Such a very sad day.

It's as deep as it is wide.

I don't see anything remotely suspicious.

A stoat is as cute an animal as it is deadly.

She was intelligent as well as beautiful.

Now that he is gone, we see how much he accomplished.

This represents a tragedy that is as avoidable as it is immense.

Try as they may, they will never succeed.

Unfortunately, such examples of international cooperation are as rare as they are impressive.

Your intelligence is as vast as the distance between Bombay and Mumbai.

I can't imagine how much more colourless life would be without multiple languages.

You can actually go and detect and study a chemical composition of planets far, far, far from solar system.

One might compare their fighting with the battles between groups of sports fans, which are every bit as meaningless as they are entertaining.

The consequences of 1989 ended up being less enduring than many observers, including me, would have assumed.

The second draft has made no significant improvement upon the first from a human rights point of view.

When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window is a saying as old as it is sad.

In Hong Kong there are two types of liquid food which are considered absolutely vital Cantonese soup and congee. It is curious to note that however thick and ingredient filled the soup is, it's always drunk and however thin the congee is, it's always eaten.

Nicolas means that romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet is as beautiful as the sun, which burns your eyes when you look at it.

Institutions matter at least as much as equipment if developing countries hope to join the global digital economy in any meaningful way.

Nonetheless, the international financing that Ukraine has received, though invaluable, remains insufficient to support genuine recovery and reform.

However much one may favor multiethnic nation states, once such a construction has failed, it is imperative to listen to popular sentiment. Viable units will emerge that are less than ideal but at least capable of creating legitimate government meaning a government that is both effective and acceptable.

However much one may favor multiethnic nation states, once such a construction has failed, it is imperative to listen to popular sentiment.

We celebrate them as individuals who demonstrate how far we can travel in life, how beautiful human beings can actually be.

Just how successful Lukashenko s move towards political diversification turns out to be, will be seen by how often, in the near future, Minsk has the occasion to host meetings in the EU CU format.

Women also tend to be more sympathetic to efforts to reduce income inequality, although African American men are just as compassionate on these issues as African American women.

Certainly, we are all beginning to realize how precarious that process is how easily market mechanisms can be rolled back by cultural resentments stemming from economic exploitation, political oppression, and social injustice.

They are increasingly convinced that victory will be elusive in any asymmetric conflict between states, however powerful, and religiously driven armed insurgents.

If you haven't seen it, it's worth reading. He's a pianist himself, and he details his whole career of looking at and observing incredibly powerful effects that music has had on peoples' lives in unusual situations.

Japan s leaders must recognize that the mindlessness with which they still treat the sensitivities of societies that suffered from Japanese imperialism in the twentieth century is as morally deaf as it is strategically damaging.

Such an approach should seek to protect economies from the destabilizing impacts of politically motivated policy changes, without impeding governments ability to correct dangerous imbalances. Officials must be at least as vigilant about reducing expenditure and withdrawing stimulus measures during periods of growth as they are inclined to introduce such policies during downturns.

Officials must be at least as vigilant about reducing expenditure and withdrawing stimulus measures during periods of growth as they are inclined to introduce such policies during downturns.

Felling trees must be punished as severely as possible, but if peasants let their cattle stray he must not extract fines from them and though it grieved the watchmen and weakened discipline, the strayed cattle must not be detained.

God does not wrong any one, not even the equal of an atom and if men do good He multiplies it by two, and adds a great reward of His own.

So, it turns out we actually had this idea nine years ago, and that's about the time constant for how long it takes to do these kinds of things, so I think we made a lot of progress.

President George W. Bush s declaration of mission accomplished in Iraq five years ago was as hubristic as his current assessment that the surge has delivered a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror is a fantasy.

Indeed, a fundamental lesson of terrorist attacks and insurgencies, we now know, is that no nation, however self sufficient, can afford to remain heedless of whether others sink or swim.