Adaptability is fine, but we also need bedrock.

So there's a wall of ice a couple thousand feet deep going down to bedrock if the glacier's grounded on bedrock, and floating if it isn't.

And they become the bedrock of any harbor ecosystem.

Informed consent is the very bedrock of our understanding of democracy.

For kids growing up, that skill is the bedrock of development.

They take iron and manganese minerals within the bedrock and they oxidize them.

This is the breakdown product of the bedrock, that organisms are busy munching their way through.

They have a fierceness and a freedom that I believe is the bedrock of a new paradigm.

The United Nations is both the bedrock of and the indispensable tool for building an effective multilateral system.

Those ugly and disruptive forces are having a severe impact on the bedrock of humankind's core values and human civilizations.

Investments in infrastructure and human capital are the bedrock for increasing average productivity and for ensuring high growth over a sustained period of time.

That is why decisions on fundamental issues should be based on the broadest possible agreement among Member States and on the bedrock of international law the Charter of the United Nations.

And these cameras are positioned on rocks on the sides of the glaciers, and they look in on the glacier from permanent, bedrock positions, and they watch the evolution of the landscape.

Notes the Special Rapporteur's concern that the situation of the independence of judges and lawyers, which is the bedrock of the rule of law, remains delicate in many parts of the world

Notes the Special Rapporteur's concern that the situation of the independence of judges and lawyers, which is the bedrock of the rule of law, remains delicate in many parts of the world

Notes the Special Rapporteur's concern that the situation of the independence of judges and lawyers, which is the bedrock of the rule of law, remains delicate in many parts of the world

While State sovereignty has been a cornerstone of international relations and the foundation of the Charter, many participants expressed their unease about the possibility that ambiguous definitions and norms could undermine that bedrock.

I am passionate about the American landscape and how the physical form of the land, from the great Central Valley of California to the bedrock of Manhattan, has really shaped our history and our character.

The 2004 TCPR emphasized that funding of operational development activities for the United Nations system should focus on long term development and that core resources continue to be the bedrock of United Nations operational activities.

Reiterates that regular resources are the bedrock of UNFPA and are essential to maintaining the multilateral, neutral and universal nature of its work and encourages UNFPA to continue to mobilize supplementary resources for its programmes.

A related problem is that Russia lacks a rule of law that protects and encourages entrepreneurs. These are precisely the people needed to help foster a vibrant middle class the bedrock of a stable democratic market economy.

Any transition to peace may well prove ephemeral unless policymakers make political reconciliation and integration not optimal economic policies the bedrock priority. Despite its failures, the UN is probably still the best placed organization to oversee such efforts.

Kelleher concludes, Equal justice for all without fear or favor is the bedrock of our democracy and, indeed, our country. Unfortunately, the Department of Justice still seems to believe that very large companies deserve special access and special treatment.

So the inference we are deriving from this, and several such experiments, is that dynamic information processing, or motion processing, serves as the bedrock for building the rest of the complexity of visual processing it leads to visual integration and eventually to recognition.

The impact of a sharp decline in real estate prices would be far reaching. After all, property collateral is the bedrock of the Chinese financial system, with estimates of banks direct and indirect exposure to real estate ranging from 66 to 89 of GDP.

The pervasive soul searching prompted by such questions has nurtured a growing recognition that capitalism s success depends not only on macroeconomic policy or economic indicators. It rests on a bedrock of good governance and the rule of law in other words, a well performing state.

With fear of bank runs and defaults receding, banks reserve ratios became ever smaller, thus increasing their lending facilities. On this bedrock rose an imposing edifice of bond markets and banks that drove down the cost of finance, and thus sped up the rate of economic growth.

Mainstream thinking, known as the Chinese School, insists, with the government, on Marxism with Chinese characteristics as the bedrock principle of China s foreign policy. But a minority school argues that China should rely instead on the country s traditional political thought, emphasizing the universal value of traditional Chinese philosophy.

That agreement guaranteed Hong Kong s way of life for 50 years under Deng Xiaoping s slogan One country, two systems. The rule of law and the freedoms associated with pluralism due process and the freedom of speech, assembly, and worship were to remain the bedrock of Hong Kong s prosperity and stability.

In short, the financial revolution of the modern world was built on a political order which anteceded a full transition to universal democracy in which the creditors formed the political class. That model was transferred to many other countries, and became the bedrock on which modern financial stability was built.

17. Stresses that core resources, because of their untied nature, continue to be the bedrock of the operational activities for development of the United Nations system, and in this regard notes with appreciation that core contributions to United Nations funds and programmes have begun to increase again over the last three years

14. Stresses that core resources, inter alia, because of their untied nature, are the bedrock of the operational activities of the United Nations system, and in this regard notes with serious concern the overall decline or stagnation in core resources available to many United Nations funds and programmes, in particular the United Nations Development Programme

not as the bedrock of stability in the global economy, but as a place that can't resolve its own fights, and the longer we put that off, the more we make the world nervous, the higher interest rates are going to be, the quicker we're going to have to face a day of horrible calamity.

Following the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month, world leaders dashed to the scene, locked arms, and marched in support of freedom of expression as a bedrock principle of civilized societies. The natural next step for many of them should have been to return home and immediately implement that principle.

Yes, sound political and social institutions are the bedrock of sustained economic growth indeed, they are the sine qua non of all cases of successful development. But Europe s long history of exploitative colonialism makes it hard to guess how Asian and African institutions would have evolved in a parallel universe where Europeans came only to trade, not to conquer.

Then, if we added maps like the geology, the bedrock geology, and the surface geology, what the glaciers leave, if we make the soil map, with the 17 soil classes, that are defined by the National Conservation Service, if we make a digital elevation model of the topography that tells us how high the hills were, then we can calculate the slopes.

Unilateral announcement of troop reductions in Europe and Asia, where US forces primarily serve (as in South Korea) to dissuade aggression, can only be seen as a corollary of this tendency. The Bush doctrine's bedrock notion is that of pre emptive war, a doctrine that lacks international legitimacy and that therefore can usually count on only a limited number of allies.

But they must stop being supplicants, and act like real leaders, understanding that others, too, including advanced countries, face challenges that sometimes require policies that put the domestic economy first. And they must work to uphold the bedrock principles of the global economy that have served it and them so well in the last 60 years non discrimination and multilateralism.

Aside from the great damage caused by unequal bargaining power outside of the multilateral framework, the path of bilateral negotiations threatens to remove the focus from universal outcomes, which are the bedrock of globalization. The basic principle of non discrimination is at risk once trading countries negotiate separately with each other, various forms of discrimination become inevitable, giving rise to various kinds of conflicts.

18. Stresses that core resources, because of their untied nature, continue to be the bedrock of the operational activities for development of the United Nations system, in this regard notes with concern that the share of core contributions to United Nations funds and programmes has declined in recent years, and recognizes the need for organizations to address, on a continuous basis, the imbalance between core and non core resources