SOFA

It's on the sofa.

I'm sitting on the sofa.

It's just there on the sofa.

This sofa can seat three people easily.

Somebody has been sleeping on this sofa.

The cat is sleeping on the sofa.

Please sit on the sofa and relax.

This sofa takes up too much space.

And this is the sofa, how it will emerge from there.

And then I photograph and do a painting of a sofa on the street.

Because people used to sew and they needed a pin cushion.

I lectured on this for Ikea, and they wanted to see the sofa immediately here.

It's really hard to imagine a sofa, how it's going to look in your house.

If you want to sell your old sofa, why not put an advertisement in the local paper?

Karni, Rafah and Sofa commercial crossings saw a significant easing of restrictions on the movement of goods.

He had to sit on a cushion, stand still, not move, because it was very painful.

An even larger portion would have been unprofitable without the government subsidies that cushion potential losses.

So your sofa, your plastic chair, your kid's toys give their own invisible reality. And this one is very toxic.

In a huge amount of debt personally to this expedition, and lying on my mum's sofa, day in day out, watching daytime TV.

Neighbours said they could see the Clarks attacking Mr Bryden as he sat on a sofa by the window and could hear him screaming.

However, to the extent that public investment grows, aggregate demand increases correspondingly, generating some growth and creating a cushion against recession.

We therefore call for fairer rules to govern international business and trade, in particular measures to cushion the impacts of adverse changes.

It seeks to examine a set of policy measures aiming to cushion the impact of economic and social downturns and overcome prevailing conditions.

Although there is a sofa, if you watch in the kitchen, you can see that the great difference for women does not come between one to 10 dollars.

Such an arrangement would provide a cushion to protect investors from potential or unanticipated declines in the expected flow of revenue available for debt servicing.

In a few weeks, we will put in place a social safety net that will cushion the impact of high oil prices on the poor.

In recognition of these concerns, negotiating partners needed to seek to extend adequate transitory adjustment support measures to cushion developing countries from anticipated trade shocks.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?

When the Prestige sank off the coast of Spain, there were big, floating cushions the size of sofa cushions of emulsified oil, with the consistency, or the viscosity, of chewing gum.

Fortunately, China s relatively strong fiscal and foreign exchange positions can cushion the economy against short term shocks. And, notwithstanding corruption induced fragility, the bureaucracy s capacity to implement policy is sound.

Oil and gas export revenues were being paid into a national fund, to assure sustainable social and economic development and cushion the country against the impact of unfavourable external factors.

The rude awakening came when property values began to decline. For those without an equity cushion, refinancing was not a possibility, and rising interest rates have led to default, foreclosure, and homelessness.

However, even for financial systems, there is disagreement about other attributes, such as the ability to provide a financial cushion with which to soften the impact of unexpected economic downturns or turbulence.

58. Also requests the Secretary General to ensure that posts are not deliberately left vacant to provide a cushion for absorbing the costs of special missions and other activities authorized within available resources

The problem is imminent in North America, the Euro Area, and Japan. But, before long, many developing countries will also have to face up to it, and in many cases without a cushion of affluence.

In addition to providing a cushion for planning contingencies, the liquidity provision covers the cash flow imbalance that often occurs in the first quarter of the year, when disbursements can exceed receipts for regular resources.

Emerging market policymakers believe that they lack recourse to safety nets that would cushion the impact of volatile flows. Their efforts to self insure, by, say, building up their foreign exchange reserves, perpetuate global economic imbalances.

The deleveraging of governments, financial institutions, and households is one major cause of the sluggish economic recovery. But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.

Borrowing and lending institutions will need to change, so that they better cushion people against the risk of personal bankruptcy. Financial markets will have to be broadened, so that people and businesses can better hedge their risks.

But they have not prevented a borrowing binge in their private sectors. Since private debts have a way of turning into public liabilities, a low government debt burden might not, in fact, provide these countries with the cushion that they think they have.

It thereby diverts policymakers attention from the main issues. If the financial crisis reveals a structural problem in banking, it is more likely to come from insufficient capital to cushion a bank s fall, or from too many financial institutions having become too big to fail.

Besides, what would a containment policy applied to Russia today look like? Russia s leaders, tucked behind the political safety cushion provided by high energy prices, rightly feel that time is working in their favor, that we in the West need Russia more than Russia needs us.

The discussion quickly turned to the difficulty of measuring inflation accurately and the need to build in a safety cushion to avoid deflation. According to Greenspan, Price stability is that state in which expected changes in the general price level do not effectively alter business and household decisions.