For an unbalanced economy that has under consumed and over invested for the better part of three decades, this is unnerving.

There is an unnerving similarity between many economists naive premise of a perfectly rational market and the dialectical materialism of scientific socialism.

In our case that experience is all the more unnerving in that it has struck our small society with unexpected suddenness and magnitude.

Raising prices is almost never a real problem. Lowering them or making them rise more slowly than prices in competing countries is painful and unnerving.

For strength unalloyed by checks and balances and by a capacity for self critical reflection about the rightness and wrongness of state action can be unnerving.

After 10 unnerving minutes, when weíd already decided to evacuate the area... ...in response to another call, we noticed them as they turned the corner, advancing towards us slowly, a mule drawn cart carrying some people.

High oil prices have helped him rebuild and centralize the strong state that was his goal from the outset of his presidency. But his recent attempts to use Russia s energy resources for political coercion in Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and elsewhere have exposed Russia as an unreliable partner, unnerving even the Chinese, who do not wish to see a reconstituted Russian empire on their border.