• Investors around the world have long used ratings not just as a guide to the risk of default, but as a way to compare the riskiness of one bond with the riskiness of another.

    ECONOMIST: Rating agencies

  • While much of the Amalfi coast is overbuilt, with homes and hotels terraced into the hillsides on top of one another, the quaint town of Ravello is a peaceful exception.

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  • The five-member committee said the newspaper had published the views of one of the characters without the responses of another, misrepresenting the overall tone of the novel.

    BBC: Syrian book cleared of blasphemy

  • Every day, hundreds of thousands of ships make the journey from one part of the world to another in a long chain of events that bring them from one shore to another.

    FORBES: Providing Safe Passage: For Business And For The Great Barrier Reef

  • It is tempting to think of these as polar opposites: the more you have of one the less you have of another.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • It is not true, as Michel de Montaigne maintained, that the profit of one man is the damage of another.

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  • But for Jim Swire and John Mosey you get the feeling the verdicts, whatever they are, will merely mark the end of one process and the beginning of another stage in their crusade for truth and justice.

    BBC: Living with Lockerbie

  • Or maybe, she thought as she stood in the kitchen, opening and closing the dumbwaiter door with one hand, the necessary act of sacrificing one phone for another could be read as a veiled enactment of the sort of ambivalence required for alternating between lovers in the first place.

    NEWYORKER: Another Manhattan

  • The goats represent a promising new avenue in the controversial field of transgenics, the science of splicing one species' genes onto the genome of another.

    FORBES: Charlotte's Goat

  • They reflect marked changes in the fauna and flora, and also the different ways of life of the populations that succeeded one another in this region of the Sahara.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • His pictures were of the gabled ends of buildings displaying huge murals in support of one group or another, the sort of pictures used widely in the press at the time.

    BBC: Paul Graham: Photographs 1981-2006

  • The pieces of scenery are activated by switching on and off so-called passthrough transistors that control the flow of electronic signals from one part of the chip to another.

    FORBES: Chips that change their spots

  • Much rent-seeking is redistributing the surplus of one group of the middle class to another group of the middle class via the government.

    FORBES: What Is Rent-Seeking Behavior?

  • Using this phenomenon physicists have been able to transfer -- or in effect teleport -- the properties of one particle to another, in the case of atoms over a distance of about half a meter, in the case of photons over tens of kilometers.

    CNN: Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

  • "That's not to say safety of crews, and the ability of one yachtie to go to the aid of another yachtie in distress, will not always be paramount in the eyes of the race committee, " Garry Linacre, Commodore of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, told the website.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • But a draw in the sense of a divided government, with one party in charge of the White House and another in charge of at least one chamber of Congress.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • You don't have to figure out which brands will do better than the other or pay any attention to recalls damping sales of one brand to the benefit of another.

    FORBES

  • Every plan involves a victims' memorial, including one which sees it placed on top of one of the buildings and another that features a sunken garden.

    BBC: World Trade Center architects aim high

  • In Switzerland the German, French and Italian communities have lived peaceably side by side for more than seven centuries, while in the rest of Europe the three groups fought one another incessantly until the end of World War II.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The term is a play on words, of course, and an example of the old marketing trick of avoiding the baggage of one phrase by inventing another.

    FORBES: A New Kind of Distance Learning

  • Of course, society's perception of smoking has changed a lot since the days of doctors actually endorsing one brand or another in the first half of last century.

    CNN: If smoking is so bad for you, who still does it?

  • Some reviews of StreamWork have focused on the lack of one feature or another without recognizing the potential that such a decision-making system could have on management.

    FORBES: JargonSpy

  • "Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America, " he said.

    CNN: Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee

  • This is especially the case when the gains of one player come at the loss of another player, as is the case in medical device and retail sales industries.

    FORBES: How To Ride The Growth Of The Smartphone Industry

  • The purpose of the establishment clause, they argue, is to ensure that state-sponsored gatherings (such as sporting events at public schools) do not endorse the viewpoint of one religious group at the expense of another.

    ECONOMIST: Prayer in schools

  • It can be caused by a number of factors, including a rapid increase in the frequency of training, sudden increase in the intensity of training, transition from one training method to another, genetic abnormalities of the knee joint and poor base strength of the quadriceps.

    BBC: Hargreaves faces career concerns

  • While convenient in many cases, it caused problems if you wanted to place the top edge of one label against the bottom edge of another.

    ENGADGET: Apple seeds iOS 6 beta 4 to developers: here's the changelog

  • Please, I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be "protectors" of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.

    CNN: Text of Pope Francis' homily

  • Smith wears an initial bemused detachment that gradually turns to stunned horror as he realizes the depths of their hatred for one another and the extent of Edgar's hostile delusions about Gustav himself.

    WSJ: Review: 'Dance of Death' edgy as always

  • Beyond the heating effects of carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases, there are the effects of converting land from one use to another and filling parts of the sky with soot and smog.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

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