One of these, and it's paradoxical because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers.

More generally, while China spends billions of renminbi in efforts to increase its soft power in Asia, its behavior in the South China Sea contradicts its own message.

Several causes of some of them contradictory obesity have been identified.

The second, paradoxically, reflects our growing cynicism towards politics and politicians.

Unlike the West, where the very concept of strategy has become an oxymoron, China has embraced a transitional framework aimed at resolving its sustainability constraints.

To some extent, the answer is yes.

Up to a point, this is understandable.

That impression is correct to some extent.

That is rather unexpected.

And there are parallels for marketing you can invest for a long time in a brand, but a single contrary observation of that positioning will destroy consumers' belief.

History, however, teaches many lessons, some of them contradictory, and is never repeated in quite the same way.

This is somewhat reassuring.

He is correct, up to a point.

Yes, to some extent, such is the price of progress.

For most of them, this is quite a rare experience.

My survey's results lend some support to this theory.

To some extent, they are right.

In fact, this is partly the case.

At least it makes me feel like, to some extent, it is becoming self evident.

And I'm going to finish up with a quote, maybe a little cheap shot, at the director of the NIH, who's a very charming man.

They're disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way.

Women also play a somewhat greater role.

That's probably an exaggeration, but that's what it felt like at the time.

Regarding the characterization of women with disabilities, existing studies are still rather limited.

Earth's surface is situated fairly deep in a gravity well.

The compendium of vacancies has attracted applications for service in field missions from legal officers already serving in the United Nations system.

The meaning of the words contrary to international standards is simple enough.

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.

they often say, Oh, tiny. I feel tiny and insignificant.

They prove that up to a point security can be provided without loss of freedom.

Most of these incidents are fairly minor, but some are more serious.

The boundaries of Greater Poland have varied somewhat throughout history.

Humankind is now learning, to some extent, to cope with the menace of terrorism.

India also has fairly extensive investments in a number of countries in Africa.

To some extent, the movement can be seen as bearing some of the characteristics of postmodern literature.

Every once in a while, I get somewhat depressed and a little obsessional.

Russia, and to some extent the United States, are the powers that matter in Georgia.

What Germany needs is, in fact, fairly clear.

To a certain extent, all our politicians become pawns in the regional chess game.

But despite the challenges, the Benghazi Skype School has been a success so far.

The drop out rate from general education schools has been fairly stable.

Each of these applies to some extent to technologies for adaptation.

Delays were caused partly by late and lengthy submissions and their effect on the whole document processing chain and partly by the lack of processing capacity in the Department.

Fairly obvious what that is.

Echoing McNair to some extent, Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice observed in his Hague lectures