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Do not know whether it into the semi-finals at best come, first I would like to thank Bo faithful encouraged me.

The current diplomatic gridlock means that the Copenhagen summit is likely to produce a skeleton agreement at best.

To be able to live, a woman has to agree to serve, honor, and obey a man and what she gets in exchange is at best a shadow life.

Once upon a time, the outcomes of European Union summits were, at best, of purely local interest.

With a data format as rich and capable of Atom, serializing to a format as simple and basic as JSON can be problematic at best.

Poor Lydia's situation must, at best, be bad enough; but that it was no worse, she had need to be thankful.

Crown had been seen as an underdog at best but had been encouraged by Ford if it could find the necessary funding, the paper added.

Each dealer seems to have his own opaque pricing scheme, consumers have to endure endless haggling and the financing is murky at best.

And a piece of steak was such a little thing, a few pennies at best; yet it meant thirty quid to him.

At best, EU bureaucrats can be naive about how much integration ordinary voters will bear.

New Zealand is at best a second or third choice among South Asians seeking a new home, he said.

A computer, in contrast, "could at best be programmed to try out a series of hypotheses to see which best fit the fixed data. "

It is not easy to deal with a country whose leader is, at best, only sane on alternate days.

But most seem to think the senator is inept at best and a liar at worst.

Don't expect much of him; he is at best a student.

At best, we're trying to find clarity about a place that, in the best of times, can only be described as opaque.

The personal training industry as a whole was still in its infancy at this point, so this idea seemed ridiculously far-fetched, at best.

There has been no third world war, but how much credit the UN can take for this is, at best, debatable.

Yet that alone is not enough for transparency. Cartilage has no melanins or blood supply and is colorless, but it is at best translucent.

If you think of a programming problem as terrain that you have to traverse, a design pattern is at best a partial map.

A majority of the scientists believe that news coverage is at best fair and that the media does poorly at educating the general public.

Did not insiders certainly think I was that students, at best, be regarded as a Shimei.

In today's English, the word "Oriental" , when used to refer to a person, sounds old-fashioned at best and derogatory at worst.

The extended romp of 2006 to 2007 was an anomaly; historically, festivities have lasted two or three quarters at best.

But, at best, it is only the beginning of a liberation of minds and people.

Another option would be for emerging markets themselves to pool reserves. The politics of that would be messy at best.

At best, agency and information problems in financial markets make it hard for ants or grasshoppers to understand what is going on.

Such a single point figure permits at best a detection range estimate for a known radar operating at the specified wavelength and aspect.

The sound that squawked out of the little speaker that you attached to your car window was tinny at best.

Gaming tends to be regarded as a harmless diversion at best, a vile corruptor of youth at worst.

On the contrary , it will have to deal with its debt in the face of an economy that's stagnant at best .

For most consumers it's printers and sort of crappy, cheap computers that you get at Best Buy.

Remember that delivery is like a mini-marathon and if you are out of shape, it may be a difficult run, at best.

At the moment, this route through the Canadian archipelago is navigable at best for a brief summer spell.

At best, this system provides up to about 10 seconds of warning in affected regions, and of course works best farther from the epicenter.

Bergen makes it clear that she was at best misleading about the actions of the administration.

The chances are high of a Spanish asset price slide and banking crisis, with stagnation (at best) or depression, if it sticks in the euro.

But in a world where the US Treasury secretary also used to run Goldman Sachs, such links seem a tad embarrassing at best.

At best they try to induce fear and lower the vibrations, but all that does it provide a temporary respite.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

At the time he was little known in the United States, at best considered one of the many volatile leaders in the Arab world.

Jawa leadership is usually conferred upon males -- females are viewed upon as second-class citizens at best, property at worst.

Songwriter William Gilbert, in the musical "Princess Ida" , wrote: " Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. "

At best, it looks like an innocuous kind of billing and cooing Soviet teenagers would practice on their first date in the early 1970s.

This is all sensational news, for without these planets' assistance, life can be dull and predictable at best.

At best, the eurozone has bought a bit of time for adjustment.

She said there have also been studies into whether men respond better to opioid medications, but the findings are "ambiguous" at best.

Dispassionate half-measures don't work. At best they'll entertain you for a short while. But you'll quit eventually out of disinterest.

Measured against the lofty expectations of two years ago, Mr Obama's record is at best mixed.

