Last month, the bank paid 1.1 billion in dividends, reducing its ability to absorb future losses on its investments.

If there is to be a broad based European recovery, the banks must raise more equity, thereby strengthening their ability to absorb potential losses.

Likewise, the English language s ability to produce and absorb neologisms is an important reason why it will endure as the world s lingua franca.

To be sure, the ability to attract and absorb external financing has been an important reason for China s accelerated industrialization, marketization, and integration into the global economy.

Financial markets have also made clear that the ability of other major deficit countries, like Brazil and India, to absorb capital flows is reaching its limit.

So what, then, are the possible policy options? The absence of a modern industrial base diminishes the WANA economies ability to absorb the surplus generated by oil revenues.

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Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near insolvent sovereigns inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems.

In the meantime, India s banks have enough capital to absorb losses.

He tried to absorb as much of the local culture as possible.

It will not be possible to absorb these additional conference servicing requirements.

It will not be possible to absorb these additional conference servicing requirements.

The goal is not to absorb shocks but to reduce income gaps across regions.

(b) United Nations University (i) Strengthening the ability of recipient countries to absorb increased aid flows and to use them effectively for development (ii) Addressing and resolving the environmental causes and consequences of violent conflict (iii) New initiatives to mobilize private and public finance for education

Moreover, we require areas to absorb the waste emitted by our energy use.

Type 6 nylon can absorb up to 9.5 of its weight in moisture.

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

Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.

It will not be possible to absorb these additional requirements of the task force.

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

As a result, the capacity of manufacturing to absorb labor has become much more limited.

Because black particles contain soot and absorb sunlight, they are believed to increase global warming.

P680 can also directly absorb a photon at a suitable wavelength.

He viewed that the term availability involves two notions (a) the ability of plant root to absorb and use the water with which it is in contact and (b) the readiness or velocity with which the soil water moves in to replace that which has been used by the plant.

But, when the fighting ended, it was Deng who had to absorb most of the lessons.

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

Because thus we absorb the language and its grammar and spelling 2.

As a result, women absorb more alcohol into their bloodstreams than men.

China now stands ready to absorb some of that surplus saving to promote a shift toward internal demand.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

The natural resource industries that globalization promotes have limited capacity to absorb employment out of traditional sectors.

Limits emissions and waste within the planet s ability to absorb them, uses renewable resources at or below their rates of generation, and uses non renewable resources at or below the rates of development of renewable substitutes, while minimizing the impact on the use of land and the generation of noise.

Atmospheric greenhouse gases allow sunlight to pass through but absorb heat and radiate some down to the earth s surface.

He noted that sub Saharan Africa is now in a position to absorb more capital inflows to build infrastructure.

But, despite the decrees, ways were found to continue building, to absorb new residents, and to increase the settler population.

The ECB s task is to provide liquidity to banks, while the EFSF and ESM are designed to absorb solvency risk.

Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

Over the last decade, Greece could absorb only a fifth of the EU modernization funds available to it.

These two components are (1) the ability to think clearly and make sense of complexity, which is known as eductive ability (from the Latin root educere , meaning to draw out ) and (2) the ability to store and reproduce information, known as reproductive ability.

Man has the ability to talk.

Capital buffers to absorb losses during the downturn of the cycle can be more easily built during the upswing.

One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.

But there aren t enough safe, secure, and sound enterprises to absorb all the workers laid off from risky enterprises.

In some cases, an island or group of islands may be able to absorb the likely displacement of population.