That spike was all Victoria.

Back in 1825, the Bank of England s Governor Cornelius Buller understood that when the private sector had a sudden panic driven spike in demand for safe and liquid financial assets, it was the Bank s responsibility to meet that demand and so keep bankruptcy and depression at bay.

Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

The spots were directed by Spike Lee.

But the scale of the price spike exceeds normal demand and supply factors, pointing to the role of speculation and underscoring the need for policy action to clean up the oil market.

She appeared at Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Awards in December 2008.

And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

After the first wave (early 1880s) there was another spike in aliyah in 1890.

A spike in defaults could destabilize the entire financial system and trigger an economic downturn.

Indeed, the spike in oil prices actually gives independent producers an incentive to boost production.

Indeed, opinion polls conducted in Gaza show a spike in support for Hamas after every Israeli escalation.

The outcome, preceded by a spike in extremist violence, is likely to reverberate far and wide.

For example, the recent spike in oil prices would have been driven by an irrational frenzy in futures markets.

Now, Steve, you know where the spike is, but nobody else, does? Correct?

GENEVA The recent sharp spike in food prices and growing concerns about food security have sparked anxiety worldwide.

The rapid spike in prices would harm all economies that import oil, regardless of where it comes from.

Not surprisingly, the spike in food prices was a contributing factor in the civil unrest that sparked the Arab Spring.

In Darfur, a spike in attacks by armed militia forces left civilians dead or injured, thousands displaced and homes destroyed.

Let's hope that the effects of the present spike will be more short lived.

Direct talks also have some well known liabilities. Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

Even a temporary spike in oil prices can have long term effects because of the social reactions they provoke.

If that happens, oil prices could rapidly spike and, as in the summer of 2008, trigger a global recession.

First, gold prices tend to spike when there are serious economic, financial, and geopolitical risks in the global economy.

A spike in long term rates would lower the price of JGBs, destroying household wealth and, in turn, reducing consumer spending.

Do you think the spike is under your left hand, or under your right hand?

There was a spike, of course, a few years before, but that wasn't actually Queensland.

But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life?

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

In fact, there was a temporary upward spike in real long term interest rates during the financial crisis in countries with indexed bonds.

While that could be contractionary, the gain in fiscal policy credibility might prevent a damaging spike in long term government bond yields.

Proteins in the third layer (VP7 and the VP4 spike) disrupt the membrane of the endosome, creating a difference in the calcium concentration.

It is thanks to the spike in the CDS market that the Greek government tightened its budget and improved its fiscal position.

Developed countries, faced with the sudden cutoff of a key energy source and a major spike in world oil prices, felt powerless.

What's interesting is the spike on the back of the Dracorex was growing very fast as well.

Investors subsequent efforts to price in the risk of a eurozone breakup not the volume of sovereign debt caused bond yields to spike.

So, now you don't know where the spike is, and I don't know where it is either, OK.

In terms of energy use, peak demand describes a period of simultaneous, strong consumer demand or a period of highest demand in a billing period.

Iran could also interfere with oil traffic, leading to a spike in prices and delivering a further blow to American and global economic recovery.

To offset the collapse in demand from industrial countries, they had stimulated domestic demand.

Historic examples The driving of the Golden Spike in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869 has been described as one of the first media events in the United States.

Many reports state that former perpetrators of kidnapping were released weeks before the recent spike in child abduction, emphasizing the dysfunction of the justice system in Madagascar.

The alternative is either a sovereign debt crisis, followed by a destructive spike in borrowing costs, or a growing burden for subsequent generations of taxpayers.

A disorderly rush to the exit could lead to a dollar collapse, a spike in long term interest rates, and a severe double dip recession.

The flowers are produced in a slender spike, each flower small (4 6 mm diameter), white, yellow, orange, or green, with four to six petals.

Such developments would cause US debt yields to spike, disrupting growth. The dollar would become weaker, leaving investors wrong footed.