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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We need a breakthrough that is demonstrable, public, clear, and convincing, that can mobilize the public s hearts and minds, and that can demonstrate success. History can be made in Madrid at the end of January, when the world s richest and poorest countries converge to seek solutions to the global hunger crisis.

These factors apply to emerging countries generally. Why, then, do Latin American economists seem to share a cautious even pessimistic mood about future growth and convergence in the region, whereas most Asian economists, while conceding that further structural reforms are needed, believe strongly that Asia will continue to converge rather rapidly?

For core eurozone banks, this has been a region of extraordinary returns, and it is now integral to their operations. In emerging Europe, foreign subsidiaries have helped to build financial systems that are less prone to instability, and have helped economies to converge more rapidly with average European income levels.

The choice of whether or not to have children and information on the means of avoiding transmitting the disease to an unborn child or a newborn infant make women the focus of intense scrutiny pregnancy and childcare are areas around which multiple stigmas of family, community and health care converge.

This highlights another issue on which Turkey and the Islamic State converge the Kurds. Erdoğan seems to hope that, by degrading Kurdish military strength and territorial control, the Islamic State will help him to achieve his central goal of diminishing the Kurdish nationalist movement, which has long been a thorn in Turkey s side.

Large current account surpluses and or rising terms of trade imply that the equilibrium real exchange rate (the relative price of foreign to domestic goods) has appreciated in countries like China and Russia. Thus, over time the actual real exchange rate needs to converge via real appreciation with the stronger equilibrium rate.

Of course, demographics is not an exact science Much depends on assumptions about age profiles, standards of living, inequality, and so on, and sooner or later the Muslim fertility rate will converge with the national average. But by then the Muslim population will have expanded rapidly to 10 20 of the total in the UK.

Under a flat line export scenario, with no rise in US exports, and if everything else remains the same (always a heroic assumption), overall real GDP growth would converge on that 1.4 bogey. That is a weak growth trajectory by any standard likely to result in rising unemployment and further deterioration in consumer confidence.

8.5 However, the European Court was able to examine the same matter only insofar as the substantive rights protected under the European Convention converge with those protected under the Covenant, and to the extent that the events complained occurred prior to 18 May 1999, when the author filed his application with the European Court.

This June, thousands of activists, policymakers, and business people will converge on Rio de Janeiro for the third giant United Nations Sustainable Development Conference (Rio 20), whose theme is the green economy. The conference will unleash new arguments about green jobs, growth, cost increases, cost reductions, changes in values, consumer choice green this and green that.

So, we're going to understand positive social emotion like empathy and compassion, and we're going to understand the factors that encourage it whether they're genetic, whether they're how people talk to one another, whether they're economic systems, and insofar as we begin to shine light on that we are inevitably going to converge on that fact space.

On the other hand, being the tortoise rather than the hare in the growth race can be an advantage. Countries that rely on steady, economy wide accumulation of skills and improved governance may not grow as fast, but they may be more stable, less prone to crises, and more likely to converge with advanced countries eventually.