But the current situation calls for far more serious measures.

Let us hope that Mubarak is more serious about electoral reform.

Third, where Europe has a serious internal policy, it is easier to establish a more serious external policy.

On a more serious note, Al Jazeera anchor Syrian Faisal Alkasim, with more than 1.5 million followers, wonders

If we called valedictorian a white knight paladin level 20, I think people would probably work a lot harder.

It could now be time for other Latin American nations and the international community to take such charges more seriously.

There is nothing more dramatic to be done than to focus on upgrading the EU US strategic dialogue.

Thresholds also occur in social systems think of fads or, more seriously, riot behavior in crowds.

It will also require serious political talks between the Government and the rebel movements, more serious than have taken place thus far.

What was at the beginning of this spring no more than a glimmer of hope, to use Obama s phrase, has become a more serious and positive trend.

But the remark had a more serious purpose and was evidently intended to expose a fundamental flaw in my argument.

On a more a serious note, Mohamed ElGohary wondered whether the Egyptian government is using the case as a vehicle for blackmailing Vodafone Egypt

China also needs to shift from its highly extensive (resource consuming) growth strategy to a more intensive development path.

For example, they could tighten the qualifications needed to become a bank director (in the United States, for example, the requirements are not serious).

But they never mentioned the possibility that these strikes could fail and lead to more serious consequences perhaps all out war.

When the interrogations became more serious, and it looked inevitable that I would soon be arrested, I decided to accept a scholarship to study for a Masters degree in human rights in the UK. Like any survivor of bloody events such as I have witnessed, during that year I returned to Syria over and over again, to Aleppo, driven by guilt.

Fortunately the Government now seemed to be taking the matter more seriously and had apparently granted a stay of execution in the case of nine of the remaining petitioners.

However, negotiations on issues such as how to implement article XI of the CWC need to be pursued more seriously.

We are continuing to implement the Protocol with the greatest earnestness.

The US mission to the EU should be scaled up, and EU representation in Washington turned into a proper embassy. The more seriously the Americans show that they are willing to take the EU collectively, the more seriously the Europeans will take themselves.

Also, some Twitter users took a more serious approach, addressing politicians' corruption and the country's drug war, which they say demonstrates terrorism's presence in Mexico already.

And then I'll go to more serious ones.

Boy The World Peace Game is serious.

You will be tested on that commitment in the years ahead.

Third, where Europe has a serious internal policy, it is easier to establish a more serious external policy. The best example of this is energy policy and Russia, which wants a sphere of influence around its borders.

In other contexts the principle is open to serious question.

Another more radical development is Iran's threat of closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which almost half of all oil used throughout the world passes.

Indeed, he warns that the South China Sea could evolve into another Palestine, unless countries try harder to defuse rather than inflame tensions.

Imagine if the director of the CIA published a new assessment of Iran, saying I hope this report will shock people, governments into taking more serious action.

But that argument ignores the effect of sporting success on national morale, an intangible factor in a country s success in other, more serious, spheres of endeavor.

There are serious concerns on all sides about the pending decision.

These days, this idea is seriously being questioned.

If this problem weren't serious, Tom wouldn't be here.

Global nuclear safety standards are being reviewed. National and international emergency response capabilities are being upgraded.

Concerning the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), we are encouraged by the efforts of the Prosecutor in formulating a more aggressive programme for tracking and apprehending fugitives and in requesting cooperation with Member States in that regard.

So in all seriousness, should my kid play football?

In the September primary election, Ehrlich and Steele had no serious opposition.

This year we have serious concerns with respect to three additional draft resolutions.

The AU takes this role with all seriousness, and we are conscious of our historic responsibility.

The world must fervently hope that the Turkish proposal for a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform is more serious and sustained than previous similar efforts. But, in order to succeed, Turkey must firmly pursue a pledge from all the region s players to repudiate the use of force in settling their disputes.

Their blogs ranged from the diary type of I did this and that today and passed my exams, met friends, went shopping, got engaged to other more serious issues like environment, pollution, rubbish collection, economic projects and corruption.

The irony is obvious Islamists, who seem suspicious of democracy as a Western plot, took President George W. Bush s promotion of democracy in the Muslim world more seriously than America s autocratic friends and possibly more seriously than Bush himself.

It may be something that is perhaps more serious as I said, human rights in Burma.

Scientists themselves have operated with great seriousness of purpose in educating the public.

Some with serious remarks, a few with questions and some with irony.