All of this effort results in an inert object.

And this is really bad news because plastic is not an inert substance.

How does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence?

More and more of the inert matter of the globe is being touched and animated by life.

He uses tiny bottles, the glass is tinted, he tops the olive oil off with an inert gas.

It follows that the use of force should not be recognized as a general solvent of treaty obligations.

One of our collaborators is chemist Martin Hanczyc, and he's really interested in the transition from inert to living matter.

Now helium's a gas, there're a lot of reasons why helium's good, it's a tiny molecule, it's inert, it doesn't give you narcosis.

And instead of using human figures to develop ideas of time and space, I work in the mineral world. I work with more or less inert matter.

And one thing which I've long not been able to solve and is also mentioned in the book Hong Kong Kids is that students are inert to many things.

TEAP had noted that since the last CTOC report in 2002, no new alternative solvents had been developed and it was unlikely that there would be new solvent alternative breakthroughs.

(j) Plasma crystal 3 study of physical phenomena occurring in plasma dust crystals at different levels of inert gas pressure and the power of the high frequency generator in conditions of micro gravity

But this approach does not work. If macroprudential policy limited additional credit to marginal borrowers effectively, monetary policy would have no impact on demand (as long as the most solvent agents refuse to spend more).

For example, adequate transport and broadband infrastructure favors the burgeoning of business initiatives. At a time when markets are willing to lend to solvent governments at historically low rates, there should be little room for hesitation.

One example is the belated recognition that seemingly inert and benign halogenated hydrocarbons were interfering with the ozone layer. Another is the slowness to acknowledge the possibility of novel transmission mechanisms for spongiform encephalopathies ( mad cow disease ).

Eurobonds would cut borrowing costs for the European Union s two large troubled members. And it would spare German and other taxpayers from the EU s solvent northern countries from having to fund yet another bailout of a southern member state.

What the essence of that is, is that we're taking the sand at our feet, the inert silicon at our feet, and we're breathing a level of complexity into it that rivals that of life itself, and may even surpass it.

Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not quite alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.

Abdullah s octogenarian line of successors recalls the final years of the Soviet Union, when one infirm leader after another succeeded to power for a brief period of inert rule. Many Saudi subjects feel the same pattern of continuous uncertainty and torpor.

But, by lowering long term interest rates, central bank purchases of government debt can help contain government debt service. In this way, QE can keep solvent a government that otherwise would be insolvent a nightmare scenario for a central bank.

Fourth, large scale liquidity provision for solvent governments is necessary to avoid a spike in spreads and loss of market access that would turn illiquidity into insolvency. Even with policy changes, it takes time for governments to restore their credibility.

Indeed, the Fed, unlike the ECB, does not buy any bonds from individual states investors must bear the costs of any state insolvency. In 1975, New York had to pledge its future tax revenues to its creditors in order to remain solvent.

The logic is that conditionality will ensure that countries are solvent, while OMTs will restore trust to a market that has broken down because investors fear that the countries concerned will exit the eurozone. Again, its effect, thus far, has been significant.

The Technology and Economic Assessment Panel has reported that, over the past few years, the use of n PB has grown in some areas, including as an industrial solvent, and that current use estimates range from 2,200 metric tonnes to 9,100 metric tonnes.

It would also help if creditors understood that their contributions, like their decades of support to cohesion funds, will not impoverish them (by, say, depleting their public pensions). On the contrary, creditor countries will benefit from more stable, solvent commercial partners for their exports.

However, these clinical trauma theorists do not argue that repressed or dissociated memories of horrific events are either inert or benign. On the contrary, these buried memories silently poison the lives of victims, giving rise to seemingly inexplicable psychiatric symptoms, and therefore must be exhumed for healing to occur.

While ASEAN rejected previous calls to impose sanctions, or even to expel Myanmar, this step shows that it will not remain inert regardless of what the generals do. Moreover, some ASEAN member countries, like Singapore, have explicitly called for Aung San Suu Kyi to be allowed to participate in the 2010 elections.

