Compassion can be synonymous with empathy.

Indeed it is synonymous with UNDP in the region.

England is synonymous with football, fish chips, and the Queen.

And, as often happens in America, immigration became synonymous with Mexicans.

It's depressing that secret agent has become synonymous with sex maniac .

You know, he's a bit slow. It's actually synonymous with being stupid.

Accordingly, getting the investment climate right for Africa has become synonymous with attracting more FDI.

No good governance is synonymous with effective governance and goes hand in hand with sovereignty.

The words poverty and women had become synonymous in nearly every quarter of the globe.

While there is sometimes overlap of terrorist financing and money laundering, the two activities are not synonymous.

For many, the rule of law is synonymous with normality and predictability in their private and professional lives.

The term contract of affreightment is in one of the replies understood to be synonymous to volume contracts .

But to view them as synonymous with the entirety of the arts community is, by far, too short sighted.

Guro started to use certain expressions that indicate that the things she learns about Christianity are synonymous with good .

Good governance is not synonymous with limited policy intervention or simply getting out of the way of the private sector.

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Quite often the expressions crimes against international law , crimes under international law and crimes of an international nature are regarded as synonymous.

Disaster reduction is synonymous with lowering this vulnerability, a daunting challenge facing Southern African governments during a time of fiscal restraint and economic structural adjustment.

The Plan of Action should be read in its totality and the reference to country engagement was not synonymous with a presence in the field.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that, as part of the legal reform exercise, leniency provisions for custom or honour killings, which were essentially synonymous, had been abolished.

He said that, despite commitments, Member States of the United Nations were still demolishing slums, so that the phrase Cities without Slums was becoming synonymous with bulldozing.

Honduras, a developing country, was not ashamed of being poor. Poverty was not synonymous with lack of democracy or lack of respect for human rights and freedoms.

The solution is that these constructions, despite initial appearance, are not synonymous, that when you crank up the microscope on human cognition, you see that there's a subtle difference in meaning between them.

To outsiders, the region is virtually synonymous with political polarization. Fatigue clad guerrillas, charismatic populists, and reactionary military junta leaders have long cut much larger figures than moderate politicians in boring gray suits.

Referring to paragraph 6, she said that her delegation viewed the terms character and status as synonymous, since the term character had no known legal meaning under international humanitarian law, including customary international law.

Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation. But mobile phones and wireless Internet end isolation, and will therefore prove to be the most transformative technology of economic development of our time.

The notion that Americans have gotten better at everything while other rich countries have stood still is thus wildly misleading. The US productivity miracle and the emergence of Wal Mart style retailing are virtually synonymous.

In conclusion, we should acknowledge, and take pride in, the fact that the successes recorded by Timor Leste thus far are synonymous with the successes of the United Nations and the international community as whole.

This in turn requires confirmation that the Turkish political aims have now changed and that Turkey has reconciled itself to the fact that achieving a settlement is synonymous with the concept of a single, reunified State.

But corruption poses the single largest obstacle to growth and development in many countries, especially as it diverts resources from the poor. The World Bank insisted that corruption be seen as a cancer, and that fighting it be made synonymous with fighting poverty.

In his 1968 work Asian Drama An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal considered the words Asian and poor to be synonymous. But, over the past three decades, Asian prosperity appears to be within reach once more.

In the United States, the word liberal, in the mouths of populist radio hosts and right wing politicians, has become almost synonymous with effete East Coast snob or, worse, New York intellectual. Liberals, in this view, are not only soft, but are somehow distinctly un American.

Indeed, Europe s community of attitudes is becoming synonymous with solutions to world problems. After all, climate change, energy security, and demographic challenges have been part of the European discourse for many years now that discourse is starting to be shared by other parts of the world.

The Inter Agency Standing Committee is determined to change the notion that the consolidated appeals process is merely synonymous with the actual appeal document and emphasize that it is a process, which reflects strategy development in the field, and continues right through to monitoring and review.

NEW YORK Vidkun Quisling, Norway s wartime fascist leader whose name has become synonymous with collaboration with evil, lived with his wife in a rather grandiose villa outside of Oslo. That villa is now the Norwegian Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, a fine transformation of a tainted place.

Moreover, like Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, dynastic politics in Azerbaijan reflects the dominance of clans whose members success is determined by proximity to the president. While such systems may appear stable, they are inherently fragile, for they are synonymous with lawlessness, injustice, and abject poverty for the majority of the population.

Hoenig and Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, have been leading the charge on this issue within the Federal Reserve System. Both of them emphasize that too complex to manage is almost synonymous with too big to manage, at least within the US banking system today.

Democracy is also synonymous with pluralism, which nourishes the dynamic interaction of the nation apos s actors on a basis of mutual respect. Peoples must enjoy freedom of association and the possibility of forming political parties, and thus of playing an active part in the political life of their country.

24. Mechanisms of accountability provide tools that foster informed, well documented and reasoned decisions, which are synonymous with professionalism and effective management, are in conformity with the Staff Regulations and Rules and which eliminate the phenomenon of responsibility being diluted to vagueness as to who is responsible and for what.

The euro shares important features with versions of the old gold standard, under which countries fixed their exchange rates relative to each other by setting the price at which domestic currency could be redeemed in gold. Today, some people espouse the view often loudly that the gold standard was synonymous with economic and financial stability.

Still others consider hegemony to be synonymous with control of the most power resources. But, by this definition, nineteenth century Britain which at the height of its power in 1870 ranked third (behind the US and Russia) in GDP and third (behind Russia and France) in military expenditures could not be considered hegemonic, despite its naval dominance.

It also affirms to the Israeli public the substance of the peace equation adopted by Netanyahu, which renders peace synonymous with security, force and expansion in a bid to torpedo the concept of peace, adopted by the global community and agreed by the previous Israeli Government, whereby land is exchanged for peace and the security of all parties is sought by awarding each claimant its prerogative.

The issue of human rights needs to be dealt with objectively and impartially within the framework of the United Nations. In today apos s international relations, the human rights issue has became synonymous with intervention in the internal affairs of other countries. Attempts to impose the values of one nation upon others are rampant. Consequently, the rights of people to choose and the sovereign rights of nations are being infringed.

The situation that arose in Bosnia and Herzegovina presented the international community with one of its greatest challenges since the great political changes that took place in the world. The crisis in the former Yugoslavia, of which the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the most calamitous element, has become synonymous with the bitter disappointment and trauma that continue to haunt us today. The Dayton peace process has yet to produce all the expected results.