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.
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.
"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.
Steve Jobs is an obsessed genius, and he has the odd quirks of one.
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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BMA's avowed anxiety about the private sector seems a bit odd, given the fact that one of its main gripes is over a government plan to restrict the private practice of consultants.
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Since government money is so fungible, the distinction is an odd one.
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.
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.
One of the odd little details of the past week is the fact that both David Petraeus and John Allen allowed themselves to be used in a messy custody battle involving the son of Jill Kelley's identical sister.
Together, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handle one-third of the 25m-odd containers shipped to America every year.
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.
He handles lots of foreign policy (he is just back from China and Japan) and heads the odd task force (there was one on the middle class, for example).
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.
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.
Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings and Nathan Medley sang almost as one voice, and the odd purity of their countertenor voices contrasted well with, and balanced out, the heaviness of the whole work.
To reduce pollution, between July 20th and September 20th the city is aiming to halve the number of private vehicles on the roads by allowing those with odd-number licence plates to drive one day, and those with even-number plates the next.
The final 20-odd percent was a contested block from the market, and that was done over one weekend before the stock market opened Monday morning.
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We jumped from the imminent attack of one fur seal, into the flappers of another, passing en route the odd bull elephant seal weighing in at about four tons.
Well, I have a few odd hobbies, but this might be the strangest one: I like to send lawyers out on blind dates.
One set of clients, she reports, finally decided if they died together (say, in an auto accident) on a date with an even number, the child would be raised by one set of grandparents, and if they died on an odd-numbered date, by the other.
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.
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