In fashionable African cities, residential home prices remain stratospheric.

Cocaine is fashionable because it is attractive white, not dark sniffed, not injected consumed in a living room or a fashionable night club, not in a dark alley.

She altered her old clothes to make them look more fashionable.

Each in his inimitable way displayed the contrariness both loved and loathed in intellectuals Aron fancied Anglo American liberalism before it became fashionable, while Sartre remained a Communist sympathiser after the fashion had passed.

It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, in this fantastic A C hall.

Leonardo also presented Lisa as fashionable and successful, perhaps more well off than she was.

ZURICH It is fashionable nowadays to talk about personal attention as a commodity or even a currency.

It has become fashionable to lay the blame for the vicissitudes of Arab democratization on the West.

And yet they persist and affect many more people than cancer, malaria, or other more fashionable ailments do.

Eighteen years old and, by her own description, a petite, fashionable young woman, she wasn t your average cadet.

And when I was in my college days, this was the sort of design that was fashionable and popular.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, it became fashionable for economists to decry the power of big banks.

She was the fashionable young daughter of his friend Sir Dinshaw Petit, of an elite Parsi family of Bombay.

Neither the currently fashionable Asian pivot nor the Russian reset four years ago constitute the beginning of a grand plan.

As this process unfolded, it became fashionable for market fundamentalists in the West to bask in a sense of vindication.

As long as it was developing countries that were whipsawed by global finance, it was fashionable to blame the victim.

He also drew on the philosophy of personalism, which was highly fashionable in the 1930 s, as it sought a middle way between individualist liberalism and communitarian socialism, and insisted that persons always had a spiritual dimension that materialistic liberalism supposedly failed to acknowledge.

But while downsizing government may be fashionable in the West, now is not the time for slimming down Burundi's state sector.

TRIVANDRUM, INDIA It is fashionable these days, particularly in the West, to speak of India and China in the same breath.

I assumed that I was supposed to be provoked into unguarded comments, a method that fashionable TV journalists everywhere use nowadays.

At that time, refreshing in a health spa bathing, taking outdoor exercise and enjoying healing waters was fashionable amongst the aristocracy.

Gorbachev s wife, Raisa, stunned the nation not only by appearing in public, but by being fashionable and expressing opinions of her own.

By late 2013, however, a report in The Washington Post indicated that shark fin soup was no longer seen as fashionable in China.

A fashionable approach was known as twin peaks, whereby one regulator handled prudential regulation setting capital requirements while another oversaw adherence to business rules.

Putin s background was in the KGB, while Medvedev is a lawyer who has attacked Russia s legal nihilism and denounced the fashionable concept of sovereign democracy.

It has become fashionable in certain smart circles to regard atheism as a sign of superior education, of a more highly evolved civilization, of enlightenment.

PARIS In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States system of regulation needed a fundamental structural overhaul.

Africa, it was fashionable to say, would catch up only if it deregulated its economies and embraced export led growth like the miracle economies of East Asia.

It has become fashionable to claim that the nation state has lost its place. Globalization, it is said, means that nations can no longer control their own affairs.

A few years ago, it was fashionable to worry about the challenge that authoritarian style capitalism (for example, in China, Singapore, Malaysia, or Russia) presented to Western democratic capitalism.

The other fashionable policy idea that will ultimately prove impractical is to transform the IMF credits known as Special Drawing Rights into an international currency to rival the dollar.

In the 18th century, French became the fashionable language in Bern and elsewhere, while the influence of the French speaking allies and subject lands was more marked than before.

As people moved around, they came into contact with others, on trains, at hotels, in restaurants, and for some, at fashionable resorts such as the spa in Baden Baden.

The advance of behavioral economics is not fundamentally in conflict with mathematical economics, as some seem to think, though it may well be in conflict with some currently fashionable mathematical economic models.

Indeed, for all the fashionable predictions that China, India, or Brazil will surpass the United States in the coming decades, the greatest threats may come from modern barbarians and non state actors.

These companies, however, are composed largely of buyers who import fashionable goods from throughout Europe and America, continuing the trend of Swedish business toward multinational economic dependency like many of its neighbours.

It might be fashionable to talk about just a couple of the globe s challenges, but we could achieve a lot more if we focused first on where our spending would be most rational.

So I am amazed to see people going along with the currently fashionable political argument that policies like cap and trade, government mandates, and subsidies for renewable energy can actually benefit an economy.

It is fashionable nowadays to look to stricter international rules as the solution to most global problems, But such a strategy is not well suited to an ongoing shift in international economic relations.

After its initial popularity among fashionable women in the 18th century, the style was revived as part of the Gibson Girl look in the 1890s and continued to be in vogue until World War I.

A few years ago, it was fashionable to worry about the challenge that authoritarian style capitalism (for example, in China, Singapore, Malaysia, or Russia) presented to Western democratic capitalism. Today, the problem is not only economic.

The fashionable idea of allowing banks to issue contingent capital (debt that becomes equity in a systemic crisis) is no more credible than the idea of committing to punish banks severely in the event of a crisis.

For example, according to the Case Shiller Indexes, home prices in the fashionable Cape Cod vacation area in Massachusetts soared 184 from 1997 to 2005, compared to the 131 increase in nearby Boston over the same period.

From this predicament stems the fashionable idea that the bond market would actually welcome less fiscal austerity, because this would boost economic growth, in turn making the level of public debt appear more sustainable in the long run.

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory design thinking.