I'm hopeful but I'm also very critical.

Adam, sounds like a really novel idea, but we're an ultraconservative organization. (Laughter)

Do you deny it? She's a very kind discreet woman, but she may have intimated...

So, Alice was very outgoing and sociable, and George was a recluse.

Not infrequently this has been helped by explicit policies.

There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U.S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year.

This has led to conservative reactions, asking elements in government and society to take action.

I'm still quite private, though, and I don't feel comfortable sharing about my psychiatric appointments, my illness, or medication.

Pessimists see conflict of one kind or another as more or less inevitable, and adopt a highly wary and competitive approach to the conduct of international relations.

The projections for growth in regular resources are conservative and UNICEF hopes that actual growth will be higher.

There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U.S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year.

Until the recent opening, Myanmar, which gained independence in 1948, had been ruled by a secretive military junta since 1962.

79. Lending institutions are conservative by nature and as women carry no political weight, access to capital is a major impediment.

d See annex III for details of UNIDIR 2006 estimated income from voluntary sources. The estimates for 2006 contributions are conservative.

And then for these candidates I'm gonna say well candidate one is over here is kind of liberal.

He argued that media owning companies have an interest in promoting non conservative causes such as protectionism and of shifting their health care costs over to the government.

UNICEF appreciated that audits were used to identify areas where improvements could be made, and would continue to aim for unqualified audit reports.

A long liberal cycle stretched from the 1930 s to the 1970 s, followed by a conservative cycle of economic deregulation, which now seems to have run its course.

Many European banks may not have understood this, yet they still shied away from revealing these dubious investments on their balance sheets.

As islanders, Britons and Japanese have had wary relations with and often a superiority complex toward their great continental neighbors, Europe and China, respectively.

42. At a conservative estimate, Cuba has lost more than US 40 billion because of the embargo, the equivalent of approximately twenty times its current account earnings for 1992.

Today, on the eve of the French presidential elections, opinion polls show that three quarters of French voters believe that France should distance itself from the United States.

In Washington as in Beijing, for that matter the temptation to approach Europe in a bilateral manner is strong and growing. President Barack Obama s America, rendered prudent by the costs of the country s military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, is only too happy to count on the interventionist traditions of Great Britain and France.

So Germany s refusal to boost domestic demand and reduce its external surplus, along with its insistence on conservative inflation targets for the ECB, severely undercuts prospects for European prosperity and unity.

At this stage, the best course would be to adopt a credible multi year plan, based on reasonable but conservative growth assumptions, to reduce deficits to sustainable levels and limit the accumulation of public debt.

Even India, which has been cautious about deepening its security ties with the US, has now embraced the idea of regional mutual defense not only with America, but also with Japan and other East Asian countries.

Putin then decided to disavow his own marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, his wife of 29 years, announcing the divorce in as publicly humiliating a way as possible his wife was standing by his side for a reserved Russian woman.

Conservatively, WHO projects that by the year 2000 a world total of at least 30 million men, women and children will have been infected with HIV since the start of the pandemic.

Even we, as opponents of the war, were staggered by what we found, with conservative to moderate estimates ranging from slightly less than a trillion dollars to more than 2 trillion.

Because the analysis did not include subsidies, rebates, tax write offs, docks constructed at public expense, and costs for training and marketing, this estimate should be considered conservatively low.

Conservatively, WHO projects that, by the year 2000, a world total of at least 30 million to 40 million men, women and children will have been infected with HIV since the start of the pandemic.

Yet successful economies are prone to one of the most dangerous emotions of all self satisfaction, that excessive pride that Confucius condemned, which makes governments wary of reforming what has been a winning model, even when stresses begin to appear.

Conservative estimates place at between US 1.6 and US 1.7 billion the losses caused by the anticipated shortages of equipment resulting from the embargo, without taking into account the cost to the economy in the area of production and services represented by equipment servicing.

PARIS After months of wrangling, the showdown between Greece and its European creditors has come down to a standoff over pensions and taxes. Greece is refusing to acquiesce to demands by its creditors that it cut payments to the elderly and raise the value added tax on their medicine and electricity.

Recent figures showing approximately 50 million land mines in 10 countries around the world are, in our view, conservative and do not take into account fully their use in situations of conflict of a non international character.

(e) In the case of new or exploratory fisheries, conservative catch and or effort limits shall be established as soon as possible and shall remain in force until there are sufficient data to allow assessment of the impact of the fishery on the long term sustainability of the stock(s) and associated ecosystems.