For Pascal, scientific knowledge paled beside the knowledge of God.

Japanese politics has a dull image in the world s press.

Sexes are similar, but juveniles are a duller version of the adult.

They pale in comparison to the risks taken by dissidents in closed societies.

Up to a certain point, the smaller the hole, the sharper the image, but the dimmer the projected image.

Until recently, the government s response to the epidemic, which threatened the country s very lifeblood, was lackluster and foolish.

In this respect the rings of Neptune are similar to faint dusty bands observed by Voyager 2 between the main rings of Uranus.

Without its gradual imposition, an Asian Union could at best remain only a pale and hollow copy of its European model.

What's beautiful is, you can probably see on the limb there some faint, sort of, wisps of almost smoke rising up from the limb.

Why is the feeling increase that the Sudanese government and its partner in governance, the Popular Movement, are not doing anything other than performing a play which is dull, in front of the eyes of the Sudanese people?

You might find a mind that's very dull and boring, and it's just, almost mechanical, it just seems it's as if you're getting up, going to work, eat, sleep, get up, work.

But it is now widely recognized that such changes are a response to dim prospects of real progress toward peace.

But it's a famous picture, not because of the beauty and majesty of Saturn's rings, but actually because of a tiny, faint blob just hanging underneath one of the rings.

Some skeptics go further, arguing that the Iraq debacle proves that prospects for democracy throughout the Arab world are dim.

He observed that the exposed chemical would sometimes take on a pale version of the color of light that exposed it, and also reported the action of light for a considerable distance beyond the violet end of the spectrum.

And to realize that this is just the tip of an iceberg that when you compare everything here to South Africa, it just pales, because in South Africa, each year 300,000 mothers with HIV give birth to children.

The only exception is a faint image of a large star cluster containing hundreds of thousands of stars located at a distance of one billion light years ten times further than the most distant star cluster previously observed.

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about kilometers ( miles, 40.5 AU), as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.