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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Business The lowest perception in the E.U.

The lowest percentage of entrepreneurs starting businesses.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

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

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

and We shall make him the lowest of low

Then We render him the lowest of the low.

Then We render him the lowest of the low.

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.

Now, the mathematically minded will see immediately that T in the numerator increases impact a bad thing but T in the denominator decreases impact.

It receives the least rainfall in the country, lowest rainfall.

They have the lowest child mortality in the world, Singapore.

Then brought him down to the lowest of the low,

Then brought him down to the lowest of the low,

Then We reduced him to the lowest of the low,

Then We reduced him to the lowest of the low,

then We reverted him to the lowest of the low,

then We reverted him to the lowest of the low,