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.

Capacity to absorb an innovation

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

Forests also serve as an enormous carbon sink, storing atmospheric carbon dioxide for many decades or centuries thus, protecting forests would help to mitigate climate change. Moreover, forests absorb intense rainfall, thereby reducing the risk of flooding.

The fewer people there are, the less risk we face of heating up the planet. But, instead of accepting the natural decline in their populations, rich country governments absorb more and more people to hold down wages and thereby grow faster.

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

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

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

The ECB s task is to provide liquidity to banks, while the EFSF and ESM are designed to absorb solvency risk. The ECB would not be facilitating additional borrowing by member countries it would merely allow them to refinance their debt at a lower cost.

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

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

And he showed that gasses such as CO2 absorb heat, thus acting like a blanket warming Earth's surface.

But I love that one, because that was an experiment about how much information one human brain could absorb.

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

And by using mycelium as a glue, you can mold things just like you do in the plastic industry, and you can create materials with many different properties, materials that are insulating, fire resistant, moisture resistant, vapor resistant materials that can absorb impacts, that can absorb acoustical impacts.

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

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.

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

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.

And again, they only absorb light at particular colors when electrons jump up and fall down, jump up and fall down.

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

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

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.

And finally, on your right side, you see a bubbly, cell like structure appearing, from which the body will absorb the fat.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

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

There's another risk, and they respond less to this existing risk.

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

Because these materials could actually absorb six to 12 times as much energy per pound as steel, and do so a lot more smoothly.

Allah knoweth that which every female beareth and that which the wombs absorb and that which they grow. And everything with Him is measured.

Allah knoweth that which every female beareth and that which the wombs absorb and that which they grow. And everything with Him is measured.

A number of instruments can be used to absorb a successful practice, including institutions and facilitators of the learning process and tools and guidelines.

Given the importance of the topic, States should be given a reasonable opportunity to properly absorb the significance and scope of the draft articles.

Urbanization was so rapid that cities could not fully absorb the new pool of labour, thus giving rise to the phenomenon of urban poverty.

In addition, the existing UNDP advisers will be able to absorb some functions that UNOTIL advisers are currently engaged in from May 2006, namely

They have an increased risk of infection, an increased risk of malignancy.

Risk reduction

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.

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.

Between 2005 and 2015, the least developed countries as a whole are expected to absorb nearly a quarter of all population growth in the world.