I think the present moment is so underrated.

Many commentators underestimate the prime minister s powers.

No one should underestimate Hamas s extremism.

No one should underestimate the difficulty of assessing Iran s real intentions.

'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

No one should underestimate the growth challenge facing today s global economy.

They have no access to political and economic power in a society that considers them of scant value.

But nobody should take Irish voters for granted in the final days of the campaign.

Trials of war criminals were once serious business.

There can be no underestimating the scale of the human devastation wrought by Asia s horrific tsunamis.

Sixth, the Egyptian economy s potential, given the proper political context, should not be underestimated.

And, as a rising power, China is not a force that leaders, even democratic ones, dismiss lightly.

No one should write off California it still has great strengths.

This is a grave misconception, and also underestimates the gravity of the choices we face as business people and citizens.

There is no underplaying the significance of the court s unanimous decision to convict the first Philippine president ever to undergo a criminal trial.

Conservative politicians in the US underestimate the importance of publicly provided education, technology, and infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Haiti continues to bleed under an undemocratic and cynical rule that does nothing to reduce poverty.

A little more than 60 years after the Shoah, one does not play lightly with such an evocation of destruction.

His opponents cavalierly dismiss the affair, with the deputy head of President Leonid Kuchma's administration suggesting that Yushchenko should hire a food taster.

No one should underestimate how difficult it was to travel his road, against incredible odds, to the cusp of the presidency.

Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of rebuilding Sri Lanka s war ravaged north and reconciling the Tamils at a time of global recession.

A man may, for example, disparage a woman partner simply because she has qualities that were disparaged in him, i.e., emotional intelligence, warmth, receptivity and so forth.

Many commentators underestimate the prime minister s powers. According to the Constitution, the prime minister is head of the executive branch, and the government is empowered to determine the main direction of domestic and foreign policy.

But recent changes in political leadership in the Britain, France, and Germany, together with the arrival of a new US administration in early 2009, could improve transatlantic cooperation.

Women in the eastern Congo have no say in the decision making that drives the conflict consuming so many of their lives. They have no access to political and economic power in a society that considers them of scant value.

No one should underestimate Hamas s extremism. Indeed, the only difference between Hamas and al Qaeda though the two groups do not generally work together is that the latter emphasizes attacks on Western targets, while the former has until now focused on Israel.

Conservative politicians in the US underestimate the importance of publicly provided education, technology, and infrastructure. Economies in which government provides these public goods perform far better than those in which it does not.

Nobody underplays the LTTE s contribution to the 2009 savagery but, with the Tigers leaders all dead, international attention should now be focused overwhelmingly on holding the government accountable for its failure to accept its responsibility to protect its own people.

Recall the photographs of Herman Goering and Rudolf Hess sitting glumly in the dock at Nuremberg. Some Nazi leaders were even hanged after relatively short but fair trials.

While he has seemingly lost touch with the French people, he is deeply aware of and wounded by his declining popularity, and no one should underestimate his ability to reinvent himself with a new government after the municipal elections and greater distance from his immediate entourage.

But the real danger which even Hollande s sternest critics may be underestimating is not so much his individual policy failings (serious though they may be) as his approach to the twin challenges posed by France s economic imbalances and the eurozone crisis.