This is superficial thinking, at best.

The results are mixed, at best.

At best, it seems that the time path of extractions can be tilted toward the future.

In short, the benefits are at best small.

This is a puzzling statement at best.

And the CSF s track record is dismal at best.

Three years later, the results are mixed at best.

ODA has, at best, a patchy record.

Regulation is at best a partial remedy for such problems.

At best, it is a safety valve for democracy rather than an engine of it.

And the incentive for authors to cooperate is, at best, mixed.

The transition from autocracy to democracy in the Middle East is likely to be bumpy and unstable, at best.

Yet compliance has been patchy at best.

Others point out that the US Fed s quantitative easing efforts have been modestly successful, at best.

For Russian leaders, 1989 s lesson was clear trusting the West was foolish at best, dangerous at worst.

Unfortunately, America s financial reforms have been half baked at best.

It will also aggregate and evaluate the best ideas and strategies to overcome those obstacles.

At best, they are seeking ways to keep health care spending from rising, as though the genie of medical progress can be forced back into the bottle.

In a world divided between two uncompromising superpowers, India s temporizing seemed like appeasement at best, and aid and comfort for the enemy at worst.

But Microsoft s ambiguous at best behavior is part of a pattern.

The future of Iraq, not to mention democracy there, remains uncertain at best.

Now, analysts predict that the economy will barely grow 1 this year, and that is the best case scenario.

At best, these are marginally useful more often, they are harmful in today s circumstances.

But the first half growth rate looks set to come in closer to 1.5 at best, even below 2011 s dismal 1.7 .

The bottom line is that deleveraging will ensure that growth will be modest at best in the short and medium term.

However, in the best case, the new army will not be ready before December 2005.

At best you can grab a mere crumb of this frenetic global kaleidoscope.

However, although GNI was the best approximation of capacity to pay, it was not the only one.

But if we believe that debt driven demand is different, demand stimulus will at best be a palliative.

Such an outcome cannot be ruled out, but the prospects are uncertain at best.

But the evidence is that highly effective fiscal policy, even at the zero lower bound on interest rates, remains at best a theoretical possibility, subject to severe political constraints.

Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country s economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.

Think now of an 8 cylinder engine running not on five cylinders, but on two or three at best.

Europeans have become the Japanese of the West financial contributors who at best play a supporting role in global strategic affairs.

Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous and thus dubious channels.

Their links with Europe if they exist at all are at best rational, not emotional.

He gave me approximately the same answer when I referred to the need to change Israel s electoral system based on proportional representation, which produces weak majorities at best and near paralysis at worst. So what if the system is blocked to reform it would not make any difference!

Until recently, the record on evaluating responses to humanitarian emergencies has been patchy at best.

What poor nations get out of Chinese mercantilism is, at best, temporary growth of the wrong kind.

According to the available evidence, the best overall estimate of short term memory is about four pieces or chunks of information.

But for most farm products, the phasing out of these subsidies is likely to have only modest effects on world prices at most a few percentage points.

At the very least, a multilateral negotiation would provide an occasion to recognize the existence of the problem, reflect on how best to coordinate investments, and help move development assistance accordingly.

With citizens of distressed countries bearing the fiscal burden of the crisis, the enduring presumption that they will not act responsibly is patronizing, at best.

1.217 The project budget represents the Agency's best estimate at the time of budget preparation of its immediate project funding requirements for the 2006 2007 biennium.

While both proposals have merit, whether they will be enough to stabilize our dangerously unstable financial systems is at best dubious.