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As the next article will explain, this policy has had a transformational effect on China's relations in much of Asia, mostly for the better.

If I can get him to carry me to a new pond and put me in it, so much the better.

The more you know about Internet research, the faster you will find what you are looking for, and the better your information will do.

Nothing wrong with any of that BUT your Stars do suggest right now that the more you can stand on your own two feet, the better.

For people with workaholic tendencies, work is often synonymous with worth, so the more they work, the better they feel.

Kael'thas' own lust for power got the better of him, though, and he allied with our enemies.

Thank God, these precious sheepskin volumes referred to my hands, my life from a turn for the better.

But evidently his hawkish instincts, for the moment, have got the better of him.

If it uses the money to acquire a major rival like Tudou, which is reportedly up for sale ( previous post), then so much the better.

I accepted his challenge but, as it turned out, I had the better of him.

If he doesn't understand English, it is all the better for you.

New trainers mistakenly think the more drive the better. In fact this is often not the case.

Sure, they didn't work (most of them) but they also appreciated that being a mum was one of the better things in life.

Tom used to think that the more time he spent in studing , the better grades he will get, but now he knows that it is not as he thought.

He said that service is about making an impact on other people, about trying to help them and change them for the better.

So is all change for the better, like birth and death which convulse the body.

He sat down in a rocking-chair to think the better, drawing up one leg on his knee and frowning mightily. His mind ran on at a great rate.

She said she had witnessed "great change" since her last address to the UN in 1957, "much of it for the better" .

In a city whose skyline evinces the belief "the taller the better, " the building is bound to be a major tourist destination and landmark.

The smaller the better, because habit change is difficult, and trying to take on too much is a recipe for disaster.

there was something of the moral enquiry about Oxford tutorials, the better to discover idealism and patriotism.

With his poll ratings hovering at 30 percent for the better part of a year, no one wants to follow Bush anywhere.

For the better, I might add. I'll answer one more question, then I got to go have lunch with your president.

It was the last expression of the despondency of a broken spirit. He lacked energy to grasp the better fortune that seemed within his reach.

Growth rate method had been used for finding the better antifungal component. And the better one would be continued separating.

The less said the better about the team's cheap-shot fouls, blown defensive assignments and inexplicable lack of energy.

Loans more, the better, pays as small as possible, of course, all this should be in control of your debt capacity .

If you did all that and come from a broken home in Nevada, so much the better.

There is something very special about this particular trip, and you seem to be changed for the better by what happens on this journey.

So the better they feel when they walk out of his salon, the happier they'll be to go back for a frequent blowout.

Some of the better basketball players seem to have lost their usual skills. This made me even more nervous.

So much the better. I hope they will not meet at all. But does not Jane correspond with the sister? She will not be able to help calling.

You have to be able to read to use a computer and, better you read, the better your computer skills will be. reading is never out of date!

The man didn't care the direction might be wrong; the better his conditions were, the further he was far away from his destination .

If you can travel a few days after January 1, so much the better, but if you can't, just know you may have to endure a few delays.

So if I can exercise a bit during those interminable hours in the office, so much the better.

The better option, she says, is to encourage women to think of stereotypically female characteristics as a strength, not a weakness.

He'd been crouching down, the better to shine light on to the body, but he rose to his feet again.

The more often that the data requested by applications is in memory rather than out on DASD, the better overall performance will be.

"Yes, " He said, "The higher, the better. "

If per track (the better way), discuss how many recalls and how much time should reasonably be spent for this price.

Whatever happens, it has to be your choice. Take your time over it if you can, and if you can work through it with him, all the better.

A minute ago I received a phone call from Shanghai, and they let me prepare for a moment back to the office the sooner the better.

Last summer, Hershey came out with a stand-up laminated bag of unwrapped Hershey's Kisses, the better to use for baking.

He pulled me aside and sat me down in his office where he told me stories and jokes for the better part of half an hour.

You should try to follow the rule of "the more, the faster, the better" when trying to lower cholesterol.

But, in the last home game of the season against Tottenham you saw that we were short of a little bit of class against the better teams.

He's really a lay-down dirty shame. He would even say that he likes other guys to get the better of his own wife.

