• All too often, developers wish to position their properties as close as possible to the water, having little regard for seasonal beach changes or the infrequent, yet catastrophic hurricanes.

    UNESCO: Introduction

  • Since the Defense Department and even the CIA were also kept in the dark, the Lake-brokered "no instructions" decision amounted to a covert action, taken with as little regard for its pernicious long-term implications as for the "need-to-know" of other parts of the U.S. government.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hearing takes a toll on Lake nomination

  • And the lack of clarity increases the propensity for banks to push products they regard as best for themselves, rather than being what customers want.

    BBC: Free banking 'a dangerous myth'

  • And then in El Salvador, underscoring the importance of setting in motion and working with the Salvadorans to set in motion sustainable economic development that also has medium- to long-term benefits for the United States, as the President discussed yesterday with regard to immigration.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • As Assistant Secretary he was responsible for U.S. policy with regard to 50 countries in Europe and Eurasia as well as NATO, the EU and the OSCE.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • To have our schools of communication (fairly new institutions) teaching technique as the do without regard for theory is tragic, though not unique to this discipline.

    FORBES: How and Why To Cut Down on Communications

  • Its best-known acquisition was JLG, a maker of lift equipment that Wall Street had come to regard as a proxy for the housing boom.

    FORBES: Oshkosh Proof That Pentagon Can Make, Or Break, A Company

  • Residents of Nairobi, for example, are likely to regard as the face of the BBC the Ghanaian journalist Komla Dumor, presenter of Focus on Africa, the daily news programme focusing on African stories.

    BBC: This is BBC News

  • When Adam Smith pointed out that, if people want dinner, they look not to the benevolence of the butcher, brewer or baker, but to their regard for their own interest, his aim was not to portray social interaction as mean and narrow.

    ECONOMIST: The benevolence of self-interest | The

  • Organisations such as the Traditional Healers Organisation have for years been trying to legitimise the practice and have it held in the same regard as Western medicine.

    BBC: Witnessing a South African healer at work

  • The Washington Summit made it evident that President Bush, nonetheless, continues to regard Gorbachev as the only hope for reform in the Soviet Union.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Washington Summit: The Worst Strategic Miscalculation Since Yalta

  • Considering the modest claims made by the author of the plan, as well as the sharp questioning of even those claims by many eminent economists, it would require a heavy dose of wishful thinking to regard QE2 as a potent remedy for the ills of the real economy.

    FORBES: Where Is The Love For QE2?

  • Thompson wasn't insured, which he has come to regard as a blessing as others battle for payouts.

    NPR: 2 Years On, Slow Quake Recovery In New Zealand

  • ''We continue to regard compulsory community treatment as a priority for our attention.

    BBC: Borders mental health care standards praised

  • In general, Indian officials have expressed deep concern over the Obama administration's apparent lack of regard for India as an ally and a significant strategic counterweight to China.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Surviving in a post-American world

  • Tom Higgins, the boss of Best Western, says free access is becoming the norm because travellers object to paying for what they now regard as an essential service.

    ECONOMIST: Hotel internet access

  • In spite of the anti-rationing provisions in the healthcare law, many critics (including this writer) believe that Medicare administrators will push the envelope to find a way to avoid reimbursement for drugs they regard as too expensive.

    FORBES: Comparative Effectiveness: Hope Or Hype?

  • While we'd been led on by the FCC leaks seen just hours ago, it looks like TomTom's marketing department took the easy route with regard to titling, as they've purportedly settled for TomTom DUO.

    ENGADGET: TomTom DUO to hit CeBIT, tout handsfree calling

  • The report, from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on History and Archives, says many schools regard history as too tough for their weaker students and allow them to drop it after two years at secondary school.

    BBC: Overhaul school history, urges report by MPs and peers

  • But the authors regard this investment-boom scenario as a very unlikely way for q to get back to one.

    ECONOMIST: Letter of credit | The

  • "I have too much regard for the lives of others, as well as my own, to place them at risk by driving while under the influence of zolpidem, " she wrote in an affidavit.

    WSJ: Kerry Kennedy fights NY drugged-driving charge

  • Some employers believe in providing a little something extra to all employees during the Holiday Season as an expression of gratitude for their loyalty and contributions during the year without regard to performance.

    FORBES: The Year End Bonus - Do You Or Don't You?

  • Some grandparents who provide regular care for their grandchildren regard it as a labor of love and don't want to be paid.

    WSJ: Work & Family Mailbox

  • Others who work for them (no, no names here) I regard as simply too ignorant to understand the figures they are manipulating.

    FORBES: Trades Union Congress Misleads With Statistics On Wages

  • Teachers and council officers have also come to regard the possibility of retiring in their 50s as compensation for an increasingly stressful job.

    ECONOMIST: Public-sector pensions

  • People from the private sector, whose companies regard time spent on the committee as a worthwhile price to pay for access to power, probably.

    ECONOMIST: Public appointments

  • Unfortunately, the likes of Iraq's Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Il Sung are more apt to regard such unilateral restraint as contemptible weakness than a model for their nations.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • For example, schools to the west of London regard the area as Middlesex and want to use that as the geographical part of their name, but have been told they cannot because it no longer exists as a local authority area.

    BBC: News | Education | School net names wrangle

  • As it happens, the only way a truly rapid disengagement and redeployment from Iraq can be accomplished would be via a kind of Dunkirk in the desert: a pell-mell rush for the beachhead points of embarkation the object of which would be to extricate as many personnel as possible, probably without regard for their equipment and surely at the expense of their safety.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dunkirk in the desert

  • His idiosyncratic views on Europe and immigration, for instance have led some of his colleagues to regard him as a crypto-Tory.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

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