The Victory Compact binoculars are light and well balanced, and are made in Hungary rather than Germany, where the full-size binoculars are made.
"The precedent that we had in our minds was of international capital markets rather than particular to Germany, " he said.
Whereas some of the last crop of top players decided to play for Germany rather than Poland -- such as Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski -- in Borussia Dortmund's striker Robert Lewandowski and captain Jakub "Kuba" Blaszczykowski the country has two players that would grace any team at the Euros.
For now, the command will be headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, rather than in any African country -- a decision that itself speaks volumes about the region's instability.
So Irish interest rates, rather than rising, will fall to Germany's 3.3% by year-end.
He criticized his opponent for speaking in Germany as a candidate rather than as a president.
Unlike his predecessors, he is effective on television, pounding home the need to measure Germany against other countries rather than the comfortable standards of the past (introducing das Benchmarking into the German language may be an enduring achievement).
Now, by becoming part of the city-state government in Berlin, which straddles east and west, the party is hoping to win acceptance at last as a normal part of Germany's body politic, rather than be dismissed as a regional oddity, doomed to fade away as east and west grow closer together.
Germany's insistence on negotiated, rather than regulated, access has made that market hard to penetrate without an army of lawyers.
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Germans who do drink beer are increasingly going for the milder brews from Bavaria, rather than the bitter, herb-heavy beer of north Germany, where Becks is brewed.
Rather than issuing new national government bonds, everybody, from Germany (debt: 81% of GDP) to Italy (120%) would issue only these joint bonds until their national debts fell to the 60% threshold.
If it wants to be South America's friendly giant, rather than a southern Uncle Sam, Brazil might ponder imitating Germany's role in Europe, and subsume its narrow national sovereignty in pursuit of the greater goal of unity.
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To talk about retribution and certainty is to act as if the task after Pearl Harbor was to prove which unit had attacked America and to punish that unit - rather than to defeat and replace the governments of Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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In Germany policymakers have encouraged firms to cut hours rather than jobs.
In Germany, the interests of the whole company, rather than its shareholders, are seen as paramount.
Inheritance tax could be reformed so that it falls on individual beneficiaries rather than on the estate as a whole, as it does in Germany.
The failure, caused by political hostility and weak nerves, has been a big blow to the cause of industrial restructuring in Germany, and to the idea that shareholders, rather than politicians, trade unionists and managers, should have the final say in a company's future.
But rather than set up production in a country with labour costs as high as Germany, Siemens could have entered into a joint-venture with an Asian manufacturer.
Britain and Germany, he says, have quietly agreed to do so rather than risk ending up in the European Court of Justice.
As long as Germany's stock exchanges are supervised by their regional governments rather than the federal watchdog, BaFin, tougher questioning on such issues is unlikely to come from above, absent a state prosecutor as energetic as New York's Eliot Spitzer.
Most of Germany (over 50%) rents their property to live in rather than purchasing it through a mortgage.
Spain and Germany let their courts try cases where their nationals are the victim rather than the perpetrator.
The cut in the duration and value of benefits may do something to improve the supply side of Germany's labour market, encouraging people to look for jobs rather than subsisting on state pay-outs.
France, Germany and Russia staunchly opposed the war, arguing for more weapons inspections rather than an invasion.
At that point it would become obvious to the citizens of Germany that they have been lending rather more to the eurozone's weaker economies than the eurozone's leaders have been telling them.
Rather than sticking to their allotted places, like their peers from other more boring countries (eg Germany), the Dutch drift around the field looking for space (if they have the ball) or trying to destroy it (if their opponents do).
Also in Germany, there are aerobic digesters which are fed by maize (corn) rather than waste and so the same argument would arise over growing crops for fuel or for food as applies to biodiesel production and must ring an eventual death-knell for both biodiesel and biogas, if the latter is made from food too.
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In Germany, the government uses wage subsidies to encourage firms to hoard workers during recessions rather than shedding them.
Part-time work became increasingly common: Germany's Kurzarbeit programme, in which firms reacted to recession by cutting hours rather than employees, is just the latest example of this approach.
Moreover, these countries sell similar things to each other: cars made in France are exported to Germany, while German cars go to France, dependent largely upon consumers' differing tastes rather than differences in costs.
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