Yes, Dubai is certainly an autocratic state where finances are tightly and secretively controlled.

Speaking to Global Voices on condition of anonymity, one journalist argues that this is part of the king's tightly controlled media image

But, because the Chinese financial system remains tightly controlled and the options for investors are very limited, the usual inflationary consequences have not followed.

A 1996 analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists found Libya s media was the most tightly controlled in the Arab world during the country's dictatorship.

The investigators exposed various species of animal and bird to the candles in controlled conditions.

In such a tightly controlled environment as China, mainland Chinese media must stay positive and avoid criticizing their country's authorities when reporting on local disasters, such as last year's Tianjin explosions.

According to one story, possibly apocryphal, in the 1970 s, the Islamic insurgency in Iran was initially planned using material delivered through porn related channels because the mosques were so tightly controlled.

This belt fits me too tightly.

Religion is now tolerated in Tibet, as it is in the rest of China, but under strictly controlled conditions.

For others, conditionality will be more tightly focused on core areas, and structural conditions that require hard to time legislative measures will be judged in a less formalistic manner.

Amid a tightly controlled media and political environment, the media plays a very important role in keeping the public informed about all aspects of the document that will serve as the framework of their country s governance.

Yes, Dubai is certainly an autocratic state where finances are tightly and secretively controlled. Indeed, lack of detailed information on the Emirates finances was a central reason why the Dubai World default came as such a shock.

Yet access to justice remains tightly constrained, courts are still controlled by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and lawyers involved in litigation against local state agencies remain highly vulnerable to retaliation by state and non state actors.

Financial conditions could be controlled with one tool the short term interest rate deployed exclusively in pursuit of a target, implicit or explicit, for consumer price inflation.

A tightly knit group of political consultants has helped Putin resolve his conundrum.

The life of women under such traditional arrangements tended to be tightly circumscribed.

All of these elements can be tightly linked to a Poverty Reduction Strategy.

But China s monetary policy has been hamstrung by the tightly managed exchange rate regime.

(a) Controlled delivery?

Abonyad is a foundation very tightly connected to and actually run by the religious authorities.

But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.

Until recently, their rulers had a common interest in keeping this Pandora s Box of borders tightly sealed.

State controlled banks allocate capital.

For example, haptoglobin tightly binds to hemoglobin subunits, while hemopexin captures the heme when the hemoglobin releases it.

Additionally, DBA functions are often automated using restructuring tools that are tightly coupled to an active data dictionary.

Here mercury (Hg2 ) is bound very tightly to sulfur, but weathering slowly releases the mercury to the environment.

State holding companies controlled key listed firms directly and associations controlled the rest, reconciling totalitarianism with nominally private ownership.

Task cannot be monitored or controlled

It controlled one or more gateways.

In tennis, player movement is controlled by the Wii, while the swinging of the racket is controlled by the player.

It was as though those tightly coiled wires in my head had been disconnected and I could think clearly.

These large scale changes will have to be coordinated, at least informally if not tightly, among the major economies.

We need to create tightly knit networks of personal relations between the members of different social and religious groups.

Conduct directed or controlled by a State

The idea of Europe controlled my mind.

Review of controlled sources of ionizing radiation

The valley was a Palestinian controlled area.

The UK has the powers to control the transhipment of controlled goods and, in respect of WMD, non controlled goods through the UK.

Controlled substance a substance the use of which is controlled for health or environmental reasons, pursuant to a declaration by the competent body

By staying tightly focused in one place, Jonas tapped into the soul and the enduring human spirit that underlies this community.

Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

That is why it is a controlled substance.

Treasury Secretary John Connolly attacked Japan s controlled economy.

They shouldn t be controlled by instinct and fantasy.