Of course, forecasting inflation is notoriously difficult.

The patent system was notoriously expensive and inaccessible.

Public sector employment in Kenya is notoriously opaque.

What defines good leadership is a notoriously complicated question.

That is why Germany s famous Autobahnen are notoriously congested nowadays.

Distinguishing between enhancement and treatment requires defining normality and disease, which is notoriously difficult.

The cultures never mesh well, and big securities businesses are notoriously difficult to manage.

Though notoriously secretive, the operation is far removed from the Church s more sensitive, doctrinal core.

Democracies are notoriously bad at producing credible bargains that require political commitments over the medium term.

Germany, with its notoriously low inflation rate, may be among the first countries to experience declining prices.

One kiss was enough for football a notoriously macho environment to become a place for debating homophobia.

Lawsuits are apparently increasingly common, but they are notoriously cumbersome, and judges are not independent from factory bosses.

Only one German bank, the notoriously mismanaged Hypo Real Estate, which had already required massive state help, failed.

For too long, these regimes have enjoyed impunity regarding the terrorism that they notoriously foster, support and glorify.

Indeed, to many, it is cheaper to fly to Brazil than to be smuggled into Europe, which is also notoriously dangerous.

Meanwhile, he claims to be tough on California s notoriously well paid and powerful public employee unions by negotiating a 5 pay cut.

Of course, this tradition has not always prevented violence, most notoriously in the killings that followed the 1966 coup against President Sukarno.

Rather, he embodies a new version of an old breed of Latin American populist presidents, notoriously impatient with dissent and quick to stifle criticism.

They know that they must purchase jet fuel for as long as they want to stay in business, and fuel prices are notoriously volatile.

Beside both being amongst the world's most notoriously brutal dictators, they shared lots of similar traits and it is widely believed that they were friends.

The US government regarded non alignment with distaste Eisenhower s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, notoriously declared that neutrality between good and evil is itself evil.

The only exception foreseen by the law is in cases in which the nature of the activity to be undertaken publicly and notoriously requires such requirements.

Forecasting models, based on normal distributions of risk over short slices of recent time, are notoriously incapable of capturing the real amount of risk in a political system.

The definition of torture is notoriously slippery, but we have known for some time now that the former president was being, shall we say, economical with the truth.

There are other recent examples, including, perhaps most notoriously, the 2000 presidential election in the United States. Why are we suddenly experiencing so many close results in democratic elections?

Investors collective psychology is notoriously fragile. If they ever calm down, interest rates will shoot up, and that could well bring the global economy s simmering imbalances to a raging boil.

Official sources report 14,675 industrial accident deaths in China in 2003, but statistics on workplace accidents are notoriously unreliable, and some observers suggest that the number may be closer to 120,000.

As a recent article in the Financial Times points out, in two areas notoriously immune to productivity increases, education and health care, technology is already reducing the demand for skilled labor.

The sad truth is that he may well be right the national police (PNC) are notoriously corrupt, understaffed and inefficient, as much a part of the problem as the drug gangs themselves.

Though exchange rates are notoriously unpredictable, the best guess is that a slow unwinding of the massive US trade deficit will keep the dollar on a path of gradual long term decline.

Land acquisition reforms are in the air, and the New Delhi rumor mills buzz with talk of an imminent government reshuffle to inject young blood into a notoriously geriatric Council of Ministers.

The projections implied by the Fed s macro econometric model concerning the timing and effects of the 2008 economic stimulus on unemployment, which have been notoriously wide of the mark, are a case in point.

Distinguishing between enhancement and treatment requires defining normality and disease, which is notoriously difficult. For example, Christopher Boorse, a philosopher at the University of Delaware, defines disease as a statistical deviation from species typical functioning.

Academics in the arts and humanities are notoriously bad at defending why their work has value. But, apart from strengthening civil society and the habits of freedom, these disciplines yield bottom line benefits as well.

This is a welcome change in the field of Internet and communications infrastructure, as there is great potential for important improvements in Iran's fixed and mobile broadband networks, which are notoriously slow and heavily censored.

But a few vulture funds most notoriously the hedge fund Elliott Management, headed by the billionaire Paul E. Singer saw Argentina s travails as an opportunity to make huge profits at the expense of the Argentine people.

Whereas Israel notoriously exacts grim retribution for every attack on its soil, India has endured with numbing stoicism an endless series of bomb blasts, including at least six major assaults in different locations in 2008 alone.

Attempting to repatriate competences from the EU may play well in Britain s notoriously Euro skeptic media and parts of the Conservative Party, but I would question whether it is truly in the UK s long term interest.

Another view held that paragraph (3) seemed unconvincing for, if it was common knowledge that the local courts were notoriously lacking in independence , the question arose why an investor would risk investing in the country concerned.

It has frequently cut off contracted supplies, imposed sanctions on friends and foes alike (including India), and reneged on delivering military goods and spare parts, in addition to being notoriously unwilling to transfer its best military technologies.

In dating, the transition from friendship to sex can lead to, notoriously, various forms of awkwardness, and as can sex in the workplace, in which we call the conflict between a dominant and a sexual relationship sexual harassment.

But the banks that were most affected were elsewhere, and the long term winners will be a few American banks including some of the most notoriously weak banks which will get bigger as a result of the crisis.

Frei s lackluster numbers reflect his own weaknesses (he is notoriously uncharismatic and was the least popular of the four Concertación presidents), as well as the inevitable stress that two decades of uninterrupted rule has placed on the ruling coalition.

Some measures unauthorized searches of bank records and wiretapping of telephone calls compromise the liberty of all. Others most notoriously, the confinement of roughly 450 alleged Muslim fighters in Guantánamo Bay impinge on people thought to be the enemy.

DUBLIN Bond markets are notoriously fickle, often driven by sentiment rather than rigorous macroeconomic analysis, and, as the 2008 global financial crisis demonstrated, they are far from infallible. They can also be particularly unreliable when assessing an economy s long term prospects.