Instability from Rigidity

Field level fund raising and resource allocation rigidity

And if you pull the cords under the knot, you will see that the bow orients itself along the transverse axis of the shoe.

And the seat riser, for example, serving as a mounting for the seat as well as a structural part of the functional rigidity.

It has curves in two directions, one curve upward and opposite transverse curve down the other, so any kind of perturbation spreads the forces over the surface of this type of shape.

Japan s meritocratically selected bureaucracy, too, faces much the same public opprobrium. Indeed, the bureaucracy itself is often blamed for the country s rigidity and ongoing stagnation.

On key lessons for post conflict dimensions, he underlined that business leaders tended to be pragmatic problem solvers and were comparatively free of ideological rigidity.

And they expend not an expending, small or great, or transverse a vale, but it is written down unto them, so that Allah may recompense them with the best for that which they have been working.

And they expend not an expending, small or great, or transverse a vale, but it is written down unto them, so that Allah may recompense them with the best for that which they have been working.

But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory. The stability of the international financial system today depends on the willingness of countries with rigid exchange rates to allow greater flexibility.

Provisions allowing for the re evaluation of core needs, possibly on a yearly basis, should be built into any such system, in order to avoid the rigidity experienced by the specialized agencies in this regard.

Moreover, it was heading into an election cycle, which increased the rigidity of its position. With German leaders insisting on charging penalty rates for providing assistance, the crisis festered and the rescue costs continued to grow.

Fiscal stimulus in Europe may still be justified, but structural rigidity will lower its impact on long term growth. Europe s fiscal interventions would be easier to justify if they were accompanied by microeconomic reforms targeted at increasing flexibility.

Ideological rigidity alone, however, does not explain Iran s often gratuitous anti Americanism. For Iran s political and military elite, any increased liberalization that would likely result from an opening of ties with the US represents a threat to their interests.

One could also ask whether the arrival of one million Russians, regardless of their actual ties to Judaism, had a negative effect on Israeli society, by encouraging ideological rigidity and a disdain for democracy that did not prevail before.

But generalizing from these exceptions is unwise. An administration that has consistently boasted of its willingness to bend (and sometimes break) the law to meet an unprecedented threat has become notorious not for its flexibility, but for its rigidity.

Confrontation and brinkmanship have become the new watchwords of American politics, even when the US government s legal ability to pay its debts is on the line, owing to the Tea Party s ideological rigidity. And the tone of political debate, not surprisingly, has become much nastier.

6. Encourages the United Nations system to continue to develop a common and systemic approach to partnership, which places greater emphasis on impact, accountability and sustainability, without imposing undue rigidity in partnership agreements, and with due consideration being given to the partnership principles set out in its resolution 58 129

While the Muslim Brotherhood has such an organizing principle, its internal rigidity at least with Morsi at its helm made it unfit to govern. Meanwhile, infighting among Egypt s liberals prevented them from establishing a disciplined, reliable alternative to the Brotherhood based on principles like diversity, plurality, respect for women, and freedom of expression.

The current shift in programming and resource mobilization from headquarters to the field, while a positive development from a number of different vantage points, particularly responsiveness to needs as perceived at the country level, risks to further advance the present movement from core to supplementary funding, thus further increasing rigidity in resource allocation for programming development cooperation activities.

If France wants to capitalize on the positive emotions of Bastille Day, it needs much more responsible elites, ready to unite in the fight against unemployment and its causes (lack of competitiveness and labor market rigidity) and consequences (the rise of populist, non republican forces). What Bastille Day revealed, even briefly and superficially, is that the potential to unite France exists.

The reason for the ECB s inertia, obscurity, and rigidity is simple the ECB is only incidentally in charge of economic growth in the euro area its primary objective is price stability. Yet the current crisis, like others that preceded it, shows that monetary policy governs anticipations, not only of inflation but also of growth, whether central banks like it or not.

It refuses to ascribe to Iran s secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist. Indeed, Iran has shown its ability to behave with startling pragmatism more than once, not least in its links to Israel and the United States during its war against Iraq in the 1980 s, and in its assistance to the Americans in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The election last autumn of the activist Park Won soon as mayor of Seoul demonstrated the growing strength of the youth vote, which took the ruling Grand National Party completely by surprise. Young people mobilized themselves spontaneously, using all the tools of social networking and modern communications, to turn out not only voters their own age, but countless others exasperated with South Korea s rigidity and insulated opportunities.

Among the reasons why the use of environmental management for vector control continues to lag behind are economic considerations, a lack of capacity to carry out cost effectiveness analysis, rigidity in the planning and delivery of vector control programmes, absence of effective institutional arrangements between the health sector and sectors in charge of infrastructure development, and limited commercial interest in environmental management (compared to chemical products).

Furthermore, the degree of rigidity in inter ethnic negotiations since the rise to power of the Bandaranaike family (of which the current President is a member) was accompanied by a series of ideological struggles among Sinhalese politicians, not least those led by various socialist and communist parties. This ongoing disunity among the Sinhalese contributed to making Sri Lanka's governments much more fragile than those that succeeded the British in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.