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.

It sounds like an infection at best. Maybe a medical instrument.

So, while the economic numbers may look bad, the country s political leadership looks great.

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

A spiritual awakening sounds better than breakdown, but I assure you it was a breakdown.

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.

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.

They reclassify foreign borrowing as domestic debt in order to look better in the International Monetary Fund s statistics.

And we were driving in what they told us was their very, very best Jeep. Didn't look like it to me.

At this point, however, relations between China and Russia appear to be far better than the mythical friendship of my childhood.

But, given the stagnant state of Russian science and technology, even the best Russian equipment nowadays seems out of date.

It's a big deal. It sounds big, it sounds important, it sounds solid. It sounds American. Ballsy, serious, male.

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.

Because the new technologies, they seem to be in a really interesting position to contribute to the solutions of urbanization and to provide us with better environments.

For, whatever Europe s interests are, they are unlikely to be best represented by a seemingly endless war with the Taliban.

A denser network of institutions seems better adapted to a heterogeneous international community, and it is likely to provide better services and give a stronger voice to smaller countries.

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.

In both places, other policymaking entities, with much better tools at their disposal, appear either unwilling or unable to play their part.

There was a time when privatization allowing individuals to set up individual savings accounts seemed better than Social Security, which invests in lower yielding Treasury bills.

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

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

It looks like an apple.

You look tired.

You look tired.

You look gloomy.

You look busy.

You look down.

She seems to be sick.

You look sick.

It looks like you are from India.

You look happy.

You look stupid.

You look pale.

You look very tired.

It seems unlikely that international investors will give up on emerging markets just yet, not when their long term prospects still look much better than those of the advanced economies.

Germany will look like a better credit risk, thereby allowing it to fund its current budget deficits more easily and cheaply.

In fact, there is a gradual and smooth decline in growth rates as debt GDP ratios increase 80 looks only trivially better than 100 .

And the material looks something like this.

Jane looks happy.

The ground seems wet.