Americans are richer than they were in the 1950 s, but they are not happier.

The climate of England is milder than that of Scotland.

In Spain, the unemployment rate then was as high as it is now, and in Italy, it was higher in 1996 than it is today.

One of them is we have better reporting. The Associated Press is a better chronicler of wars over the surface of the Earth than sixteenth century monks were.

More immediately, the Arctic s vast reserves of fossil fuels and minerals will become far more accessible than they are today.

But today Russia is more isolated, less trusted, and less respected than it was a month ago.

That rings truer today more than 70 years later than in his own day.

She's much better today than yesterday.

Chicago School economics has never been more vulnerable than it is today and deservedly so.

So today s emerging market economies should be richer than today s advanced economies were back then, right?

The process of globalization means that our common world is more integrated today than it was when the United Nations was formed 60 years ago.

He is more lucky than clever.

At the elevated pressure in the bottle, more carbon dioxide can dissolve in water than at atmospheric pressure.

In humid conditions, the air feels hotter than it actually is, because of the reduction in evaporation of perspiration.

A reformed Security Council should be more representative, democratic, transparent, accountable and effective than today's.

It could be said without any exaggeration that the weight of the Holocaust is even more present today than it was decades ago.

One can only hope that if that day should ever arrive, the world will be better prepared than it is right now.

On the contrary, in some ways, the US emerged from Iraq even more divided than it was when it entered.

Setting the rules of the game for a robust, socially useful financial sector has never been more important.

This has never been more true than today, and if America is not seen as an avid supporter of a two state solution, it will stay well behind the curve and damage its own interests in the Middle East.

There is no clearer case for its application than in Libya today.

The sectarian dimensions of today s Middle East, with its active Sunni Shia fault line, are more pronounced than they have been in centuries.

Similarly, the interconnectedness of the issues of peace, security, development and human rights has never been more pronounced than it is today.

French judges have become more independent than they traditionally were.

In June 1948, he and Fatima flew to Quetta, in the mountains of Baluchistan, where the weather was cooler than in Karachi.

It was observed that the proposal would make the position clearer than was now the case under the saving clause contained in article 20 of the Convention.

Images of auroras are significantly more common today than in the past due to the increase in use of digital cameras that have high enough sensitivities.

The world today offers hardly more opportunities to young people than it did to Yaguine and Fodé.

In fact, the magnitude of the problem today is even greater than during the Great Depression.

The biggest games in the world today are measuring more than one billion points of data about their players, about what everybody does far more detail than you'd ever get from any website.

Students are now playing a much more important role than in 2011.

Leonardo also presented Lisa as fashionable and successful, perhaps more well off than she was.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great grandparents did.

And our lives today are safer and more comfortable than they have ever been. There certainly isn't much call for explorers nowadays. My career advisor at school never mentioned it as an option.

RAMALLAH Nowhere are the grievances that perpetuate violence and war more evident than they are in Palestine today.

The Declaration voted upon today is a non binding political statement.

There are emerging technologies throughout the field around oceanography, which we will incorporate into oceanography, and through that convergence, we will transform oceanography into something even more magical.

Caribbean contemporary art has never been more vibrant than it is now, writes Adele at Thebookmann, as she discusses the work of Trinidadian artist, Ashraph.

Today, the United Nations and its agencies are more engaged with issues of development than with those of security.

Now, what that means is that all of the organisms that live in the sea have evolved in this chemostatted ocean, with CO2 levels lower than they are today.

Why are we no more secure than we were five years ago?

It has never been more necessary than it is now in Syria.

But now that I am actually smack dab in the middle of my own third act, I realize I've never been happier.

In fact, the prospects for engaging in negotiations are better now than they were a few months ago.

Increasingly complex peacekeeping mandates need to be matched by increased funding ideally in the form of assessed contributions, or at least more predictably than today.