I spent the better part of a year investigating Iranian blogs and relevant literature on them.

That deal exposed the kind of faulty logic that allows a money-losing internet firm to get the better of a profitable media giant.

The animal would have been a primitive sauropod -- a long-necked, four-legged grazer similar to the better known brachiosaurus.

The jury had been sequestered for the better part of a year and was showing signs of strain and exhaustion.

It might be more accurate to say that this team is the better one.

As a means of evaluating the better business opportunities it's no better than reading tea leaves.

He kept going back until the water got the better of him and he went under.

As for the White House's wish to be "well perceived in the world" , the less said the better.

The term is usually reserved for those cases in which the hybrids outperform the better of the two parents.

Spain's first-round finale with Chile may appear on the surface to be the better match.

Though Rebecca had had the better of him, George was above the meanness of tale-bearing or revenge upon a lady.

it was one of the better nights of my life.

Workplace co-operation between management and unions is at the heart of the Better Factories Cambodia training programs.

After sleeping around for the better part of my 20s, it somehow occurred to me that I wasn't giving everyone a fair shot.

But in the end ambition was the better master, and he agreed to go with me one evening to Victor's elegant flat in St. James's Place.

But Friedman's ingrained belief in the power of reason and persuasion always got the better of any such theoretical misgivings.

But not too long; the longer he took, the greater the tension and expectation, and the better his answer had to be.

"The economy and the world just got the better of him, " Rebecca Duke said in a rambling press conference.

The difference, or carry, would be the main source of return; if the bonds rose in price as well, so much the better.

It would be best if you could find something that you both like to do together, and the more physically active the better.

He conducted without a score and with his eyes closed, the better to visualize the perfect sound he held in his mind.

I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.

Maybe, as a former Goldman Sachs chief executive, he did let his prejudice against Fuld get the better of him.

If it turns out to be an occasion for celebration, so much the better.

He was an old fellow who had devoted the better part of a long life to the perfection of a mechanical subterranean prospector.

In those days it was popularly believed that you could attain Enlightment by means of self-mortification--the more extreme the better.

Of course, the more you know about how the clients interact with the server, the better.

For the better promotion its containerized traffic's development, Ningbo Port must carry on the long-term plan to its future development.

I also like the feel of print books and the way their covers look. Well, at least the way the better-designed covers look!

I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and hope you keep your heads up high and see how much your lives will change for the better.

Tucker has never been a bridesmaid, she said, "but I hope to be one day. It seems the better role. "

The better she got to know China, she said, the less she expected to be able to get to the bottom of anything.

Our estimate was that it would not occur for the better part of a year.

Letting some of the better managed local governments issue bonds directly has long been a subject of debate.

Miss Su was up to mischief, no doubt. And if she didn't come, so much the better as that would leave just Miss T'ang and himself.

Food, at least for the better-off, has long been far more than a means of keeping body and soul together.

So you can be sure that you will experience what we have promised you, and you could say that it will be all the better for having waited.

Well, you thought you had got the better of me that day in Casterbridge.

But in a border tiff that has escalated into a public relations war, it seems to be getting the better of its neighbor Nicaragua.

For a while Ivan believed things might be changing for the better at home.

"In the long term, politicians are not good at understanding financial reporting, and the more they keep out of it, the better, " says Ball.

I am happy to say that the patient has taken a turn for the better, last evening it was touch and go whether he would survive the night.

So you can be sure that you will experience what we have promised you, and you could say that it will be all the better for having waited.

Well, you thought you had got the better of me that day in Casterbridge.

But in a border tiff that has escalated into a public relations war, it seems to be getting the better of its neighbor Nicaragua.

For a while Ivan believed things might be changing for the better at home.

"In the long term, politicians are not good at understanding financial reporting, and the more they keep out of it, the better, " says Ball.

I am happy to say that the patient has taken a turn for the better, last evening it was touch and go whether he would survive the night.

This keeps you up to date, so when things change suddenly, and for the better, you know how to respond.

Sometimes, God does not give you what you want, it is not because you do not deserve it but for the better.

