MAD simply won t work for a mad man who is guided by quasi messianic certitude.

The Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq have already established a quasi independent state along the border with Turkey.

The first institutional reform takes the form of a larger envelope of official resources, which would mean a quasi fiscal union.

In practice, however, the relationship between currency and finance is vague, with both assuming quasi fiscal functions.

They want it to look like some sort of a quasi security agency, but in essence it is very much a Russian TV series.

It is equally unlikely for the foreseeable future that any one club of countries, such as the G 7 or G 8, will again assume a quasi hegemonic position.

Just as the global strategic realignment that has marked the war against terrorism led to quasi membership for Russia in NATO, the attraction is mutual. The EU's Common Strategy on Russia referred in 1999 to the future establishment of an EU RF free trade area .

Just as the global strategic realignment that has marked the war against terrorism led to quasi membership for Russia in NATO, the attraction is mutual.

By insisting that the choice is between new terms for the Greek bailout or a Doomsday scenario, Syriza could be creating the possibility for a quasi Keynesian resolution of the European crisis.

We need their help to implement norms, principles, rules, and decision making procedures, thereby mitigating the endemic free rider problems in quasi anarchical international society.

Support for Jean Marie Le Pen s quasi fascist National Front fell from 18 in 2002 to 10 this time around, representing an important gain in democratic stabilization.

The third liberal route to peace institutionalizing international relations aims to regularize the behavior of states through a system of norms and rules, thereby creating order (and peace) out of quasi anarchy.

Well, well, well.

Part of Hariri s legacy was the award of quasi monopolistic licences to cronies for mobile telephones, for example and the sale of government debt at highly profitable rates to local banks in which had a direct interest.

Well I never!

Gee whiz!

I never did!

The West released about 7 billion of frozen Iranian funds and relaxed some sanctions (in particular, on crude oil and auto parts), while Iran agreed to a quasi freeze of its nuclear program.

Well, well, well, what have we here?

Hold it like this. Like that? No, like this.

That s what it is, isn t it? Of course it is, of course it is.

Despite more than 700 Pakistani combat deaths, many in Musharraf s army wish to retain the Taliban as quasi allies who when the Americans leave Afghanistan someday will give Pakistan the strategic depth it needs against India.

His next play The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935), written in collaboration with Isherwood, was similarly a quasi Marxist updating of Gilbert and Sullivan in which the general idea of social transformation was more prominent than any specific political action or structure.

'That's what it is, my friend!

It's taking something that's obvious .. that's obvious.

Why are you so pessimistic?

He is so sensible, so kind, and so good, and so amiable too.

'Yes!

Yes.

So what went wrong?

It was the climax of the story, the Year of the Fall, a turning point in history cliché transmuted into Truth.

So I lay, and so he stood.

It seemed so coarse and unwomanly.

Then why is she so pleased?

That's the way the world is made and the way man is made.

I'll do it anyway.

It works both ways.

So, you do admit that you've lied, right?

That's not so! It certainly is so.

So many languages, so little time...

You are so deeply hurt, so upset, that you see many things in the wrong light.'

So everything is fine and dandy, right?

But it could not be helped, it was necessary and had to be done.

Do you really think so? I know so.

There is so much to do and so little time.