The pendulum has swung too far.

Tom Shannon The painter and the pendulum

Fortunately, the pendulum has begun to swing back toward cooperation.

One view is that Russian politics is like a pendulum.

So the evolution of this I gather this isn't your first pendulum.

I understand why the pendulum has swung so heavily the other way.

That slack labor market is powering this swing of the protectionist pendulum.

Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction.

In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum.

But it would be unfortunate indeed, dangerous if the pendulum now swung back to old fashioned nationalism.

But with the pendulum, it allows me to manifest these invisible forces that are holding the magnets up.

Thirty years after the Reagan Thatcher revolution, the ideological pendulum has begun to swing in the opposite direction.

For a time, the pendulum of political opinion may have swung too far against the nation state and its role.

In 1857, Foucault invented the polarizer which bears his name, and in the succeeding year devised a method of testing the mirror of a reflecting telescope to determine its shape.

A political pendulum of reform and reaction, and of populist and pragmatic cabinets, weakened the republic for most of its history.

Unless the swing of the pendulum in the US can be stopped, the rest of this decade will be as bad.

But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.

A Cholera pandemic devastated Europe between 1829 and 1851, and was first fought by the use of what Foucault called social medicine , which focused on flux, circulation of air, location of cemeteries, etc.

In his study of truth telling in ancient Greece, the philosopher Michel Foucault pointed out that the act of truth telling cannot be reduced to citizens learning something that they did not know before.

Each of these beautiful paintings, are they images in and of themselves, or are they records of a physical event called the pendulum approaching the canvas?

The clock was converted to pendulum and anchor escapement in the 17th century, and was installed in London's Science Museum in 1884, where it continues to operate.

Drawing particularly from the theories of Michel Foucault and performativity in western academia, and the more diverse influences of postcolonial theory, there has been a concerted effort to deconstruct the cultural in order to make apparent the various power relations.

Can anything halt this swing of the pendulum? Absent a sudden, immediate, and strong boost in US domestic demand that turns into a durable boom with rapid employment growth, probably not.

Led by the developed countries, the pendulum began to swing in the 1980 s. Once viewed as part of the problem, FDI became part of the solution to economic growth and development.

For, if the Orange Revolution demonstrated one thing, it is that Ukraine s politics are not those of the pendulum, swinging predictably between opposing forces that agree on the fundamental rules of democracy.

Like the peoples of other United Nations Members who have fought for their freedom, thousands of Nicaraguans have died for it, victims of a perverse pendulum that swung from authoritarianism to totalitarianism.

In the decade after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.

During this period, patients may remove the sling to practice passive pendulum Range of Motion (ROM) exercises to reduce atrophy in the elbow and shoulder, but they are minimized to 15 20 degrees off vertical.

While lending by the World Bank did fall below its mid 1990 s level, it is growing again, reflecting the expansion of regional multilateral banks and a policy pendulum that is swinging back to publicly financed infrastructure projects.

None of the proposals suggested thus far is perfect, and many of the details need to be worked out. But the pendulum has swung back from unilateralism to multilateralism, and the world s largest countries are searching for ways to make it more effective.

The past three years have seen much less progress on freeing up world trade than almost any free trade advocate would have hoped. Unless the swing of the pendulum in the US can be stopped, the rest of this decade will be as bad.

In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum. Abraham Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus during the Civil War, and Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese American citizens during the early days of World War II.

When, in post classical times, a clock showed these hours, its period had to be changed every morning and evening (for example by changing the length of its pendulum), or it had to keep to the position of the Sun on the ecliptic (see Prague Astronomical Clock).