True, Poland s democratic institutions, despite their flaws, function rather well.

Whether India does as well seems to me rather more doubtful.

In East Asia (minus Japan), governments appear to have been doing rather well.

Rather, it was emphasized that members should dig for more information and analysis from other sources as well.

We should wish the effort well, and hope that ultimately the goal becomes global, rather than merely national, happiness.

At some point, these countries may well choose to default on their external obligations rather than endure the pain.

Rather than being somewhat provincial, Middle Israel is educated, bilingual or multilingual, and extremely well connected to the wider world.

Considering the huge risks that are not managed well, finance, even in the twenty first century, is actually still rather primitive.

The government, well aware of the overcapacity problem, focused the country s stimulus package on investment in infrastructure, rather than new factories.

So, while Latin America may continue to weather the global economic storm rather well, the region s diplomatic peace and quiet is deceptive.

This implies that they should figure out how to manage immigration well, rather than outsourcing much of the process to smugglers and extremists.

The second complication is that, rather than converging, domestic models of financial regulation are multiplying, even among advanced countries with well developed institutions.

What might be different this year is that France, rather than Greece and Spain, could well be at the center of the storm.

With the EU helping to keep global markets open, European exports have held up rather well, with the EU maintaining its market share.

But, in order to be taken seriously by the US, the EU needs to bring well developed, well resourced policies to the table, rather than 27 half baked ideas. So a second reason for revamping the EU s Pakistan policy is to be able to help shape US policy rather than be a passive by stander.

So, rather than hire in panic at the first sign of a recovery for fear that they will be unable to do so later and lose sales, firms would rather make sure that the recovery is well established before adding workers.

It is still not too late not quite to start couching the broader discussion of nuclear energy in language that will inform rather than alarm, and in terms that will nurture well balanced judgments rather than entrench long held biases.

They are an invitation to assert who one is and where one belongs rather than to a competition of well defined and comprehensive political programs.

In the end, it may well be the atmospherics psychology and expectations rather than the actual economic results on the ground that will determine the outcomes.

These discussions are part of a growing international movement to re orient government policies towards well being and happiness. We should wish the effort well, and hope that ultimately the goal becomes global, rather than merely national, happiness.

That way, the South would have a chance to find jobs for its rather well educated young people, whose only choice now is between unemployment and emigration.

Receive my instruction rather than silver knowledge rather than choice gold.

Well most of my work that I work with is really a little bit about methodologies of working rather than actually a specific discipline or a specific technique.

From now on, sustainable development must not be a mere slogan, but rather an operational approach to global governance and well being on a strained and crowded planet.

Maximizing GDP growth will no longer be the top priority rather, it should be something we might want to call happiness, or well being, or the good life.

A well known Dutch novelist voiced a rather typical response, saying that he didn t care much what happened to Morsi s supporters, for they were all Islamo fascists anyway.

As the fiscal year rather than the biennium is the most relevant for financial management and fundraising, annual as well as biennial figures are listed throughout the document.

So, rather than hire in a panic at the first sign of recovery, as they did in the past, for fear that they will be unable to do so later and lose sales, firms today would rather ensure that the recovery is well established before hiring.

The next one should be Eastern rather than Western, an economist rather than a politician, and a visionary rather than a tactician.

Thus, calls for more popular participation are not essential to populism rather, they are a symptom of perceived exclusion (which might well be a reality, especially in Latin America).

The risk today is not imminent crisis, but rather that the capital flows arising from the global boom will not be well managed, leading to the buildup of vulnerabilities.

Climate action should be viewed as a means to improve the well being of the world s poorest people those who most need an agreement rather than as a burden.

So, while Latin America may continue to weather the global economic storm rather well, the region s diplomatic peace and quiet is deceptive. Any number of rising tempests could end it.

There is little comparability with previous data, and income is used as an indicator of well being, rather than consumption which is, among others, a more reliable measurement of poverty.

In other words, the focus was not on how the richest Governments allocated and utilized their money, but rather on how well Governments performed with the resources they had available.

Germans need to understand again as they did so well after 1945 that their future lies in their own hands, as citizens, rather than in the power of some remote State.

We see the menace of this tendency constantly nowadays, but we perceive it in such a seemingly unthreatening way that we may well become accustomed to it rather than arresting it.

This perception also accorded well with the median (typically poor) voter s low expectation of government in India seeing it as a source of sporadic handouts rather than of reliable public services.

The idea is that well trained workers will be more productive when they are more directly involved in the decision making process, rather than closely supervised by many layers of management.

I'd rather go swimming.

I'd rather go swimming.

That is rather unexpected.

To protect European cohesion as well as improve their own economic situation, France and Italy must reform at a faster pace than Germany rather than just waiting for Germany to slow down.

He was even the first Chinese leader to wear a suit and tie rather than a Mao habit when traveling abroad, as well as the first to hold an open press conference.

The Chinese and their government are wedded to a different conception of society and polity community based rather than individualist, state centric rather than liberal, authoritarian rather than democratic.