The impact on the environment of pressing ahead (and on energy security, for that matter) would be marginal at best.

Then I may reckon upon tender treatment from my LORD. Indeed, I feel myself to be at best as weak, as pliant, as worthless as a reed.

But just as financial innovation bears only part of the blame, so regulatory reforms will, at best, yield only part of the solution.

"Thursday morning is going to be tricky at best, " said Jack Boston, a senior meteorologist at Accuweather. com.

Sheldon: You're far too short to be Darth Vader. At best you might be a turncoat Ewok.

Sen. Obama was at best disingenuous in his convention speech when he criticized the McCain plan for taxing health benefits.

Obviously, cultural studies are bound to devise a cross-cultural discourse of which comparison is at best a most elementary paradigm.

His "essay" was a few scribbled sentence, and his listing of awards and accomplishments was incomplete, at best.

Over the years, this argument keeps coming up every once in a while, and every time it does, I find it short-sided at best.

The steps he took provided at best a temporary solution to the problem.

The key to an EGR system is introduced, and the control of exhaust gas quantity recirculation quantity of that in every point at best.

Military government is at best but transient, the allegiance due to it is correspondingly temporary.

At best, a test can monitor only a few changes as they apply to specific systems under specific conditions.

She lives in a small wooden hut on an unpaved road, with no air-conditioning and electricity for only three hours a day at best.

After all, the public-health systems in much of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America are rudimentary at best.

But his manifesto reads like a recipe for five years of wasted opportunities, at best.

Modernisation is at best a cover-up for preserving the status quo, and at worst a way of siphoning off more public money.

In terms of biodiversity, though, and often of carbon storage as well, they are at best inferior replacements.

If philosophy can be, at best, only what Hegel called 'its time held in thought', still, that might be enough.

Her racial attitudes were uncharitable at best, and they showed up in her work.

Most countries ban ministerial peeking, giving them at best a couple of hours' notice for a few important statistics.

He said at best she would remain in a vegetative state on life support.

At best, this might indicate that you are reconnecting with your partner and at worst, that someone takes advantage of you.

The book's account of how countries made seemingly counterproductive policy choices is simplistic at best.

Their English is, at best, serviceable, and they struggle to carry on a basic conversation with a reporter.

Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditions of life --- a simplistic notion at best.

Worst of all, he was hungry and weary, and at best a whole day must intervene, for he had not heart to try again to-night.

She remains a shadowy figure at best, known mostly for her family connections and her beauty.

I would be rotten, or at best mediocre, at my job if those other things were not true.

Even if there aren't future drivers with you, paying attention to what's going on around you can save lives at best, headaches at worst.

He has often spoken of what Best meant to him growing up in Belfast and would later give a eulogy at Best's funeral.

Most women in offices find the doggy infatuation of male colleagues whom they do not desire irritating at best, and repulsive at worst.

It is a difficult task at best when one department has thousands of people to terminate within a few days, not months.

Most commentators, writers and journalists will comply in print; at best they might subtly hint that there may be a political agenda.

The point is that imitation plays at best a very minor role in the child's mastery of language.

At best, she's a lawyer who presents her case, exhibit by exhibit. One piece of evidence at a time.

But to talk of the rising powers forming a coherent bloc of economic power than can run the world is, at best, premature.

At best, it seems, Britain sees it as a chip to be exchanged for setting south Sudan free and making peace in Darfur.

At best, that leads to the sort of inefficiencies found at most state-owned firms: overstaffing, underinvestment and so on.

The combined effect appears to have been "stagnation or, at best, mild improvement in life expectancy, " Mr. Easterlin has written.

China may be the world's fastest-growing automotive market, but so far homegrown Chinese car design has proven unimaginative at best.

By the autumn of 1951, the CCF leadership could no longer deny that its deficiencies in materiel doomed it to a tactical stalemate at best.

Second, they are suited to a particular resolution, or at best a set of resolutions, for which the beauty of an image remains intact.

People who hold these beliefs tend to be viewed as eccentric at best, and are often ignored, shunned or discounted as incredible.

Across the Atlantic the eurozone periphery is now contracting, or barely growing at best.

Avoid trying to pick off tops and bottoms because, at best, it is a subjective and arbitrary way to time trades.

Until we move more decisively in this direction, other efforts are likely to be frustrating at best and counterproductive at worst.

