It's really changed our lives in ways that are sort of imperceptible and yet, when you pull back, you see it all the time.

I am not here to dwell at length on the causes of the conflict, but on its costs and consequences, since evil can originate from imperceptible man made tragedies and circumstances.

In the center of the room at New York's Fridman Gallery are multiple faces white, black and brown, each bearing an almost imperceptible resemblance to one another suspended on wires from the ceiling.

We can see world changing values in the emergence of tools to make the invisible visible that is, to make apparent the conditions of the world around us that would otherwise be largely imperceptible.

But the Kyoto rules will make an almost imperceptible difference (postponing temperature increases from 2100 to 2106) at a substantial cost (about 150 billion per year). Given scarce resources, we must ask ourselves do we want to do a lot of good now, or a little good much later?

The institution has been in near imperceptible decline for almost 20 years, thanks to the rise of the European Parliament and the way EU member governments have whittled away its authority while consolidating their own powers as the EU s true legislators. Yet the head of the Commission is called upon to be the dynamic public face of Europe.