BRUSSELS There is a saying, too often used in interpreting international relations, that my enemy s enemy is my friend. Sometimes it proves true often it does not.

The term 'greenhouse effect' is often used when people talk about global changes of climate nowadays.

A new global language is being used in the international development discourse the words often used are partnership, empowerment, ownership, participation, accountability and transparency and, even more often, good governance, rule of law and human rights.

Violence is used as a means of controlling women's sexuality, and is often perceived as normal, even by women.

I often used to play tennis with him on Sundays.

Intercourse within marriage may not be consensual whether protection is used and what kind, is often decided by the man.

Currently, the mission level guidance material is often developed after significant delays, and the nomenclature used in such guidance documents is inconsistent.

OIOS often found that the performance indicators used were unrealistic or not measurable.

A completely secure system is a virtual impossibility, so an approach often used in the security profession is one of balancing risk and usability.

Tax cuts are often used as a major fiscal tool to stimulate the economy.

When my brother was young, I often used to take him to the park.

Joint training with United Nations agencies in the subregion should be used more often.

Tom has gotten older and he doesn't go out as often as he used to.

Too often, permanent members have used the veto real or threatened to prevent effective action.

And since they're used so often, a lot of times the precise sequence of random characters that is shown to the user is not so fortunate.

Even when the water source itself is safe, water used for drinking and cooking is often contaminated because of poor water handling practices and unsafe storage.

Often, parents used the law to bring their children to court in order to punish them.

In EU, oilseed plants, particularly rapeseed, are used more often than sugar beet to produce biofuel.

The ratio of assets under custody to total deposits of financial institutions is often used to measure the status and function of the custody sector.

During the electoral process, UNOGBIS used its good offices, often in tandem with ECOWAS, to help calm tensions.

It is to be noted that the terms payroll system and payroll processing system are often used indistinctly to refer to a computer system which processes payroll.

Peacekeeping mission resources are most often used for backstopping electoral support activities which are part of the mission's mandate.

It is often used in the production of commercial explosives, and in granular form it simply needs mixing with an appropriate proportion of fuel oil to become dangerous.

Clearly, responses to conflicting political interests are often cast in religious terms, but that is only an expedient disguise used by those pursuing narrow political and national objectives.

Similarly, success is often used to prove after the fact that a modern political leader has charisma. It is much harder to use charisma to predict who will be a successful leader.

Moreover, given that transaction costs often take a big slice of remittances, aid mechanisms could be used to create safe and cheap channels for financial flows, especially where private money cannot easily reach remote rural areas, as is often the case in Africa or Asia.

While some of them are involved in combat, others are often used for sexual purposes or as spies, messengers or servants.

However, there were significant challenges when an often weakened criminal justice system needed to be used to investigate and prosecute numerous cases of past corruption, often committed by alleged offenders who had fled the country.

He is often home.

With regard to the use of HEA, the Claimants state that HEA is a methodology that is widely accepted and is often used to quantify the ecological loss of services caused by oil spills and other released contaminants.

So, illusions are often used, especially in art, in the words of a more contemporary artist, to demonstrate the fragility of our senses.

In these countries, mobile phones are used for more than simple communication, and are more often used as a business tool for producers and buyers to shop around for prices and for vendors to be paid.

Many students note that teachers are often not as familiar with information and communication technologies as their students are, such that peer to peer education is used to enhance the quality of learning.

I used to try to take the kids outside as often as possible, to try to connect the academic stuff with the real world.

Death is often compared to sleep.

He is often absent from school.

He is often late for school.

With incommunicado detention continuing to be used by Government personnel, political activists are often arrested and detained without the knowledge or notification of their families.

Corrupt practices are used to gain access to forests, to cut without permission or to harvest protected species and whole wood is processed and exported illegally, often with false declarations being made at customs controls.

Regarding the second part of the proposal, the European Community noted that TEAP reports were often used by Parties in developing proposals for adjustments and amendments.

Often what jams us up is sewage.

And, again, this is happening quite often.

Life is often compared to a journey.

One problem with the cultural argument is that it is often used to defend or excuse the behavior of the powerful against the weak. Taliban men no doubt believe that the subjugation of women is a cultural privilege, as well as a religious duty.

Second point is that persuasion is often better than compulsion.