Even when well run, democracy took little interest in the distant future, aristocracy took little interest in the well being of those whom Simpson calls the little people, and monarchy took little interest in anything other than legitimate succession.

And that question has attracted surprisingly little interest.

Nonetheless, North Korea has shown little interest in reform.

Indeed, many employees of state owned enterprises show little interest in returning to work.

Organized psychiatry appears to have little interest in ECT, or is scared of harassment from patient advocates.

It could be a story that is simply of wide interest to viewers and has little impact otherwise.

Sub Saharan emissions, estimated at only 3 to 4 of global man made emissions, are deemed of little interest.

Despite repeated assurances, Islamist leaders have shown little interest in democracy beyond winning at the ballot box.

But too little attention has been paid to the role of Japan s policy of near zero interest rates in contributing to these imbalances.

That will not work, primarily because France shows little interest, and it is an idea whose time is past.

It makes little sense for the world s poorest countries to lend money to the richest at low interest rates.

The fact that little effective progress was made in enhancing the intraregional supply and demand components implies that the interdependency of private and public interest has contributed little to regional market expansion and welfare.

None of the big public systems education, health care, or the military has been reformed, and the regime shows little interest in doing so.

After 20 years of little public participation, the population gradually started to take interest in the government, and Dubček became a truly popular national figure.

Lower interest rates worked (a little), but for the most part by encouraging households to refinance their mortgages, not by stimulating investment.

There was little initial interest in the engine, but Boeing realized that the CFM56 might be a solution to upcoming noise regulations.

You shall not lend on interest to your brother interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest

Deflation increases the real (inflation adjusted) debt burden, as well as the real interest rate. Though there is little evidence of the importance of small changes in real interest rates, the effect of even mild deflation on real debt, year after year, can be significant.

If the interest rate is raised too little, banks will use more reserves to support lending, leading to higher inflation. If the interest rate is raised too much, economic activity will be constrained and growth could fizzle.

Moreover, given the magnitude of excess capacity in real estate, lower interest rates will do little to revive real estate prices, much less inflate another consumption bubble.

Seemingly lacking a central nervous system, it has become a dysfunctional creature with little capacity to recognize any common national, much less international, interest.

Virtually anyone could borrow to buy a house, with little or even no down payment, and with interest charges pushed years into the future.

The large emerging countries, although they will suffer disproportionately from wilder weather and rising sea levels, show little interest in picking up the slack.

Though there is little evidence of the importance of small changes in real interest rates, the effect of even mild deflation on real debt, year after year, can be significant.

Countries like Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, however, have so far shown little interest in contributing to the construction of global regimes, preferring to remain free riders.

In 2001, George W. Bush started his first term with little interest in foreign policy, but adopted transformational objectives after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Gilens and Page report similar results for organized interest groups, which wield a powerful influence on policy formation. As they point out, it makes very little difference what the general public thinks once interest group alignments and the preferences of affluent Americans are taken into account.

For example, China showed little interest in the Senkaku Diaoyu Islands prior to 1968 the year a geographical study pointed to vast oil reserves beneath the seabed.

There is no doubt that Morsi s government was inexperienced, often incompetent, and showed little interest in listening to views other than those of its supporters, which were often far from liberal.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

This crude recipe is based on little economic theory or empirical evidence there is no reason to expect that regardless of the source of inflation , the best response is to increase interest rates.

The prosecutors have shown little interest in these discrepancies, doing their best to send the alleged conspirators to jail (and keep them there) even before the trial starts.

But it does not have to maintain ultra low interest rates after the crisis has passed, especially if those rates have little impact on generating sustainable economic activity.

Little by little our knowledge of English increases.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep

They would always see and want to grasp the benefits of lower interest rates and a little more demand pressure more production, more employment, higher wages, and higher profits in the short run.

Conflict of interest

Conflict of interest

Finally, the bankers are paid according to return on equity, unadjusted for risk, so it is very much in their interest to continue running their business with very little equity.

The trend towards developing countries becoming increasingly active outward direct investors, and particularly the South South aspect of that phenomenon, should be of interest to the Commission, but relatively little research had been done on it.

Most Nigerians expect the general election in 2015 to bring in a new set of self serving politicians with little interest in improving the situation. If they are right, Boko Haram will continue to thrive.

Around half the Congolese, Rwandan, and South Sudanese refugees whom researchers interviewed said they had plots of their own, and others worked as farm labourers. Only the Somalis showed little or no interest in farming.

Liquidity injections and low interest rates have a microeconomic effect that has received little attention they lower the cost of capital vis à vis the cost of labor, which causes a relative decline in demand for labor.