What happened? The car's slowing down.

But no, this guy isn't slowing down.

Mr. Nguyen Tat Thanh (Viet Nam) said that the major international financial institutions had forecast a slowing down in the growth rate of the world economy.

I'm like, Okay, all right, this guy is slowing down, I'll slow down too.

Main constraints include a slowing economy, marked by sharply higher prices for oil and electricity.

And I thought, Yeah, you know, this slowing down thing really does work.

This has been one important reason for slowing down the pace of implementing the programme.

We remain worried about the security situation, which is slowing down progress in all other areas.

Right across the world, people are doing the unthinkable they're slowing down, and finding that, although conventional wisdom tells you that if you slow down, you're road kill, the opposite turns out to be true that by slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better.

With uncertainty plaguing Europe s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy. But it will take strong leadership by the president elect to avoid it.

Another reason although I think, perhaps, the most powerful reason why we find it hard to slow down is the cultural taboo that we've erected against slowing down.

From about 10 billion in 1990, it's worth 50 billion dollars globally today, and it shows no sign of slowing down.

China s Slowing New Normal

At its thirteenth session, the Commission should adopt measures to expedite the Plan of Implementation and to remove obstacles that were slowing it down.

For Japan, the TPP is vital to achieve economic liberalization the third arrow of Abenomics, the government s program to revitalize the country s ailing economy. The legislation to enact the TPP will simply push aside the lobbies and vested interests that have been so effective in slowing down or diverting piecemeal reforms.

The Case for Slowing Population Growth

I can stand here right now and see, as I go tearing into the water after him, the moments slowing down and freezing into this arrangement.

So, in the last century, OK, people debated about whether this expansion of space would continue forever whether it would slow down, you know, will be slowing down, but continue forever slow down and stop, asymptotically stop or slow down, stop, and then reverse, so it starts to contract again.

So a little over a decade ago, two groups of physicists and astronomers set out to measure the rate at which the expansion of space was slowing down, OK.

Unfortunately, China s data are not nearly as reliable as those measuring a developed economy, which makes it difficult for anyone to be sure of what is happening. Electricity usage is typically one of the most reliable measures of growth but, with the economy shifting toward services, and with many energy intensive industries such as cement and steel production slowing down, it is perfectly possible that slow electricity growth is simply a symptom of rebalancing.

However, many representatives expressed concerns, including the probable slowing down in the rate of phase out and introduction of alternative substances that would follow the introduction of multi year exemptions.

SEOUL South Korea s incoming president, Park Geun hye, takes over a country that has been a global role model for economic development. But, with the economy slowing, it has become a model in need of renewal.

Private sector activity is slowing, and it is nearing a standstill in the eurozone s most vulnerable economy (Greece), where a bank run is in full swing. Elsewhere, too, depositors are beginning to transfer their savings to the strongest economy (Germany) and to safe havens beyond (Switzerland and the United States).

Because there are a lot of people who might live up there and if they're waiting forever a long queue could form because the cars aren't slowing down on the main road.

You're reading this as this happens, so on day 55, everybody reads that he's having failures breathing failures and heart failures, and it's slowing down, and you don't know what to expect.

In deciding when to normalize interest rates, the Fed has placed considerable weight on the weakness of inflation, and its global underpinnings. But while it is true that some global developments especially falling commodity prices, and perhaps also slowing emerging economy growth and rising financial volatility may push down inflation, dollar appreciation will not, at least not in any meaningful way.

Now, you know, I like a quickie as much as the next person, but I think that there's an awful lot to be gained from slow sex from slowing down in the bedroom.

More important, China s economy depends on continued access to Western and especially US markets. At a time when a slowing economy is creating greater uncertainty for China, it cannot afford to provoke tensions with the US over anything that is not in its direct interests, such as its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Or we can monitor the velocity with which people are moving with their phones on a highway, and the phone company can see, as the velocity is slowing down, that there's a traffic jam.

Many analysts had expected emerging markets to generate exponential growth over the next decade. But now there is talk of how the global crisis is slowing down these economies and killing off discretionary spending.

The fact that America s economy is slowing is bad news for Europeans, regardless of claims that Europe s economy has successfully decoupled itself from the United States. Decoupling is an idea that is based on bad economics and on some Europeans reluctance to accept the fact that Europe s short but sweet economic expansion is also coming to an end.

For two decades, as one Asian economy after another boomed, Japan s economy remained virtually stagnant. Now, with GDP growth in Asia s two giants, China and India, slowing precipitously a decline that appears to be contributing to diminishing economic performance in much of the rest of Asia Japan is recording its strongest growth since its 1980 s boom.

Run down the financial reserves and wealth that were accumulated when the economy was doing better.

Solutions being looked at include better water distribution and slowing down evaporation from the soil, but also spraying the plants with a protective mix of clay and water and developing varieties more resistant to dry conditions.

In fact, this summer s asset price correction reinforced a view many of us already had that the US economy was slowing, led by sagging productivity and a deteriorating housing market. I foresee a series of interest rate cuts by the Fed, which should not be viewed as a concession to asset markets, but rather as recognition that the real economy needs help.

PALO ALTO, CALIF. The fact that America s economy is slowing is bad news for Europeans, regardless of claims that Europe s economy has successfully decoupled itself from the United States. Decoupling is an idea that is based on bad economics and on some Europeans reluctance to accept the fact that Europe s short but sweet economic expansion is also coming to an end.

These provisions would weaken contracts concluded electronically, potentially slowing the development of electronic commerce.

Germany, which exports a large volume of investment goods, benefited more than other eurozone member countries from the investment boom in China and other emerging economies. But emerging economy growth is now slowing considerably, including in China, where demand is shifting from investment toward consumption.

Then we lost our economy and we went back down to 47 sometimes it's 40, sometimes it's 50.

In short, Japan s popular culture was still producing potential soft power resources even after its economy slowed down. Now, with signs of a reviving economy, Japan s soft power may increase even more.

BEIJING In the 35 years since China s transition to a market economy began, the country has grown at an average rate of 9.8 an explosive and unprecedented rise. But there are signs that the Chinese miracle is coming to an end or at least that the country s economic growth is slowing.

Many attribute the astonishing scale of the BJP s victory to Modi s success in tapping into the restless (and rightful) aspirations of India s youth after two years of a slowing economy. This is where critics deem the Congress party to have failed, focusing as it did on the needs of India s poorest.

With growing political uncertainty and a slowing economy, Egypt is likely to witness decreasing government revenues, increasing demands for urgent spending, and rising interest rates on government borrowing. This could lead to a fiscal catastrophe for the government at the very moment when the country is attempting a complicated political transition.

And that 200 is going to change to 600 this summer, and there's no sign of this pace slowing.

The UN report observes that national economic policies and existing multilateral settings are not designed to mitigate effectively the risk of a global slowdown or to address global imbalances. In Europe and Japan, for example, monetary and fiscal policies have been tightening in response to domestic concerns, further slowing the world economy.