You often pick words for sound rather than meaning.

Giggles rather often and is excitable. She giggles at things.

But, too often, such projects treat poverty s symptoms rather than its causes.

Throwing money at groups often tends to encourage problems, rather than resolving them.

Too often, it is individual commitment, rather than institutionalized mechanisms, that drives our work.

loans that use secure contracts rather than collateral, because women often don't own land.

Then, significantly more often, does a Neanderthal match the European rather than the African.

GENEVA Geopolitical insight is often gained through real life experience, rather than big picture thinking.

The language of marriage is often the language of ownership rather than the language of partnership.

Efforts to portray local cultures as unchanging often reflect reactionary political strategies rather than descriptions of reality.

More often than not they were viewed as stop gap measures rather than as a comprehensive approach.

But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.

Certifications are in fact often based on customer contractual requirements rather than a desire to actually improve quality.

Further, a rather close relationship often develops between staff members and governmental delegates in specialized areas of work.

Leaders, more often than not, are hostage to the socio political environment that produces them, rather than its shapers.

This is often done as part of an overall youth plan rather than as a series of unconnected initiatives.

In environmental circles, we often hear that, rather than shifting to renewables, we are continuing with business as usual.

Media outlets in many parts of the world often serve only to inflame and distort rather than to explain and inform.

An emphasis on the concept of modernity, rather than the Enlightenment, often distinguishes sociological discourse from that of classical political philosophy.

External finance is needed, but often its potential can be fully realized only when it complements rather than replaces domestic resources.

We don't need to invent solutions because we have them cash flow loans based in income rather than assets, loans that use secure contracts rather than collateral, because women often don't own land.

And the temptation to consider oneself the incarnation of the state, rather than its servant, is often irresistible among southern European politicians.

102. While agricultural activity often contributes to maintaining or restoring the productive capacity of the environment (e.g. land and water resources), other factors often end up destroying rather than preserving or enhancing this capacity.

Crowds are the opposite of organizations rather than being dominated by rigid hierarchies, they are often led by individuals with no formal rank.

Despite their claims that they are pursuing shareholder value, the actions of top managers, in particular, often reflect only their own interests, rather than those of shareholders who often hold the great majority of the shares.

But donors all too often feel obliged to make their contributions visible to their constituencies and stakeholders, rather than prioritizing local perspectives and participation.

It also explains why journalists in those countries have so often bent over backwards to apologize for individual transgressions, rather than stand in defiance.

So, if the deficit being measured is one of houses rather than one of habitats, the solutions often do not solve the real problem.

These refugees are often falsely identified as economic migrants, rather than a vulnerable population who fled their homelands due to political unrests and violence.

There are a number of practical reasons why both parties would often prefer to litigate in a port rather than in an inland location.

Worse, they often direct students towards a limited number of routine bureaucratic careers rather than opening up the prospect of entrepreneurship and self employment.

Outside Europe, the ESDP acts to enhance governance rather than promote regime change, and the EU has often assisted governments efforts to improve security conditions.

For example, price controls, rather than lowering prices, often cause scarcity and the emergence of a black market in which controlled commodities cost significantly more.

Evidently, the Bush administration would rather help Middle East oil producers, whose interests so often seem at variance with those of the US, than Brazil.

A rather large, rather lonely place.

In love, we are often betrayed, often hurt, and often unhappy.

For example, rather than nominations from governments, which often are reluctant to support excellent candidates from opposition parties, an international nominating committee could put forward names.

Rather than as a brave defender of the Protestant nations against Spain and the Habsburgs, she is more often regarded as cautious in her foreign policies.

A Selectric switch has a similar design, but the contacts on the wires are skewed, often at a 45 degree angle, rather than being lined up.

In engineering applications, the goal is often to optimize a process or product, rather than to subject a scientific hypothesis to test of its predictive adequacy.

44. Violence against women has often been considered an individual problem rather than a matter of public concern, although the roots are often found in the social, cultural, historical and political context of societies that have condoned aggressive behaviour of males.

But what does voluntary mean in a community where, when a girl gets raped, her father's first impulse, rather often, is to murder her out of shame?

It is therefore not the case that machinery does not exist for the enforcement of LOAC IHL. It is rather that it has not often been used.

153. The Board concluded that monitoring of projects has become highly mechanistic often, apparently, carried out to satisfy an administrative requirement rather than to encourage remedial action.

But what does voluntary mean in a community where, when a girl gets raped, her father's first impulse, rather often, is to murder her out of shame?