In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum.

Fortunately, the pendulum has begun to swing back toward cooperation.

But it would be unfortunate indeed, dangerous if the pendulum now swung back to old fashioned nationalism.

But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.

Many governments increase spending excessively in booms, and then are forced to cut back in downturns, thereby exacerbating the cyclical swings.

The pendulum has swung too far.

In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum. Abraham Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus during the Civil War, and Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese American citizens during the early days of World War II.

Tom Shannon The painter and the pendulum

One view is that Russian politics is like a pendulum.

There are also ideas to address speculative swings.

So the evolution of this I gather this isn't your first pendulum.

I understand why the pendulum has swung so heavily the other way.

That slack labor market is powering this swing of the protectionist pendulum.

Of course, persistent swings from parity do not last forever.

In the decade after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.

Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction.

As a stand alone entity, it was then vulnerable to market swings.

But things might have to get worse before the political mood swings.

While lending by the World Bank did fall below its mid 1990 s level, it is growing again, reflecting the expansion of regional multilateral banks and a policy pendulum that is swinging back to publicly financed infrastructure projects.

A better balance between production and consumption would avoid large swings in oil prices.

One cannot think of any natural science in which orthodoxy swings between two poles.

But the large swings in Polish politics are not merely the result of political shenanigans.

But with the pendulum, it allows me to manifest these invisible forces that are holding the magnets up.

Thirty years after the Reagan Thatcher revolution, the ideological pendulum has begun to swing in the opposite direction.

None of the proposals suggested thus far is perfect, and many of the details need to be worked out. But the pendulum has swung back from unilateralism to multilateralism, and the world s largest countries are searching for ways to make it more effective.

But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can hurt competitiveness and require costly resource allocation.

The eurozone is now running even larger ones, with swings in southern Europe augmenting Germany s longstanding surpluses.

For a time, the pendulum of political opinion may have swung too far against the nation state and its role.

But the weaker economies get the inflation credibility of the ECB and protection from severe exchange rate swings.

In particular, the issuance and subsequent repayment of external debt can account for large swings in such liabilities.

A political pendulum of reform and reaction, and of populist and pragmatic cabinets, weakened the republic for most of its history.

Unless the swing of the pendulum in the US can be stopped, the rest of this decade will be as bad.

The lesson of this crisis is that excessive swings need to be dampened with a set of prudential measures.

But the reverse is also true as soon as the current account swings to surplus, the pressure from financial markets abates.

In hindsight, these exchange rate swings mirrored the initial collapse and subsequent rebound in global trade, helping to mitigate the recession.

Finally, currency chaos is the safest bet of all, with sharp and unpredictable swings in floating exchange rates around the world.

Instead, our limit the swings strategy implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should intervene.

But the reverse is also true as soon as the current account swings to surplus, the pressure from financial markets abates.

No, said the followers of John Maynard Keynes, it must offset swings in business animal spirits in order to stabilize aggregate demand.

To be sure, the Japanese and German external balances were subject to heavy swings in the course of the turbulent 1970 s.

Each of these beautiful paintings, are they images in and of themselves, or are they records of a physical event called the pendulum approaching the canvas?

But the limit the swings policy may amplify intervention s effects by diminishing market participants desire to push the exchange rate away from PPP.

Some of the most commonly shared symptoms include fatigue, skin problems or acne, mood swings, weight problems, diminished sex drive, and no memory.

The clock was converted to pendulum and anchor escapement in the 17th century, and was installed in London's Science Museum in 1884, where it continues to operate.

But maintaining stability involves not only keeping inflation low, but also, and crucially, avoiding large swings in economic activity, external imbalances, and financial crises.