Yes, Russia has enormous gold and currency reserves, but they are being depleted fast. They will not last for long while being spent mostly in defense of the ruble at the current pace.

According to data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the number of Internet users continues to grow at a fast pace, having reached 875.6 million at the end of 2004, a 22.7 per cent increased compared to 2003.

China is developing at a dizzying pace.

The economy is growing at a sustainable pace.

The things are coming out at a faster pace.

No economy keeps growing at the same pace forever.

They can watch it at their own time, at their own pace.

They can pause, repeat at their own pace, at their own time.

But wages have grown at a far slower pace than GDP.

Unfortunately, the IMF s rebalancing efforts are proceeding at a glacial pace.

Thereafter, the population of Spanish Hispaniola grew at a slow pace.

The shootings continued into the next day, at a lesser pace.

The judiciary is being gradually consolidated, albeit at a slow pace.

Israeli domestic preparations for the withdrawal continue at a rapid pace.

I am sure they learn fast at HSBC.

But, even if Brazil cannot keep growing as fast as China, it still looks likely to race ahead. Investment growth has resumed its pre crisis record pace but, at 19 of GDP, investment remains far too low to support higher sustained growth.

In the past year, the RMB has appreciated by 6 , but the pace is not fast enough to reduce China s global trade surplus, its internal imbalances, or foreign exchange market pressures.

At the current pace of recovery, that is more than eight years away.

However, aging will keep the saving rate from falling at the same pace.

Political and economic reform, when it advances, does so at a glacial pace.

has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

When fast footed steeds were presented to him at evening .

In a multi step process that moves at a glacial pace, the refugees at Katsikas are still at Step 0.

But today the two processes are taking place simultaneously and at an accelerating pace.

MM If we go at this pace, I think the future is very bright.

The overall literacy rate in Pakistan has been improving although at a slow pace.

Progress there has also been achieved at the pace expected of a State party.

One thing is clear this trend is growing and it grows at an alarming pace.

Real GDP growth continued at a modest pace in 2004 in the Pacific island economies.

Non core resources more than doubled, while core resources grew at a much slower pace.

Unfortunately, the IMF s rebalancing efforts are proceeding at a glacial pace. At the World Bank, nothing seems to be happening at all.

ARLINGTON The rapprochement between the United States and Myanmar (Burma) has proceeded at a blistering pace.

Gazprom s production is falling at a dizzying pace the country s single industry mono towns are dying.

The international community allowed change in Tunisia and Egypt to proceed at those countries' own pace.

At the current pace, some regions and countries will miss several of the MDGs by decades.

This makes them at least as fast as fish, on a relative scale.

They think they are changing the world at a pace as rapid as we have ever seen.

How many Bastilles will ultimately fall in the region, and at what pace, no one can say.

In Japan, solid economic performance remains elusive, while prime ministers succeed each other at a breathtaking pace.

Overheating having been avoided, the Chinese economy can keep motoring ahead at its customary 10 annual pace.

The expansion of the Air Force happened at a very rapid pace as the Cold War progressed.

Not only is there much more media produced, but it is coming at us at a faster pace, from many more sources.

You say, Mr. President, that you will do it at a slightly slower pace, but I hope that it will only be slightly slower than the pace I have just suggested as being needed.

By contrast, the countries in East and South Asia that bucked this trend in the 1980s were able to maintain a fast and reasonably stable pace of capital accumulation for most of the 1990s (UNCTAD, 2003 65 73).

In fact, new technologies are probably the most important reason why globalization is advancing at a rapid pace.