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.

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.

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 .

Our current tasks were formulated very well at the millennial meeting five years ago.

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.

By now, the dynamics of the downturn are set, and things will get worse before they get better.

Follow the best of what has been revealed to you by your Lord before the punishment overtakes you suddenly and you are caught unawares ,

And follow this , the best among all , which has been sent down towards you from your Lord , before the punishment comes suddenly upon you whilst you are unaware .

And follow the fairest of what has been sent down to you from your Lord , ere the chastisement comes upon you suddenly while you are unaware .

And follow the best of that which hath been sent down Unto you from your Lord there cometh on you torment of a sudden , while ye perceive not .

And follow the best of that which is sent down to you from your Lord ( i.e. this Quran , do what it orders you to do and keep away from what it forbids ) , before the torment comes on you suddenly while you perceive not !

And follow the best of what was revealed to you from your Lord , before the punishment comes upon you suddenly , while you are unaware .

Follow the best of what has been revealed to you from your Lord before the chastisement suddenly comes upon you without you even being aware of it .

And follow the better ( guidance ) of that which is revealed unto you from your Lord , before the doom cometh on you suddenly when ye know not ,

Follow the best of what has been sent down to you from your Lord , before the punishment overtakes you suddenly while you are unaware .

Follow the best of what has been sent down from your Lord before the punishment overtakes you suddenly , while you are unaware '

And follow the best of what was revealed to you from your Lord before the punishment comes upon you suddenly while you do not perceive ,

Follow the best of what is revealed to you from your Lord before the torment suddenly approaches you and you will not realize how it came about .

And follow the best that has been revealed to you from your Lord before there comes to you the punishment all of a sudden while you do not even perceive

Follow the best aspect of what is sent down to you from your Lord , before the scourge comes upon you unawares ,

And follow the best of ( the courses ) revealed to you from your Lord , before the Penalty comes on you of a sudden while ye perceive not !

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.

How many generations that had far more wealth and ostentation have We laid low before them !