But I have also had some exhilarating experiences of the UN at its best.

The Commission's fourteenth session should be a model for what the United Nations could be at its best.

Moral secularism at its best was on full display from the rugged streets of Sidi Bouzid to the imposing refinement of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.

Everything was better in the past.

It's a perverse irony at best an utter abomination at worst.

Moreover, Europe s ability to exert pressure on China is extremely limited at best, and may be least potent where Chinese domestic matters are concerned.

He was describing democracy at its best, its most noble, as it should be, but not always is freely mobilized men and women able and willing to change the course of their destiny.

Otherwise, the EU s finest achievements will remain in the past.

Reactive military interventions and humanitarian measures are necessary to prevent further loss of life in emergencies, but even at their best, such efforts can only control a situation, not resolve it.

The street trees have really four jobs to do and that's it To spatially denote the pedestrian realm, to protect the pedestrians from the vehicles in the carriageway, to filter the sunlight onto the sidewalk, and to soften the hardscape of the buildings and to create a ceiling a vaulted ceiling over the street, at its best.

We also welcome the examples set by Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic in referring their particular situations to the Court.

Egypt is not the first country to struggle in the critical revolutionary pivot from a repressive past to a better and more just future.

But it would certainly be no less mistaken solely to look back into the past while ignoring the hope of a better future for succeeding generations.

The President's forceful address to his people at the end of last week was a most welcome display of leadership.

True, Maliki s nascent dictatorship is lighter than that of Saddam at his worst, and perhaps that is some progress.

The great philosophers of the Enlightenment would not hesitate to endorse the moral consciousness expressed in the postings that flooded cyberspace during the Tunisian revolution. Moral secularism at its best was on full display from the rugged streets of Sidi Bouzid to the imposing refinement of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.

But the world must not allow their freighted narratives about the past to cloud our actions to build a better future.

Egypt is at its most volatile since former President Hosni Mubarak s ouster in early 2011.

Back in the 1970 s and 1980 s, many feared that players would become obsolete if and when computers could play chess better than humans.

Defining progress in ways that make it sustainable and allow us to maintain the best of the past is difficult.

That s right while global temperatures are at a record high, the sun has been at its dimmest in decades.

At the time of its Cedar Revolution last year, Lebanon was held up as the best example so far of democratization in the Arab world.

So clearly, infrastructure doesn't explain why China did better before the late 1990s, as compared with India.

That means that it will be difficult to declare that the wrongdoings are a thing of the past and that everything is different and better now.

Possible sources of the toxins include a contaminated fish supply, fumes from garbage incinerators, and factory wastewater.

Some of the best people serving the ECB or who have served in the past are from small countries.

First, many large emerging market countries have done a better job than Europe at managing their economies over the last decade.

(g) A list of States being considered under agenda item 9 that have denied access to the special procedures

It had fallen into a routine of adopting resolutions condemning certain countries whose human rights situations were no worse than those of others, while allowing other countries to commit serious violations without criticism.

The majority of citizens have experienced a decline in living standards in the last year, and there remains a perception that people have more opportunities outside their own countries.

During his career, he became champion of both Leningrad and Moscow, and played in the Soviet Chess Championship finals nine times, with his best competitive results in the 1930s.

By all measures, Beijing s T3 surpasses London s T5.

When the last year hasn t gone so well, it is a time for hope that the next year will be better.

The European Energy Charter, which emphasizes market access and transparency, though laudable, is insufficient in moments of crisis when markets are at their worst.

Even at its worst, unemployment in Japan rarely exceeded 4 , owing to a combination of early retirement, social programs, work sharing, and political pressure on large employers.

Because the past is knowable, the best way of understanding a current crisis is to search for a model in past experiences, even those that are long past.

Though often dismissed as a mere transactional manager, Bush had one of the best foreign policy records of the past half century.

ShathaAlHarazi Although I was awarded an important international award last June, I say the best thing happened to me in 2012 is hosting TEDxSanaa Yemen

As important as it is to honour the sacrifice and losses of the past, the best way to attract and keep fresh international attention will be by identifying a way forward on Chernobyl.

Over the past year, stimulated by the Cardoso Panel's report (A 58 817), many parliaments have discussed how best to organize cooperation between parliaments and the United Nations.

The focus on the basic service delivery through these independent service authorities would have rescued basic services from their catastrophic levels, and it would have given ordinary people the sense that the government was doing something useful.

So we've got a much more mainstream appearance of the world, where all countries tend to use their money better than they used in the past. Now, this is, more or less, if you look at the average data of the countries they are like this.

Last year, negotiators developed a better understanding of what they want from the different aspects of the action plan they agreed in Bali, and they gathered ideas and proposals.

Desktop based chess programs have considerably surpassed the best human players over the past decade, and cheating has become a growing scourge.

If this policy shift had taken place a year ago or even early last summer, the prospects would have been better.