You can't run a society by the lowest common denominator.

We need a multilateralism that is based on common principles, not on the lowest common denominator of the day.

And regardless of whether it's nuclear reactors or metamaterials or whale sex, the common or lowest common denominator is me.

Such real debates as there are tend to focus on process rather than substance and many so called decisions simply reflect the lowest common denominator of widely different opinions.

From now on, we must think of the Charter as, politically, the lowest common denominator uniting us in a world that is globalizing but culturally fragmenting a world where there are no common strategic, political, economic or cultural perceptions.

They should be given the special treatment they deserve to ensure that their concerns are not diluted through clustering with other groups or through the application of the lowest common denominator to all developing countries.

It is vital that we do not waste this unique opportunity for significant reform of the United Nations and, at all costs, avoid squandering this chance in petty point scoring or negotiations to the lowest common denominator.

And so my TED wish is based on the common denominator of these experiences.

There is a danger of taking this thought experiment too far. Getting caught up in factoring in all of the different perspectives would cause decision making to gravitate toward the lowest common denominator, with outcomes that achieve very little for anyone.

The only common denominator uniting them is, in the last analysis, the literal interpretation of the Charter.

What is important is that we find a common denominator among the overwhelming majority of Member countries.

If multilateralism is to be truly effective, it cannot be based on a search for the least common denominator.

Consistent with what was stated on that occasion, and with a view to the next review conference, my delegation wishes to reiterate its concern that the agreements reached thus far continue to be diluted and that instruments are being adopted on the basis of the lowest common denominator.

We took what we knew about Africa, the default device, the mobile phone, as our common denominator, and went from there.

We will try to see to what extent we can produce a common denominator from those models if need be, by introducing some new ideas.

Most OFDI was located in neighbouring countries, with the ethnicity factor playing an important role and the timing of recent liberalization being a common denominator.

But coalition rule can also often mean governance of the lowest common denominator, as resistance by any of the government s significant members to a policy can delay or even thwart it. In India s parliamentary system, if a coalition loses its majority, the government falls, and keeping allies together can sometimes prove a greater priority than getting things done.

I hope I've convinced you that, for diseases like cancer, obesity and other conditions, that there may be a great power in attacking their common denominator angiogenesis.

One common denominator of the privatization process in a number of regions is that privatization tends to concentrate most land rights in the hands of a minority.

It had become clear that the greatest common denominator among the developing countries was poverty, and the main consequence of that situation was the destruction of the environment and natural resources.

In the denominator, we just have a 6y.

The denominator of the gymnosophist's life was infinity.

Every time we divided the numerator and the denominator by 2, now the numerator and the denominator by 3, so we're not changing the expression.

The Shannon report was not easily arrived at it was the result of hard negotiations, the common denominator of all the interests concerned representing a delicate balance of concerns for all the parties.

And so, the denominator of Alexander's life was one.

There was the US government s eleventh hour decision to table hundreds of objections to the final Summit Declaration, effectively reducing it to a series of lowest common denominator platitudes. There was also skepticism among developing countries about whether a stronger UN commitment to human rights was what Annan claimed it to be or, instead, merely a moral flag of convenience or worse, a legal warrant for Western military intervention.

Then in the denominator, we have 2ab times 18xy squared.

In total, there are more than 70 major diseases affecting more than a billion people worldwide, that all look on the surface to be different from one another, but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator.

Attempts to convert national incomes into a common denominator are fraught with complications. To take one prominent example, there is a 25 margin of error on purchasing power parity comparisons between GDP in the United States and China.

In these partnerships, I have also learned that people tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share nature, when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

The current formula, maintaining the status quo, offers the highest common denominator. With this strategic understanding, there is good reason to expect that Hu s talks with Bush on Taiwan s recent termination of the National Unification Council will serve to reduce tensions.

In Warsaw and beyond, it is vitally important that the international community reaches a sufficiently high common denominator in limiting greenhouse gas emissions. If not, we will not be able to limit the global temperature increase to a sustainable level.

Thinking it through, I realized that all those attributes must be changed to move T to the denominator.

Of the relevant factors identified in the host countries, one common denominator seems to be a certain resistance to explicitly recognizing that there is a demand for the labour supplied by immigrants, or aliens, in spite of the scientific evidence proving that demand exists and attracts migrant workers.

If you divide the denominator by y, you just get a y, and so what are we left with?

Business The lowest perception in the E.U.

The lowest percentage of entrepreneurs starting businesses.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

Now, this is the lowest of the stages.

The lowest amount we ever got was 20 cents.

then We restored him the lowest of the low

then We restored him the lowest of the low

Then reduced him to the lowest of the low.

Then reduced him to the lowest of the low.

and We shall make him the lowest of low