At this stage, the rather low number of parties is the Agreement's main weakness.

And, as many have argued, the correlation itself could be the result of low growth leading to high indebtedness, rather than the other way around.

Rather than spurring investment in plant and equipment, low interest rates inflated a real estate bubble.

The last Minister from the Ministry of Railways, Sheng Guangzu, said the fare is rather low.

A feed in tariff subsidizes the low carbon energy source rather than taxing the high carbon energy source.

Most construction workers are rather low skilled and thus cannot be re deployed to modern high tech manufacturing.

Rather than coming at the expense of the US, as is constantly claimed, it was the renminbi s low valuation that allowed Americans to dream their American dream of universal homeownership.

The natural interest rate was low because, as the Fed s current chairman Ben Bernanke explained at the time, the world had a global savings glut (or, rather, a global investment deficiency).

This perception also accorded well with the median (typically poor) voter s low expectation of government in India seeing it as a source of sporadic handouts rather than of reliable public services.

Rather, costs are low because for almost two centuries colonial powers and then domestic governments hobbled markets and restricted international trade, leaving a legacy of wages so low that they offset weaker productivity.

Low Arab Sunni turnout threatened the legitimacy of the election, which was as low as 2 in Anbar province.

Low interest rates on deposits encourage savers, especially households, to invest in fixed assets, rather than keep their money in banks.

The socially deprived may experience a deprivation of basic capabilities due to a lack of freedom, rather than merely low income.

This dwindled to as low as 150 animals by 1970.

Governments with meager tax revenues can't provide basic public goods. Worse yet, low tax revenues in poor countries often result from defects in tax collection systems (rather than low tax rates) that also promote unproductive enterprise.

On the contrary, rather than spiking higher following S P s unprecedented move, US market interest rates continued to fall, reaching record low levels.

Policy would still be accommodative if the Fed maintained low interest rates rather than the zero level that was appropriate for a panic.

The US political system s persistently low approval ratings stem in part from the fact that it seems to reward obstructionism rather than constructive bipartisan action.

European interest in military intervention in Africa is as low as ever.

National security is treated as a low grade issue.

This was viewed rather as a temporary solution.

acted as a lawyer rather than a suspect.

They should therefore be viewed as complementary rather than as mutually exclusive.

I see this process as an opportunity rather than as a crisis.

Monetarists hail the low inflation era as their great achievement.

Low income countries could also be promoted as retirement centres.

Rather than relying mainly on income taxation, as in the US, the Nordic countries rely on value added taxation, which provides a relatively high amount of revenue with relatively low rates of evasion and few distortions to the economy.

Rather, it is a move aimed at establishing a balance of threat based on sustaining a low intensity conflict even if a new lull is agreed upon.

Since unemployment is low among the more highly qualified, higher demand for their services will lead to an increase in wages rather than an increase in employment.

His research during and after the war mainly involved investigating surface tension in soap bubbles, rather than further work into the properties of matter at low temperatures.

Cost Residential care homes, run by the government, need not be low cost and or low quality as many might initially guess.

Inflation convergence between high headline and low core rates, as well as between high emerging market and low advanced country rates will occur at levels higher than currently anticipated.

A 3He 4He dilution refrigerator is a cryogenic device that provides continuous cooling to temperatures as low as 2 mK, with no moving parts in the low temperature region.

Thus, low interest rates and non market interference, rather than demand from enterprises, fueled explosive credit growth in the first half of 2009, surpassing the full year target.

They see him as a damaging buffoon, rather than as a dangerous revolutionary.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

In other cases, low fat ingredients may be used as replacements.

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As long as interest rates remain low, there is no downward pressure on public investment.

In high or raised vowels, such as and , the tongue is positioned high in the mouth, whereas in low vowels, such as , the tongue is positioned low in the mouth.

Libya is considered a highly attractive oil area due to its low cost of oil production (as low as 1 per barrel at some fields), and proximity to European markets.

In the face of the steady increase in their urban populations, developing countries had to make other political choices and seek to rehabilitate slums rather than demolish them, and to resettle slum dwellers in low cost housing rather than relocate them in informal settlements elsewhere.

Wages are much lower than official figures suggest perhaps as low as 200 300 per month.

The other class involves what are known as common, low penetrance variants.

Context reveals something at the low end of the scale as well.