Instability from Rigidity

Field level fund raising and resource allocation rigidity

But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory.

Ideological rigidity alone, however, does not explain Iran s often gratuitous anti Americanism.

Indeed, the bureaucracy itself is often blamed for the country s rigidity and ongoing stagnation.

Bending, much less breaking, will not come naturally to such a prideful country.

It refuses to ascribe to Iran s secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist.

Is Germany s labor market rigidity to thank for that? It may indeed be part of the explanation.

History One of the founders of the mathematical theory of structural rigidity was the great physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

A common example is a plant root growing in humid air bending toward a higher relative humidity level.

And most important, a wise person does this improvising and rule bending in the service of the right aims.

And the seat riser, for example, serving as a mounting for the seat as well as a structural part of the functional rigidity.

Indeed, Siemens, apparently conscious of the benefits of labor market rigidity, has taken the unusual step of promising its employees a job for life.

Japan s meritocratically selected bureaucracy, too, faces much the same public opprobrium. Indeed, the bureaucracy itself is often blamed for the country s rigidity and ongoing stagnation.

In the face of downward nominal wage rigidity, higher inflation would facilitate sectoral adjustment and achieve a small but useful impact on reducing debt burdens.

The arc of EU history seems to be bending to catastrophe the sort of periodic European disaster that integration was intended to prevent.

Do you see how much it's bending like that? We can't figure that out that's an unsolved mystery. We don't know how it works.

This means that he will have to deal with a large number of threats, vulnerabilities, and independent actors who may resist bending to America s will.

Indeed, the Putin administration established a track record of bending rules and bullying foreign investors, with the support of prosecutors, tax authorities, regulatory agencies, and courts.

Nutation is the bending movements executed by some plant organs, such as stems, leaves, roots, etc., by which the part is inclined successively in various directions.

A certain amount of labor market rigidity may make economic sense for jobs that require firm specific skills and training, alongside greater flexibility for jobs that require fewer skills.

After consultations between doctors, lawyers, and the girl s family, chemotherapy eventually was begun, but not before attention had again been focused on the rigidity of many developing countries abortion laws.

Most tensile structures are supported by some form of compression or bending elements, such as masts (as in The O2, formerly the Millennium Dome), compression rings or beams.

Well, there are teams of scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah that are bending their brains to try to figure out what the Tarahumara have known forever.

An administration that has consistently boasted of its willingness to bend (and sometimes break) the law to meet an unprecedented threat has become notorious not for its flexibility, but for its rigidity.

So for Aristotle, the kind of rule bending, rule exception finding and improvisation that you see in skilled craftsmen is exactly what you need to be a skilled moral craftsman.

Since Earth is round, if their downward bending curve is about the same as the curvature of the Earth, light rays can travel large distances, perhaps from beyond the horizon.

According to the definition of planet adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, planets and dwarf planets are objects that have sufficient gravity to overcome their own rigidity and assume hydrostatic equilibrium.

Currently, other member states can provide assistance to Greece only by bending the rules, which prevent them from lending except in response to natural disasters or circumstances beyond a country s control.

They're the ones that are embedded in that sea of dark matter that are causing the bending of the light to cause these optical illusions, or mirages, practically, of the background galaxies.

Provisions allowing for the re evaluation of core needs, possibly on a yearly basis, should be built into any such system, in order to avoid the rigidity experienced by the specialized agencies in this regard.

She stands vis a vis in front of the victim at the right hand side, bending its abdomen and inserting a single egg, a single egg into the body fluids of the aphid.

As November s elections approach, many US lawmakers will demand that the country with 10 unemployment persuade the country with 10 growth to stop bending trade rules and manipulating the value of its currency.

It's not about compliance. It's about setting, getting the job done, by bending or breaking the rules just look at your Indian people around here, you'll see them smile they know what it is.

Sarkozy misjudged the balance of power between France and China, and France came out of that diplomatic episode badly bruised, with its president swallowing his human rights claims and bending to the diktat of realpolitik.

Bending his neck , that he may lead astray from the way of Allah his shall be humiliation in the world , and We shall make him taste on the Day of Judgment the torment of Burning .

One could also ask whether the arrival of one million Russians, regardless of their actual ties to Judaism, had a negative effect on Israeli society, by encouraging ideological rigidity and a disdain for democracy that did not prevail before.

To me, the most mind bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.

After many years of bending gears with a pair of pliers, I made that tool, and then I made this other tool for sort of centering gears very quickly sort of developing my own little world of technology.

( Disdainfully ) bending his side , in order to lead ( men ) astray from the Path of Allah for him there is disgrace in this life , and on the Day of Judgment We shall make him taste the Penalty of burning ( Fire ) .

Perhaps the most important advantage to mounting the engines under the wings is that the total aircraft weight is more evenly distributed across the wingspan, which imposes less bending moment on the wings and allows for a lighter wing structure.

If France wants to capitalize on the positive emotions of Bastille Day, it needs much more responsible elites, ready to unite in the fight against unemployment and its causes (lack of competitiveness and labor market rigidity) and consequences (the rise of populist, non republican forces).

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

The memo cites a female interrogator rubbing lotion on a shackled detainee and whispering in his ear during Ramadan when sexual contact with a strange woman would be most offensive then suddenly bending back his thumbs until he grimaced in pain, and violently grabbing his genitals.