Look at the skyline of Shanghai.

This is the skyline of my hometown, New Orleans.

This is what we dream about. Its individuality, demonstrated in the skyline. It's resilience.

The Committee notes that the Ruhnama reportedly dominates the school curriculum in Turkmenistan.

In this image of the Tokyo skyline, I've hidden data from the newest planet hunting space telescope on the block, the Kepler Mission.

It is His greatness that dominates the heavens and the earth. He is the Majestic and All wise.

It is His greatness that dominates the heavens and the earth. He is the Majestic and All wise.

So now I'm going to this is Louisville's skyline and I'm going to take you through various constraints that led to the project.

Therefore strengthen your scheme, and come forth in rows indeed whoever dominates this day has succeeded.

Therefore strengthen your scheme, and come forth in rows indeed whoever dominates this day has succeeded.

In many other countries, however, listed companies commonly have a controlling shareholder that dominates the firm s decision making.

AHMEDABAD, INDIA No country dominates any industry as much as the United States dominates higher education. According to Shanghai Jiao Tong University s Academic Ranking of World Universities, for example, 17 of the world s 20 best universities are American, with Harvard topping the list by a substantial margin.

As I said at the outset, Israel's disengagement from Gaza dominates the agenda less than one month before the announced starting date.

And whereas then monarchies, palaces and forts dominated every city skyline and looked permanent and confident, today it's the gleaming towers of the banks which dominate every big city.

The membership factor dominates, at 75 per cent the population factor increases to 10 per cent, and the contribution factor decreases to 15 per cent.

In fact, this dark matter dominates the gravitational effects in the universe on a large scale, and I'll be telling you about the evidence for that.

So, the theater company has the ability to do totally hermetic, light controlled, sound controlled, great acoustics, great intimacy Shakespeare, but can also do Beckett with the skyline of Dallas sitting behind it.

And it's that the weather stations are all built outside of town, where the airport was, and now the town's moved out there, there's concrete all around and they call it the skyline effect.

PARIS From Hong Kong to São Paulo, and all points between, one word dominates all others nbsp among big investors Greece. Will the Greeks remain in the eurozone?

Take a direct north south bearing, you find to your astonishment that it bisects the intiwatana stone, goes to the skyline, hits the heart of Salcantay, the second of the most important mountains of the Incan empire.

His ruling party dominates public institutions. Worse still, in a vast and predominantly rural country, the prime minister s underlings control broadcasting and maintain a choke hold on other media.

Merck is trying to catch up to Gilead, which dominates the market on a new generation of hepatitis C drugs that can cure well over 90 percent of patients with the liver disease.

First, Xi s initiative shows the extent to which he dominates Chinese politics. A weaker leader could not have taken such an ambitious step, which represents a real break with past Communist orthodoxy.

The economy may look bad, but the president looks great. Despite the ubiquitous efforts of Fox News, President Barack Obama dominates, enthralls, and enthuses the audience of American voters consumers, workers, investors, one and all.

But, while Japan s tense relationship with China dominates headlines worldwide, the strategic rivalry between China and India is more likely to shape Asian power dynamics in the coming decades. And recent events suggest that China knows it.

The American public has proven remarkably susceptible to the manipulation of truth, which increasingly dominates the country s political discourse. Indeed, a whole net work of publications, some of which manage to parade as mainstream media, is devoted to the task.

Some Americans favor a uni polar system in which the US dominates. Such a Pax Americana would cost the country less to sustain, but the world would worry if America adopts a wrong policy, as has been the case in Iraq.

Perhaps this two track approach was inevitable, though it would be good to know the desired end point. Is it a system in which market discipline again dominates, or will regulators sit on the shoulders of management for the foreseeable future?

But 42 of these women are members of Ennahda, which regards Sharia (Islamic law) as the source of legislation. Long time Tunisian activists fear that Ennahda, which dominates the assembly, will use the presence of women MPs to restrict women s rights.

