But while western diplomats demand a letter from Iran revoking the decree, they may get second best - a ruling which says it is not in the state's interests to carry out the death sentence.
And second, increased sales is not the best and only indicator of social media success.
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Our analysis suggests that the outlook for growth in the second half of 2010 is uncertain at best and a double-dip recession is not out of the question.
Technological progress is not the only reason why spectrum markets would be a second-best solution, Mr Benkler argues.
However, it's not the best performance with Al-Ahly dominating the second half.
Not second-best, merely subordinate, in the sense that output must precede redistribution.
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At its recent introduction of the Rezound, the company crowed that it had been named the best-selling smartphone brand in the US in Q3 and that it was the leader in 4G smartphones. (The NPD Group, my employer, supports the second claim but not the first.) HTC also noted that it had cracked the Interbrand 100 list of best global brands after only five years of brand promotion.
Ohio State also does not have to play No. 13 Michigan State, probably the second best squad in the Big 10.
But that, too, has backfired on him, for Villeneuve found himself in 2003 in the awkward position of being the second best-paid driver in F1, but not having won a race in six years.
The idea that urban living is a second-best choice is not one that strikes a chord with growing numbers of people under 40.
United continued to test the Motherwell goalkeeper at the start of the second half, but despite their best efforts, they could not find a way to goal.
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Second, he feels that the 24 FPS is an arbitrary choice that is not necessarily the best way to present a film.
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It may not have been the world's best investment, but it garnered Bulgari lots of free publicity the second time around.
James Chamanga had Zambia's best chance but he could not connect before half-time and Obafemi Martins shot over in the second minute of extra-time.
But for the courts, it was he, not the little known Mr Cubas, who would have been elected president last May, and even as a second-best Mr Cubas took 54% of the vote, in the cleanest election in Paraguay's history.
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