But Chechnya, obliging as it is, is small, poor, and idiosyncratic.

They often criticize belief systems which they believe to be idiosyncratic, bizarre or irrational.

A fundamental requirement of this approach is an open mind, unconstrained by the subject s idiosyncratic dogma.

This protected investors from a general sell off of the carry trade and lessened their exposure to idiosyncratic risks.

Israel s current leaders, and a segment of Israeli society, are trapped in an idiosyncratic logic of fear and self centeredness.

The seemingly objective top down approach ignores the idiosyncratic nature of risk and assumes that one mortgage loan is like the next.

Both sides in these disputes usually omit to mention the key idiosyncratic characteristics and specific starting conditions that can make direct comparisons meaningless.

Aside from the usual efficiency arguments, it is just going to become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain complex and idiosyncratic national tax arrangements.

Niyazov forced students, from grammar school to the post graduate level, to make his idiosyncratic book, the Ruhnama , the primary focus of their studies.

True, given complex risk factors and idiosyncratic policy preferences, it has been particularly challenging of late to divine the logic underlying big exchange rate swings.

So no one in Europe needs to fear that the Czech Republic has some nostalgic or idiosyncratic agenda that it wants to impose on the Union.

Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large, idiosyncratic risks of bankruptcy and poverty.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti was rapidly dubbed super Mario, and a photomontage in the press depicted him with the idiosyncratic Mohawk hairstyle of Mario Balotelli, the player who scored the two Italian goals.

But I am afraid that something more than stupidity (though less than plain evil) is at work here. Israel s current leaders, and a segment of Israeli society, are trapped in an idiosyncratic logic of fear and self centeredness.

So now economists will have to accept the importance of irrational and often unpredictable behavior, face up to the often idiosyncratic imperfections of markets and accept that an elegant economic theory of everything is a long way off.

Niyazov forced students, from grammar school to the post graduate level, to make his idiosyncratic book, the Ruhnama , the primary focus of their studies. He also isolated Turkmenistan from the outside world, forbidding access to the Internet and discouraging international travel.

Of course, Germany fails to recognize that successful monetary unions like the United States have a full banking union with significant risk sharing elements, and a fiscal union whereby idiosyncratic shocks to specific states output are absorbed by the federal budget.

Listing several other controversial projects, such as an offensive counter communication system and a space test bed for ASAT weapons, Lewis concluded that they are either being cancelled, delayed or the result of a purely idiosyncratic pursuit by certain individuals within the defence system.