And these platforms were certainly very helpful to activists in Tunisia and Egypt this past spring and beyond.

But although these hearing aids were the most powerful hearing aids on the market at the time, they weren't very helpful.

We emailed out letters to as many people as we could several people in the audience here who were very helpful.

He may be clever, but he is not very helpful.

The Yemeni authorities were very cooperative during the discussions, providing information that was most helpful to the work of the Monitoring Group.

I commend the very helpful non paper distributed by the Danish Permanent Mission on that important issue.

When I was out with my friends drinking beer, I always was very aware of those words and very careful. One of the things that has happened with technology is that it can only be helpful if it is useful, of course, but it can only be helpful too if it's accessible, and it can only be helpful if it's affordable.

The Secretariat was very helpful on logistics but could not disclose what had happened in earlier informal sessions.

In this respect the Web could be very helpful (see the Convention secretariat's website www.unccd.int Parliaments in action).

The approval processes for such requests, lacking full transparency, were not helpful either.

Several of the opportunities for cooperation could be very helpful in furthering the process of sustainable development, where possible.

And it's not just because people would know where the women's bathrooms are, even though that would be very helpful.

The P 5, likewise, were helpful at points but could hardly be considered independent sources of information on precedents.

It is not helpful at all.

Einstein realized that if space were empty, if the universe were empty, it would be like this picture, except for maybe without the helpful grid drawn on it.

And we were very, very happy.

She believed that if demarcation lines were to be established, it would be helpful to other bodies to assist in identifying standards.

Predictable donor support would also be helpful.

And oh, yes, it would be helpful if the world s greatest philanthropist were to throw his weight behind removing the stigma on DDT.

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has received to date numerous donations and loans that were enormously helpful in shaping the health care system.

Luckily, somebody like George Bush was really helpful.

Questionnaires could be helpful to assess individual workshops.

The G 20 s Helpful Silence on Capital Controls

They were very enthusiastic.

They were very friendly.

We were very successful.

They were very conscious.

They were very excited.

The small number of simple principles were very, very simple.

The experiments that were going on were very simple.

And we were very upset.

They were going very slowly.

And we were very effective.

They were very tired indeed.

Originally, you were very stubborn.

These traumas required responses very different from previous technological changes. Government regulation was incapable of dealing with the issues involved, although it was certainly helpful to devise ways of making destructive hackers criminally responsible.

You see, if you understand the link between what we're doing to poison and pollute the planet and what we're doing to poor people, you arrive at a very troubling, but also very helpful, insight In order to trash the planet, you have to trash people.

And what we saw were buildings that were very generic.

In my experience, in fact, the light footprint was extremely helpful.

Audience member Some research has indicated that statins can be helpful.

Again, it might be helpful to provide that information in writing.

And they were very closely associated.

So the choice of answers were very good, good, bad and very bad.

But what they were very good at doing was making it very localized.

Now, a bit of economic history, I think, may be helpful here.