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I am not feeling quite up to par.
His command of English is on a par with mine.
Some think that a belief in Santa Claus is on a par with belief in God.
Your summary is not up to par.
Some analysts consider Somalia as the failed state par excellence.
Movie subtitles
Oh, I beg your par.
Dr. Par.?
Im an old Kansas man myself born and bred in the western wilderness premier balloonist par excellence to the Miracle Wonderland Carnival Company.
Billets! Il faut aller par la.
Par la. Billets! Il faut aller par la.
Passeports d'abord, par la. What?
La douane, s'il vous plait, par la. Oh!
What's par for the cruise?
I want my relationship with her to remain at least at par.
A pessimist par excellence.
Why put us on a par with peasants, and let them get here, in the shop?
They are not up to par.
And Lutring, in his primitive psychology, steals jewels in order to keep on a par with his wife's good looks, to boost his ego.
I'm an old Kansas man myself born and bred in the western wilderness premier balloonist par excellence to the Miracle Wonderland Carnival Company.
The sure sign of a huntress par excellence.
That's par for the course.
Look, lady, this isn't exactly par for our courses either.
That was par for the course then.
You're watching a ventriloquist named jerry etherson, a voice-thrower par excellence.
But they are trees, and that stream is a river, and if you look closely- i mean, really close- you'll see a couple of items that aren't par for the course.
My good heart will not give you 6,000 F par month!
Mr. Spock, a starship can function with a chief engineer and a chief medical officer, even a first officer, under physical par.
Howdy, par. te. ner. partener!
You say something nice to her for me, Par.
Request PAR approach.
That's par for the course around here.
C'est par ici, monsieur.
Your daughter, at her present stage of development is roughly on an intellectual par with the African gorilla.
My good heart will not give you 6000 F par month!
Request PAR approach. - Global Two.
Slave, serf or wage earner, women have always been. vassals par excellence.
Let's see, on an hour-to-hour basis that puts us on a par with Fraulein Kost.
It's a little below par.
It's more than a little below par.
Par two tennis balls!
It's bloody typical of London, not telling me you were out here. I mean, that's just par for the course these days.
News and current affairs
It was Japan, the high-tech country par excellence (not the latter-day Soviet Union) that proved unable to take adequate precautions to avert disaster in four reactor blocks.
This is protectionist thinking par excellence.
In Central and Eastern Europe, Roma are often unfairly placed in these special schools, which provide sub-par education that all but guarantees a life of poverty and manual labor.
The corruption, the vote-buying, the absurd thirst of soccer bosses for international prestige, the puffed-out chests festooned with medals and decorations - all of that is par for the course.
The French state budget is chronically ill-managed, running deficits on par with Italy.
The Bank for International Settlements, which was the counterparty in currency swaps under the Bretton Woods par value system in the 1960s, could be the manager of this system.
Most Italians breathed a collective sigh of relief that three-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is being replaced by a technocrat par excellence, former European Commissioner Mario Monti, a respected economist.
For more than a century, Ireland was an emigration country par excellence.
By 2016, more than 500 million Africans will live in urban centers, and the number of cities with more than one million people is expected to reach 65, up from 52 in 2011 (on par with Europe and higher than India and North America).
But the subsequent recovery has been anemic and sub-par in most advanced economies given painful deleveraging.
Under the OMT program, the ECB can replace foreign outflows from sovereign-bond markets through direct purchases, putting Spain on par with non-eurozone countries like the United Kingdom.
So Russia's claim to being a central element in Eurasian security, on par with the US and the European Union, is not the blustering of a spent Leviathan.
While the Spanish Civil war was not on a par with the Holocaust, even bitter history leaves room for interpretation.
Europe must develop greater military capabilities, not to become a major power on par with the US, but so that it can act as America's partner if it so chooses and to pursue its own goals.
Iranians expect to perform on par with China and India.
Chinese garment factories have repeatedly experienced disasters on a par with the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City a century ago, which killed 146 workers, all young women.
In terms of economic output, today's EU is on par with the US.
That would put Liangjiang on a par with coastal China's two earlier showcase projects - Pudong and the Binhai area of Tianjin.
Evidence from El Salvador would appear to bear this point out: the Salvadoran police are widely regarded as stronger and more efficient, but crime rates remain roughly on a par with Guatemala.
A form of monetary harmonization in southern Africa already exists between South Africa and Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland, whose currencies are traded at par with the South African Rand.
This is par for the course in the Ferghana valley.