None is near to becoming a full-fledged democracy, but all have embarked on more liberal paths.
Unfortunately this is also one vice where the U.S. is near to the top of the lists, as America now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world at 34%, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
It's almost a truism to say that the Nexus 4 is near impossible to buy, at least for those who don't want to pay a carrier premium.
ENGADGET: Rough hack converts an Optimus G to a Nexus 4, minus the constant sellouts
That responsibility obviously is magnified when the devastation that's been suffered is so near to us.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Updates Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts | The White House
Matters will deteriorate because the demand for travel is nowhere near to being sated.
But I am sure that our own UK equivalent, the ONS site, is near impossible to navigate or find anything on for the same reason.
FORBES: The Statistical Abstract is the Last Thing That Should be Abolished
Thailand's typical family-run companies struggle because older owners are not technically literate, and because many companies use aging machines for which it is near impossible to find necessary documentation.
If you assume that the IMF kept stumping up its share of rescue funds, the pot would be just enough to see Spain through the next three years without having to go to the markets: but it is nowhere near enough to cover Italy too.
As is to be expected, ordinary digital transmission is nowhere near robust enough to cope with the problems experienced by a mobile receiver, which can suffer from all sorts of doppler-shift effects and multipath radio interference as it moves around the place.
ECONOMIST: America is finally poised to get mobile television
Google, to which Blunsom's work is closely connected, is internally testing a new statistical system that is refined to near-perfection by linguistic rules, he says.
And with strikers Wayne Rooney (hamstring) and Dimitar Berbatov (knee) now also doubts for the match against Aston Villa, Ferguson's squad is stretched to near breaking point.
The part of Bath Ave. that I live near is beginning to foster a strong Muslim community, and the markets on 86th St under the Bay Parkway Station are becoming noticeably Chinese.
Some of this rally is down to sheer relief that the market is out of crisis mode (the cost of borrowing in the money markets is back to near-normal levels, for example).
ECONOMIST: The rally in financial markets: Liquid fuel | The
Even if you add in the average employer's contribution of 4.4%, the amount is nowhere near sufficient to match the 20% of pay needed to fund the equivalent of a final salary pension.
But before a test well has been drilled, it is near-impossible to be sure whether the geological idiosyncrasies that excite oilmen will yield either oil or gas (or sometimes both, and often nothing).
This is a matter near to my heart, because I am confronted with four or five Spam calls every evening on my home phone, which is registered on the Do Not Call list.
Now, if health care is near and dear to her heart, wouldn't it be the right choice or a good choice to stay in the Senate and work on the health care issue that way?
This will increase to 20, 200 over the next two years, but Harvey Guntrip, who is investigating the short-term labour situation for the National Farmers' Union, thinks that is nowhere near enough to meet the demand.
First up this week -- yes our week starts on Thursday right along with football -- is the very first real football game of the season, and one that is near and dear to a member of our team.
And my question, which is near and dear to my heart, and there's a few of my co-workers watching right now on television, and a few here -- is we want to know what is going to be done for tourism in Nevada, particularly airlines.
The luxury market in India is grew 20 percent to 5.8 billion in 2010 and this growth is expected to continue into the near future, according to a survey by the Confederation of India Industry and A.T.
Social business advocates point to the fact that this need to be near is still relevant but it can be done effectively without need to be physically near others.
FORBES: Can Consultants Save Us Money By Doing More Work Remotely?
Robert Reich : I do want to talk tonight about an issue that is very near and dear and of concern to me and it is basically about higher education in the public sphere in the United States.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning
He is unlikely to return to the sport full-time in the near future as he is about to row to the Caribbean with TV presenter Ben Fogle in Chay Blyth's Atlantic Yachting Race.
BBC: SPORT | Other Sport... | Rowing | Cracknell to make one-off return
As it is likely that there will be future periods of market stress, you may want to consider how important near-term liquidity is to you.
FORBES: Liquidity - The Muni Risk That Meredith Didn't Mention
应用推荐