"Obviously the quicker we adapt and improve as a team the better it will be for everyone, " Said the Spain international.

The question of how many rocky worlds exist in the galaxy has perplexed astronomers for the better part of a century.

"Obviously the quicker we adapt and improve as a team the better it will be for everyone, " Said the Spain international.

The question of how many rocky worlds exist in the galaxy has perplexed astronomers for the better part of a century.

And, the more times the ball goes through a given player to finish in a shot, the better that player performed.

The tight integration between them is all part of the design: The more Apple products I use, the better my experience becomes.

Sometimes the parents need to give the child certain independency, like this can the better exercise child's independence.

Referring to a document by its name is usually the better choice if you want to work with a specific document.

Obviously Mark is 38 now and is not going to go on for ever so the more time I can be around the national team the better.

My emotions got the better of me for a moment. 500 coins is what you will receive for bringing me the book.

" He said he served as Senate speaker, but the work does not end, determined to " make people's lives for the better and hard work.

Yes, they scored from a Rory Delap throw, but they also added a fine second and played the better stuff throughout at the Britannia.

" He said he served as Senate speaker, but the work does not end, determined to " make people's lives for the better and hard work.

Yes, they scored from a Rory Delap throw, but they also added a fine second and played the better stuff throughout at the Britannia.

Soon after, the couple began to fall into a second love, silently relive the past with all the better.

I'm going to sell it online and if I can make a few quid out of it then all the better.

Machulis convinced Adafruit to purchase the device and publish the results online, but that process took the better part of a week.

The sooner the better as we have so much to get started, and we know how much you desire our presence amongst you.

So, you know, interfering in nature, no, not really. And trying to promote the better life of animals in captivity? Yes.

But the better managers nonetheless get hired by the bigger firms, just as the best entertainers sing to the largest audience.

He thought the better of her in that she had a lot of imagination.

Although painful, patience is the better choice: in time, the employment numbers should go his way; not so the deficit.

How much shall I cook? The more, the better.

And if the hairdresser is gay, so much the better, since the attention is much less likely to be taken as an untoward advance.

The higher each of these factors rate with you, plus the combination of them all, the better your potential for return.

At the end of the tennis game with Jim, although the score was even, I had to give him best as he was clearly the better player.

The biggest grosser of 2008, "The Dark Knight, " was one of the better Batman adventures, but it didn't make the cut.

The more you know about how your body works, the better you can work with it.

When I first met Van Ness, he was quite lost spiritually, but through prayer and seeking God he made a dramatic turn for the better.

And if it makes people and employers think a bit harder about organizing a better work-life balance, so much the better.

Despite all that, she is convinced things will change for the better and that women's football in Argentina is on the right path.

The more you live, the better you become as an actor as you've experienced more, even though you create with your imagination.

The best way to judge if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its color. Usually, the brighter the color, the better the taste.

Remember the slower the enemy the better off you are. So set your sights on the next fastest ship and repeat.

The fury got the better of her, and she took it all out on her children.

He did not change for the better over those years of discipleship under the greatest teacher and trainer, Jesus. Sad!

"Going into the series, I thought they were the better team, but I thought we had a chance to do something special, " Nash said.

You can't get the better of him in an argument. He's a lawyer.

But in this case, his anger and his defensiveness got the better of him.

The less one needs to ask of that broken institution, the better.

Eddie felt a lump in his throat, but curiosity got the better of him.

Jamie opened his mouth to protest, but thought the better of it. "Sure, " he said.

"Some people may have an irrational hope that the higher the growth, the better, " he said at a Saturday news conference.

For a given total amount of pain, raising money is the better choice, because new technology is usually more valuable now than later.

i think so, I personally think the better way for resolving the matter is to negotiate friendly by both parties.

The better question might be why do they get married in the first place, and then end up in divorce?

If I were forced to judge between them, I would say Frank is the better speaker.

"Political decisions are required. . . the sooner the better, " he said in a speech in Geneva a day after UBS unveiled its new strategy.

I've got more than enough to do. So the sooner we can get out of that business, the better off we're going to be.

Some managers use the same approach when asking employees to do things, thinking that the less said the better.