Boston Habor is so polluted that scientists say it won't recover until the next century at best.

The PR team continues to trumpet the technology as the next big thing, but the demonstrations are underwhelming at best.

Paul Krugman famously said that much of recent macroeconomics had been "spectacularly useless at best, and positively harmful at worst" .

This investiture of the grotesque and impossible with reality, he looked upon as a trick - a skilful trick at best.

At best, the result may be a credit crunch that leaves businesses unable to get loans and invest.

At best, the client might do something like write a new time stamp that indicates the last time the identified customer visited.

But 2009 will, at best, be a year of painful convalescence for the banks.

Coordinating projects and development efforts with the goal of a regularly-scheduled release strategy is complicated at best.

In short, look for a post-bubble world to remain in recession throughout 2009, followed by an anaemic recovery, at best, in 2010.

But Fisher had at best a slight influence on Roosevelt's decision. His reputation had fallen so far that even fellow academics ignored him.

Japan will remain a difficult country in which to invest and change is likely to be incremental at best.

It's a Garmin brand, and the clerk at Best Buy told me it's the best brand to get because Garmin has the most satellites in the sky.

At best, however, both routes would seem likely to produce many years of very slow growth.

This organization is at best a quasi-business team, rather than the cause of the team completely.

Studies have been made of reactor powered railway engines and hovercrafts, but these applicationsare generally regarded as marginal at best.

You know, so, at best, we're like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking.

He added that the group expected the outlook for the remainder of the year to remain satisfactory at best, given the challenges above.

At best, it may lead to a cautious resumption of the former diplomatic process, but at a much less promising stage than before.

They had no knowledge of the past of mankind at all; at best they had a few shrewd guesses.

It suggests that you, the supposedly educated reader, might have read half the list at best.

Iraq's WMD failed to materialise, and the links between al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime proved to be tenuous at best.

At best, they are a sectoral re-distribution of resources from the general taxpayer to the banks.

Sales information was lacking, or at best old and incomplete, and the legacy systems were unable to support products and pricing.

Real wages rely directly on investment; without increases in productivity, wages are bound to stagnate at best.

I would be rotten, or at best mediocre6 at my job, if those other things were not true.

Relief supplies are reaching at best only one-third of those in desperate need of food, water and medical attention.

At best focus, the resolution, color and image quality are very similar between the two cameras, the authors report.

Even if you did take a look, the baby's size and positioning would make the prospect dubious at best.

The rate cut is at best a temporary palliative. It will not revive the housing market.

Not all economists share the IMF's view that spending is actually falling, but none doubts that it is at best barely growing.

Disease and disorders with no therapies or at best, partially effective ones, are the lure of the pursuit of stem cell research.

The blogs said the new price takes effect "beginning on Sept. 27 at Best Buy" and elsewhere.

Corruption is so rampant that, at best, the funds get siphoned off; at worst, they are used for terrorism.

By spending their surplus on dirty fuels and then sticking their hand out to request money for clean energy is disingenuous at best.

At best, he would send her back to the crones of the dosh kathleen, where good khaleesi were supposed to go when their khals had died.

It sounds like an infection at best. Maybe a medical instrument.

These problems can and have been circumvented by layering on top of HTTP, but most of these solutions feel awkward at best.

"Most repair shops will lose money or at best break even on a $25 to $28 oil change, " he said.

Mr Wolfowitz's crass favouritism was, at best, a case of extremely poor judgment.

In distressed debt, transaction volumes at the bottom are nil at best.

Some of these claims are at best dubious, while others are even downright illegal.

This is at best a stop-gap measure, since the reduction is for one month only, and retailers are not obligated to cut their prices.

Progress in non-proliferation efforts would at best be slow in an international environment where countries feel insecure.

If you're like most of the rest of the Web development world, validation is at best a nuisance, and at worst, a full-blown nightmare.

Many experts caution that the global economy is anemic at best, and top-performing markets have come too far, too fast.

At best, researchers believe that there may be a genetic component.

Even scaremongers agree Russia is no immediate threat. Its military reforms are proceeding slowly, at best.

However, it appears that such sterilisations are at best incomplete and that Asian money supply is consequently growing unusually fast.

Over the past two years, many of Wall Street's big ideas have been exposed as woefully ill-conceived at best, utterly fallacious at worst.

