A brief history of the concept, and a comparison with another term that also became discredited by overuse, helps to explain what happened.

14 The indicator could also be produced nationally by the Central Bank and or the Ministry of Economy and could be compared and monitored internationally by the World Trade Organization.

The blue whale, it's a dwarf if compared with the real biggest creature that exists on the planet that is, this wonderful, magnificent Sequoiadendron giganteum.

But the world s interest in the French presidential campaign is greater than ever, and can be compared only with the attention generated by Mitterrand s election in 1981.

But if Gulenists in Azerbaijan are having a difficult life, it is nothing compared to what people suspected of being members of their movement are going through in Turkey.

The challenge of putting youth at the centre of development strategies can be compared to the challenge, two decades ago, of putting women and gender issues on the development agenda.

Although the literacy rate is still lower in comparison with the urban population, the progress occurred in the last decade in terms of the average number of years of schooling is undeniable.

Since the number of atoms in the known universe is infinitesimally tiny by comparison (1080), he argued that Earth as life's place of origin could be ruled out.

Indirect discrimination based on gender exists when a seemingly neutral legal norm, criterion or practice equal for all brings into less favorable situation a person of one gender when compared to persons of another gender.

Enrichment allows researchers to perform smaller, more informative trials by helping them to design studies that will show a high relative treatment difference between the drug and whatever it is being compared to (often a placebo, but sometimes another treatment).

If the serial numbers of weapons delivered in a particular batch fell within a range, then the numbers in that range could be assumed to correspond to the number of weapons delivered, which could in turn be compared to the number reported during the disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation programme (see table 1).