If one travels to America or Asia, as I did this autumn, Europe s image becomes selectively brighter while it continues to be perceived as a positive model, it is no longer considered a global actor.

So, we tried to take this what was perceived as a negative their over competitiveness, their, you know, long working hours and turn it into a positive and not run from it.

It is perceived as a model of civility.

It tends to be perceived globally as supercilious, petulant, and prim.

In India, motherhood is perceived as the ultimate validation of womanhood.

Box 3 Gender Roles, Status, Rights Responsibilities as Perceived by Children

According to the representative, in the past few months the people of Pitcairn had perceived a marked and positive shift in the administering Power's attitude towards the Territory.

The annual World Economic Forum is rightly perceived as a global barometer.

So, we were talking about the differences between the traditions and what many people perceived as the tragedy of the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, but I offered the suggestion that perhaps we could look at this in a positive way.

That should be perceived as an essential part of the process of capacity building as well.

But Europe is no longer perceived as a global actor and rightly so.

These restrictions, which affected all Palestinians, were perceived as forms of collective punishment.

Positive mood Positive mood can be caused by many different aspects of life as well as have certain effects on people as a whole.

The mission came away with the strong impression of overwhelming popular support and of high expectations for the elections, which will be the first in 40 years and are largely perceived by the Congolese people as a means of bringing about positive change.

Modi would rather be perceived as embodying Patel s decisiveness than as the destructive bigot his enemies decry.

In conclusion, it was necessary to adopt a new, more positive and dynamic strategy that would not confine itself to empowering only specific groups of women but rather mainstream the gender perspective in all areas so that women's problems were perceived as challenges for humanity as a whole.

Opportunities perceived included

Rehabilitation of degraded land in Africa is generally perceived as a long term process.

The result should be a contract that is as fair as possible under the given circumstances and perceived as such.

However, when referring to oneself, the title is used indirectly, as using it directly is perceived as arrogant.

It should not be perceived as a treaty for a few, but rather as a treaty for all.

Positive psychologists argue that positive and negative processes in relationships may be better understood as functionally independent, not as opposites of each other.

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

Gay people are perceived as violating social norms and threatening the society with moral decay.

Violence is used as a means of controlling women's sexuality, and is often perceived as normal, even by women.

Women hear over and over that we have to be twice as good as men to be perceived as successful, deserving leaders.

This principle could be articulated as a negative as well as a positive presumption.

Heroreports is described as a campaign of positive thinking.

But, so long as Russia is perceived as an energy blackmailer and not a partner, such cooperation will be impossible.

Yet he cannot afford to be perceived as indecisive, which would only invite destabilizing financial speculation.

On the other end, producing a liaison where one is impossible is perceived as an error.

It is a loose cannon that cannot be justified as a solution to any perceived wrong.

But, while both of these positive trends are likely to continue, a third positive factor may not prove as durable.

As long as politicians observe the rule of non interference at least publicly central banks will be perceived as unconstrained by political interests.

Again and again, they perceived these seven different sodas, not as seven choices, but as one choice soda or no soda.

But the assault on freedom is perceived as such only when it begins to apply to men.

But such institutions are largely perceived as inaccessible, inefficient, and opaque, leading national governments to neglect them.

Bo understands that he should not be perceived as a pitiful loser who gutlessly besmirches his honor.

Investment protection depended on a functioning international arbitration system that would be perceived as fair and equitable.

Experts might thus interpret the macroeconomic consequences as largely positive.

The results, as we have seen, have always been positive.

Palestinian rivals, both from his own Fatah party and from the Islamists of Hamas, as well as the Israelis, perceived Abbas s civility as weakness.

It probably first established itself as a mindset when the Greeks, 25 centuries ago, perceived themselves as Western versus the Oriental Persians.

But the whole world, including most ASEAN countries, perceived Cambodia s stance as the result of enormous Chinese pressure.

By being perceived as too big to fail, their banks benefit from a government backstop or downside guarantee.