He is the president in name only.

In name, Guatemala is a fledgling democracy.

PATH has an accountability transparency score of 100 on Charity Navigator.

It s convenient to criticise Ukraine and it does great things for popularity rating.

North Korea still causes trouble, and China is nominally a Communist state.

Esperanto is not only nominally but also structurally an international language.

True, India s government must now consider growing threats to the country s investment grade credit rating.

Of the 50 best universities in the world, according to the Shanghai list and the Times Higher Education Supplement list, some 30 are American, six or seven are British, and only a handful are to be found in continental Europe.

The cabinet is responsible to the bicameral parliament, the States General, which also has legislative powers.

Bond rating agencies downgraded Argentina s government debt, which contributed to a further rise in the risk premium.

This mechanism for the deliberately progressive construction of a unified polity out of nominally sovereign states is unprecedented in human history.

In Switzerland and Denmark, investors want exposure to a currency that is expected to appreciate in nominal terms.

Nitrogen(I) and bismuth(I) are known but rare and ununpentium(I) is likely to show some unique properties, probably behaving more like thallium(I) than bismuth(I).

In the 2005 rankings, Iceland scored as the least corrupt country, with the Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, and Singapore close behind.

After all, the best education according to the latest World University Rankings is to be found in the universities of the U.K. and the U.S.

And some, I assume, are good people. sent his popularity soaring, to the mortification of many Republican leaders.

Madagascar came up as the world's poorest country in one of the poverty indices published by the World Bank (and reported by media outlets such as Radio France Internationale).

In truth, however, there are many degrees of independence, and not all nominally independent central banks operate in the same way.

The main change is in foreign policy, where, at least nominally, Piñera has clearly transferred Chile from one camp to another.

According to the World Economic Forum, which released its annual report on economic competitiveness last month, the US is the fifth most competitive economy in the world (behind the small economies of Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and Singapore).

America remains first in total R amp D expenditure, first in university rankings, first in Nobel prizes, and first on indices of entrepreneurship.

Of the top 500 largest corporations measured by revenue (Fortune Global 500 in 2010), 161 have their headquarters in the EU.

They do not want to deal with the Palestinians, and so are erecting a physical barrier through areas that are now nominally under Palestinian control.

As a result, in places like Egypt, Christians have faced harsh social discrimination and violence, sometimes at the hands of the nominally secular state.

Joseph concluded that ...the manner in which he was treated for upwards of sixteen years could not but have confirmed him in the delusion that the preservation of his own person was the only thing of importance.

Well, to be short, Yandex got completely fed up with complains about the blog ranking which has always been the most crystal clear and honest rating in the world.

Although nominally governed by ethnic federalism, where this threatened secession, as in Oromia or the Ogaden, Meles was quick to ignore the constitutional set up.

Despite the government s crisis of legitimacy and endemic mismanagement, the Green Movement nominally led by opposition presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi faces major obstacles.

Local experts had previously warned Yam about this, but he dismissed their argument in a way that one economist who was present at a meeting with him described as demeaning and contemptuous . Moreover, they left in shock in realizing Yam, and the financial secretary, Donald Tsang, nominally his boss but without real power, didn t really understand the experts economic reasoning.

To the discredit of the democratic world, hardly any head of state remonstrated on Zhao s behalf, minimally demanding that some accounting be made for his illegal and immoral incarceration.

The relative density of geolocated tweets in some of the cities above roughly corresponds to Leetaru et al.'s ranking of the top 20 cities by percent of geotagged tweets in their 2012 sample.

In the field of management and economics the university took the eighth place, in the field of law the ninth, in the field of engineering the tenth, in information technology the eighth place in Ukraine according to the rating of Compass in 2009.

Ever since these pipelines were effectively handed over to nominally private companies in murky deals, earnings from transit fees have gone missing, along with vast amounts of gas, while little maintenance has been carried out.

In today s Poland, it is harder to accept wages nominally about a third of those in Germany that had seemed perfectly adequate in 2007, when they were only a quarter of the German level.

And it is not just short term policy rates that are now negative in nominal terms about 3 trillion of assets in Europe and Japan, at maturities as long as ten years (in the case of Swiss government bonds), now have negative interest rates.

Japan slipped from 80th place in the World Economic Forum s gender gap rankings in 2006 to 98th in 2011, a worrying sign that a critical opportunity is being missed.