With some exceptions, the office was synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union.

Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation.

Indeed, Europe s community of attitudes is becoming synonymous with solutions to world problems.

Today, they are a household name, synonymous with unruly speculation, boundless greed, and, ultimately, systemic instability.

Cost escalation may contribute to a project cost overrun but it is not synonymous with it.

Nor is democracy synonymous with strong institutions, and social protection cannot substitute for an efficient labor market.

But to view them as synonymous with the entirety of the arts community is, by far, too short sighted.

In the case of both policies, efficacy is synonymous with legitimacy, which is thus an essential condition for success.

The consulting firm McKinsey Company christened Africa, long synonymous with economic failure, the land of lions on the move.

Today, some people espouse the view often loudly that the gold standard was synonymous with economic and financial stability.

The consulting firm McKinsey has christened Africa, long synonymous with economic failure, the land of lions on the move.

The United States, for which international monetary reform is synonymous with diminution of the dollar s global role, is lukewarm.

Guro started to use certain expressions that indicate that the things she learns about Christianity are synonymous with good .

Mitterand s political program was a hymn to economic planning, and the free market was still, for him, synonymous with oppression.

The term is synonymous with the concept of permission marketing, which is the title of a book by Seth Godin.

Good governance is not synonymous with limited policy intervention or simply getting out of the way of the private sector.

The World Bank insisted that corruption be seen as a cancer, and that fighting it be made synonymous with fighting poverty.

In a religious context it is synonymous with human government, in contradistinction to a government by God, or the divine government.

They listen with sympathy, and sometimes even emotion, to the testimonies of the generation for whom Europe was synonymous with the ideal of reconciliation and reconstruction.

The fact that Suzuki is now practically synonymous with automobile in India suggests how close the relationship between the two countries can be.

In Europe genetic modification is synonymous with genetic engineering while within the United States of America it can also refer to conventional breeding methods.

The US productivity miracle and the emergence of Wal Mart style retailing are virtually synonymous.

Both of them emphasize that too complex to manage is almost synonymous with too big to manage, at least within the US banking system today.

The Plan of Action should be read in its totality and the reference to country engagement was not synonymous with a presence in the field.

The Arab Human Development Report has gained a great deal of visibility and recognition for UNDP. Indeed it is synonymous with UNDP in the region.

While such systems may appear stable, they are inherently fragile, for they are synonymous with lawlessness, injustice, and abject poverty for the majority of the population.

The operation of a press became so synonymous with the enterprise of printing that, by metonymy, it lent its name to a new branch of media, the press.

While possession of a zebu is traditionally synonymous with power, zebu theft by politician sponsored organized gangs is motivated by pecuniary interests arising from the resale and export of cattle.

Gender and health' is often synonymous with women and health' with the result that connections between masculinity and risk taking behaviours are overlooked when both sex and gender are in fact relevant for tobacco control.

In the United States, the word liberal, in the mouths of populist radio hosts and right wing politicians, has become almost synonymous with effete East Coast snob or, worse, New York intellectual.

For Poles, the EU is still a tool for modernization, whereas Spaniards increasingly consider it synonymous with an attack on their dignity, if not on their essence. How can one unite member countries with such different emotional calendars?

To outsiders, the region is virtually synonymous with political polarization. Fatigue clad guerrillas, charismatic populists, and reactionary military junta leaders have long cut much larger figures than moderate politicians in boring gray suits.

This does not mean that Rumsfeld s Pentagon is irrelevant to American soft power. Military force is sometimes treated as synonymous with hard power, but the same resource can sometimes contribute to soft power.

Likewise, when Americans speak of the IITs, India s technology institutes, with the same reverence they accord to MIT, and the Indianness of engineers and software developers is taken as synonymous with mathematical and scientific excellence, India gains in respect.

The term true mass is synonymous with the term mass, but is used in astronomy to differentiate the measured mass of a planet from the lower limit of mass usually obtained from radial velocity techniques.

The PRC has for several decades been synonymous with China, but it is only the most recent political entity to govern mainland China, preceded by the Republic of China (ROC) and thousands of years of imperial dynasties.

The word naked nude has become synonymous to any woman who has decided, for any reason, not to adhere to the common costume worn by society.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that, as part of the legal reform exercise, leniency provisions for custom or honour killings, which were essentially synonymous, had been abolished.

NEW YORK Vidkun Quisling, Norway s wartime fascist leader whose name has become synonymous with collaboration with evil, lived with his wife in a rather grandiose villa outside of Oslo. That villa is now the Norwegian Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, a fine transformation of a tainted place.

In his 1968 work Asian Drama An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal considered the words Asian and poor to be synonymous.

Indeed, Europe s community of attitudes is becoming synonymous with solutions to world problems. After all, climate change, energy security, and demographic challenges have been part of the European discourse for many years now that discourse is starting to be shared by other parts of the world.

The solution is that these constructions, despite initial appearance, are not synonymous, that when you crank up the microscope on human cognition, you see that there's a subtle difference in meaning between them.

Referring to paragraph 6, she said that her delegation viewed the terms character and status as synonymous, since the term character had no known legal meaning under international humanitarian law, including customary international law.

The interaction between the world's languages and babies begins before birth, as babies can hear the language spoken by the mother and in this sense, even though mother language is not synonymous with the language of the mother, there is a first linguistic relationship between mother and child.

It will be as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the creditor, so with the debtor as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.