World currency standards have enormous inertia.

Inertia was not always Israel s way.

Indeed, the watchword among major investors is inertia.

African civil society seems trapped in indifference and inertia.

In these circumstances, policy inertia is not an option.

Now, however, the region s political inertia has been disrupted.

New financing could unlock today s policy inertia over climate change.

But the risks of inertia seemed to be even higher.

This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Inertia is not an adequate response in an era of revolutionary change.

Instead, it is taking steps to overcome the individual inertia that inhibits saving.

One reason for this inertia can be found in Libya s prevailing political culture.

We are concerned at the general inertia existing in the entire disarmament machinery.

Although there are pockets of high unemployment in Europe today, the ratio of workers to elderly people will decline considerably in the longer term. And, already, labor market flexibility has been undermined by structural inertia, including difficulties in retooling and retraining workers, particularly the long term unemployed.

The one that's the most important is the inertia or the resistance to motion.

In these circumstances, the transatlantic alliance survives less from genuinely shared interests than from inertia.

We continue to see demonstrably inefficient practices and inertia, and we keep on repeating them.

These saving plans show that there are methods other than outright compulsion to overcome human inertia.

Government officials have taken modest steps in this direction, but culture and inertia remain powerful obstacles.

The ingrained inertia of the current regime, however, seems to preclude any early move toward that.

So it turns out, the inertia, which governs angular motion, scales as a fifth power of R.

Indeed, China s North Korea policy is dominated by inertia rather than sensitivity to its own national interests.

Mass is the measure of the inertia of a body, characterizing the resistance of body to acceleration.

The good news for Americans is that there is enormous inertia in the world trading and financial system.

Such bureaucratic inertia does not sit well with the many Libyans who are still undecided about the revolution.

Oil demand is slow to change because of behavioral inertia and fixed technology, while adjusting production takes time.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Structural and jurisdictional issues

Structural foundations remained intact.

The Mirage of Structural Reform

Any structural adjustment is painful.

True, in India the inertia of an indigenous version of Fabian socialism had to be overcome but this has happened.

Structural change is, by definition, innovative.

But another force serves the Party's interests as well the deep seated Chinese cultural inertia that stresses collectivist, group oriented behavior.

It comes at a time when the West is increasingly being dragged down by short term disruptions and continued policy inertia.

Indeed, Chile s courts could not have garnered the necessary public support to free them from their inertia without the push Garzón provided.

But the stubborn inertia of authoritarian regimes only encourages radicalization, so there is a clear need for a gradual process of liberalization.

The moment of inertia about an axis is a measurement of how difficult it is to accelerate the body about that axis.

In psychology and sociology, social inertia is the resistance to change or the endurance of stable relationships in societies or social groups.

Structural analysis is often in terms of incompressible dynamic pressure, so that equivalent airspeed is a useful speed for structural testing.

EMU was designed to encourage structural reforms.

This structural shift has enormous practical significance.

This isn t for lack of structural reforms.

That lends legitimacy to this morning's discussion to our adoption of appeals and proposals to break through the inertia in the other forums.

In fact, where structural weaknesses are the source of problems, the Fund should still require structural adjustment as the price of its assistance.