After winning independence, the American colonies united loosely under the Articles of Confederation.

This 1998 film is loosely based on the early years of Elizabeth's reign.

Wine refers to himself as The Ghetto President and Omubanda Wakabaka, loosely translated as The King s Gang Star .

Writers in fields such as education and psychology, however, often use bilingualism loosely to refer to all forms of multilingualism.

Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study.

Financial markets and institutions with global reach need a global macro prudential regulator, not just a loosely organized college of supervisors.

As a result, all politics that were derived, no matter how loosely, from Marxism, lost credibility, and finally died in 1989.

HONG KONG The proliferation of China s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability.

Second, there is an underlying historical tension between the large Sunni majority and the Alevi Bektashi minority, loosely linked to Shia Islam.

Servilia is loosely based on the historical personage of Servilia Caepionis, mother of Marcus Junius Brutus, and famous lover of Julius Caesar.

Like he did one with he had a little wheel, like a fan, that was sort of loosely attached, so it could spin by itself.

Kleist made the unusual decision to narrate much of his book through Facebook posts, which are loosely based on interviews with Krug and Omar's sister.

In the most common scenario, environments such as PVM and MPI for loosely connected clusters and OpenMP for tightly coordinated shared memory machines are used.

In 1998, Amano appeared as Hiroshi in the 1998 movie New Rose Hotel , loosely based on the William Gibson short story of the same name.

Cartoonists and editors loosely agreed that there would always be cultural and religious issues to take into account when determining what can and should be published.

Recently, the IMF proposed a new global tax on financial institutions loosely in proportion to their size, as well as a tax on banks profits and bonuses.

Local Fatah leaders like Marwan Barghouti have tremendous power over the nationalist armed units that are loosely organized under the title of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Rome was a city of ancient ruins, and the Papal States were loosely administered, and vulnerable to external interference such as that of France and later Spain.

Hundreds of years ago, a handful of European countries colonized whole continents and organized once independent or loosely related peoples into nation states, under a common colonial language.

The solid phase of water is known as ice and commonly takes the structure of hard, amalgamated crystals, such as ice cubes, or loosely accumulated granular crystals, like snow.

However, the term has also been used loosely to describe similar structures on a number of planets in the Solar System, including Mars, Venus, and on a number of moons.

Unlike parallel systems, in which the processors are tightly coupled and constitute a single database system, a distributed database system consists of loosely coupled sites that share no physical components.

Under the loosely defined banner of bringing 'scientific thinking' to geography, the quantitative revolution led to an increased use of computerized statistical techniques, in particular multivariate analysis, in geographical research.

Library 2.0 is a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to users.

The Chinese democracy movement (), abbreviated as Minyun () refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one party rule by the Communist Party.

London dispersion forces (LDF, also known as dispersion forces, London forces, instantaneous dipole induced dipole forces, or loosely van der Waals forces) are a type of force acting between atoms and molecules.

The title character is Carlos, Prince of Asturias and the play as a whole is loosely modeled on historical events in the 16th century under the reign of King Philip II of Spain.

However, the term is also used loosely to describe all high fashion custom fitted clothing, whether it is produced in Paris or in other fashion capitals such as London, Milan, New York or Tokyo.

What is the legitimacy of diplomacy, of the the solution we devise as diplomats if they cannot be reflected and understood by also these broader forces of societies that we now very loosely call groups?

In a study published in January, the economists Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey consider several possible models of gold s fundamental price, and find that gold is at best only loosely tethered to any of them.

We need to see how we can help those societies move from political coalitions, loosely based political coalitions, to civilizational coalitions that are working for the ideals and narratives of the democratic culture on the ground.

On his blog Chaturanga, Jaideep Prabhu pointed out that India's policy was to acquire a 'minimum credible deterrent' and not to escalate an arms race, as was being loosely discussed in a section of the media.

Similarly, the term cyber war is used loosely to cover a wide range of behaviors, reflecting dictionary definitions of war that range from armed conflict to any hostile contest (for example, war between the sexes or war on drugs ).

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

For one, the al Ahmars are traditionally Zaydi, just like the Houthis. I can t vouch for the religious identification of each individual Ahmar, but I d say that many of their tribal fighters will still, at least loosely, identify as Zaydi.

4.9 In its plan to advance and increase the participation of women in the Public Service, the policy paper highlights that sexual harassment is referred to loosely in the public sector and there is a need to go beyond that.

Like many new members, Britain prefers a loosely connected Europe of different nations essentially a free trade zone, but with open borders at its periphery with sufficient strategic coordination to constitute a quasi empire in geopolitical terms, on a par with the United States.

Jia s movie is episodic four loosely linked stories about lone acts of extreme violence, mostly culled from contemporary newspaper stories. Leviathan is about a decent man whose life is ruined by the mayor of his town in collusion with the Russian Orthodox Church and a corrupt judiciary.

BUENOS AIRES At the recent Summit of the Americas in Panama, Cuban President Raúl Castro chose to break with the agreed protocol. Instead of speaking for eight minutes, he took six times longer to present a political history of his country that was only loosely based on fact.

If managers are only loosely tied to shareholders, they could more willingly give up a bigger share of the pie to labor. Similarly, where shareholder interests do not come first, say, in a corporatist system, dominant owners have greater reason to keep financial information private, lest labor use it to press for more favorable terms.

A number of United States security personnel, wearing masks, conducted the security check, which consisted of at least the following elements. The expellees had their clothes cut up and removed with a pair of scissors, their bodies were searched, their hands and feet were fettered, they were dressed in overalls and their heads were covered with loosely fitted hoods.