And the bystanders are absorbing some of the hardest blows.

It is absorbing many words from the regional languages of Pakistan.

Cities have a lot of black asphalt and dark, heat absorbing structures.

By suppressing internal rivals and absorbing their assets, the regime created a dual monopoly.

The structure is capable of absorbing earthquakes up to 8.6 degree on the Richter scale.

Fortunately, until now, market economies have proved stunningly flexible in absorbing the impact of these changes.

The size of the heat absorbing surface is more important than the diameter of the chimney.

Some fungi are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing and concentrating heavy metals in the mushroom fruit bodies.

These real investments are overshadowed by the games that have been absorbing most participants in financial markets.

The Depression had rendered capital markets incapable of absorbing large quantities of government (or, indeed, any other) debt.

By allowing comments, the reader can interact with a story instead of just absorbing the words on the screen.

In fact, the system s resilience in absorbing huge disruptions the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 earthquake is one key reason for its survival.

In short there is a significant ERW reduction program in place in Iraq however it is absorbing a significant amount of the available effort.

The Federal government has thrown fiscal prudence out the window. The country as a whole is absorbing an astounding three quarters of global excess savings.

Creating and satisfying new consumer desires keeps the system going by absorbing the labor and purchasing power released by the increasingly efficient satisfaction of old ones.

The Fed has explained that it will sell the large volume of mortgage securities that it now holds on its balance sheet, absorbing liquidity in the process.

The UAE blogging community is slowly absorbing a new clampdown on the Internet, following the blocking of thousands of websites en masse after objections on their content.

For instance, an extreme cooperation exists between plants and the mycorrhizal fungi that grow on their roots and aid the plant in absorbing nutrients from the soil.

The key to creating such a system lies in using earth abundant materials that can perform the essential functions of absorbing light and facilitating fuel forming chemical reactions.

Although silicon s light absorbing properties are suitable for photovoltaic devices, the near 0.5 volts that it generates is too weak to split water in a solar fuel generator.

The top material would absorb the water and carbon dioxide from the air, and the next, light absorbing layer would harness the sun s energy to produce the fuel.

While the manufacturing approach served China well for 30 years, its dependence on capital intensive, labor saving productivity enhancement makes it incapable of absorbing the country s massive labor surplus.

The advantage of equity capital is that it is loss absorbing, meaning that only after losses wipe out all of the equity do they need to be apportioned between creditors.

But what s missing is a widespread effort to establish one on one contact online with the people who are absorbing content from ISIS and other extremist groups and becoming radicalized.

UNIDO services should be properly targeted to the specific circumstances of recipient countries, some of which, particularly LDCs, experienced difficulties in absorbing UNIDO services because they lacked appropriate counterpart institutions.

In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than better TV.

With great fanfare (and generally favorable press coverage), the PRA announced that some banks do not have enough loss absorbing capital relative to target levels of equity that are ludicrously low.

In that context, it was stated that one major developed country was absorbing a disproportionately large volume of global resources and that efforts should be made to reduce that global imbalance.

On the contrary, compared to their likely future losses, European banks have raised relatively little capital recently and much of this has been creative accounting, rather than truly loss absorbing shareholder equity.

Fiscal consolidation. Large budget deficits are absorbing the national savings that should be used to expand business investment, and are increasing the national debt that will have to be financed by future taxes.

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

In retrospect, it is remarkable that this distinction managed to define partisan political allegiances for more than 200 years, absorbing both the great reactionary and radical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In an ever growing number of countries, the pandemic is decimating human resources and absorbing the financial and material resources which the countries so desperately need in order to win the fight against AIDS.

At that time, only the United States possessed an atomic bomb, and the USSR was pursuing an extremely aggressive policy towards the countries in Eastern Europe which it was absorbing into its sphere of influence.

The role of an antistatic agent is to make the surface or the material itself slightly conductive, either by being conductive itself, or by absorbing moisture from the air therefore, some humectants can be used.

Nonetheless, the Israel Palestine tragedy is unique. It is an absorbing odyssey of two nations with mutually exclusive claims on sacred lands and religious shrines that are central in the lives of millions of people worldwide.

For the moment, such immigration has almost stopped, owing to rapid economic growth indeed, the fastest in Europe in recent years, which is absorbing the country s available labor and has thus stemmed the flow of emigrants.

Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the region suffered the burden of absorbing Palestinian refugees fleeing the fighting in the southern part of mandatory Palestine, which would later become Israel.

The programme and budgets for 2006 2007 are presented at zero real growth scenario for the regular budget, however, absorbing substantially the additional resources necessary for security related requirements. A negative growth scenario prevails also for the operational budget.

Unfortunately, as currently constructed, these resolution powers are unlikely to work. They do not apply across borders, there is not enough loss absorbing capital in large complex financial institutions, and the funding structure of big bank holding companies remains precarious.

Because this thing codes ones and zeros, and this thing codes A, T, C, Gs, and it sits up there, absorbing energy on a tree, and one fine day it has enough energy to say, execute, and it goes thump . Right?

In construction, for example, contractors are forming partnerships with labs to test materials that better reflect heat while absorbing energy to power cooling systems, and utility companies are leveraging new software tools to deploy smart meters in homes and offices.

The implication is that potential borrowers are not absorbing as many imports as they could and not relying, as they should, on the multilateral pooling of reserves that the Fund is meant to use to give confidence to its members.

And what we've been able to do is engineer a virus to basically take dye absorbing molecules and line them up on the surface of the virus so it acts as an antenna, and you get an energy transfer across the virus.

At least hay fever sufferers have a wide array of products, such as masks and goggles, to choose from to aid them in their fight against pollen. Japanese company Unipac has even developed an air conditioner filter capable of absorbing about 99 percent pollen within an hour.