Carl Honore praises slowness

The Bank s failure to lend to new clients partly reflects its slowness.

The tweets are a reaction to the slowness of the ongoing reform process in Jordan.

Both lessons about the slowness and painfulness of bank reconstruction, and about dependence on a large external provider of capital are unpalatable.

The complexity and slowness of Portuguese bureaucracy is the principal difficulty for the creation of new small and medium scale economic activities.

At first it was the European Commission that drew criticism for its slowness in making proposals to rally national governments and their policymakers.

Moreover, the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice still requires unanimity for essential decisions in the fight against crime and terrorism and therefore, implying excruciating slowness.

Given the need to act quickly and given the slowness with which the developed world has been responding this new institution is all the more welcome.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

One qualifying statement made in this Statement of Intent, however, was the potential slowness with which some of the objectives would be achieved because of limited financial and human resources.

But, for many emerging economies, it is the embeddedness of informal rules, norms, and beliefs, and their slowness to change, that prevents many economies breakthrough to more advanced, knowledge based growth.

Citizens and legal Entities mostly complained about slowness in operation of courts, i.e., violation of rights referred to in the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms, article 6.

The slowness with which the first stimulus has been rolled out, and the fact that it will take even more time for its full effects to be felt, provides more fodder for the chattering classes.

The government s mistakes in so called risk communication regarding the Fukushima nuclear plant, and its slowness in getting necessary aid to people displaced by the disaster, have once again put the stereotype on full display.

The implementation process was also characterized by slowness and lost opportunities. There were certain measures and practices that in and of themselves counteracted the recommendations and affected the situation regarding human rights and international humanitarian law.

But that slowness, that caution, the fact that President Clinton initially said that American troops would only be deployed for a year, turned out to be a strength, and it helped us to put our priorities right.

Indeed, China s slowness to implement an alternative to the investment led, debt financed growth model that has prevailed for the last two decades means that its domestic credit risks are the most significant threat to the global economy today.

The Bank s failure to lend to new clients partly reflects its slowness. Even after its loan cycle had been speeded up, the Bank took an average of 13.5 months to approve credits a long time for a country to await emergency help.

What I'd like to start off with is an observation, which is that if I've learned anything over the last year, it's that the supreme irony of publishing a book about slowness is that you have to go around promoting it really fast.

And what should have been the most relaxing, the most intimate, the most tender moment of the day, when a dad sits down to read to his son, became instead this kind of gladiatorial battle of wills, a clash between my speed and his slowness.

And I knew that when my book on slowness came out, it would be welcomed by the New Age brigade, but it's also been taken up, with great gusto, by the corporate world you know, business press, but also big companies and leadership organizations.

The debt to Member States was extremely high and delays were due not only to the failure to pay assessed contributions (four countries accounted for 68 per cent of the peacekeeping arrears as at 15 October 2004) but also to the slowness in processing requests for reimbursement. His delegation had repeatedly called for the streamlining of that procedure.