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

Over 250 million people are directly affected by desertification.

A more specific example drives home the point.

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.

But science might also offer more direct ways of influencing our brains.

The private gains can be measured most directly in the form of executive compensation.

The second group exploits the state s arbitrary powers more directly.

The reasons are more immediate than the intractable character of Middle East peace making.

This choice directly concerns more than 150,000 employees.

Nothing is more lethal in politics than failure in direct confrontation.

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.

Of those 100 countries, more than 50 received direct assistance and the others received indirect assistance through sub regional and regional activities.

Sure, some might argue that inflation indexed bonds offer a better and more direct inflation hedge than gold. But gold bugs are right to worry about whether the government will honor its commitments under more extreme circumstances.

The sizeable investments required to make up for the loss of nuclear energy may contribute more immediate stimulus.

Some governments practice an even more direct method of suborning favorable coverage.

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.

Right across much of the world North America being a notable exception working hours have been coming down.

First, a new global compact should focus more directly on rich countries responsibilities.

By contrast, the link between official intervention and exchange rate movements is much more direct and potent.

And GM crops currently in development will deliver even more direct and easily identifiable consumer benefits.

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.

One of the things in climbing is, most people sort of take it straight on. And they follow the most obvious solution.

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.

To be more academic, software agent systems are a direct evolution from Multi Agent Systems (MAS).

CAA Centre still offers the most to the point treatment of Computer Based testing for use in Higher Education.

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 .

Politicians and regulators have neither the political courage nor the intellectual conviction needed to return to a much clearer and more straightforward system.

Humans have altered the brightness of the Earth as seen from space in more direct ways.