It's a trifling incident.

Japan, the country that accepts very few refugees.

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Recently, a small event caused a major stir in Russian politics.

But Europeans must admit that these individuals represent a small minority.

Two generations ago, only a small minority of the daughters of the elite received a university education.

These chased away even the tiny levels of foreign investment that had come to Haiti.

In 1977, many rose to oppose an end to food and other consumer subsidies in 1986, poorly paid security forces went on a rampage.

The numbers involved in those protests were miniscule compared to now.

Even a modest tax increase on the rich is unlikely to find support in American politics.

When the watchers have only commercial motives, such spam feels like a minor violation.

So the questions that dominate national campaigns have little impact on European elections.

Every small obstacle, every slight uphill, would cause these fellows to stop in their tracks and give up.

Rubber has been produced in Samoa for many years, but its export value has little impact on the economy.

Once upon a time, according to mythology at least, America had little downward mobility. On the contrary, before the Civil War you could start out splitting rails, light out for the Western Territory, make a success of yourself on the frontier, and wind up as President if you were named Abraham Lincoln.

Indeed, demographers predict that in 2050 non Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority of US residents.

A symbolic cut or embargo, while possible, would have little impact on world oil markets.

President Jiang and China's rulers have had very little, if anything, to do with any of these decisions.

Once upon a time, according to mythology at least, America had little downward mobility.

Large firms are awash with cash, and lowering interest rates slightly won t make much difference to them.

The closeness of the result suggests Bush won less of a mandate for change than he seems to believe.

Entanglement probably has little effect on a state like North Korea, which is weakly linked to the global economy.

Despite little mention of politics from Michelle Obama, Oriental Outlooks tried to interpret the meaning behind her visit

A limited Turkish strike into northern Iraq would probably elicit little reaction beyond public condemnation and rhetorical assertions of Iraqi sovereignty.

But, at the same time, our greater knowledge surely forces us to acknowledge that our place in the universe is not particularly significant.

It reduced government employment, granted only moderate wage increases and slashed public investment.

Of course, only a minority of zealous Muslims espouses political violence, and only a tiny number of Muslim professionals set off bombs.

Another possibility is to turn razor thin majorities into one sided governments that remain centrist in policy.

But that hasn t stopped the Bank doing its best to hide this meager impact behind impressive sounding claims.

The Bush administration has pushed forward tax cuts that lead to deficits while providing only a modest amount of stimulus.

As a result, worldwide mortality rates in 2005 were 400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births barely changed since 1990.

Cooler heads must prevail around the world so that China is not taken to WTO dispute mechanisms for each and every insignificant infraction.

For instance, the economic viability of an independent Catalonia has been widely discussed, and is considered possible so long as there are few trade barriers.

More importantly, would the limited amount that interest rates can yet be cut do much to boost demand?

His was one vote out of 22, but he represents 27 of eurozone GDP, so he cannot be dismissed as an insignificant outlier.

But little of this attention has been aimed at post secondary science education, the only level for which there is data showing how to make substantial improvements without enormous costs.

A relatively small amount of melting beneath the Amundsen Sea s ice shelf has pushed its grounding line to the top of a sub glacial hill, from which it is now rolling down.

Unlike colonial states, in which colonizers came from distant metropolises (and only in small numbers) the Palestinian territories are just across the border from Israel.

In other words, the price of losing one year of income every 75 years instead of every 50 years would lead banks to increase the rate on a loan from 4 to 4.13 . Such an insignificant increase would at most lead a few bank customers to turn to alternative sources of finance, most likely with no discernible effect on GDP.

Such an insignificant increase would at most lead a few bank customers to turn to alternative sources of finance, most likely with no discernible effect on GDP.

But this is the view of only a small minority of leaders, notably former Prime Minister Abu Mazin and Muhammad Dahlan, who heads his own militia in the Gaza Strip.

The ECB s paltry rate hike in December, together with the supine promise of no plans for further monetary tightening, demonstrates that Trichet is no Duisenberg.

With so little respect being shown for the LDP s leaders, it is no surprise that Japanese voters lost what little patience they had left for the party and its antiquated practices.

They saved him from defeat a narrow majority of West German voters preferred the CDU CSU (40.8 percent) to the SPD (38.3) and a center right coalition (48.4) to a red green one (47.7).

On the contrary, it is caught in a duel between healing and disruptive influences, in which it can ill afford any further intensification of the latter.