So how bad was the election? Exit polls suggest that ballot totals fairly closely reflect voter choices.

That is highly debatable.

Instead, US banks, widely blamed for the international lending boom that preceded the bust, were so intimidated and weakened that the flow of American credit stopped.

The rehearsal is quite entertaining.

As at July 2005, 140 States had responded, with at least 91 largely following the Guidance.

Political violence has been rare.

Since the introduction of Java, it has been by far the most widely used Java software development kit (SDK).

The documentary certainly misrepresented a lot.

Reeve said, She was sixty seven and I was twenty two, but I thought that was quite an honor...I believe I was fairly close to what a child or grandchild might have been to her.

Financial, technical and technological transfers still lag far behind.

However, performance is very mixed.

But reform momentum is tugging in two, quite opposite, directions.

Sports Baseball is by far the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic.

It is quite similar to the concept of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).

In his delegation's view, those provisions were too restrictive and should be abolished.

The impact on our humanitarian operations has been dramatic.

In each dimension, Munsell colors are as close to perceptually uniform as he could make them, which makes the resulting shape quite irregular.

The ultimate effect of public policies largely depends on the underlying characteristics of the markets.

Second, regulations on work contracts are also very liberal.

The Commission and the Sub Commission, however, have very general mandates.

Men are responsible for by far the most domestic physical and sexual violence.

The current data on the population of New Caledonia vary significantly.

You just need to incorporate a certain number of traits in a very kind of genetic way.

Coverage rates, content and strategies for reaching families vary widely.

Of course they can t, but that is largely irrelevant.

But the economic costs are enormous, and they go well beyond budgetary outlays.

In the US, too, the attitude towards the alliance with Europe has changed mightily.

Meanwhile the Timorese will continue to rely heavily on international support.

The communications to the Human Rights Committee and to the ECHR are to a large extent identical.

Of the provisions of this chapter, by far the most lasting has been Article 112 (1), which made the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (1991) a part of the constitution.

While the reasons for investing abroad are largely the same for SMEs as for bigger firms, the relative importance of the different factors may vary.

The danger inherent in Bangladesh s course is very real.

In both cases, what seems desirable appears highly improbable.

President Jean Bertrand Aristide is widely blamed, and he may be toppled soon.

The synthesis is still, to a large extent, the current paradigm in evolutionary biology.

Switzerland has been closely involved in the region since the outbreak of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

The report has identified the Security Council as by far the most important international destination for action .

They claim that there is a high degree of possibility that they will be adversely affected by the violation of article 4 of the Convention.

Unfortunately, the positive developments are pretty much exhausted by the above mentioned meeting.

Unfortunately, the door to such access remains largely closed, partly because China was initially reluctant to allow overseas groups into their hinterlands to assist.

African countries that were locked out of international capital markets for most of the past five decades have largely been spared the twin woes of financial turmoil and economic downturn.

To a large extent, these projects were supported by federal funding from the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative.

The participation of beneficiaries in the planning and implementation of relief programmes remains largely insufficient.

The New York based work of the Office is expected to expand significantly (ibid., para.

Once that was done, the consideration  and the ultimate acceptance of the draft protocol would be greatly eased.