And you have more choice driven societies.

Financial regulation is driven by the interests of banks, health policy by the interests of insurance companies, and tax policy by the interests of the rich.

The bullwhip effect is an observed phenomenon in forecast driven distribution channels.

Moreover, Germany, it seems, is becoming a geo economic power driven by the needs of its export sector.

Obviously, private firms are motivated by self interest, and that is not necessarily a bad thing.

First, the crisis has underscored the need for a single supervisor that is not captured by local interests.

This is because, generally, the industry is driven by market opportunity.

Africa s numerous resource driven conflicts validate Angelei s concerns.

Once again, it signifies nothing about policies or their underlying philosophy.

With panic subsiding towards the end of 2008, gold prices resumed their downward movement.

The most important part of the fishing operation is searching for the fish shoals and assessing their size and direction of movement.

We must maintain a broad vision driven by collective effort for the ultimate benefit of the international system.

As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

That Iran s push to acquire the capacity to produce nuclear weapons is partly motivated by security concerns cannot be denied.

While most such opportunities are driven by local needs, they are bound to create new export opportunities as well.

Indeed, Japan s desire to continue to kill whales is no less motivated by emotion than environmentalists opposition to it.

A new global agreement must be science based, not a lowest common denominator compromise watered down by vested interests.

It suddenly crashes down on a harbour or port usually populated areas after going undetected on the high seas.

China s resource driven stealth wars are becoming a leading cause of geopolitical instability in Asia.

We need to move beyond the system that gave us the crisis a financial sector in which some, as the ancient Greeks might say, toyed with hubris and unleashed nemesis.

Right wing American attitudes about their country s place in the world are invigorated by fundamentalist dogma.

To be sure, Vladimir Putin s Russia is nationalistic, awkward, and disposed to dangerous trouble making.

Upon returning home, moving by candlelight, she soon realises there are certain risks invloved in celebrating Earth Hour, illustrated here

They feel the threat acutely and act accordingly, often dominating their country s political process. Highly motivated minorities can and do overwhelm the general interests of majorities who are not seized with an issue.

Chinese policymakers should view the shadow banking scare as a market driven opportunity to transform the banking system into an efficient, balanced, inclusive, and productive engine of growth.

You move that up and down with a little bit of energy but now you're only shifting the air down to the hot end and up to the cold end, down to the hot end and up to the cold end.

Driven by a strategy of zero problems with its neighbors, Turkey s quest for a leading role in Middle East politics brought it closer to Syria and Iran.

One of the greatest challenges I faced as the ICTY prosecutor was convincing the Serbian public that the court was not a politically motivated conspiracy against Serbia.

This linkage does exist in the case of Hezbollah, but the networked actors have their own social roots and are not simply pawns used by regional powers.

If they double down on status quo policies, their reign will eventually give way to an extended period of populist inspired economic chaos and minority scapegoating.

Even when victims are courageous enough to face public scrutiny and tell their stories, their voices are often drowned out by the profit driven social media marketing business.

The xenophobia and chauvinism that some of the defensive strategies can awaken may end up doing more harm than the threats from which they were intended to protect us.

The recent emergence of additional powers the European Union, China, India, and a Russia driven to recover its lost status has eroded America s capacity to shape events unilaterally.

This Caesarism is not a new idea. Instead, it marks the return of a practice that had seemed to have been consigned to history s dustbin which has now returned with a vengeance.

Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns albeit more discretely than a year ago for his triumph.

CHICAGO In trying to understand the pattern and timing of government interventions during a financial crisis, we should probably conclude that, to paraphrase the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, politics have incentives that economics cannot understand.

If you could make it fun, and make it eight or 10 minutes, you can't find your car, un park your car, move your car, re park your car and go somewhere you can't get to a cab or a subway.

No doubt, his regime revels in all the historic forms of populism messianic leadership, anti American rhetoric, disregard for constitutional forms, drunken spending, and state orchestrated popular mobilization to fill squares and jeer at supposed enemies.

This could include designing the ground levels of seaside buildings to permit storm induced surges to pass through without flooding the lower floors, thus minimizing potential damage to offices and homes.

(b) The question of the impunity of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes, including racially motivated discriminatory practices, and to recommend measures to bring them to an end that take into account the role of both Governments and private actors in ending impunity

Kuwait describes MARS as a three dimensional hydrodynamics model that computes movement of water masses, at Gulf scale and in the Kuwait marine area, as driven by wind, tide, fresh water inflow and density gradients .

America s dalliances with Islamist leaning political forces and governments have been guided by the notion that the cloak of Islam helps to protect the credibility of leaders who might otherwise be seen as foreign puppets.