But that debt costs only 1 2 of GDP to service, allowing Japan to remain solvent. Likewise, Greece can now manage its public debt burden, which stands at about 175 of GDP, thanks to the ultra low interest rates and long maturities (longer than those on Japan s debt) granted by its European partners.

To avoid an additional credit crunch as banks deleverage, banks should be given some short term forbearance on capital and liquidity requirements. Also, since the US and EU financial systems remain unlikely to provide credit to small and medium size enterprises, direct government provision of credit to solvent but illiquid SMEs is essential.

If savers in Portuguese banks start moving their money to Germany, the ECB will recycle these euros back to Portugal through interbank deposits. Again, there is no limit to how much money the ECB can recycle, provided Portuguese banks remain solvent which they will, so long as the ECB continues to buy Portuguese government bonds.

Without central bank involvement, investors panicky prophecy would be self fulfilling, with the resulting spike in borrowing costs making it impossible for the government to repay its creditors. In other words, prohibiting the central bank from acting as lender of last resort can push solvent economies into a needless debt crisis, undermining output and employment.

But governments soon realized that the main issue was solvency. They pledged to implement programs aimed at asset purchases (to clarify the balance sheets of financial institutions), recapitalization (to make sure that, if solvent, they could operate and continue to lend), and guarantees (to reassure depositors and some investors that their funds were safe).

The citizens of the partner countries must become the real beneficiaries if this partnership is to become more than the inert agreement that it has been. Generous EU commitments on mobility, aid to SMEs and entrepreneurs, and a vast increase in educational opportunities are among the key ingredients that could make such a partnership politically popular for a vast majority.

The muddle through scenario with financing provided to member states in distress (conditional on fiscal adjustment and structural reforms), in the hope that they are illiquid but solvent is an unstable disequilibrium. Indeed, it could lead to the disorderly breakup scenario if institutional reforms and other policies leading to closer integration and restoration of growth in the eurozone s periphery are not implemented soon.

In an ideal world, distressed countries would default as soon as private markets stopped funding them, and they would impose the losses on private bondholders. In the real world, however, if Italy and Spain are viewed as being solvent, or too big to fail, official funding should be structured so that it gives these countries their best chance to regain market confidence.

Plato held that moral progress is essentially an intellectual process, driven by reasoned arguments a stance that many of the most influential moral philosophers, from Baruch Spinoza and Immanuel Kant to John Rawls and Peter Singer, have supported. Yet many other philosophers have rejected the autocracy of reason in humans moral lives, agreeing with David Hume s assertion that reason, in itself, is perfectly inert.

Others have pointed out that, although the team produced a synthetic genome, they put it into a cell from another bacterium, replacing that cell s DNA. We have yet to build a living organism entirely from bottles of chemicals, so anyone who believes in a life force that only a divine being could imbue into inert matter will no doubt continue to believe in it.

Of course, in the highly indebted peripheral countries, there was room for interest rates to fall and for credit supply to grow and they have, leading governments and households to increase their spending. While the asymmetrical impact of the ECB s policy is appropriate in principle (because unemployment is much higher in the periphery), the reality is that a recovery supported by the least solvent economies is not sustainable.

Such measures would serve notice to investors that they cannot hope to be saved by the printing press in times of crisis, and would thus compel them to demand higher interest rates or deter them from granting credit in the first place. This would lead to greater discipline among the eurozone s indebted countries and save Europe from a debt avalanche that could ultimately drive currently solvent states into bankruptcy and destroy the European integration project.

But insufficient and sometimes counterproductive actions, coupled with panic and overreaction in financial markets, have brought some countries, such as Spain, which is a fundamentally solvent and strong economy, to the edge of the precipice, and with it the whole eurozone. In the immediate short run, nothing makes sense, not even a perfectly good public investment project, or recapitalization of a bank, if the government has to borrow at interest rates of 6 or more to finance it.