The moment of inertia about an axis is a measurement of how difficult it is to accelerate the body about that axis.

Sadat gained a privileged place in history and achieved immortality the moment he fled from the comfortable prison of inertia, and from the pantomime solidarity and hollow rhetorical cohesion of Arab summits.

World currency standards have enormous inertia.

Inertia was not always Israel s way.

Indeed, the watchword among major investors is inertia.

African civil society seems trapped in indifference and inertia.

In these circumstances, policy inertia is not an option.

Now, however, the region s political inertia has been disrupted.

My colleagues actually went on to test this limitation, by increasing the moment of inertia of a student, so they had a tail, and running them through and obstacle course, and found a decrement in performance, like you'd predict.

New financing could unlock today s policy inertia over climate change.

But the risks of inertia seemed to be even higher.

This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Inertia is not an adequate response in an era of revolutionary change.

Instead, it is taking steps to overcome the individual inertia that inhibits saving.

One reason for this inertia can be found in Libya s prevailing political culture.

We are concerned at the general inertia existing in the entire disarmament machinery.

The one that's the most important is the inertia or the resistance to motion.

In these circumstances, the transatlantic alliance survives less from genuinely shared interests than from inertia.

We continue to see demonstrably inefficient practices and inertia, and we keep on repeating them.

These saving plans show that there are methods other than outright compulsion to overcome human inertia.

Government officials have taken modest steps in this direction, but culture and inertia remain powerful obstacles.

The ingrained inertia of the current regime, however, seems to preclude any early move toward that.

So it turns out, the inertia, which governs angular motion, scales as a fifth power of R.

Indeed, China s North Korea policy is dominated by inertia rather than sensitivity to its own national interests.

Mass is the measure of the inertia of a body, characterizing the resistance of body to acceleration.

Haiti s Moment

Sarkozy s Moment

The good news for Americans is that there is enormous inertia in the world trading and financial system.

Such bureaucratic inertia does not sit well with the many Libyans who are still undecided about the revolution.

Oil demand is slow to change because of behavioral inertia and fixed technology, while adjusting production takes time.

However, this Sputnik moment actually a Dragon moment delivers a somewhat different message.

Average happiness is, of course, inadequate, because it doesn't speak to the moment by moment experience, and so this is what we think it looks like when you layer in moment to moment experience.

Mexico s Breakout Moment?

A Czech Moment

Wait a moment.

France s Fourth Moment

Hillary s Kissinger Moment

Pakistan s Mubarak Moment

The Hamas Moment

True, in India the inertia of an indigenous version of Fabian socialism had to be overcome but this has happened.

Just a moment, please.

Wait just a moment.

Just a moment, please!

America s G Zero Moment

Europe s Moment of Decision