At this point, the game abruptly ends.

After a few days or weeks, memory abruptly returns.

BRUSSELS Financial crises tend to start abruptly and end by surprise.

When the opposition tried to challenge these inconsistencies, the ECK abruptly declared Kibaki the winner.

In the course of the crisis, these debt ridden economies consumers abruptly changed their purchasing habits.

By dismissing Bo so abruptly, the central government has, in effect, underscored its unwavering commitment to stability.

Definition An atmosphere does not abruptly end at any given height, but becomes progressively thinner with altitude.

The plaintiff, Guns N'Roses, abruptly concluded a concert promising to ensure partial reimbursement of the ticket price.

Slowing the growth of the pension and health care programs for middle class retirees cannot be done abruptly.

These are peace talks, not a defense treaty, and Syria would not abruptly disengage from its Iranian friends.

The only difference in China is that the adjustment has been suppressed, so it is now coming abruptly.

Can the end come abruptly in 2006? This is not the most likely scenario, but it is not unthinkable.

All of this changed abruptly when the American economy fell into a deep recession at the end of 2007.

Banks magnify the boom by making credit too easily available, and they exacerbate the bust by withdrawing it too abruptly.

If the adjustment came abruptly, Chinese companies would suffer a sudden loss of competitiveness and no longer be able to export.

Turkey abruptly shifted its stance on Syria, and aligned its position with that of the major Western powers, for two reasons.

In the central town is common will find yourself with streets that end abruptly, breaking the regularity of the Spanish checkerboard.

No embryos are capable of suffering, or have hopes or desires for the future that are abruptly cut off by their death.

The worry, then, is that when the signals change as they must they will change abruptly, with attendant harsh consequences for growth.

To offset the negative shock, the Chinese government enacted a four trillion renminbi stimulus package, and the PBC shifted its policy stance abruptly.

Credit terms worsened abruptly, and what was left was the thoroughly overpriced rump of economies that had become excessively dependent on foreign financing.

For this reason, prednisone should not be abruptly stopped if taken for more than seven days, instead, the dosage should be gradually reduced.

Big Sur is a sparsely populated region of the Central Coast of California where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean.

The DPJ suffered a bitter defeat in this summer s upper house election, after Kan abruptly proposed a significant increase in the highly unpopular consumption tax.

The Sunshine Policy, which for a decade sustained hope of North South reconciliation, ended abruptly with President Lee Myung bak s election in South Korea in 2008.

Peace negotiations were once again brought back up, but abruptly ended with the death of Khosrau in 579, who was succeeded by his son Hormizd IV.

Russia s military chiefs, for whom it is psychologically difficult to be ordered by politicians to abruptly end a large scale and successful military operation, are their natural allies.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül abruptly cancelled a recent press conference in Copenhagen when he spied a Kurdish journalist in the audience and the Danes refused to evict him.

Perhaps the end will come in a different way, but it is difficult to imagine the age of US exceptionalism lasting indefinitely. Can the end come abruptly in 2006?

In a global financial upheaval like our most recent one, capital flows shift abruptly and dramatically, causing credit, financing, and balance of payments problems, as well as volatile exchange rates.

Banks magnify the boom by making credit too easily available, and they exacerbate the bust by withdrawing it too abruptly. But the legacy is a more efficient stock of capital equipment.

He resigned in 2004 to run as Angela Merkel s candidate for the largely ceremonial office of President of the German Federal Republic, a job he performed capriciously until he abruptly resigned.

Orders dropped abruptly well out of proportion to the decline in GDP and those countries that depended on investment goods and durables (expenditures that could be postponed) were particularly hard hit.

ISLAMABAD Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari abruptly returned to Karachi on the morning of December 19, following a 13 day absence for medical treatment in Dubai, where he lived while in exile.

The peace with Germany was tense, as both sides were preparing for the military conflict, and abruptly ended when the Axis forces led by Germany swept across the Soviet border on 22 June 1941.

WASHINGTON, DC Banks and banking rely on trust. But while trust takes years to establish, it can be squandered abruptly if a particular bank s ethics are weak, its values poor, and its behavior simply wrong.

To be sure, back in the 1970 s, confidence in the credit of the British government collapsed, forcing it to borrow from the IMF so that spending could be cut and taxes raised gradually rather than abruptly.

(e) To facilitate the formulation and implementation of medium term programmes, aid should be provided on a pre committed, multi year basis which ensures that projects and programmes once started are not abruptly left dry of funds.

Indeed, intolerance goes right to the top of the Turkish government. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül abruptly cancelled a recent press conference in Copenhagen when he spied a Kurdish journalist in the audience and the Danes refused to evict him.

The latest intervention was initially planned as part of a European mission to support African forces, but France abruptly decided to act unilaterally to blunt the advance of Islamists who threatened to overrun Mopti, the last barrier before reaching the capital, Bamako.

Slowing the growth of the pension and health care programs for middle class retirees cannot be done abruptly. It must begin by giving notice to those who are now a decade away from retirement which is why it is important to launch such reforms now.

And from that remnant of the Biblical story of creation sprung the notion of a tree of life, alongside major concepts such as gradualism (the view that speciation does not occur abruptly) and the idea that minor selection pressures can, over time, have a profound effect on improved fitness.

The party chose as its leader former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is known as the hardest of hardliners on nationalist matters, but who is also widely perceived as having acted irresponsibly when he abruptly gave up his premiership in 2007, after only one year in office, due to health problems.