It is unsurprising that, overall, children's perception is that it is better to be a boy.
But if you are going to be rich, it is better to be rich in Brazil.
The answer is easy: surely it is better to be more active at the beginning.
It is better to be number two in a fast-growing world than top dog in a stagnant one.
Asma is an idealist, and sometimes in this part of the world it is better to be a realist.
The fund may be calculating that it is better to be lavish before a crisis than stringent after one.
Sometimes, who knows, perhaps it is better to be more cautious.
In fact, Machiavelli said it is better to be loved than feared, but if a prince cannot be effective and loved he should consider being effective and feared.
Of course, everyone knows that it is better to be number one than number two, but the Wallet Allocation Rule makes it possible to calculate precisely what this impact is.
One theory is that Mr Duisenberg thinks that transparency is a good thing, and that he thinks it is better to be honest even if the message you thus put out is temporarily unhelpful.
It is better to be safe than sorry.
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It is better to be young than petite.
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In fact, there is an argument that it is better to be short a promising biotech drug ahead of the FDA decision, given the way stocks tend to plummet when the FDA decision goes the wrong way.
Al Gore (D-TN), the Senate signalled that it, at least, had learned one of the most important lessons of the Gulf War: It is better to be defended, even imperfectly, against ballistic missile attack than to be defenseless against it.
It is better to never be a general partner if one can avoid it.
And it is always better to be, or to be led by, Teddy Roosevelt, not George McClellan.
It is much better to be poor in a society that has public and private safety nets in place.
It is much better to be a nonsmoker who's a little bit fatter than a smoker who's a little bit thinner.
The fact is it is far better to be wrong at the right time and enjoy the praise of your peers than to be right at the wrong time and loathed.
While it is always better to be prepared, my money would be on the protagonist that had a better sense of self control and could repress dangerous emotions, rather than the obsessive over-planner that had top-of-the-line equipment but was prone to dangerous panic attacks.
Are you better used in Washington or is it better for you to be down in the Gulf area?
Is it better to be a cunning leader or a cooperative team member to succeed in business?
He suggests that it is better for Turkey to be directly responsible for its own fiscal strategy.
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Is it better to be the most-talked about and have a lower positivity?
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In March CITES must decide whether it is better for elephants to be sacred and dead or commercial and alive.
Is it better to be for-the-individual or for-the-community?
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"It is much better than it used to be, " says Rabbi Fishbane, but "it is not certified glatt, " he says, referring to an even higher standard of kosher meat certification.
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"Definitive studies to show it is better than Taxol have yet to be done, " says Eric Winer, a top breast cancer researcher at the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute.
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But this is, this whole thing, it may sound better than it is, because it has to be approved by the Congress to go into effect.
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