At first glance, this was a rational and predictable outcome.

At first sight, China seems to be an exception.

At first glance, Bush s task looks easy.

At first glance, there seems to be no problem.

At first glance, European social democracy appears to be in crisis.

There may not be as much conflict between these two agendas as first appears.

At first glance, Russia bears many of the hallmarks of a great power.

At first glance, a surgical strike may look tempting.

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight.

This will prove more difficult than it first sounds.

On one hand, he appears to be an educated and dynamic leader committed to modernizing Russia.

This idea is attractive at first sight. But here, too, the reference to the US experience is misleading.

Indeed, at first glance, pursuing such a change in Italy appears simple.

The solution would at first appear to lie in the design and implementation of policies geared towards economic growth.

America faces a trade off between security and liberty, but the relationship is more complex than it appears at first glance.

At first glance, this looks like a classic case of a large country bullying a small country into submission.

At first sight, the Ivory Coast s post colonial history looks like a variation on standard themes.

Although not as intuitively obvious, human rights have a role to play in prevention of these types of displacements as well.

And these things are so exciting. They are so often the only, or the very first time that anybody has ever seen the remains.

Since security is a key element of many other domains of human life and development, the stakes are much higher than those visible at first sight.

At first glance, it may seem that France chose NATO at the expense of the ten year old European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP).

At first glance, it seems reasonable that political parties might be able to translate women s gender consciousness into a unified voting bloc.

As in the 1970 s, there are more links than may at first appear between the apparently new problems of 2010 2011.

At first glance, it seems incredibly generous and statesman like for G 8 leaders to endorse debt relief for the world s poorest nations.

PRINCETON There are historical precedents for sovereign debt defaults by the countries of Europe s southern periphery, but they are not instantly attractive ones.

At first glance, it seems plausible. Indeed, traditional balance of power theory suggests that US primacy in power resources should be offset by a Sino Russian partnership.

So meritocracy seems preferable, at least at first sight. But, on closer inspection, things are not so simple.

What about today s New New China, with its skyscrapers, modern highways, and unbridled capitalism? The reality is not as gleaming as it first looks.

Although this perception may convince at first glance, it is ultimately based on generalizations that reveal more about its advocates than the actual reality on the ground.

Will the oil sheikhs reduce output of fossil fuels? At first glance, it seems natural to assume this, as most suppliers reduce production when the price falls.

At first glance, this is indeed less than the American program, which totals 6.2 of GDP, of which 2 will be spent in 2009.

At first blush, this seems absurd Why would anyone want to lend money for a negative nominal return when they could simply hold on to the cash and at least not lose in nominal terms?

NAIROBI With unemployment soaring, bankruptcies climbing, and stock markets in free fall, it may at first glance seem sensible to ditch the fight against climate change and put environmental investments on hold.

At first glance, much of Europe s current debate is about political and economic integration about how far its nation states should go in pooling resources and sovereign powers in the European Union.

When using the Exit Multiple approach it is often helpful to calculate the implied terminal growth rate, because a multiple that may appear reasonable at first glance can actually imply a terminal growth rate that is unrealistic.

20 At first sight, given the high levels of debt ratios of Georgia, Kenya and Kyrgyzstan before Paris Club debt reschedulings, it is difficult to comprehend the factors which allow a distinction to be made between the sustainable cases (Georgia and Kenya) and the unsustainable case (Kyrgyzstan).

At first sight, that looks like a hard task. Since Copenhagen, climate change has slipped down the global agenda, as the restoration of economic growth, voter concern about jobs and living standards, and violent conflict in key trouble spots have taken precedence.

At first glance, Kicillof seems to be correct this looks like textbook Keynesian reflation. But Keynes would not have approved of the macroeconomic policies pursued by Fernández and her predecessor and husband, the late Néstor Kirchner.

10.4 The State party argues firstly that the challenged resolutions of the municipal council make no reference to Roma, and must thus be distinguished from the resolutions at issue in, for example, the Koptovay case that were racially discriminatory on their face.

At first glance, this looks like a classic case of a large country bullying a small country into submission. As Thucydides put it in his history of the Peloponnesian War, The strong do as they will and the weak suffer what they must.

One idea that has been mooted repeatedly in Europe is to create some European, or at least eurozone, unemployment insurance fund. This idea is attractive at first sight.

Market efficiency and market completion theories can help reassure major financial institutions top executives that they must in some subtle way be doing God s work, even when it looks at first sight as if some of their trading is simply speculation.

At least at the first sight, these data suggest a reduction of fertility in relation to past decades from 7 children per woman, in the 50's and 60's, the TGF was estimated to be 6.4 in 1980 and 6.2 in 1991.

Positing the problem. At first sight, the dual notion that war is a complete rupture of international relations and that treaties represent the most finished form of such relations leads to the provisional conclusion that there is an incompatibility between a state of war and the very existence of international treaties.

At first sight the political parties of the subregion do not appear to give sufficient prominence to the question of the integration of persons settled in national territory, but in fact each party's general policy is that the interests of such individuals should be fully taken into account and protected.