There is a general murmur of approval.

Meanwhile, the rumbling was gradually getting louder.

From somewhere in the distance came an ominous rumble.

There will be several ways to gauge the election s relative success.

( J'aime tellement l'Allemagne que je préfère qu'il y en ait deux . )

Germany's division created a rough demographic parity between French and West Germans.

This is a higher level of relative poverty than all but four other EU members.

China s relative rise did not diminish the dollar s role and may even have enhanced it.

Bora Gull Heha was 16 years old when she decided to set herself ablaze with an oil lamp.

A more general issue is the relative lack of openness in the region's political systems and economies.

What is surprising for a European at least for this European at the moment is the relative optimism in all these cities.

Seven had annual per capita income levels exceeding 5,500 in the period from 1972 to 2000 but no significant political rights for three consecutive years. These states are electoral underachievers weak political rights despite relative affluence.

But it is the relative success of ethnic minorities and immigrants that is more upsetting to indigenous populations.

These states are electoral underachievers weak political rights despite relative affluence.

The relative size of the service sector in India, given the country s state of development, is much bigger than it is in China.

When the Turkish Parliament attempted to elect the president on April 27, Gul did not receive enough votes to win on the first ballot.

Since the mid 1990 s, the relative decline in employment in these countries has, indeed, been slightly reversed.

Add to this America s relative decline in view of China s ascendance and that of other large emerging countries.

Six years later, despite the relative success of an ongoing campaign to force manufacturers to boycott Uzbek cotton, little has changed inside the country.

Moreover, the AKP has broad support among Turkish voters and an admirable record of economic growth, human rights legislation, and improvement in the treatment of Turkey s Kurdish minority.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a close associate of Erdogan in the AKP, pressed Turkey s application to join the European Union.

Until now, the rest of world could only grumble at Europe s obstinate refusal to recognize its relative decline.

Second, the relative weight and importance of developing nations in the global economy will have risen even more.

The relative lack of nitrogen ice suggests that its supply of nitrogen has somehow been depleted over the age of the Solar System.

Relative affluence and greater personal freedom exist for many, even as other Chinese citizens are racked by the travails of modernization.

Later sources suggest that perceptions of legitimacy played a part in the arguments, as did the relative age of the two candidates.

Because the old save less, lower aggregate savings in rich countries will crimp the relative abundance of capital available to poorer economies.

Outside resources should be devoted to building the governing capacity needed to keep the country united and largely peaceful.

2. Notes the relative progress achieved thus far across duty stations in integrating information technology into management and documentation processing systems

Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, the former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, confirmed that he sponsored an alliance of right wing political parties to stop her from getting a parliamentary majority.

On this basis, Japan s relative decline as a major economic power will continue, as its working age population will continue to shrink by about 1 per year.

China s rise and America s relative decline present not only a danger for Japan, but also an opportunity and perhaps the needed momentum boost for real reform.

If each relative military success is accompanied by an absolute political defeat, as was the case with the recent military operations in Gaza, what is the ratio between costs and benefits?

In Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal, concerns about immigration, chronic unemployment, high taxes, and deteriorating public services have fuelled this trend. But as Europe's most recent parliamentary election shows, Sweden's Social Democrats in power for 61 of the past 70 years remain relatively immune to serious challenges from the right.

But as Europe's most recent parliamentary election shows, Sweden's Social Democrats in power for 61 of the past 70 years remain relatively immune to serious challenges from the right.

Though this is partially offset by foreign exchange reserves, Japan now faces massive disaster relief costs and this on top of its depressing demographic trends. Many other rich countries debt levels are also uncomfortably close to 150 year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world.

Many other rich countries debt levels are also uncomfortably close to 150 year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world.

But I don t see what alternative political economic arrangements could make individuals relative wealth closely correspond to their relative moral or other merit.

And the poem goes On the idle hill of summer, lazy with the flow of streams, hark I hear a distant drummer, drumming like a sound in dreams, far and near and low and louder on the roads of earth go by, dear to friend and food to powder, soldiers marching, soon to die.

The yen lags behind, but had the highest relative growth, with its share of world trade more than doubling from 2 in 1980 to almost 5 in 1995.

then... you will be relieved forever from my future... and nothing will remain to me but the consciousness that whatever may happen, I shall be able to say honestly to Rudolf one day I did everything in my power.

I am relatively certain that the US will successfully manage its reorientation and realignment, but the relative weight and reach of its power will nonetheless decline in the new world of the twenty first century, as others grow in strength and catch up.