To me, useless jobs are, well, useless.

By contrast, China s environmental laws are numerous and of little use.

The quality of this metadata varies considerably across agencies and, in some cases, is almost useless

Most studies of parenting on which this advice is based are useless. They're useless because they don't control for heritability. They measure some correlation between what the parents do, how the children turn out and assume a causal relation that the parenting shaped the child.

However, many of those refugees, after getting their hopes up, have found World Passports to be useless.

In this way, it was more efficient than other contemporary devices, such as sundials, which were rendered useless during the dark.

Certainly, America s guarantee of its NATO allies security will not become worthless but it will become far more difficult to redeem it in full.

Lenders to defaulting countries were also punished, as their instruments (mostly bonds) became worthless.

Free flight rockets such as disposable anti tank rockets can pose a serious hazard when they become duds.

With this useless banknote, deals were closed, and those who wanted to find fortune on the other side of the ocean paid for it with British money.

Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

Critics who argue that fiscal stimulus in Japan failed in the past leading only to squandered investment in useless infrastructure make two mistakes.

When interest rates go up, these payments will (when the rate is variable) also go up, possibly becoming unsustainable.

Similarly, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani s moderate rhetoric, together with possible progress on Iran s dispute with the West over its nuclear program, has left Turkey with a sense of uselessness, if not isolation.

The net benefit of intervention A over intervention B is therefore 1.8 1.5 0.3 QALYs.

Sami led an immoral life.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Requests the Secretary General to ensure that the heads of the peacekeeping operations take effective measures to ensure inventory control, replenishment of stocks and reasonable write off procedures for the disposal of assets no longer required or useful

Requests the Secretary General to ensure that the heads of the peacekeeping operations take effective measures to ensure inventory control, replenishment of stocks and reasonable write off procedures for the disposal of assets no longer required or useful

Following standard practice, interest rates can be more or less significantly positive, very close to zero, or at zero.

Unemployment is rising, their economies are not becoming more competitive, and the interest rates on their debt continue to rise.

But by now it is clear that this is a worthless piece of paper.

Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

In other words, negative nominal rates merely make your return more negative than it already was. Investors accept negative returns for the convenience of holding cash balances, so, in a sense, there is nothing new about negative nominal interest rates.

The arguments that apply strongly in the case of interest rates are less clear when it comes to other functions that central banks may carry.

If this nightmare comes true, China s packed savings in the form of US government securities (which now amounts to some 900 million in Treasury bills alone) will simply go down the drain.

But if nominal interest rates stay positive, while inflation is negative, then real interest rates may become too high for an economy in recession, causing recession to become more severe and prolonged.

To me, useless jobs are, well, useless. And, while redundant domain names are not evil, I do think that they are a waste of resources.

In general, oximes exist as colorless crystals and are poorly soluble in water.

But if market nervousness persists and interest rates remain high relative to rates for secure German debt, the debt burden will rapidly become unsustainable.

And another title would be Liop an da lapa, the unwieldy beast with two fins.

It is when money is spent that it becomes more than an inert bundle of useless paper.

Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

But micro financiers may have no choice given the small size of the loans, the costs of processing them and collecting payments are relatively large, driving up the break even interest rate.

Europe must become a stakeholder in Asia if both sides are to gain maximum benefit from cooperation and help shape the world of the future.

Moreover, interest rates cannot become negative in nominal terms, and rising public debt may increasingly disable fiscal policy.

Social insurance was not just pointless it was counterproductive.

In such situations, the relationship between credit availability and interest rates has implicitly changed, such that either credit becomes less available at any given official interest rate, or there ceases to be a clear relationship between interest rates and credit availability (i.e.

Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

The interest rate on ten year Treasury bonds has risen almost a full percentage point since February, to 2.72 , implying a loss of nearly 10 in the price of the bond.

We will need to shift to no or low carbon energy by mid century.

Diplomatic initiatives and UN sanctions are seen as hopelessly ineffective.