Brittle Britain

I like cracking sunflower seeds.

It's got a brittle star hitching a ride.

The neon sign is fizzing and cracking.

by the earth cracking open with new growth.

by the earth cracking open with new growth.

They are quite brittle. So you've only got a part of one there.

Video Myhrvold thinks tail cracking dinosaurs were interested in love, not war.

And there are brittle stars that produce bands of light that dance along their arms.

Cracking cartels International and Australian developments law enforcement conference (held 24 November 2004).

I'm about to snap like a brittle twig, when suddenly someone taps me on the shoulder.

You can also sew bypass vessels directly onto a beating heart without cracking the chest.

Now in the meantime, the two Danish guys to the left of the camera, they're cracking up.

On the left, this is a brittle star it's covered with lenses that the people at Lucent Technologies have found have no distortion whatsoever.

Israel has begun to diagnose the real causes of cancer and other diseases in human beings by cracking and analyzing the human genes.

Many speakers underscored the vital importance of cracking down on economic and financial crime, which was used by organized criminal groups and terrorists.

Over the last three months, EUFOR has carried out some large scale operations aimed at assisting Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities in cracking down on organized crime networks.

And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system that stores data in a distributed way, and it's robust.

Cuprates are notoriously difficult materials to work with, because they are very brittle. This is exacerbated by their strong anisotropy the materials have a quasi two dimensional structure consisting of a weakly coupled stack of conducting sheets.

As with Germany vis à vis France, here, too, Europe must stand unwaveringly by its transatlantic partner to avoid putting itself in great jeopardy. The two foundations of Europe s seven decades of peace are cracking.

And that let Marshall Nirenberg, you know, take RNA synthetic RNA put it in a system making protein. He made polyphenylalanine, polyphenylalanine. So that's the first cracking of the genetic code, and it was all over by 1966.

Empires can impose order and stability for a long time but imperialists rather like many Americans today become tired, and their subjects grow restless. The imperial order becomes brittle, and, as Kagan rightly notes, when the old order finally breaks down, mayhem often follows.

What is scarce is attention, which depends on credibility and government propaganda is rarely credible. For all of China s efforts to position the Xinhua news agency and China Central Television as competitors of CNN and the BBC, the international audience for brittle propaganda is vanishingly small.

Congress, at its core, pursues a form of dynastic democracy with the characteristics of a Sultanistic regime a regime with no purpose or function apart from maintaining the leader s personal authority. But, though such leaders perhaps have more personal authority than even medieval monarchs, their authority is brittle.

The moment these guys in Ottawa, on a budget of 800,000 dollars a year, got cracking, 75 percent of all the reports in the world came from GPHIN, 25 percent of all the reports in the world came from all the other 180 nations.

Ukraine s fate has become Europe s fate. Indeed, Putin not only wants to stop European political, civic, and social norms from taking root within Ukraine he wants to roll them back in the Baltics, the Balkans, and anywhere else in Europe made politically brittle by economic crisis and or demagogic populism.

HOUSTON Russia watchers are rightly focusing on the latest brittle ceasefire in Ukraine, seeking to discern President Vladimir Putin's intentions there. But they would be wise not to overlook another unfolding struggle one that will have profound long term consequences for Europe and for Putin's ability to exert pressure on the continent.

The Islamic Republic will not be able to get away with the Chinese option to combine political suppression at home with economic reform and greater openness to the outside world because its structures are too weak and brittle for this. The ruling ideology, moreover, is unlikely to survive such a step unharmed.

Unfortunately, the Communist Party s tolerance of such civic activity blows hot and cold. The Party, alarmed by the color revolutions that toppled post Soviet leaders in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, is cracking down on domestic non government organizations for fear that they, too, might become catalysts for popular uprisings.

Is he, therefore, better who lays his foundation on fear of Allah and (His) good pleasure, or he who lays his foundation on the edge of a cracking hollowed bank, so it broke down with him into the fire of hell and Allah does not guide the unjust people.

Is he, therefore, better who lays his foundation on fear of Allah and (His) good pleasure, or he who lays his foundation on the edge of a cracking hollowed bank, so it broke down with him into the fire of hell and Allah does not guide the unjust people.

For at least two years, though, Musharraf tried to have it both ways, cracking down at America s behest on the Islamists on Pakistan s western border with Afghanistan while sponsoring them on the eastern border with India. A Pakistani sponsored jihadi attack on India s Parliament in December 2001 nearly provoked all out war.

Many estimates put capital flight from China at about 300 billion annually in recent years, with a marked increase in 2015 as the economy continues to weaken. The ever vigilant Chinese authorities are cracking down on money laundering but, given the huge incentives on the other side, this is like playing whack a mole.

On one hand, he has been aggressively pursuing tigers and flies (lower level officials), while curbing, at least temporarily, the privileges enjoyed by Chinese officials. On the other hand, he has launched an equally ferocious campaign against political liberalization, arresting and jailing leading human rights activists and cracking down on China s once vibrant social media.

The youth revolt that began in Tunis and Cairo in 2010 2011 has come to an end (at least for the time being), though the region has been changed fundamentally by it. The victory of counter revolution and power politics, as in Egypt, has only seemed to restore the old order the current regime s political foundations are simply too brittle.

Indeed, France has opened its public educational system to an extraordinary degree, refusing all group rights to minorities, but vigorously affirming personal rights, including full access to all social services, regardless of language, religion, or skin color. The system is cracking, but only because of the limits of its absorptive capacity, not because of its core principles.

Meanwhile, China is seeking to seize opportunistically on the recent flare up of a territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan to court the government in Seoul. But, perhaps most important, one of the pillars of the North Korean dictatorship may now be cracking at a time when the country must once again cope with a severe, man made food shortage.

The list goes on events in the Middle East have killed all prospects for peace in the region the measures taken to aid global recovery ampnbsp including regulatory improvements, such as separation of retail and investment banking, elimination of tax havens, and cracking down on rating agencies conflicts of interest ampnbsp have been feeble and the last two G 20 meetings have been gross failures.

The multiple insurgencies that developed in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 were supported at least in part by money, materiel, and fighters from abroad. Suicide bombers from all over the Arab world crossed into the country through the porous Syrian and Jordanian borders. Regional governments may not have openly supported the insurgents, but they clearly avoided cracking down on the jihadist groups operating within their borders.

WASHINGTON, DC China s government is cracking down hard on Western journalists, threatening not to renew visas for reporters from the New York Times and Bloomberg in retaliation for their reporting on the corruption of senior Chinese officials. Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently penned an open letter to the Chinese government telling them that, because the top cause of death of Chinese regimes in history is greed and corruption, a free press is more likely to help than hurt.

WASHINGTON, DC As the West ratchets up its economic pressure on Iran to halt its drive to develop nuclear weapons, the Islamic Republic s rulers are not sitting idly by. Since Iran lacks the soft power and the economic capacity to counter Western pressure, it is likely that its leaders will resort to threats, and even to force, to prevent the West from cracking down further, as the recent attack on the British embassy in Tehran shows.

A nuclear deal with Iran would have similarly important implications in the Middle East and Southwest Asia a prospect that largely explains fervent opposition to negotiations by Israel and Saudi Arabia. While the deal will stand or fall on the extent to which it pulls Iran back from the nuclear brink, it can also open the door to further bilateral negotiations on matters of common interest, from ending the war in Syria to cracking down on drug running in Afghanistan.