He looks more reassuring than Sarkozy and sounds more competent than Royal.

True, when compared to the recent past, party politics has become more polarized.

This is much more likely in Algeria than in Egypt.

This was even truer of Japan than the US.

Perhaps the most seductive aspect of the DNA comparison is its lack of biological context.

China already enjoys a smoother relationship with the South than it does with the North.

Polanski is a French citizen, and France is probably more indulgent towards its great artists than is the US.

The US also has more realistic migration restrictions than most European countries.

That, in turn, requires making Greek goods and services more competitive relative to those of the country s trading partners.

Now we have more means of reaching each other than ever, but with less worth saying.

Israel is an immensely powerful country freer, richer, and better armed than all its neighbors.

Indeed, Cuba s leaders today are far more likely to be white than they were in Batista s day.

No number reveals the true catastrophe of the American financial system more than this one.

These clusters will, I believe, be more agile and more able to act than one overarching structure.

Today, more than half of the world s population lives in cities, compared to less than 3 in 1800.

The industrial world is now far more dependent on (mostly foreign) oil than it was then.

But it seems to be that the USA's sins, compared to those of many previous empires, are of a more moderate, if more pervasive, kind.

China is not simply wealthier it is also a far more open place politically than it was during the Mao era.

Yet Chinese leaders remain more zealous about promoting exports and economic growth than in protecting the country s air and water.

That is, the markets have been more vulnerable to sudden large drops than they have been to sudden large increases.

The opposition parties gained more than 200 parliamentary seats, compared with just 12 in the 2000 elections.

We expect to have some 33 accused on trial, as compared with 2005, when 12 were on trial.

Despite today s problems, the eurozone is not only richer, but also economically sounder, than most other countries and regions.

Unemployment stood at 7.6 in October 2006, a rate that compared favourably to many other European countries, and especially with the early 1990s when it stood at over 20 .

But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.

So the government in Baku is far more prepared to respond to renewed warfare than it was in the 1990 s.

It would be nice if our financial markets were more rational than those of previous generations.

Capital controls remain a bad idea an idea that is far more seductive in theory than in practice.

Women also report more numerous symptoms compared with men (2.6 on average vs. 1.8 symptoms in men).

The procedure was endorsed by the Technical Advisory Group as a simpler price collection tool than those currently in use.

SMEs are affected the most owing to the higher risks and transaction costs, especially compared to loan size, associated with lending to them.

This preoccupation is spawning a comparison of methodologies, more rigorous definitions of desired outcomes and cost effectiveness of programme components.

Granted, many studies have confirmed that wealthier nations tend to be happier than poor ones, and that rich people are generally more satisfied than their less affluent fellow citizens.

The World Bank may indeed be more concerned about local landholders rights than other foreign investors are.

Legislative elections next September will be more challenging for Chávez than on previous occasions.

And, as an organization, the Chinese state is far stronger and more purposive than states are in more typical developing countries.

CAMBRIDGE Economic trends are sometimes more closely related to one another than news reports make them seem.

Note also that this would also be a much more effective disciplining mechanism than the defunct Stability and Growth Pact.

Surveys tell us that younger Japanese are more interested in current consumption and less concerned about the future than previous generations were.

With fewer firm specific skills than their German counterparts, American workers are more susceptible to layoffs.

Different colors represent communities, effectively regions that display significant levels of connectivity nodes of the same color are much more inter connected compared to the rest of the graph.

These were very small immigration waves in comparison with the first Zionist ones which meant over 10,000 immigrants each.

The chief argument in favour of the network model, in comparison to the hierarchic model, was that it allowed a more natural modeling of relationships between entities.

Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US.

Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the countries of the east are more integrated into international markets than ever before.