Capacity to absorb an innovation

I was also inspired by Walt Whitman, who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him.

Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near insolvent sovereigns inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems. As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

It feels like it's going to absorb you into another world.

Financial markets have also made clear that the ability of other major deficit countries, like Brazil and India, to absorb capital flows is reaching its limit. Since the world is a closed system, this raises the question Who will run the world s deficits?

(b) United Nations University (i) Strengthening the ability of recipient countries to absorb increased aid flows and to use them effectively for development (ii) Addressing and resolving the environmental causes and consequences of violent conflict (iii) New initiatives to mobilize private and public finance for education

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

Equally important were training and the development of national capacity to absorb technology.

Indeed, the ICBC s non performing loan (NPL) ratio for LFP loans is as low as 0.3 , while the corresponding coverage ratio the bank s ability to absorb losses from NPLs is 1,066 . According to the NAO, the NPL ratio for the RMB10.7 trillion in local government debt is roughly 2.3 .

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

By invisible, I mean it doesn't absorb in the electromagnetic spectrum.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

Likewise, the English language s ability to produce and absorb neologisms is an important reason why it will endure as the world s lingua franca. The Oxford English Dictionary, now updated quarterly, revised more than 1,900 entries in its March 2011 edition, and added new terms, such as subdomain, dataveillance, and geotagging.

Last month, the bank paid 1.1 billion in dividends, reducing its ability to absorb future losses on its investments. If policymakers and regulators do not strengthen their reform efforts, taxpayers and shareholders not bankers like Dimon will be the ones who suffer the consequences of the next crisis as well.

Skill number one is the ability to recognize success and the ability to recognize failure.

Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

The conference came at a time when developing countries and emerging markets have demonstrated their ability to absorb huge amounts of money productively. Indeed, the tasks that these countries are undertaking investing in infrastructure (roads, electricity, ports, and much else), building cities that will one day be home to billions, and moving toward a green economy are truly enormous.

In the case of the capture spiral, it needs to be so stretchy to absorb the impact of flying prey.

Some people have a better musical ability and ability to appreciate music than others have.

In some cases, an island or group of islands may be able to absorb the likely displacement of population.

The persistence, their ability to deal with ambiguity, their ability to tackle problems that they haven't seen before.

Yes, many African countries need skills. But they are unable to absorb them, owing to several factors associated with economic backwardness.

The average man fails not because he lacks ability, but because he lacks ability to concentrate.

Cool roofs are highly reflective surfaces that don't absorb solar heat and pass it on to the building or atmosphere.

A good book can completely absorb your attention, to the extent that you forget your surroundings and even your existence.

They consider the CKREE subject to be so designed that it would gradually absorb their son into the Christian faith.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007 was insufficient to absorb 31,500.

It improves our ability to learn.

And in these cavities, these micro cavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water.

It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.

In addition, the Government of Somaliland was increasingly concerned about the number of returnees and their capacity to absorb the returnees.

The problem this entails is worsening because neither the private sector nor the State has the capacity to absorb the increase.

b The missions will attempt to absorb the balance requirement for the period 2005 06 within the proposed 2005 06 budgets.

Now the other issue comes with, not just the ability to tell pitches apart, but the ability to tell sounds apart.

That's because our ability to confront the problems that we face has not kept pace with our ability to create them.

It's hard enough to learn to get the skills, try to learn all the material you have to absorb at any task you're taking on.

And everyone has the ability to contribute.

Weak ability to manage the educational system.

So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.

He said that the ability of women of African descent to make their own decisions led to choices and the ability to influence public decisions.

And so actually it allows for an intense emotional exchange, but is serves to absorb the specificity of the words that are delivered.

Ramp up support to Haiti over the long term as there will be an increasing capacity to absorb and use aid to build more sustainable development.

It allows small and medium sized enterprises to absorb new technologies that increase efficiency and productivity and helps to improve employment opportunities and labour conditions.

It was part of the federal government policy to use alcohol as an instrument with which to absorb the constant surplus of sugar cane production.