We had decidedly low tech communications.

I was decidedly unhappy a girl didn't marry me.

Both brought to their work vast Middle East experience  decidedly not my case.

Finally, two kinds of treaties have a decidedly low likelihood of applicability during armed conflict, namely, those treaties inapplicable through express provision and those treaties inapplicable in practice.

The four countries have very different economic structures Russia and Brazil rely on commodities, India on services, and China on manufacturing. Brazil and India are democracies, while China and Russia are decidedly not.

And we ask the question, can we use technology, high technology, to make an expo pavilion that's decidedly low definition, that also challenges the conventions of space and skin, and rethinks our dependence on vision?

Bernanke s legacy is decidedly mixed, but its most appealing feature is the ethos of collegiality and shared responsibility that he encouraged at the Fed. Indeed, a key goal for his successor should be to cement this approach as a new institutional tradition.

While Gauck made clear that he remains decidedly pro Europe, he highlighted the need for closer reflection about Europe s future and especially that of the eurozone. Standing on the verge of greater integration, Europeans are hesitant, unsure whether we should really stride out on the onward journey.

The remaining 900 billion spilled over into financial markets, helping to spur a trebling of the US equity market. Meanwhile, the real economy eked out a decidedly subpar recovery, with real GDP growth holding to a 2.3 trajectory fully two percentage points below the 4.3 norm of past cycles.

The underlying principle is a decidedly counterintuitive fact of life. You might think that learning to use something more efficiently will result in your using less of it, but the opposite is true the more efficient we get at using something, the more of it we are likely to use.

Moreover, unemployment in the eurozone has skyrocketed to an average rate of roughly 12 , with more than 50 youth unemployment in the periphery countries implying a long term loss of talent and erosion of the tax base. And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

Market based solutions to the climate challenge run the very serious risk of undermining development objectives, precisely because they aim to raise the price of energy services in order to make renewable energy sources attractive to private investors. Indeed, the protectionist elements tacked on to these proposals make them decidedly anti development.

In view of the Fed s decidedly mixed track record since the Dodd Frank reforms, some officials evidently regarded that default by Congress as a mandate to conduct business as usual. Recent press reports have highlighted lapses in supervision, particularly in and around the Federal Reserve Bank of New York one of 12 regional banks in the Fed System, which also has a Board of Governors in Washington, DC.