But I have also had some exhilarating experiences of the UN at its best.

The Commission's fourteenth session should be a model for what the United Nations could be at its best.

Moral secularism at its best was on full display from the rugged streets of Sidi Bouzid to the imposing refinement of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.

It's a perverse irony at best an utter abomination at worst.

Moreover, Europe s ability to exert pressure on China is extremely limited at best, and may be least potent where Chinese domestic matters are concerned.

He was describing democracy at its best, its most noble, as it should be, but not always is freely mobilized men and women able and willing to change the course of their destiny.

Reactive military interventions and humanitarian measures are necessary to prevent further loss of life in emergencies, but even at their best, such efforts can only control a situation, not resolve it.

The street trees have really four jobs to do and that's it To spatially denote the pedestrian realm, to protect the pedestrians from the vehicles in the carriageway, to filter the sunlight onto the sidewalk, and to soften the hardscape of the buildings and to create a ceiling a vaulted ceiling over the street, at its best.

True, Maliki s nascent dictatorship is lighter than that of Saddam at his worst, and perhaps that is some progress.

The great philosophers of the Enlightenment would not hesitate to endorse the moral consciousness expressed in the postings that flooded cyberspace during the Tunisian revolution. Moral secularism at its best was on full display from the rugged streets of Sidi Bouzid to the imposing refinement of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.

We also welcome the examples set by Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic in referring their particular situations to the Court.

That s right while global temperatures are at a record high, the sun has been at its dimmest in decades.

Egypt is at its most volatile since former President Hosni Mubarak s ouster in early 2011.

(g) A list of States being considered under agenda item 9 that have denied access to the special procedures

It had fallen into a routine of adopting resolutions condemning certain countries whose human rights situations were no worse than those of others, while allowing other countries to commit serious violations without criticism.

The focus on the basic service delivery through these independent service authorities would have rescued basic services from their catastrophic levels, and it would have given ordinary people the sense that the government was doing something useful.

Even at its worst, unemployment in Japan rarely exceeded 4 , owing to a combination of early retirement, social programs, work sharing, and political pressure on large employers.

By all measures, Beijing s T3 surpasses London s T5.

The European Energy Charter, which emphasizes market access and transparency, though laudable, is insufficient in moments of crisis when markets are at their worst.

Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said, and I'll quote him, The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Also calls upon all States to adopt and implement nationality legislation with a view to preventing and reducing statelessness, consistent with fundamental principles of international law, in particular by preventing arbitrary deprivation of nationality

And who better to launch this than Nicolas Sarkozy? The French president has already played a crucial role in bridging the U.S European divide on the Afghan mission and after a successful donor's conference has taken the help of the EU's rotating, six month presidency.

Better than Basel

And it's better in two different ways.

But this is a multifaceted effort. We need more training, better intelligence, better forces and better coordination.

He is a cut above his neighbors.

Her work is better than mine.

Sami is better than Farid.

Better Red than Dead?

You're in better shape than I am.

Paper shufflers are doing better than producers speculators are doing better than managers traders are doing better than entrepreneurs arbitrageurs are doing better than accumulators the clever are doing better than the solid and behind all of it, the financial market is more powerful than the state.

And as we thought about our goals I should say that Interval is really a humanistic institution, in the classical sense that humanism, at its best, finds a way to combine clear eyed empirical research with a set of core values that fundamentally love and respect people.

We can use the same technologies that fishers use to identify where the species are, in order to close the area when it's most vulnerable, which may, in some cases, be year round.

So we formed Coursera, whose goal is to take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free.

What good is more going to do?

This dictionary is superior to that one.

This watch is superior to that one.

This dictionary is better than that one.

Our restaurant is better than that restaurant.

Everything is better without you.

Tom is one of our best detectives.

Music for a better future.

We have been brought up to know and do better.

Thus, increasing efforts towards better understanding, treating and preventing the problem are continuing to evolve.

People always think more is better than less 60 is always better than 50, and they always think now is better than later the bars on this side are higher than the bars on this side.