He is at least a known quantity in a murky political landscape, but few Algerians are proud of their country's politics.
Failing that, Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the IAEA nuclear watchdog, is at least a known quantity, though what America knows about him it does not much like.
Minimum demand served: This constraint ensures that for every flow, at least a minimum quantity of the flow demand, is fulfilled.
An openly gay artist is at least a known quantity.
The Taliban, quite understandably, viewed the Karzai brothers as American puppets, but they were at least a known quantity since Karzai was suggested as the Taliban ambassador to the UN (Mullah Omar nixed the idea).
Nearby was obviously a large quantity, at least a kilo.
Cortana was a known quantity previously, or at least a frequently leaked one, though the latest report confirms when it'll make its first official appearance.
There is, then, a kind of conservation of matter, or at least overall quantity of matter.
The first is a clear idea of the strategic aims it wants to pursue in Europe over time; the second is the battery of skills and resources to advance those aims in Brussels.The skills and resources question is one where Poland ought to have an advantage over the other accession countries, at least in quantity.
She has published well over 100 books, including more than 40 novels, lately at the rate of at least one a year, a quantity that is remarkable for the quality control of both her storytelling and her sentences.