You want to bounce back quickly. Get out of that rut. The quicker the better.

For the better part of the past two decades, Americans have been living in a state of willful optimism about our financial future.

All hearts should be so soft, he would have said, the better to plant green seeds in.

He urged Vader not to press on in a fight he could not win, but the Sith Lord's arrogance got the better of him.

Sometimes , god did not give you what you want, not because you don't deserve it, but you deserve the better one.

I will let my college see my spirit on persistence and trying to hold on, which can provide impetus to the better development direction.

Originally, Tungse's relatives and his mother had thought the younger brother the better of the two sons because he brought them presents.

In any case the better than expected performance of the UK economy in Q2 has relieved some of the pressure for the Bank to act again soon.

The better I got to know her, the shallower I realized she was.

The sooner Mexico turns its new-found sense of urgency into a more effective national policing and law-enforcement strategy the better.

However, the more mature a project and its code base, the better the documentation tends to be.

And for the worse -- not for the better, but for the worse. It had a huge impact on life.

I need a week's vacation so that I can take my mind of my troubles. B: Yeah, maybe things will changes for the better.

The round-trip pattern can be used as an aide when one of the better methods cannot be used.

If the manager had to choose between the two, he would say John was the better choice.

However, we must take into account the transitory and partial character of this change for the better on the enemy's side.

The more you know, the better you'll be able to make pleasant chitchat and avoid conversational minefields.

Liquid liquid extraction method was used for the selection of the better antifungal inhibition solvent.

Because of the better spur control than DDS, the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) frequency synthesis is usually used in frequency agile synthesis.

In the wet weather people held off but since the better weather arrived there has been a lot more people coming in.

The better I got to know her, the more shallow I realized she was.

The violin's body is a sound box made from wood, the thinner the better: spruce for the front, maple for the back, the neck and the ribs.

Defines the size of the ring buffer : the bigger the better , up to a point .

the less said the better. an utter shambles and a complete joke this team is becoming. i bet teams cant wait to play us now.

our lifetime and that an era of a price to pay a little more, the better for future generations to enjoy the socialist happiness.

The larger the inclination angle was, the better the long-range dependence of liquid slug length fluctuation was.

Apologizing is a lot like learning a foreign language. The more you practice it in real-life situations, the better you become at it.

Its advantages and disadvantages, and pointed out that in Chinese as a second language, English is not the sooner, the better.

That being said, having the better of the argument is not the only thing that matters in politics.

If Congress had the wit to alter the rate counter-cyclically, so much the better, but let us not make wild assumptions.

Of course, if the chest before going to bed in the massage, the better.

She was in and out of hospitals for the better part of six years.

proud that in a cause of compassion and honour , he had been able to get the better of himself.

And so, interestingly, change has almost always for the better, for the people as a whole, if not always been for individuals.

All this is beginning to change for the better, despite fierce opposition from teachers unions to virtually every important reform.

To be sure, the better-educated might then move. But they, and Britain as a whole, would be much better off.

If you snorkel around the island you do need to venture out past the reef into the colder water to see the better wildlife.

Oh, much better. The weather seems to have taken a turn for the better.

I am very worried about you, but I wish someone would have been introduced with you, so also learn or the better.

It may be that tax hikes, particularly for the better off, are politically necessary to ensure popular acceptance that pain is being shared.

The longer Israel was in the desert, the better Egypt looked: good food, at no cost! In the desert they had nothing but tasteless manna!

We've always been competitive, and he has always tried to get the better of me no matter what we did.

and was considered one the better, if not the best, back end dog of his time.

His curiosity got the better of him.

KR: I think so, if you look at past years the clean side of the circuit seems to be the better place to start.

The Toyota driver had a look at turn nine on a couple of occasions but Webber had the better grip and eventually pulled clear.

Both performances are marvelous, the better one is just a matter of personal preference.

For the better part of this article, we assume familiarity with the basic concepts of the XML stage and an understanding of XML schema.

The Krayt's Honor has the distinction of being one of the better known Gozanti cruisers in service due to its unusual alliances and enemies.

A: The sooner, the better, Sandy. I don't think he'll sign anything till he's got that in his hands.

