The Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges still form a world apart, separated from Hong Kong by strict capital controls.
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To this day the valleys retain the magical feeling of a world apart.
That is a world apart from 1952, when corporate taxes generated 32% of federal revenue, individual taxes 42% and payroll tax 10%.
While at first they seemed a world apart, similarities in how heavy lumber was used and how trusses were built became apparent.
While at first the ideas seemed a world apart, similarities in how heavy lumber was used and how trusses were built became apparent.
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What works in practice and what works in theory are often a world apart, and political incentives distort even the best laid plans.
But at least one new survey (sponsored by Microsoft, by the way) finds that enterprise IT managers see private clouds as a world apart from public clouds.
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Abutting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Blackberry Farm's 4, 200 acres share some of its majestic Appalachian views, its pristine air, recreational pleasures and wildlife--but exist in a world apart.
The Steele winery is a world apart from his past corporate life, which is to say it's quintessential Lake County: a low-slung building just off of the highway, across from a purveyor of farm equipment and pet food.
Two computers with just one digit difference in their IP addresses could be half a world apart, while two other computers with several digits different in their IP addresses could be inches apart located on the same desk.
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In this environment, a world apart from the early frontier days of the Internet, hackers today universally exhibit a certain mercenary sensibility, cannily juggling multiple offers, playing judge in hustler beauty contests at hackathons, planning acqui-hire trajectories, and in general maximizing their value as the stewards of the new body of technical knowledge.
Opened in 1918 and just 90 minutes but a world apart from LA, El Encanto quickly became a renowned retreat for artists and celebrities, and over the years everyone from Clark Gable to Barbara Streisand to Sharon Stone have escaped the paparazzi by coming here, to what has been called the American Riviera.
Steven and Margret are unlikely friends, living and working half a world apart, but are united by a common desire to facilitate all of the good things people are doing in the world to build self-reliance through financial empowerment and education, and in so doing, they are leaving their marks on the world.
The texture of the pages combine with the smell of ink and paper, as the writer pours their imagination and soul into a world that's apart from your own.
Brody, who portrayed Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in "The Pianist, " the true story of a musician in a Warsaw ripped apart by World War II and the Holocaust, beat competition including Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Caine and Nicolas Cage.
Realizing just a small portion of those fantasies could break apart barriers and further shrink the world, in a good way.
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He set up a number of challenges (three of which have since been claimed) each with a financial reward reflecting their difficulty: The first to fly a figure-eight course around two markers half a mile apart, the first to fly from England to France and a world speed challenge.
There seemed to be no contact with the world apart from the roar of a jet fighter looping Manhattan.
That is time when his mind will not have had much in it - apart from the thought of a world title fight.
It would be like a double Fifa World Cup and Olympics because, apart from the main venue for the Games, Kenya would have to build at least six world-class stadiums to host the Olympic football matches alone.
By doing so, I have no doubt the U.S. can continue to set itself apart as a true leader in the world economy.
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This fact makes Israel a pariah state in her part of the world quite apart from the antipathy felt to the religion at its core, Judaism.
And in a world where competition in every brand category is only increasing, identifying a relevant way to set your brand apart can only help.
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To keep a steady gaze, the film suggests, is not just a virtue but a form of orderly protest, when your world is breaking apart.
Unfortunately, Germany did not understand that Britain did not have a lien on the whole world, and that (British interests apart) the views of other powers had to be taken into account, so that the desired territorial concessions could not be slipped into Germany's pocket without demur.
"When the whole world apart from the referee has seen there should be a goal at Old Trafford, that just reinforces what I feel - there should be video evidence, " he said.
But there's a difference between trying to be competitive with the world and trying to be apart from it.
But the bands of brothers and sisters who endeavour to produce literature, and often have a toe in the academic world, have too much in common to stay apart.
While Bill Gates and Warren Buffett--numbers one and two on last year's Forbes Billionaires list-- engage in a genteel game of bridge, Lakshmi Mittal is ripping apart the world's steel industry and reshaping it to his liking.
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