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

Capacity to absorb an innovation

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

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

The ECB s task is to provide liquidity to banks, while the EFSF and ESM are designed to absorb solvency risk. The ECB would not be facilitating additional borrowing by member countries it would merely allow them to refinance their debt at a lower cost.

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

Aside from the focus on price and the need to absorb US farms excess output, school lunches reflect a broader trend toward turning food preparation into industrial production. Uniformity is prized above quality, and convenience is valued over freshness (and often over cost).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If the US is unable or unwilling to run the required deficits, the global economy will flounder in a savings glut of low demand and cheap capital until another alternative emerges. Or perhaps the low cost of international capital will entice the US to absorb some of the world s excess savings, triggering a new period of global expansion.

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.

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

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.

(b) To achieve cost savings

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.

But I love that one, because that was an experiment about how much information one human brain could absorb.

So we can't fight the thing with a million to one cost, one to a million cost benefit ratio.

Between 2005 and 2015, the least developed countries as a whole are expected to absorb nearly a quarter of all population growth in the world.

And by using mycelium as a glue, you can mold things just like you do in the plastic industry, and you can create materials with many different properties, materials that are insulating, fire resistant, moisture resistant, vapor resistant materials that can absorb impacts, that can absorb acoustical impacts.

These were and are being put in place to allow the Tribunals to absorb the anticipated increased activity and to meet the targeted milestones of their respective completion strategies.

Cost

117. Requests the United Nations development system to further standardize and harmonize the concepts, practices and cost classifications related to transaction cost and cost recovery, while maintaining the principle of full cost recovery in the administration of all non core supplementary extrabudgetary contributions, including in joint programmes

(d) Viable options for programme support cost trust funds to share the cost of the new internal justice system