They are also known to decrease capillary fragility.

But the money market s size is not the only reason for its fragility.

The increasing fragility of the international political order is diminishing the global economy s prospects.

Indeed, the fragility of the global economic recovery is often cited as a justification to delay such action.

Liquid love is a concept created by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman concerning the fragility of human bonds in postmodernity.

The fragility of Germany s foreign policy foundations was to become clear during the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

And fiscal weakness and balance of payments fragility have become more acute in India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey.

CAMBRIDGE Last month, at a nbsp US Federal Reserve Bank conference on the money market, officials lamented the market s enduring fragility.

The Sunni tumult has underscored the fragility of almost all Arab countries, while diluting the centrality of the Israel Palestine conflict.

The Arab Spring, however, reveals the fragility of repressive political regimes that try to maintain their legitimacy by limiting information flows.

Yanukovych s candidacy thus reveals much about the nature of the people who back him, and also about the fragility of Ukraine s democracy.

MADRID The revolutions that swept the Arab world during the last two years have exposed the extraordinary fragility of key Arab states.

The fragility of America s banks had been known for a long time at least since the bankruptcy of Bear Stearns the previous March.

So, illusions are often used, especially in art, in the words of a more contemporary artist, to demonstrate the fragility of our senses.

And I asked myself, in a way, looking back, When did that kind of awareness of the planet and its fragility first appear?

Assessments on competitiveness and the fragility of external balances suggest that structural reforms in the enterprise sector are needed to enhance Croatia s competitiveness.

When it comes to national leadership at a time of fragility and transition, so much seems to depend on the luck of the draw.

As we ponder the second choice, between stability and fragility, we must consider how we can make our increasingly interconnected world a safer place.

One thing I hope will become clear at the Oslo education summit is the need to help middle income countries affected by fragility and conflict.

Now, we, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity despite the second law, and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

Much of it involved costly churning of portfolios, while increased leverage implied fragility for the financial system as a whole and imposed severe social costs as over exposed households subsequently went bankrupt.

The European Central Bank s vehement opposition to what is essential to all capitalist economies the restructuring of failed or insolvent entities debt is evidence of the continuing fragility of the Western banking system.

So what big history can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power with collective learning.

Though the full implications of this uniquely high ratio for macroeconomic stability need further investigation, it certainly implies financial fragility and a weakening of the PBOC s ability to control overall liquidity in the economy.

Dobrica Ćosić, a Serbian writer and political theorist, proposed it in the 1970 s, perhaps mindful of the inevitable fragility of post Tito Yugoslavia. Since then, the idea has been largely dismissed by Western powerbrokers.

Meanwhile, given the fragility and interconnectedness of the global economy, tightening monetary policy in the US could have negative impacts abroad (with consequent blowback at home), especially given the instability in China and economic malaise in Europe.

Lino is generally diced, much easier to cut than wood, especially when heated, but the pressure of the printing process degrades the plate faster and it is difficult to create larger works due to the material's fragility.

WASHINGTON, DC As 2015 begins, policymakers around the world are faced with three fundamental choices to strive for economic growth or accept stagnation to work to improve stability or risk succumbing to fragility and to cooperate or go it alone.

George Whitesides Yes, I think you could. Because if you look at the components from which the system is made and examine their fragility, or their stability, you can probably build a kind of risk assessment based on that basis.

Surely heightened public concern about the risk of future economic catastrophe in the wake of the financial crisis is still playing an important role, reinforced by lingering fragility in the eurozone and rising instability in emerging markets. This makes the public understandably more cautious.

The downward pressure continued towards the end of the year , even though other major stock markets rebounded , as domestic factors , including mounting market concerns about financial fragility and the resolution of the problem of non performing bank loans , again weighed on Japanese stock prices .

After all, America s financial mismanagement played an important role in triggering Europe s problems, and financial turmoil in Europe would not be good for the US especially given the fragility of the US banking system and the continuing role it plays in non transparent CDSs.

After all, America s financial mismanagement played an important role in triggering Europe s problems, and financial turmoil in Europe would not be good for the US especially given the fragility of the US banking system and the continuing role it plays in non transparent CDSs.

With the SNB s assets amounting to nearly 90 of Switzerland s GDP, the reversal raises serious questions about both the limits and repercussions of open ended QE. And it serves as a chilling reminder of the fundamental fragility of promises like that of ECB President Mario Draghi to do whatever it takes to save the euro.

In their resolution of May 1989 on the promotion of books and reading, the Council and the Ministers for Cultural Affairs demanded closer collaboration between libraries and archives for the preservation of books at risk because of the fragility of acid paper and for the launching of a campaign for the use of 'permanent paper'.

Israel s leaders see their country s standing in the region being seriously threatened by the emergence of a hostile Islamist regime in Egypt the possibility that a similarly hostile regime will eventually emerge in Syria the fragility of traditionally friendly Jordan and the dangerous boost that the regional Islamist awakening has given to Israel s sworn enemies, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Second , an investigation was carried out on the possible use of macroeconomic data in the supervisory process and the links between macroeconomic developments and fragility in banking systems as a whole and at the level of individual institutions . Third , the most recent developments in industry practice for bad and doubtful loans with particular focus on the new approaches based on statistical methods were examined with a view to assessing the main prudential supervisory implications .

3.2 The use of macroeconomic data in the supervisory process As a follow up to the work on supervisory early warning systems carried out in 1996 ( see the EMI 's Annual Report 1996 ) , an investigation was carried out on the possible use of macroeconomic data in the supervisory process and the links between macroeconomic developments and fragility in the banking systems both as a whole and at the level of individual institutions .