Yet it may be a mistake to conclude that this was an episode without significance.

The environmental impact was negligible.

The fallout with Turkey was a minor tremor.

The Kremlin probably regarded it as irrelevant.

But perhaps the world should be thankful, because without American profligacy, there would have been insufficient global aggregate demand.

The signal that he intended to slow down government spending was a powerful one, but the immediate effect on the budget was negligible.

At first, banks cross border operations were small, which meant that that they were mainly supervised in their own countries.

In short, the US stimulus effects on spending have probably been positive but small, and without a decisive effect on the economy.

But in Turkey the headscarf is not seen as a trivial symbol.

A visitor feels inconsequential in the chaotic vastness of this epic undertaking.

This might force him to pick a new face for the next presidential election, someone with little domestic policy experience and little influence on ordinary people s lives.

De facto, since 1999, growth has been negligible and Argentina has endured a thorough crisis.

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

Many were appalled at the lack of concern shown by some of the passersby in the video when screams could clearly be heard.

Due to the magnitude of c , the effect of light pressure is negligible for everyday objects.

An obvious sign of this is the amount of time Putin spends on foreign trips with little diplomatic justification.

And you look down at Yokneam everything is so small and tiny.

Indeed, the West has already tried this approach before, with paltry results.

The measure s second shortcoming, however, is that the spending reductions that it mandates are modest.

It was going to be an interesting test if the slurs against Nemtsov were just a minor case of rumour spreading, they probably wouldn't be coming from more than a few dozen users.

Gerhard Schröder will remain the German Chancellor, but his majority in Parliament has become extremely narrow. His Social Democrats (SPD) got 38.5 per cent of votes, and so did the Christian Democrats (CDU CSU) of his rival candidate Edmund Stoiber.

Gerhard Schröder will remain the German Chancellor, but his majority in Parliament has become extremely narrow.

It is clear that the real impact of PCASED on the development of the situation has remained marginal owing to a lack of resources.

As no faction embraces the military, an expected rise in defense expenditures has been insignificant indeed, Putin is slashing 600,000 men from Russia s military.

The political risk for both of them will be anything but small, but the alternative the failure of the euro is unacceptable for both countries.

Many people were skeptical that an African American with a strange name and little national experience could win.

The significance of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 is not the relatively low magnitude of Japan s direct impact on the broader global economy.

Relative to today's levels of spending on official development assistance and global public goods, however, the amounts are enormous.

VANCOUVER Despite the growing importance of science in the modern world, science education remains a remote and minor issue for most people.

Relative to global income some 40 trillion the magnitude of monetary growth would be minuscule.

Even when the frequent appearance of asset price bubbles was acknowledged, most believed that efforts to detect and prick them at an early stage would be impossible and potentially harmful.

Prior to the crisis, asset price cycles were seen by many as basically harmless or, at least, as a relatively insignificant monetary policy channel.

A large amount of the cables were addressed to him briefing him on little matters, and another large amount was signed by him corresponding with worldwide governments.

If the threshold spread is set reasonably high in order to achieve a significant discount, the stock of debt retired by the buyback would be marginal.

As the minimum wage gets further away from the poverty line, you should expect both these effects inflation as well as unemployment to accumulate faster.

This may still look small, but it is hardly a trivial sum in view of the short term growth outlook in the developed world.

The ruling party won by slim majority after it took 68 seats compared to the opposition s 55 seats.

And yet, even with damage to infrastructure such as road and rail links, the tsunamis overall economic impact is expected to be minor.

What is likely to happen when a large and heterogeneous coalition with barely a parliamentary majority must govern in an increasingly dire economic situation?

In fact, there are two problems with all this talk and little or no real action on structural reforms.

Furthermore, with regional tensions high, the economic impact of the removal of sanctions turns out to be negligible, while conservatives gain ground in resisting reform.

The full development of these institutions renders really serious economic catastrophes the kind that dwarf the 2008 crisis virtually impossible.

In coming years, developing countries with little nuclear experience Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, and others will attempt to leap onto the atomic bandwagon.

We knew that the risks we ran of being roughed up or arrested while demonstrating against visiting Springbok rugby teams were entirely trivial compared to the risks that he and his colleagues had been prepared to face.

Moreover, since South Korea s new government took office earlier this year little progress has been made in relations between the two Koreas.