I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
Grass sprouts from the rooftops of tall apartment buildings and lambs can be found grazing on these aerial pastures, the occasional ill-starred creature crossing the border of its tiny world and plummeting into traffic, only to be stolen away almost immediately by a hungry citizen.
That magnitude of the subprime market, of its loses, looks absolutely tiny by world markets.
At the moment, of course, renewables are still a tiny share of world energy.
The purpose of your life is not to help the Tiny Tims of the world.
In this invisible world, tiny particles of gold melt at temperatures several hundred degrees lower than a large nugget, and copper, which is normally a good conductor of electricity, can become resistant in thin layers in the presence of a magnetic field.
But the number of Microsofts in the world is so tiny that it includes, well, basically, only Microsoft.
For now, only one thing seems clear: in the modern world, this tiny, peaceful kingdom now has enemies.
Mabuchi Motor has half the world market for tiny electric motors used in electronic gadgets and computer drives.
There it is, and this is soon going to be exported to the world, this tiny little video phone.
And in the 2, 000 years since, in every corner of the world, the tiny candles of Hanukkah have reminded us of the importance of faith and perseverance.
The world knows about tiny Bentonville, Ark. and mighty Wal-Mart.
How did the EPA with its tiny budget out-engineer the world's carmakers?
Yet for almost two years tiny Greece has had the entire world trembling in fear every few months, world markets in confusion, and world leaders rattled.
For one week, the eyes of the world were turned to a tiny island nation in the Mediterranean.
Mrs Thatcher's three successive election victories so changed the nature of politics that even the Labour Party, traditionally the champion of the working classes, came to adopt a similar view of the world, competing for a tiny number of swing voters while reasoning that its traditional working-class base had nowhere else to go.
This is Journe's world, crammed with so many tiny details you can almost see the miniature flywheels spinning in his head.
These are times that remind the world that we are, in fact, one very large world, and not many very tiny ones.
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There are 12 million of them around the world, from buses in Denmark to tiny three-wheeled delivery trucks in India.
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The researchers looked at variations in oxygen levels in the shells of tiny sea creatures found in samples taken from the world's ocean beds.
Remember that this was in Zambia, one of the poorest countries in the world, and it was in a tiny place six hundred kilometers from the capital city.
One system that has grabbed lots of attention around Europe and at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos originates in tiny Denmark, which has managed to avoid the Continent's generally high levels of joblessness even as it maintains an open economy free of most onerous state intrusions into the labor market.
Today, with between 1, 500 and 3, 000 members, Tunisia's tiny Jewish community is among the largest in the Arab world.
SCO, a tiny software firm in Utah, and Microsoft, the world's largest software firm, have only one thing in common.
But the British market is crowded and swamped with imports made cheaper by the strength of sterling so to have any sustainable future Scotland's comparatively tiny meat industry must aim for luxury markets around the world.
Although Pope Benedict has criticised many aspects of modern pop culture, he now allows the newspaper of the tiny independent Vatican state to reflect the reality of the world outside in a way that would have been unthinkable in the days of Pope Paul VI who reigned during heyday of The Beatles.
No such reward for exploration exists in World of Warcraft, even though you get a tiny handful of experience points for finding new areas.
Craig Glenday, Guinness World Records editor-in-chief, said the tiny cow was one of his personal favourites among the 3, 000 new records.
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And then, in 2001, came the astonishing defeat of the national team by tiny Bahrain, which dashed Iran's hopes for the 2002 World Cup.
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