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The exchange rate of the dollar versus the euro has declined.
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Paul Pons versus Raoul the Butcher.
The United States of America versus Duke Mantee.
People of the State of California versus Frank Jessup and Diane Tremayne Jessup.
In this corner, Schulz, the Beast of Bavaria versus the Hunchback of Stalag 17!
A new bracelet versus a thousand impoverished customers.
We have pistols and hand grenades, versus tanks and airplanes.
The People versus Clarence Madigan.
The People versus Frederick Manion.
People versus Durfee, 1886.
All we did was chat about different kinds of food train travel versus plane travel, that sort of thing.
He's a very big expert on heredity versus environment.
Well now, if it's brain, or brawn rather, versus brain, heh, heh I've got you beaten from the start, young man!
The first contest is with Bigshout, commonly known as Dirty-Hand. versus Brancaleone da Norcia.
What about Fishbein versus The Empire State Building?
GaIIoway versus Oextry and GIennister, your Honour.
Greyhound versus Toad!
A fight? - Goliath versus Goliath.
Let me see, there were the State of New York versus your client Richards, and then you represented Braverman, and then, if I recall, Flanagan, and finally Kowtowski.
The City of Paris versus Francois Durnais.
We inmates of compound six, dachau concentration camp versus gunther lutze, captain, s.s.
Kong versus Godzilla.
THE NEPHEW OF UNCLE SAM VERSUS THE NIECE OF UNCLE HO.
You mean all of the resources of modern science versus Judy?
Paul Pons versus Raoul the Butcher. En garde!
The state of Missouri versus Clarence Potter, Alias Muff Potter.
MacLaine versus Potts.
Step by step. with never a false move or moment of hesitation. he moves relentlessly toward another triumph. in the never-ending struggle. of man versus machine.
The fat master versus the thin poor devil.
Philadelphia versus New York.
Those disrupters versus our hand phasers.
The prosecution will build its case on the basis of Kirk versus the computer.
Although it's disappearing now, one thing I dislike about the church is this bookkeeping aspect, good deeds versus sins.
The People versus Fielding Mellish.
Althought for him there wasn't anything more alluring than the equilibrium of the two extremes. Let's take, for instance, two dualities like spiritual versus libertine.
It's Stalin versus Hiroshima.
News and current affairs
Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis: the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.
The Middle East conflict - Palestine versus Israel now, Iraq to come - creates serious risks for growth and financial stability.
On the issue of big versus small countries, Europe has a lot to learn from the United States.
But the economics of innovation are very different for those at the frontier versus those who are followers striving to catch up.
The two styles of capitalism can be contrasted as the family firm versus the post-modern firm.
Usually, this principle means that marginal tax rates should be similar at different levels of labor income, for various types of consumption, for outlays today versus tomorrow, and so on.
The international community must recognize that the Middle East security equation is not a simple linear one involving Israel versus the Arab world.
Second, it makes relative wages (of, say, manufacturing versus services employees) more rigid, because wage contracts are generally set in euro terms.
It also formed a National Defense Council (NDC), dominated by the military (11 army commanders versus six civilians - assuming that the interior minister is a civilian).
Whether it is coastal versus inland or rural versus urban, these countries must tackle the widening disparities, because high inequality may well threaten their very ability to continue growing as they have.
National security versus globalization is not an either-or issue though they sometimes come into conflict with each other, so balancing them is the key to successful policy.
The EU's goals therefore embody an inherent contradiction - energy security versus climate-change prevention - which makes it difficult for the EIB to clean up its energy portfolio.
The debate about individual income supplements versus general public services has become lively everywhere.
But private versus state ownership of natural resources is not the only institutional factor underlying the US gas boom.
The prominent climate economist Professor Richard Tol of Hamburg University has analyzed the benefits and costs of cutting carbon now versus cutting it in the future.
Pakistan versus India is a devastating conflict-in-waiting, and North Korea and Iran remain volatile sources of concern.
Rather, as the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises emphasized, they are a reflection of people's aggregate time preference - or desire for present versus future satisfaction - not a determinant of it.
Democracy Versus Growth?
But, from an economic point of view, the share of homeowners versus tenants is not very important.
This brings us back to the conundrum of correlation versus causation.
The stimulus-versus-austerity debate is an old one.
Moreover, rule-making is rarely about efficiency alone; it may entail trading off competing social objectives - stability versus innovation, for example - or making distributional choices.
In a series of studies, IMF economists have stopped treating the issue as one of good versus evil, and have started treating it as a run-of-the-mill economic choice: capital controls have costs and benefits that can be measured and compared.
The yen's depreciation versus the dollar has contributed to continuing large US trade deficits with Japan.
Islam versus Modernity?
The same is true of cosmopolitanism versus insularity.