Opposition parties have become negligible.

Rebuilding the country cannot be done cheaply.

Such fears are by no means confined to Europe s small countries.

Social Democrats are distinctly minority parties in most European countries.

Noting that the large majority of the remaining Non Self Governing Territories are small island Territories,

Candidates toured selected regions of the country, meeting with small groups of voters.

It is possible for diffusion of small admixtures and for small gradients.

How small can neurons get? Well, look at this interesting insect.

Controversy over the Pact has set off a nasty dispute between small and big countries in the euro zone.

This is because they often see themselves having more in common with the big countries than the other small ones.

Time spent with you is like chasing and catching small birds, but without the scratches and bird shit.

Another way of estimating the age of the cluster is by looking at the lowest mass objects.

This re balancing between the large and small member states is shifting some old assumptions in a number of paradoxical ways.

Others are more mundane, involving long term experiments and observation of smaller ecosystems, such as plots of prairie grass or swamplands.

But I consider it my constitutional duty to continue in my own little way the struggle of Basavanna and Dr. Ambedkar towards establishing an egalitarian society.

Russia needs to be an already defeated country like Egypt of Libya or Somalia, so it can be exploited with little effort.

But the debate is now being distorted by a secondary struggle between the EU's large and small countries, with results that are sometimes paradoxical.

The other countries that have embraced a flat tax are small or micro states Jamaica, Tuvalu, Grenada, Mauritius, Timor Leste, Belize, and Seychelles. The only (partial) exception to this rule is Paraguay, which adopted a flat tax in 2010.

The German way of diplomacy consisted of avoiding hard choices between Paris and Washington, Moscow and Warsaw, the EU and NATO, big neighbors and small ones.

The other countries that have embraced a flat tax are small or micro states Jamaica, Tuvalu, Grenada, Mauritius, Timor Leste, Belize, and Seychelles.

Within that chain Balkan terrorism remains a small but vital link, one which has continued to flourish right under the eyes of NATO and the UN.

Will China be wise enough to seek reconciliation and partnerships with its neighbors, large and small, rather than aiming for regional domination?

China s 3 billion investment in Blackstone, while insignificant relative to China s 1.3 trillion of reserve assets a sum headed for 1.5 trillion by the end of this year and likely to hit 2 trillion sometime in 2009 is but a toe dipped in the water, a test run.

When measured against the size of its national economy, most German banks remain too small, trailing their international rivals in terms of both market capitalization and total assets.

The elements that make up the ceiling grid and the lighting, they're all losing their modular quality, and moving more and more to these infinitesimal dimensions.

At the start of the process, China will have small and indirect ownership stakes in a great many US enterprises, and the odds are that the usual objections will be absent.

My own work showed that borderline mutations, those with very small positive or negative effects, could be very important in driving evolutionary changes.

Singapore may be efficient, and relatively free of corruption but it is also a rather sterile place, with little room for intellectual or artistic achievement.

Russia's traditional army cannot fight terrorists effectively because it disdains the ability of soldiers to work in small groups, and does not encourage individual initiative on the part of officers.

A law promoting small enterprises (so long as they remain small!) only increases the bias against large scale operations embedded in Argentina's high tax rates and strict labor market regulations.

But, because indirect taxes are more easily avoided by operating many small units instead of one large unit, economies of scale cannot be realized.

The Egyptian high command was convinced that Sharon s crossing was only an overnight raid by light forces.

The 1958 Act officially allowed the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to license private Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs) to help the financing and management of the small entrepreneurial businesses in the United States.

Big states comfortably co exist with small states in the US because America has a bicameral system in which the House of Representatives is based on population, but each state elects two members of the Senate.

Many started thinking about the current situation the history of the relations of the state with small indigenous peoples, the real price paid for oil, the distribution of the revenues, and the stability of the national economy.

But they also agreed to keep these changes to a minimum a small increase in the scope for majority voting some change in the relative voting weights of large and small countries and some reform of the Commission.

In the first month of the war on terrorism, some Islamic political parties were drawn into anti American protests and even Vice President Hamzah Haz (chairman of one of Indonesia's strongest Islamic parties) was tempted to ride this tiger for a time. During Megawati's trip to America to support President Bush's policy, indeed, the government in Jakarta was almost incapacitated by these small, noisy and radical Islamic groups.

During Megawati's trip to America to support President Bush's policy, indeed, the government in Jakarta was almost incapacitated by these small, noisy and radical Islamic groups.

In 2002, China and ASEAN agreed on a legally non binding code of conduct for managing such disputes, but, as a large power, China believes that it will gain more in bilateral rather than multilateral negotiations with small countries.

MOSCOW During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and, in a milder way, the United States imposed external limits on the activities of states and societies, causing longstanding conflicts among smaller countries to be frozen.

Another well defined low pressure system about midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles also has a 60 percent chance of tropical cyclone formation in the next two days, the Miami based weather forecaster added.

For me, however, legalization of Solidarity was fundamental I firmly believed that the sphere of freedom that we could wrest from the government would be real only if it was protected not by small groups, but by a powerful social movement.

Dombrowski and Möller uploaded the videos to YouTube so that others could use them as well as to show that it's easy, even with just a little effort, to support refugees and welcome them to Germany.

In 1897, Brazil as a republic was just nine years old, and the previous capital of Minas Gerais state, Ouro Preto, was not only highly associated with mining and the monarchy but it also held little hope for viable growth.

The devil, of course, is in the details and big banks will do what they can to ensure that whatever charges are imposed are sufficiently small that they do not outweigh the advantages gained from being underwritten by taxpayers.