But that judgment seems premature, at best.

You'll tell me, this is the confessional system, the respect of religious authority, the legitimacy they inspire, etc But I would say these are vague answers at best.

After all, the firm would gain only a temporary advantage at best.

And that means that growth will remain slow and difficult at best.

At best, the law is a great equalizer.

At best, it creates what one constitutional expert called an invitation to struggle.

At best, like in Sweden or Denmark, the welfare state stopped expanding.

Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best.

Unfortunately, progress in that respect has been very slow, at best, notwithstanding certain positive developments.

At best, the agreement maintains the current status quo, and in some respects even allows for further development of Iran s nuclear program.

The bottom line, though, is that better policies can at best mitigate the economic consequences of this horrible recession.

But, as Princeton economist Avinash Dixit likes to say, the world is always second best at best. An approach that presumes that we can identify and directly regulate problematic behavior is unrealistic.

Moreover, they unveiled the low percentage of profit given by these companies to Mauritania, that reach at the best 4 per cent of the price of mined gold and copper.

Mainstream parallel programming languages remain either explicitly parallel or (at best) partially implicit, in which a programmer gives the compiler directives for parallelization.

Poor policy choices, on the other hand, will at best delay recovery and at worst do permanent damage.

Marx and Engels's point was not only that such beliefs are at best half truths they serve an important political function.

It also consists in proving the absence of resistance of viruses in treatment antiviral by viral genome sequencing to adapt antiviral therapeutics at best.

The rest of the world was often unhappy with George W. Bush, for both the content and style of his foreign policy.

Renewable energy sources have come down rapidly in price, to make wind and solar, at least in the most favorable cases, competitive with fossil fuel electricity generation.

What good is it to build a zero carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

So when you think about your parents or your grandparents, at best they may have created some photos or home videos, or a diary that lives in a box somewhere.

For eurozone citizens who do not speak a major language, especially English, mobility across national borders within the single currency area is limited at best.

In fact, looking exclusively at the superficial symptoms of physical security and the prevention of terrorism or violence provides at best a partial, short term solution.

In the best case scenario, this expenditure would reduce the at risk population by only 3 .

In most communist countries, the transition to collective farming involved an element of compulsion, while the collective farms within these countries, lacked the principle of voluntary membership, is often regarded at best as being pseudo cooperatives.

Following the liberation of Kuwait and the reinstatement of the Kuwaiti dinars, these claimants were left with Iraqi dinars that at best could be exchanged on the unofficial market at de minimus rates.

New economic evidence serves at best to nudge the views a little here, a little there of those inclined to be open minded.

These factors have inspired some China watchers to regard the country s economy as a bubble, if not to predict a hard landing in 2010. But that judgment seems premature, at best.

The NAP implementation process has, in the best cases, complied with successive requirements of participatory formulation, coordination and mainstreaming, yet the resulting partnerships, on the whole, have not attracted adequate financing for combating land degradation.

And the reason these young guys told me that they're doing these TEDx's is because they were sick and tired of the only workshops coming to the slums being those workshops focused on HIV, or at best, microfinance.

Karam is the best student in the whole school.

Without such structural reforms or returning fiscal surpluses to families through tax cuts and rebates, government investment based stimulus efforts can provide, at best, a short term economic boost.

But anyways.

A minister of religion of a church, congregation or association of congregations who is granted the right to contract marriages by the Minister of Regional Affairs is equal to a vital statistics office upon performance of the functions related to the contraction of marriages and the minister of religion has the right to register marriages and issue marriage certificates.

Pilots often practice simulated forced landings , in which an engine failure is simulated and the pilot has to get the aircraft on the ground safely, by selecting a landing area and then gliding the aircraft at its best gliding speed.

The high demand for consultative status, combined with the limited time allotted to the deliberations of the Committee on Non Governmental Organizations of the Economic and Social Council, precludes consideration of applications for at least two years, at best.

He's better than me in everything.

You are no better at remembering things than I am.

Within that framework, the regional assessments and analyses carried out by the regional commissions on the development trends and implementation of goals emanating from the above events, including the Millennium Development Goals, reveal, at best, a mixed picture, mostly of significant shortfalls.

European advocates of the free market never proved sufficient to roll back the welfare state. Even Margaret Thatcher failed to touch the National Health Service.

Several speakers also shared their Governments' experience in the area of international cooperation on criminal matters, such as extradition and mutual legal assistance, emphasizing the need for further efforts to make those tools of international cooperation more functional and expeditious.

Since May 2001 the Minister of Regional Affairs may grant the right to perform the functions of a vital statistics office which are related to the contraction of marriages to a minister of religion of a church, congregation or association of congregations who has received the appropriate training.

Some parts of the world are doing better than others in this respect.

Best Achievement in Acting will be decided separately by the judges from all the submissions.

The Supervision Authority conducts financial supervision in the name of the State and is independent in the conduct of financial supervision.