They're made from silica. Why not structures from cars like that?

The September deadline precipitated a confrontation.

Racism is unilateral, and is not precipitated by any stake.

That return was precipitated by the outbreak of conflict in the region.

But his well, the only way I can articulate how it felt was that it precipitated my medical decline.

These conflicts precipitated insurgencies in several parts of the country which have resulted in large numbers of internally displaced persons.

Do you still alledge that Mrs Paradine invented a story... about you leaving the Colonel and this precipitated the quarrel?

And this research is being precipitated by the U.S. government, so you can see that your tax man is working for good causes.

New materials such as fused silica glass, ultra low expansion titanium silicate, and glass ceramic, to name a few, as well as application of advanced glass coating techniques, could improve dramatically the capability and reliability of remote sensing instruments.

Most EU member states are selfishly focusing on their own interests. This pits them against one another and has precipitated panic, putting refugees in even greater peril.

Following the flotation of the peso on 22 December, a lack of confidence on the part of portfolio investors precipitated large scale repatriation of their financial investments.

The humanitarian disaster was in fact precipitated by the war itself. Despite this, the term genocide, freely bandied about by Western interventionists, was grotesquely inappropriate at any time.

In western Iran, Molla Mohammad Rabiei, a Sunni cleric in Kermanshah is reported to have died in circumstances that precipitated demonstrations which led to deaths and a significant number of arrests.

However, this move precipitated the reversion of the force to the G2 branch to focus specifically on tactical and operational level information requirements, while the Unified Mission Analysis Cell focused on strategic information.

The end of the cold war precipitated the emergence of new democracies not only in eastern Europe and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), but also throughout Africa and Latin America.

6. The current debate on the scale of assessments had been precipitated by the financial crisis created by the non payment of assessed contributions by some Member States, especially one of the principal contributors.

Despite a number of important successes, the inability of the United Nations to restore peace to Somalia soured international support for conflict intervention and precipitated a rapid retreat by the international community from peacekeeping worldwide.

The printing press precipitated 200 years of chaos, moving from a world where the Catholic Church was the sort of organizing political force to the Treaty of Westphalia, when we finally knew what the new unit was the nation state.

Rather than undermining radical Islam, the US has legitimized it, in Iraq and beyond. Indeed, what will now shape the future of the region is not democracy, but the violent divide between Shiites and Sunnis that the Iraq war precipitated.

In August 2007, the decision by BNP Paribas to close two of its hedge funds exposed to the subprime sector precipitated a liquidity crisis for all European banks during that summer. This year, BNP s great rival, Société Générale, has been in the spotlight.

Indeed, what will now shape the future of the region is not democracy, but the violent divide between Shiites and Sunnis that the Iraq war precipitated. It is this Muslim civil war that is allowing al Qaeda to gain a larger pool of recruits.

Most explanations of the causes of the post 2007 financial crisis point to five sources of instability. First, the crisis was precipitated by the peculiarities of the US real estate market, by government incentives for increased homeownership, and in imprudent lending by financial institutions.

The vulnerability that this implies already has resulted in Sudan s recent disintegration into two states. Sudan s authoritarian rule and social division along religious lines, together with economic difficulties and political ineptitude, precipitated the collapse of the central government s authority in the country s Christian majority south.

It is interesting to note that in France, where the tradition of service public remains a priority and liberalization is being implemented cautiously, introduction of competition in the electricity sector was precipitated by the ambitions of the then integrated State owned monopoly to expand elsewhere in Europe.

While the crisis first appeared on the humanitarian map as one precipitated by drought, closer analysis showed that the causal factors and drivers of the crisis were more complex and deeply rooted, and involved a number of factors in addition to climate change and inadequate rainfall.

Of course, the euro crisis was not just a liquidity crisis. Several countries in the periphery (Greece, Spain, and Portugal) were responsible for the circumstances that led to and precipitated the crisis, and there may be fundamental solvency issues that need to be addressed even if the liquidity shortfall is addressed.

For the Fed, it is important to ask whether the 1930 s, when its premature policy tightening precipitated a double dip recession, really is the best historical analogy to consider when contemplating how to time the exit from its current accommodating stance. Certainly, the Great Depression is not the only alternative on offer.

(ii) Eligibility This programme may be applied to family groups which, while retaining a capacity to care for their members, especially those who are minors, are facing family crises or a high risk of such crises caused, exacerbated or precipitated by a drop in or absence of income to meet their basic needs.

But Iran has resources that Cambodia and Laos could never muster indeed, its ability to retaliate could set the entire region ablaze. Whereas America s war in Indochina was a tragic mistake, the cost of a wider war precipitated by the crisis in Iraq would be incomparably greater for both the patient and the doctor.

Although precipitated by local conditions, the Thatcher (or more broadly the Thatcher Reagan) revolution became an instantly recognizable global brand for a set of ideas that inspired policies to free markets from government interference. Three decades later, the world is in a slump, and many people attribute the global crisis to these very ideas.

In the case of Italy, the short leash would dissuade former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from seeking to topple Mario Monti s new government (which has only a fragile majority), because if Berlusconi precipitated an election, the electorate would punish him. This would help to reestablish political stability and accelerate Italy s return to the market.

In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi precipitated a constitutional crisis by trying to rush through emergency legislation to prevent a comatose patient from being taken off life support. This reminded many observers of what the America s Republican Party tried to do in order to demonstrate its pro life commitments during George W. Bush s presidency.

Following Ms. Hitzfeld's presentation, one representative noted that chrysotile asbestos was widely used in some developing countries in low cost housing, insulation of water pipes and brake linings, and said that when embedded in cement it did not pose a hazard to human health, unlike other uses that precipitated regulatory actions in developed countries.

In some countries, most notably the US, a private sector credit boom created jobs in low skilled industries like construction, and precipitated a consumption boom as people borrowed against overvalued houses. In other countries, like Greece, as well as under regional administrations in Italy and Spain, a government led hiring spree created secure jobs for the moderately educated.

Following the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the 10 members of ASEAN plus China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (known collectively as ASEAN 3) decided at a meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to create regional institutions that would insulate them from a recurrence of the outflow of funds from their economies that precipitated the crisis.

The view that Li will tolerate slower growth only above a particular threshold is based on the belief that GDP growth below 8 would hurt economic development more than it helped, and lead to social instability. And, indeed, if unemployment pressure had become as acute today as it was in the 1990 s, the prolonged economic slowdown would undoubtedly have precipitated government intervention.

Historians will argue whether forcing Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy in September 2008 precipitated the subsequent global financial crisis. Vincent Reinhart, formerly of the US Federal Reserve and now at Morgan Stanley, has argued that the Lehman decision was correct (the error came earlier, with the bailout of Bear Stearns, which created an expectation that all banks would be bailed out).

The global economic and financial crisis has precipitated an immense expansion of central government spending, borrowing (and hence future taxing), lending, regulation, and mandates, some in aid to sub national governments (about 200 billion in the US stimulus bill). A key question is whether central governments power worldwide will expand permanently over not only the private economy, but also over sub national governments.