At a time when the average football fan's wages are stagnant, at best, throwing around such huge sums is audacious.

If the forest isn't permanent, your offset is at best delaying, rather than preventing, warming.

A number of medicines have reached the market in recent years, but at best they only slow the progression of the disease.

We thus see that Eq . ( 7. 44 ) can only be an approximate solution at best .

Data sets released by app developers looking to drive downloads and smaller marketing agencies, meanwhile, have been unreliable at best.

Nika is only a small role, at best, only a magic enchantment.

But at best, competing businesses will embody different theories, with the bad ones tending to be weeded out.

After all, investor sentiment is still fragile, at best, and some institutions are still operating with dangerously low capital ratios.

There is something shocking about what is about to happen and coming so close to the holidays, it seems wrong at best, or cruel at worst.

This is a least-common denominator approach, which is at best slightly less than optimal, but more often, it is far from optimal.

"At best, the bottles bounced harmlessly off the alligator's snout, " said LSU research assistant Tracy Sawyer.

and because hydrogen service stations are still few and far between , refueling would be problematic at best.

For a long time, people just looked at computer and videogames as frivolous at best, and at worst, things that have been really bad for you.

These strawberries will only stay fresh a few days at best.

The former creates a sustainable increase in economic output, the latter at best only a transitory blip.

Despite billions in investment, its Xbox line is still at best an equal contender in the game console business.

Since they are usually written in a natural language, their syntax and grammar can be difficult to check, at best.

The latest data on Friday pointed to a sluggish recovery at best with little or no help to come from embattled consumers.

Inverness has at best seven hours of daylight in December, less than a full working day, and 19 hours of light in summer.

This seemingly convenient assumption is perilous because the relationship between the locale and a currency is weak at best.

As the prime minister must have known, this answer was, at best, misleading.

But I am not a princess, at best, can only be regarded as a clown.

Even if this delicate balancing can be accomplished, Britain's medium-term economic prospects are uninspiring at best.

I still believe in film but have to acknowledge that for a newspaper photographer, it is impractical at best.

IATF assures that the certificates to be renewed by a re-audit activity will remain valid for 120 days at best.

At best they only care about their lives as individual cells, but they fail to assume responsibility for the health of the larger body.

However, talking about weight distribution between the skis outside the context of turn phases can be misleading at best.

This is a workmanlike thriller at best, and would probably have disappeared entirely if it wasn't for the presence of young AJ.

At best, direct calls from other threads are expensive, and the performance of your application will suffer.

For the rest students, college is at best a social center or aging vat.

But these Sunni tribesmen are at best fair-weather friends who do not trust and are not trusted by the government in Baghdad.

Now I keep a fortune-teller's stall on the side-walk and can scrape three or five dimes a day at best.

And currently, the answer is at best an educated guess from the doctor.

At best, S& P showed a stunning ignorance and disregard for the potential consequences on a fragile global financial system.

At best , graphics libraries can only please some of the people some of the time .

This is a recipe for a lack of objectivity at best, and a conflict of interest at worst.

At best, there was very low-quality evidence of little or no difference in pain relief between the techniques.

"We could work for the first two years without anybody expecting anything other than survival at best. "

But they are not undisputed winners either. They are finding that the Internet is, at best, a zero-sum game.

Two kittens I saw last night near my apartment. Pictures were taken with my cell phone, so the quality is mediocre at best.

At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book.

Compared with kinetic energy, internal energy is dominant and measure should be taken to avoid parts high temperature at best.

So far, and in relation to Chinese weapons, I still only see mediocre quality (at best) in great quantity.

I don't think most people around the world want the help or pity of the West. At best, they would like us to do no impair.

But all the signs point to what amounts to only anemic economic growth at best.

Bad response: "Your claims are at best pure fabrications and at worst a deliberate attempt to slander our good reputation. "

Any effort to introduce unclear guidelines would thus at best be a distraction for WIPO or at worse counterproductive .

At best, they serve as catalysts for reengineering organizational development processes and infrastructure.

But this distinction is hard to understand at best.

However, this is at best a " " gas, the accumulation of large is not ready for back to the hard cash can change it.

Unfortunately, the process of positioning controls is at best laborious and time consuming.

He could have slept but a moment more at best.

But analysts and lawmakers say the measures, at best, might bring only a temporary lull in property sales.

