Mousavi was regarded by many Iranians as a second chance.

I want you to take me seriously.

But few people took those promises seriously.

We would be thrilled if we had one semitone pitch perception in cochlear implant users.

Until a decade ago, Turkey was regarded as no more than a staunch NATO ally.

The freedoms that they were so accustomed to, and maybe even took for granted, have now been snatched away.

The fact it took us too long to realise what was happening, to take the threats seriously, to not just push for change but to defend what we hold dear, is something that we need to remember and not repeat.

Those who had been in the resistance like Václav Havel in Prague found this hard to take.

The Iranians were never going to accept what they perceived as second class status under the NPT.

I only wanted to enter this competition to be taken more seriously with my work, says Manawer.

Others view the attack as simply another in a long line of provocations, and thus not to be taken all that seriously.

Then again, both of those resignations suggested that the men in question had not taken the job seriously enough.

Women hear over and over that we have to be twice as good as men to be perceived as successful, deserving leaders.

Only when foreign enemies looked different from what Americans conceived themselves to be could presidents wage war against a people as a whole.

But they do reveal a great deal of information about how the torture sessions unfolded and how the agents involved perceived them.

The public viewed space travel as science fiction, a form of popular entertainment thought to have little chance of realization.

Because before the Vagina Monologues, I will say that 80 percent of my consciousness was closed off to what was really going on in this reality.

Moreover, unlike the Serbs or Bulgarians, Romanians have always perceived Russia as their arch enemy, sentiments made white hot up during the communist era.

My fear is that politicians want to be perceived as tough on bankers, but have no interest in really fixing the problem.

Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia s de facto ruler in place of his incapacitated half brother King Fahd, is keen to be seen as a champion of reform. He received these proposals with a warm welcome in January 2003.

Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia s de facto ruler in place of his incapacitated half brother King Fahd, is keen to be seen as a champion of reform.

It seemed that for our neighbors and friends, Africa was either this exotic place, this imaginary land that probably exists only in their imagination, or the place of horror, famine.

Many of the 736 EU parliamentarians are unsung heroes who risk being seen more and more as a problem rather than a solution to the EU s ills.

While he was seen abroad through the prism of his heroism and his philosophical speeches, at home Havel was often perceived as being deeply engaged in the political scrum. His critics argue that he developed a taste for intrigue and used behind the scenes maneuvering to achieve his aims.

For millennia, their ancestors took their watery environment for granted to them, it was emptiness as empty as they could conceive.

And yet the disconnect between this reality and the Poland in ruins or on the verge of catastrophe perceived by many voters was too strong to ignore.

While he was seen abroad through the prism of his heroism and his philosophical speeches, at home Havel was often perceived as being deeply engaged in the political scrum.

He said the differences could be because the dogs in the different studies were not fully interpreting the animals in the films or robo dogs as canines.

The final criterion that a successful INGO must meet in order to be taken seriously, at least by government policymakers, is total professionalism. If you want to meet governments on their home ground, you have to provide a product that, in terms of the depth and accuracy of its research and the style of its presentation, the best of them are accustomed to and demand.

Given these new strains, it is worth recalling that a only few months ago many American leaders were livid at what they perceived to be Turkey s betrayal.

The final criterion that a successful INGO must meet in order to be taken seriously, at least by government policymakers, is total professionalism.

We want more people to get comfortable with their voice because communicating ideas, thoughts and stories through your own voice is a very impactful experience.

The East Asian tigers that pushed themselves onto the world economy s center stage were small units, and in some cases Singapore, Taiwan, or Hong Kong were not even treated as states.

In the past, the Bank was seen as a purveyor of neoliberal orthodoxy an approach to development whose credibility had weakened by the time Wolfensohn arrived, and whose standing has eroded further since.

And maybe there will be a realization on the Continent that European unification must move forward more quickly, because the world and Europe s neighborhood in particular has turned out to be not as peaceful as many, above all the Germans, perceived it to be.

For too many years, there has been a perception of Venezuelan literature as a failure, largely because of the absence of Venezuelan authors in the Boom, and the invisibility of Venezuelan literature abroad.

we struggled to be taken seriously, she explains. It was hard to get people to believe in our vision, because, at the end of the day no one wants to trust individuals that young with their money.

While Eastern Europe's peoples perceived membership as confirmation of their historical affiliation with the West and as another step away from Soviet rule, the EU seemed in no hurry to meet those expectations.