You cannot do that in two seconds and have a minuscule part of the card showing.

The key question is this Is Russia taking giant steps in the wrong direction while China is taking minuscule steps in the right direction ?

The labor constituency, ever fearful of import competition, has undermined trade policy. It has also shifted aid policy in directions that assign priority to areas where the returns to US efforts are relatively minuscule.

That is how the divergences emerged. Yet the banks continued to load up on the government bonds of the weaker countries in order to benefit from the minuscule interest rate differentials that still remained.

(a) The regular budget is funded primarily from assessed contributions, with a minuscule proportion being provided from such other sources as interest income, sales publications and government contributions to the UNIDO regional and field offices.

When one bears in mind that both sides have been negotiating directly for 15 years, Mitchell s achievement appears even more minuscule. Under such circumstances, calling Mitchell s work up to now a failure is the only polite and realistic thing to do.

These measures were rationalized in various ways, but the reality is that by yielding to the demands of a minuscule number of disingenuous activists, the companies opted to offer less safe products to consumers, thereby exposing themselves to legal jeopardy.

The real problem is that the expectations concerning meaningful action on climate change, as opposed to gimmicks such as US President Barack Obama s last minute arrival and minuscule gestures in Copenhagen, are now lower than ever. There are two problems that cannot be wished away.

Indeed, the sum of money is minuscule. The G 8, representing nearly one billion people, has promised to increase aid to Africa from 25 billion in 2004 to 50 billion in 2010 a difference that represents less than one tenth of one 1 of the income of the rich donor world!

Second, the civil penalties in this settlement a form of fine are minuscule relative to the size of the companies involved. As Shahien Nasiripour, one of the best reporters on this issue, dryly put it None of the five lenders have said they expect to incur a material charge due to the settlement.

While the enormous volume of the bank debt implies that governments should shy away from socializing banking risks, it also suggests that only the banks creditors could reasonably be asked to foot the bill without being overburdened. Indeed, if, as some believe, only a fraction of the banks equity is at risk, the potential debt equity swaps would be minuscule.

Medical students and public health professionals sometimes study or do internships in places where the disease burden is high but a minuscule number of similar opportunities are available to engineers and technologists. As a result, talented scientists and engineers are often grossly unaware of problems that need to be solved, and even those that might be motivated to do so are unlikely to apply their training to address new and emerging threats.

There is still a minuscule chance to avert the debacle if Ireland with its No vote remains isolated within the EU. Beyond that, however, we should seriously consider whether, within the framework of the Treaty of Nice and on the basis of the Common Market, all parties involved and Europe would be better off parting ways members favoring political integration should move on, while those satisfied with the Common Market should stay behind.

In opposing how the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban is fought, many in Pakistan's minuscule middle class find themselves aligned with people they abhor extremists whose distorted religiosity violates the tolerant version of Islam prevalent in this region. Many upwardly mobile urbanites thus find themselves caught on the horns of a dilemma how to reconcile aspirations for a better lifestyle, as symbolized by America, with increasing abhorrence of US policies.