So here we are, with the greatest challenge facing mankind on the back burner, at best, as a policy issue.

And with the consumer still focused on paying down debt, economic growth will be slow at best.

But Monday's activity suggested that investors now believe the meeting was inconclusive at best.

Recent 'research' purporting to show that Chinese food is unhealthy is at best misleading.

Curry's numbers were modest at best but he contributed when called upon and he's part of the first USA team to win the tourney since 1994.

I wasn't very good at the sport and at best I could go snowboarding once a year.

Noting that the location of the accident was off airport premises the time response at best was marginal.

At best, isolated parts of the brain still function, mere sparks in the sub-cortex.

But most still reckon that it is at best a blunt instrument for fighting poverty.

At best, the gesture distracts from the problems Japan needs to solve; at worst, it could lead to a stand-off and an escalation.

I tried to be open-minded about the rock concert, but the music was at best loud and at worst tuneless .

Anything that comes along that appears clinically effective while remaining inexpensive is viewed skeptically , at best.

Now it's meaningless for discussing those. Human beings can change nothing but enjoy the life at best.

The idea that rigorous analysis of the right policies happened to echo the target date seems, at best, trivially condescending.

But that balance will only last for a few decades, at best.

It was at best, a very frustrating user experience.

Intense level of activity required to adhere to the low to moderate levels - at best, can only reach the maximum limit of 60%.

The result is to delay still further necessary economic measures that will, at best, take some time to work through.

Sec. 4. 7 Will probably cover at best lightly in the lectures, but I recommend that you read it and acquire familiarity with it.

At best, an IT organization can simply react tactically to risks (e. g. , catastrophic technical failures) after the fact.

After years of glacial progress at best, the Apache XML project released FOP 0. 92, an open source XSL-FO to PDF converter.

Still, she would be beautiful at the very least and magnificent at best.

From this, Carver concluded that the fastest college-level reader will read, at best, twice as fast as the slowest college-level reader.

At best a few hundred people attended the meeting.

Conventional wisdom about rape is at best distorted and slanted.

And many youths spend most of their time on the Internet playing games of sending messages, activities that involve minimal reading at best.

They now suggest that the stock market is, at best, fairly valued.

e. g. At best, it takes tolls in individual community; at worst, it may give rise to higher unemployment rate in the whole region.

We have three days, at best, before the helium leaks out of those balloons.

Some projects will simply be accelerated, and most economists reckon that, at best, half the spending relates to completely new projects.

The progress is coming in the form of clearing some debris, though that's spotty at best.

At best, this suggests Greece is heading for a crunch; at worst, the eurozone is threatened.

We would emerge at best with an agreement in principle that would haunt us for years.

Police were corrupt. The courts were unpredictable at best . . . Nobody could go into business without access to political power.

At best, Facebook is showing billions (literally) of spyware ads that trick users into installing browser-hijacking software.

The reading's arguments that the portrait is of Austen are questionable at best.

At best, you're stuck writing a speech for a wedding; at worst, you find out your friends cry during sex.

If the queue manager is ever restored from the backup, the impact to all those applications is unpredictable at best.

Instead of atom bombs on cities, says Mr Tobaccowala, segmentation is at best "dropping conventional bombs on villages" .

But therein lies the rub -- maintaining your own code throughout your career is a challenging proposition at best.

After all Google is a public company, and all its good public benefit intentions are second to those of their shareholders at best.

Call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate. --Solon, ancient Athenian statesman.

In pockets of Africa where high-yield seeds and breeds have been introduced, the results have been mixed at best.

This line of thinking, however, is misguided at best and certainly does not honor God.

At best , a lover can only echo the words of the poet Ernest Dowson, and say, "I have been faithful to thee in my fashion. "

At best, reliance on fiscal disciplines and sovereign debt restructuring is sure to generate massively pro-cyclical policy.

At best, the talks in Geneva may lower the temperature and lead to a more constructive round of dialogue.

He looked irrelevant at best; at worst, an obstacle to progress, seeking only to score political points.

Here, an atmosphere of distrust would suggest that talk of the two drawing ever closer is premature at best.

While not ruling out the use of such crops in sustainable agriculture, the report's conclusions are, at best, ambivalent.

These studies show that the claimed benefits of no-till for climate change are overstated at best and misleading at worst.

So the autocratic advantage in Asia is, at best, an optical illusion.