Russia is now considered the odd one out of the BRICs and you can see why.
Malaysia was always the odd one out of the four worst-hit Asian economies.
"Unlike the clubs in England, apart from the odd one or two, in France they are still town-based, " he added.
On the face of it, the idea of working to earn money, only to give it away is an odd one.
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G8 summit of rich, democratic nations, which opens in Okinawa on July 21st, it will indeed be the odd one out.
There's the subservient kind, the virtual representative, the odd one with an artistic bent, and even robo-cattle.
Since government money is so fungible, the distinction is an odd one.
"They will try to push the boat out for the odd one or two, like they did with Robbie Keane last year, " he said.
If Denmark were to join too, the euro area would cover almost all of the EU's member states, so Britain might once again look like the odd one out.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in simple mortgage securitisation and insuring: the only odd one out is AIG and that was an insurance company, not a bank at all.
It's odd that one of the most famous figures of the 20th century is doing mutual fund ads just to stay in the public eye, but that's showbiz.
So the concept of patience and presence may seem odd to one in a leadership position because at first blush they may seem passive, the very opposite of what a leader strives to do.
Steve Jobs is an obsessed genius, and he has the odd quirks of one.
Most odd indeed: one would begin to assume that Romm is a little out of touch with the facts here perhaps.
An extremely odd finding but one which could perhaps be explained by the fact that one of the authors is a homeopath.
This odd arrangement is one of the reasons I rent a bicycle every year: to get around to all the hotels efficiently and visit these folks.
That is, the country had, out of 60 million odd, precisely one person who believed taxes were too low strongly enough to do anything about it.
One odd factoid Dunn mentions is that it in some ways was easier to get consumers to switch from VCR to DVD because there were dual-mode boxes.
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One odd but significant consequence of a hike in the VAT will likely be seen in the market for inflation-protected securities that adjust payouts based on consumer prices.
And all daughters, one after another after another, until finally the looked-for son arrived, leaving Nawab with a complete set of twelve girls, ranging from toddler to age eleven, and one odd piece.
Odd that no one talking about thalidomide and the FDA ever mentions how long ago the thalidomide tragedy occurred, or how different everything is now, especially with respect to it being a quite useful drug.
The probability of a tie (or, if the voter count is odd, a one-vote margin) would be the probability that when you flip a coin 5.2 million times you get exactly 2.6 million heads and 2.6 million tails.
One of the odd and amazing, weird things about Facebook is that it is completely and totally controlled by one person.
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The rosier outlook on Countrywide is odd considering it is one of the biggest mortgage lenders and happens to be massively exposed to the subprime market.
Among all of China's 660-odd cities, only one small city of 200, 000, Lianyuan in Hunan Province, can claim to provide clean drinking water straight from the tap.
So as he had done previously, he picked himself up and worked odd jobs, including one for which he used aniline dyes to paint the undergarments on a live model.
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