought.

The nuclear issue is just one of many Saudi concerns, and it pales in comparison to the sectarian struggles unfolding in the Arab Middle East.

They tell us that the recent financial crisis pales in comparison to the looming ecological credit crunch, which could presage a large scale ecosystem collapse.

But the importance of the distribution of seats pales in comparison to that of the longer term changes in Israeli politics implied by Kadima s victory.

By way of reference, the assumption of a 5 export downturn pales in comparison with the precipitous 13.6 decline in real exports that occurred in 2008 2009.

In the 17th century, the mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, wrote of his dread of the infinite, his feeling of insignificance at contemplating the vast reaches of outer space.

In particular, owing to the relative insignificance of national party lists, Jordanians of Palestinian origin, who comprise nearly half the electorate, receive only a small percentage of elected officials.

However important NATO may be, it would be a dramatic admission of its own helplessness and insignificance if the EU were to remain silent on this crucial issue for Europe s future.

Yet, however high the price of a global bail out, we know one thing it pales next to the enormous costs and profound human consequences of delaying action on climate change.

Productivity growth is not about working longer it is about generating more output per unit of labor input. Any undercounting of output pales in comparison with the IT assisted undercounting of working hours.

Yet the Kremlin s stake in Bosnia pales in comparison to those of the EU or US. Russia s attempts to close the high representative's office, regardless of whether the job is done, must be rebuffed.

The Social Security deficit pales by comparison with the deficits created by Bush s huge tax cuts for upper income Americans or in comparison with the deficit in Medicare, which provides health care for the aged.

Of course, with the Syrian regime s massacres of its own citizens, some in Israel say that the suffering of Gaza s inhabitants pales in comparison, and thus fails to attract the same sympathy as it did last year.

While the focus for the moment is on public sector waste, that waste pales in comparison to the waste of resources resulting from a malfunctioning private financial sector, which in America already amounts to trillions of dollars.

Second, the intervention once again highlights the strategic insignificance of the European Union, which is promoting a comprehensive strategy for Mali and the whole region in order to avoid the crucial question Under what conditions will Europe use force?

And to realize that this is just the tip of an iceberg that when you compare everything here to South Africa, it just pales, because in South Africa, each year 300,000 mothers with HIV give birth to children.

As dangerous as Syria s chemical weapons stockpile is, it pales in comparison with another risk that became evident in late February, when Syrian rebels overran a Scud missile base in Al Kibar, in the country s remote northeastern desert.

Second, this six quarter plunge was followed, from mid 2009 through early 2013, by 15 quarters of annualized consumption growth averaging just 2 an upturn that pales in comparison with what would have been expected based on past consumer spending cycles.

The ECB s newfound ability to print money, essentially without limit, to support both banks and governments has reduced Greek contagion to insignificance. That represents a profound change in Europe s financial environment, which Greek politicians, along with many economic analysts, still fail to understand.

The last thing China needs is more fiscal stimulus. Today s cyclical disruption pales in comparison to that of 2008 2009, and, unlike the fiscally reckless developed economies, China recognizes excessive government nbsp debt as a legitimate nbsp threat to sustainable growth and development.

Of course, with the Syrian regime s massacres of its own citizens, some in Israel say that the suffering of Gaza s inhabitants pales in comparison, and thus fails to attract the same sympathy as it did last year. But this should not obscure the overall diplomatic picture for Israel, which remains essentially negative.

It is not as if maintaining its 1.3 billion in annual military aid gives the US any leverage over Egypt s behavior. It might have once, but the amount now pales in significance next to the 12 billion in economic assistance recently rushed to the generals by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

Democracy always degenerated into mob rule, monarchy into tyranny, and aristocracy into oligarchy.

What are you into? Who are you into?

We evolved as a species in the savanna lands of Africa, but then you see humans migrating into new environments, into desert lands, into jungles, into the ice age tundra of Siberia tough, tough environment into the Americas, into Australasia.

Days turned into months, and months turned into years.

It turned transactions into interactions, and generosity into a currency.

This will translate into more women coming into senior bureaucracy.

because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods ?

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

An immigration influx into Italy spills over into other EU countries.

The work is divided into 37 books, organised into ten volumes.

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There were significant new movements of refugees from Somalia into Yemen (16,600) and into Kenya (2,400) from Côte d'Ivoire into Liberia (5,500) and from Iraq into Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.