I had learned a little English the better to pursue my scientific researches, and this knowledge was now to stand me in good stead.

"I'm back to normal, and the more I work out over time, the better and better I get, " he said.

Still, with a total of 12 medals so far, the athletes look like the better punt.

but I still have a sense of identity, what is moral, legal binding to a normal existence, the better the survival needs of this?

The better than expected performance echoed that of the US economy, which shrank only 0. 3 per cent in the second quarter.

In addition, on New Year's day, families are lit a fire, day and night to constantly in a year all the better prosperity.

The edict added that the felons in German jails "shall be emptied out" and sent to England "for the better peopling of that country. "

Surely, the bank's policymaking board would have been the better arbiter.

He made me SEE . . . and it has changed my life for the better! !

The site is not urgent, so an urgent delivery date is not needed. The lower the price the better, even if it takes longer.

Some people seem to think it is for practicing grammar rules and learning lists of words ---- the longer the words the better.

On my return, I scour Gaza for evidence that anything has changed for the better in the months since the war ended.

Once you decide to let go of your ego, it's a very simple thing to do. And it will truly change your world for the better.

The better your relationship with your customers, the more money they'll spend and that's more profit for you.

So well done, Beijing. You've put on an amazing spectacle and I think you've helped change your country's story for the better.

The better news was that their findings showed that, worldwide, breasts are getting bigger and bigger.

Where food is concerned, the more from scratch it is, the better and cheaper it tends to be.

I have great respect for Roy (Hodgson) so I would never say that things have changed for the better and all that type of stuff.

And not even the most rabid neocons expected that "mission accomplished" would take the better part of a decade to be realized in Iraq.

For men, the better marital prospects that come with a college education are longstanding, but for women, this hasn't always been the case.

The divergence camp seems to have the better arguments.

Rookie year is a learning process and the more time you get on the court, the better you will be for it in the long run.

As long as the task involved only mechanical skill bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance.

If this week has served as a reminder of that, so much the better.

You are the better half of me that makes me whole.

From this point of view, the larger the set of considered models the better.

alone in my bedroom , sitting at my desk , i sometimes spent the better part of an afternoon on a single maze.

The sale suggests investors expect weak economic growth and below average inflation for the better part of the next decade.

If Mao could identify himself and his party with the new upsurge of patriotic feeling created by the Japanese war, so much the better.

To his depress, he never get the better of their quarrels.

Reddit, one of the better-known sites to go down due to the error, said it has 700 EBS volumes with Amazon.

Even if the private-state divide can only be narrowed, the country would be changed greatly for the better.

Integration of symmetry, said the smaller the better fusion performance.

If it has a kitchen with room for the better, as our own cooking to save money.

The sooner users start, the better, as some research shows that exercises have positive effects on the young, but not always for the old.

It blows her fantasy, but i guess chocolate is always the better flavour and boy does she KNOW IT.

But, as holiday music goes, which one of these divine voices will come up with the better Christmas record?

"So much the better for him, --he will suffer less, " said the inspector.

In light of such studies, it is only logical to wait. And we are led to believe that the longer you wait, the better.

The U. S. government places an extra emphasis on the better qualities of its people and achieving a more civilized image in the world.

Taiwan's property markets have underperformed the rest of the region for the better part of a decade.

They are extremely smart animals and will try to get the better of you if they don't want you to do it.

Patience is still likely to be the better bet, unless the regime collapses from within.

In many cases, the more competition the better. The fear of competition is all in your head.

They've taken a Leninist approach, you know, of the worse is the better.

The more the better: stop the kind of sports, like at the World Weightlifting Championships as the super-strength training.

Sure, it's good for your project and your career, but the more you know, the better your chances of solving a related problem.

If these books can re-establish the novel as a thrilling experience for some people, then this can only be for the better.

Which is the better deal for you depends on how you value shelving and the cost of leaving your desk to look up a word.

If you haven't yet used Xmarks, you're missing out on one of the better bookmarking services available on the net today.

But ane-card-with music, animation and a unique message--- is certainly one of the better bets.

The mallards seemed like the colder it was the better in the pond.