He has only a superficial knowledge of Japanese.

These guys confined their surgery to fairly superficial injuries.

You have to acquire real skills, not just superficial knowledge.

Moreover, even the previous period of quiet was only superficial.

This represents a superficial manner of dealing with the real issues.

One must have conviction in law, or its existence will be superficial only.

Unless that deeper issue is adequately addressed, any change will be only superficial.

This superficial understanding of populism makes the French presidential election an ominous symptom of Europe s blind leadership.

Changes cannot be partial or superficial and must not merely satisfy the hegemonistic ambitions of a few.

Speaks to items one and two on the checklist glibness, superficial charm and grandiose sense of self worth.

They only know the superficial realities of the worldly life and they are unaware of the life to come.

They only know the superficial realities of the worldly life and they are unaware of the life to come.

I'm not interested at all in blobism or any of that superficial rubbish that you see coming out as design.

It is these kinds of stories, ones that go beyond the immediate or just the superficial that demonstrate the power of photojournalism.

Concerning the monitoring and assessment information provided by Syria, Iraq states that it lacks the necessary data, and is superficial and inconclusive.

And there were no superficial conversations as we shared our innermost thoughts, our fears, and our hopes for life after the spinal ward.

So, on balance, Obama s first trip to China achieved relatively little. Moreover, what he did achieve looks superficial, while what he gave up seems substantial.

In fact, looking exclusively at the superficial symptoms of physical security and the prevention of terrorism or violence provides at best a partial, short term solution.

His essay gave only a superficial analysis of the problem, so it was a real surprise to him when he got the highest grade in the class.

Not just a superficial image of it, though it contains that as well, but an explanatory model, embodying the same mathematical relationships and the same causal structure.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

They get into competitive colleges, they get good jobs, and sometimes they make a success of themselves in a superficial manner, and they make a ton of money.

These three superficial factors reflect the reason behind the relative lagging behind of our growth pattern change. That is, the government led growth has not yet been fundamentally changed.

noted that, given the current structure of agendas, there was a risk of spreading scarce financial and human resources too thin, which would lead to superficial and ineffective results.

Blair s departure left Bush increasingly isolated diplomatically, with changes of government in Berlin and Paris bringing only superficial improvements. Deteriorating economic conditions at home implied stricter limits on American intervention abroad.

And then third, I want to tell you, in a very superficial way, about some of the things we found when we actually got to look at the financial records the books of the gang.

Both countries are his neighbors, and in theory at least, their leaders are his ideological soul mates. But the differences between the modern and archaic left, and the three countries contradictory national interests, seem to be trumping more superficial political affinities.

Economic and social globalization does produce superficial similarities in T shirt logos and soft drink brands, but an underlying cultural diversity will remain. American culture is now prominent, and it contributes to America's attractiveness its soft power in many, but not all, areas.

No wonder that country has been trying to throw up smokescreens at international forums they are trying to deflect attention from their own record and actions by turning superficial concerns about the peaceful nuclear programmes of others into a politically charged debate.

WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle aged child. But superficial repairs will not meet the European Union s future needs.

Emasculating the elected presidency, which is Russia s sole source of political legitimacy, would pave the way to chaos. The habit of changing the rules to keep power would persist after the strongman eventually leaves the scene, but the superficial stability of his rule would not.

The United Nations must either change to lead and to take up the challenges of our time, or it will hide behind a superficial change in order to survive and will become an accomplice in the regression of our peoples and the perpetuation of backwardness.

Of the roughly 200 trillion in global financial assets today, almost three quarters are in some kind of debt instrument, including bank loans, corporate bonds, and government securities. The derivatives market certainly helps spread risk more widely than this superficial calculation implies, but the basic point stands.

We often do this with very little knowledge about who is getting it, much less whether we share their ethics and values. We may have a superficial check box understanding of what the companies behind this convenience do with our data but, beyond the marketing, the actual people running these organizations are faceless and nameless.

PALO ALTO Race can undoubtedly be a tricky subject, with any suggestion of genetic differences among racial groups beyond superficial characteristics like skin color potentially invoking memories of the nineteenth century eugenics movement and its eventual role in Nazi ideology. Now, with drug companies increasingly seeking to develop medications that target particular racial groups, the long taboo subject of racial genetics has reemerged.

These women are exactly the kind of leaders that everyone should be cultivating and supporting, rather than overlooking because of a belief that they cannot exist in the Middle East. We would do better to find out more about them than to waste our time on superficial debates about how they and many others who are just as accomplished should dress.

This ancient fracture, papered over by Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges Picot 97 years ago in their secret agreement, has now swallowed Syria, with Assad portrayed as some sort of Alawite ogre. Many Western diplomats appear to be of the same superficial cast of mind as Sykes and Picot, believing that Assad s fall from power would remove Syria from the Iran Hezbollah Hamas axis.

This purpose may seem increasingly controversial in pluralistic Western societies, but universities should at least provide their students with an understanding of the models, history, and philosophical fundamentals with which to debate these issues. Without a reasonable awareness of their socio cultural environment, students may view universities merely as a place to pursue private goals, make useful connections, enjoy student life, and perhaps pick up a superficial sense of diversity.

She directed my attention to Jordanian made films about the subordination of women inside the home, and to Rana Husseini s powerful book on honor killings, Murder in the Name of Honor . But her implicit message was that these critical examinations of women s inequality in the Arab world are most enlightening when they are created by women s advocates from within that culture, rather than sensationalized or superficial versions of the problem created in the West.

So is He who keeps a watch over the deeds of every soul (equal to their appointed partners)? And (yet) they ascribe partners to Allah! Proclaim, Just name them or is it that you inform Him of something which in His knowledge does not exist in the earth or is it just superficial talk? In fact, their deceit seems good to the disbelievers and are prevented from the path and whomever Allah sends astray, so there is none to guide him.

So is He who keeps a watch over the deeds of every soul (equal to their appointed partners)? And (yet) they ascribe partners to Allah! Proclaim, Just name them or is it that you inform Him of something which in His knowledge does not exist in the earth or is it just superficial talk? In fact, their deceit seems good to the disbelievers and are prevented from the path and whomever Allah sends astray, so there is none to guide him.