And it took about a week for us to actually gradually converge.

And they converge into this channel here, which drains into this region.

And you can follow these channels and you can see how they all converge.

In the last five years, the two countries have begun to converge somewhat in economic growth.

And curiously, in these systems, as they grow larger, the systems don't converge they diverge more.

As these two animals form a social bond, their distinctive whistles actually converge and become very similar.

We simply must converge on the answers we give to the most important questions in human life.

It is necessary to combine these immediate requirements with longer term rehabilitation projects that converge with development objectives.

The rest of emerging Asia will also converge reasonably quickly, though not as quickly as China. Latin America, however, will likely converge only very slowly in the absence of major structural reforms that increase its ability to invest and improve the quality of education.

Trains of all Italy and Europe converge there and the people who get off speak various languages and dialects.

The international community's efforts to stabilize West Africa should devote particular attention to controlling the arms flows that converge there.

Indeed, crime and terror converge primarily when terrorists commit conventional crime and, in effect, become part of the criminal world.

The Committee observes that articles 8 and 17 of the Covenant largely converge with articles 4 and 8 of the European Convention.

The code of conduct on arms exports adopted by the EU in 1998 offered a model towards which other legislations could converge.

27. However, these exciting developments happen to converge with a period of budgetary contraction, which has hit especially hard in the field.

And what I want to do in this talk is to split them apart figuring out when they diverge and how they converge.

The strategy of transnational corporations and the policy of Governments converge along these lines, even though the brakes have been applied in some cases.

No evidence exists that this happened. Prices did converge during the implementation of the Single Market program, in the early 1990 s, but then price convergence stopped.

We recognize that the task is very difficult and complex, taking into account the various interests that converge as we consider reforming the entire United Nations system.

All these issues, together with the need to reshape the Security Council in a way that better reflects the international realities, will converge in the September summit.

They should be concentrated on core actions and programs, where the need for stable and predictable resources is strongest and where priorities strongly converge between contributing countries.

So the presence of the power and the bandwidth in the environment will allow all of these new technologies to converge in a manner that is just unprecedented.

They have also stressed the need to ensure that North South and South South efforts converge towards the same objectives of sustainable development and, specifically, the Millennium Development Goals.

French security forces are on high alert as thousands of Catholics converge on the shrine of Lourdes for an annual pilgrimage unfolding in the shadow of a string of terror attacks.

Perceptions of women in the sex industry, including of those trafficked, as spreading HIV to the general population makes this sector the crossroads where multiple types of stigma and discrimination converge.

CONAE will encourage these lines of cooperation, as far as they converge with the development work scheduled in the national space programme and involve concrete projects aimed at well defined goals.

The Fund still regards free capital mobility as an ideal toward which all countries will eventually converge. This requires only that countries achieve the threshold conditions of adequate financial and institutional development.

I was once driving down a main road in... onon the Continent... and I saw two great trucks... move out and converge on a... station wagon driving down the middle of the road.

It is time for the efforts of the international community and all friends of Haiti, both in this hemisphere and elsewhere, to converge resolutely on the goal of achieving a social pact in Haiti.

These changes do not directly induce economic growth, but they increase the economy s potential or long run income. Growth itself occurs as the economy begins to converge to this higher level of long run income.

However, it will still be necessary for the efforts carried out with our bilateral and multilateral development partners to converge to improve the situation in the seven critical areas for making aid to least developed countries effective.

And yet society s trust in science has not wavered. While specific objectives have changed, the overarching belief that scientific knowledge transforms people s lives as cultural, educational, and institutional factors converge with technological and industrial dynamics has remained strong.

Enhancing the role, capacity, effectiveness and efficiency of the United Nations system has to take those basic facts into account and programmes should be concentrated on areas where particular needs and the special capacity of the Organization converge.

The year 2005 is a significant historical benchmark in the decolonization process, as two important activities converge to shed light on how far we have come in advancing the self determination process, and how much remains to be done.

Many of you will realize that I'm ripping a bit off of the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge's notion of a technological singularity, where a number of trends accelerate and converge and come together to create, really, a shockingly new reality.

Debates within eurozone member states typically converge on what legal scholars call herrschende Meinung ( dominant opinion ), which, in turn, appears to reflect their countries status as creditors or debtors. Reinforcing this, the typical career conscious economist has little incentive to deviate.

If food inflation recedes further, and the headline inflation rate starts to converge on the 3 core (non food) rate, the result will be the equivalent of passive monetary tightening in real (inflation adjusted) terms precisely what the inflation prone Chinese economy needs.

With a full banking union, cross border lending should resume and remain stable, as common institutions would absorb national shocks. Interest rates would then converge to a low level, fostering recovery in the periphery and making it easier to stabilize public finances.

The introduction of the euro in 1999, it was claimed, would narrow the economic differences between the member countries of the monetary union. Unemployment rates would converge, as would other important macroeconomic variables, such as unit labor costs, productivity, and fiscal deficits and government debt.

A perceptible hardening of China s stance toward India since then is also reflected in other developments, including Chinese strategic projects and the country s military presence in the Pakistani held portion of Kashmir, a region where the disputed borders of India, China, and Pakistan converge.

The 2004 2007 MYFF identified four interactive programme strategies (advocacy and policy dialogue building and using a knowledge base promoting, strengthening and coordinating partnerships and developing systems for improving performance) that converge to develop the national capacities of programme countries in population related issues.

A world in which different sovereigns regulate finance in diverse ways requires traffic rules to manage the intersection of separate national policies. The assumption that all countries will converge on the ideal of free capital mobility diverts us from the hard work of formulating those rules.

As Gordon notes, there have been long lasting productivity dividends associated with urbanization a trend that could continue for at least another decade in China. But there will come a time when this tailwind subsides and China begins to converge on the so called frontier of the advanced economies.

Excluding this inventory swing, annualized growth in final sales to consumers, businesses, and the government averaged a tepid 1.6 . With inventory investment unlikely to keep accelerating at anything close to its recent rate, overall GDP growth can be expected to converge on this more subdued pace of final demand.

When no side in a war has a reason to stop fighting, a peace conference cannot succeed. In Syria, the moral, strategic, and political arguments all converge in favor of decisive action to stop the killing, if not forever, at least for now, to create a space for peace.