Sami's life was better.

Layla deserved better.

Things were better long ago.

The more stuff that's mine, the better.

There have been better times to be associated with Wal Mart.

The best minds were stumped really, really smart people.

Other groups, however, fared better.

Gabo analyzed people's reactions through the way they valued the different books in his work.

Layla thought that Sami was the best thing in her life.

In her memoirs, she says she was in the top 10 of her class.

Conditions at Pollsmoor were better than at Robben Island, although Mandela missed the camaraderie and scenery of the island.

Fifteen years ago, there was a clear need for better infrastructure there.

The less we alienate the Afghan population in the fight against drugs, the better.

If this energy is low, we are more likely to get sick, and if it is high, we are capable of being healthier.

But whatever the countries on the right are doing they are doing a much better job than begging.

Unfortunately, America s financial reforms have been half baked at best.

As Britain s taxi drivers liked to say, she was the best man in the government.

Aref I'm pretty sure if you said sleepy juice things would've gone a lot better than they did.

It is still true that the banking sector policies that were undertaken were good or at least better than doing nothing.

If that was supposed to be a better outcome than an earlier termination of the pregnancy, it is hard to see for whom it was better.

Al Jazeera has made Qatar famous and the Arab world better informed. Despite its inadequacies and biases, Al Jazeera has changed the Arab world for the better.

People generally are a lot better off than they were just a few years ago.

Responses to America s call for democracy in the Middle East have been tepid at best.

More than once, I heard them express the view that things were better before the revolutions.

In the end, the result was better, with the actual figure at 549 million.

One of his principal reasons for so doing was his belief that this method was the best means of stopping the slave trade and raising the social condition of the Africans.

From the mid nineteenth century, the best minds went into politics, not business.

In fact, the prospects for engaging in negotiations are better now than they were a few months ago.

An MRI is a better tool if the patient is pregnant because the test uses no radiation.

I believe it was one great philosopher said no, no, Cervantes. Cervantes said, The journey is better than the end.

Were those really better times? And what are the big problems today that should cause us to lose sleep?

The European crisis management process has been predicated on the Scarlett O Hara principle that tomorrow will be a better day.

And they actually had to end up shutting down the leader board because while it was effective, it was so powerful that it stopped sourcing the best stories and started having people work to maintain their leadership.

Perhaps the best chance to address the problem at an earlier stage was immediately after the Soviet Union s collapse in 1991.

In that case, surely an orderly divorce now is preferable to a messy split down the line.

The things in politics were tremulous, too, were expecting better times than under Poland, but things did not turn for the better.

His Government would have preferred to hear more about best practices and successful experiences of assimilation.

Those two years would also indicate whether Italian banks are in better shape than many now fear.

(In more traditional societies, relations between humans and animals have often been closer, but not always better for the animals.)

He remembered that in his own travels, the best experience was when someone showed him their city through their eyes.

If lower is always better, why not set the target at 1 , or even zero? In fact, there are times when 3 4 is better than 2 .

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

It was these legs and the best 21st birthday gift I could ever receive a new kidney from my dad that allowed me to follow my dreams again.

For years, she took in relatives and boarders, offering a safe place for black Americans seeking a better life in the north.

This tendency to compare to the past is causing people to pass up the better deal. In other words, a good deal that used to be a great deal is not nearly as good as an awful deal that was once a horrible deal.