Strain

Sometimes interest rate changes have the predicted effect, sometimes they don't.

For China s, the income effect of global demand is significantly larger than the price effect of the exchange rate.

The second adverse effect of deflation is to raise the real interest rate, that is, the difference between the nominal interest rate and the rate of inflation.

If implemented now, steep rate cuts can still have a significant positive effect. If delayed, their effect is likely to be minimal.

A direct effect of the higher interest rate would be to increase the budget deficit and the rate of growth of government debt.

But exchange rate appreciation put great strain on the export industries that were central to these countries economic performance and both countries tried desperately to avoid becoming reserve currencies.

Countries that grow faster tend to experience real exchange rate appreciation, a phenomenon known as the Balassa Samuelson effect.

This relationship, however, is not always without strain.

Their net effect will be to raise consumption as a share of GDP and to reduce the national saving rate.

Emerging market countries are turning to an array of techniques to discourage capital inflows or sterilize their effect on the exchange rate.

Yet freedom of speech in the West is under strain.

The Russian strain of political messianism is pretty much exhausted.

For example, additional letters may be added to indicate a strain.

China would prefer to improve the trade balance through removal of trade barriers rather than exchange rate adjustment, because it is reluctant to put additional strain on its export industries and eager to gain access to American technology.

Since the base rate of economic growth (before calculating the climate change effect) was taken to be 1.3 per year, a loss of 20 in the year 2200 amounts to reducing the annual growth rate to 1.2 .

Griffith concluded that the type II R had been transformed into the lethal III S strain by a transforming principle that was somehow part of the dead III S strain bacteria.

For example, refugees leaving Sudan can strain the stability of neighboring Chad.

Prolonged periods of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Under the simple Swiss formula approach, a coefficient would be selected that would in effect set a maximum rate across countries by compressing high rates.

In fact, the history of the stock market's reactions to changing interest rates is mixed. Sometimes interest rate changes have the predicted effect, sometimes they don't.

To what extent the EU can take this strain, only time will tell.

The immense response by central banks and finance ministries has eased the strain.

Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.

We realize that reporting can be a strain on already limited administrative resources.

For claims stated in Kuwaiti dinars, the currency exchange rate to be applied is the rate of exchange in effect immediately prior to Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait (i.e. 1 August 1990) for converting Kuwaiti dinars into United States dollars.

In the US, the inflation rate has also been depressed by the rise in the value of the dollar relative to the euro and other currencies, which has caused import prices to decline. This, too, is a level effect, implying that the inflation rate will rise once the dollar's exchange rate stops appreciating.

A high rate of underemployment continued to be recorded (33 per cent), also having a greater effect on women (23 per cent), than men (26 per cent).

In January 2003, Anastacia decided to have her breasts reduced because of back strain.

One strain of HPAI A(H5N1) is spreading globally after first appearing in Asia.

Regarding interest on or indexation of arrears, should the General Assembly decide to introduce interest charges on arrears, the rate should be fixed at a low level and should not have retroactive effect, and the annual rate should not exceed 1 per cent.

The land still rises at the rate of about one centimetre per year, as an effect of the last ice age that ended in the 7th millennium BC.

The only desirable scenario, therefore, is a Chinese economy that transmits its stimulus to the rest of the world mainly through rising imports generated by rapid economic growth (i.e., the income effect on import demand), rather than by exchange rate appreciation (the substitution effect).

BERLIN When placed under too much strain, chains tend to break at the weakest link.

And experts worry that the novel H1N1 virus could mutate into a more severe strain.

It is a strain to think that governments have the same motivations as private citizens.

Nor does the ECB have reason to be gratified with its strain of quantitative easing.

Many references to bird flu and H5N1 in the popular media refer to this strain.

In accordance with the United Nations System Accounting Standards, monetary assets and liabilities are revalued at the United Nations operational rate of exchange in effect at 31 December 2004.

For starters, the Sprague Dawley strain of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.

For example, a flu strain is a certain biological form of the influenza or flu virus.

But what is the matter with the unbelievers , that they strain their glances continuously towards them ,

But the system for protecting human rights at the international level is today under considerable strain.