At the same time, in many parts of the world small arms are also the breadwinners and the primary means of protection for civilians struggling to survive in societies where the rule of the gun rather than the rule of law dominates.

And it was only at that moment, as we were sitting down to dinner, that I recognized the enormity of the risk I had created, because to bring these two titans, these two masters of the universe together it was like introducing Mothra to Godzilla over the skyline of Tokyo.

And then finally, Kelly's play of brilliants attitude, that really some play of the skyline of Hong Kong, or perhaps the chandelier in the opera house, or in the theater here, which is a decoration, the icing on the cake, something playful, something that is just an addition to the architectural environment, I would say.

CAMBRIDGE The United States still faces a dangerous fiscal deficit, but one might not know it from the complacency that dominates budget discussions in Washington. Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.

In January 2011, it brought down Saad Hariri s government and installed one more to its liking. But, in just the last few weeks, parts of the Sunni north have erupted in armed defiance of Hezbollah and the government that it dominates, and are openly supporting the Syrian rebels.

The child who dominates on the playground may become a laggard when the context changes to a disciplined classroom. In the middle of the twentieth century, Josef Stalin scornfully asked how many divisions the Pope had, but four decades later, the Papacy was still intact while Stalin s empire had collapsed.

The Iranian regime s analysis might prove a dangerous miscalculation, because it is likely to lead sooner rather than later to a hot confrontation that Iran simply cannot win. After all, the issue at the heart of this conflict is this who dominates the Middle East Iran or the United States?

As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney built a record as a competent and moderate conservative, a political profile that suited him to the state s electorate. But the Republican Party s far right wing dominates the primaries, so Romney has worked hard to escape the moderate label by staking out very conservative positions.

In Egypt, for example, the Freedom and Justice Party, which dominates the parliament, claims that a woman cannot become President. Egyptian women were heavily represented in the protests that brought down former President Hosni Mubarak s regime in 2011, but they have been largely excluded from any official decision making role ever since.

Female representation in parliaments and government cabinets after the Arab Spring has been either absent or meager, and women activists worry that Islamist parties will implement reactionary policies that discriminate on the basis of gender. In Egypt, for example, the Freedom and Justice Party, which dominates the parliament, claims that a woman cannot become President.

The country s ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People s Revolutionary Democratic Front, dominates the political landscape but who can blame Ethiopians, surrounded by potential enemies, for giving priority to stability and order over Western style democratic development? Western leaders can hardly denounce Zenawi while lauding Vladimir Putin for bringing a focus on modernization to Russia s governance.

The US military budget dominates everything about foreign policy. Adding up the budgets of the Pentagon, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Department of Homeland Security, nuclear weapons programs, and the State Department s military assistance operations, the US will spend around 800 billion this year on security, compared with less than 20 billion for economic development.

Nonetheless, what dominates is a desire for individual freedom, an acceptance of diversity, great concern for the environment, and a refusal to be organized from above. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the CHP s reformist leader, quickly recognized these dynamics The demonstrators don t want us on the front lines, he said, and we have much to learn from these events.

The excitement of the moment, however, does not tell us what the future holds. At best, democracy is still off in the distance the military still dominates in Egypt and Tunisia, tribal forces are on the rise in Libya and Yemen, and sectarian divides between Sunni and Shia are likely to dominate politics in Bahrain, as they have in Iraq since 2003.

The West, meanwhile, may be slowly adapting to the new realities of a world that it no longer dominates, but in which it still occupies an essential role, owing to values whose universalism is now formulated in a more restrained and coherent way. Indeed, to fear, hope, and humiliation, I would now add a fourth and decisive cultural mood modesty.

But the discoveries and published papers rarely benefit the people who enable this research by donating their blood and other tissue samples. As Michael Nielsen discusses in his recent book Reinventing Discovery, the publish or perish mentality that dominates the field means that many substandard or incomplete papers are published, while those people who are supposed to benefit from the research are often little more than an afterthought.