Capacity to absorb an innovation

I was also inspired by Walt Whitman, who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him.

Should the executive office that provides this service find it difficult to absorb, then the capacity released from the Executive Office of the Office of Legal Affairs should be appropriately redeployed.

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

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

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

Few foreign journalists venture in it is too difficult and too dangerous for them to work inside the country and local reporters are harassed by the authorities. And, even when there is news, the world s capacity to absorb bad and sad stories from yet another hellish place is limited.

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

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

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

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

It's difficult to explain to people now that it was difficult then.

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

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

In all these cases, and a few others also mostly in Asia domestic reforms would surely have produced growth regardless of international trade. But it is difficult to see how the resulting growth could have been as high reaching an unprecedented 10 or more annually in per capita terms without a global economy able to absorb these countries exports.

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.

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

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

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.

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's difficult to watch, and even more difficult to look away, but Greene said that's the point.

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

They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday they have difficult conversations with difficult people, sometimes during very difficult times.

For without that, one difficult journey would be not merely difficult but close to impossible.

Kanji are difficult to read.

English is difficult to learn.

This is difficult to believe.

It's difficult to do that.

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

Ramp up support to Haiti over the long term as there will be an increasing capacity to absorb and use aid to build more sustainable development.

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.

It was part of the federal government policy to use alcohol as an instrument with which to absorb the constant surplus of sugar cane production.

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

But in general it was difficult it was really difficult to explain what the web was like.

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

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

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries will be able to absorb only limited numbers of surplus workers from labour exporting countries owing to current work nationalization policies.