But that judgment seems premature, at best.

You'll tell me, this is the confessional system, the respect of religious authority, the legitimacy they inspire, etc But I would say these are vague answers at best.

After all, the firm would gain only a temporary advantage at best.

And that means that growth will remain slow and difficult at best.

At best, the law is a great equalizer.

Forecasting is always difficult, but especially so in troubled times.

The difficult social and economic situation in the territories exacerbated the state of nutrition and health care, unemployment and several other problems.

At best, it creates what one constitutional expert called an invitation to struggle.

At best, like in Sweden or Denmark, the welfare state stopped expanding.

Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best.

Unfortunately, progress in that respect has been very slow, at best, notwithstanding certain positive developments.

At best, the agreement maintains the current status quo, and in some respects even allows for further development of Iran s nuclear program.

The bottom line, though, is that better policies can at best mitigate the economic consequences of this horrible recession.

But, as Princeton economist Avinash Dixit likes to say, the world is always second best at best. An approach that presumes that we can identify and directly regulate problematic behavior is unrealistic.

Moreover, they unveiled the low percentage of profit given by these companies to Mauritania, that reach at the best 4 per cent of the price of mined gold and copper.

Mainstream parallel programming languages remain either explicitly parallel or (at best) partially implicit, in which a programmer gives the compiler directives for parallelization.

Poor policy choices, on the other hand, will at best delay recovery and at worst do permanent damage.

Marx and Engels's point was not only that such beliefs are at best half truths they serve an important political function.

It also consists in proving the absence of resistance of viruses in treatment antiviral by viral genome sequencing to adapt antiviral therapeutics at best.

For better or for worse, productivity trends are very difficult to extrapolate, depending as they do on hugely complex interactions of social, economic, and political forces.

Renewable energy sources have come down rapidly in price, to make wind and solar, at least in the most favorable cases, competitive with fossil fuel electricity generation.

What good is it to build a zero carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

So when you think about your parents or your grandparents, at best they may have created some photos or home videos, or a diary that lives in a box somewhere.

For eurozone citizens who do not speak a major language, especially English, mobility across national borders within the single currency area is limited at best.

In fact, looking exclusively at the superficial symptoms of physical security and the prevention of terrorism or violence provides at best a partial, short term solution.

In the best case scenario, this expenditure would reduce the at risk population by only 3 .

In most communist countries, the transition to collective farming involved an element of compulsion, while the collective farms within these countries, lacked the principle of voluntary membership, is often regarded at best as being pseudo cooperatives.

Following the liberation of Kuwait and the reinstatement of the Kuwaiti dinars, these claimants were left with Iraqi dinars that at best could be exchanged on the unofficial market at de minimus rates.

New economic evidence serves at best to nudge the views a little here, a little there of those inclined to be open minded.

These factors have inspired some China watchers to regard the country s economy as a bubble, if not to predict a hard landing in 2010. But that judgment seems premature, at best.

In any case, as Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington observed, there are many imaginative ways in which a Tobin tax could be made harder to dodge.

The humanitarian situation in Kalma camp also remains worrying, with conditions in the overcrowded camp deteriorating and camp management rendered increasingly difficult by the expansion of its size and the lack of trust between internally displaced persons and local authorities.

The NAP implementation process has, in the best cases, complied with successive requirements of participatory formulation, coordination and mainstreaming, yet the resulting partnerships, on the whole, have not attracted adequate financing for combating land degradation.

And the reason these young guys told me that they're doing these TEDx's is because they were sick and tired of the only workshops coming to the slums being those workshops focused on HIV, or at best, microfinance.

Part of the difficulty of contending with a crisis of confidence is that it is hard to quantify confidence in the first place.

Karam is the best student in the whole school.

Without such structural reforms or returning fiscal surpluses to families through tax cuts and rebates, government investment based stimulus efforts can provide, at best, a short term economic boost.

But anyways.

Pilots often practice simulated forced landings , in which an engine failure is simulated and the pilot has to get the aircraft on the ground safely, by selecting a landing area and then gliding the aircraft at its best gliding speed.

In fact, it's all about frostbite and difficulty to walk and difficulty of breathing cold, challenging circumstances.

The high demand for consultative status, combined with the limited time allotted to the deliberations of the Committee on Non Governmental Organizations of the Economic and Social Council, precludes consideration of applications for at least two years, at best.

He's better than me in everything.

You are no better at remembering things than I am.

Within that framework, the regional assessments and analyses carried out by the regional commissions on the development trends and implementation of goals emanating from the above events, including the Millennium Development Goals, reveal, at best, a mixed picture, mostly of significant shortfalls.

European advocates of the free market never proved sufficient to roll back the welfare state. Even Margaret Thatcher failed to touch the National Health Service.