Language, on the other hand, has an intermediate level of entropy it's neither too rigid, nor is it too random.

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Inanimate objects that might spontaneously synchronize themselves.

At the lower end of the scale, you find a rigid sequence, a sequence of all A's, and you also find a computer program, in this case in the language Fortran, which obeys really strict rules.

We know that trees are static entities when we look at their trunks.

Figures provide only a lifeless snapshot of a country.

Now comes the very risky part of my talk, which is to demonstrate that inanimate things can synchronize.

But those were just dry statistics. Images likely mattered more.

Entities such as the Sun, Moon, Earth, sky, and sea were often deified.

We have seen, and we have lived with, the limitations inherent in a freeze frame format that favours a fixed over a fluid formula.

In the American Iranian equation it was the US, not Iran, that conducted rigid ideological diplomacy.

Significant openness, allowing emigration and immigration of all components (closed systems remain static).

We do not believe that, as some suggest, such a step would hamstring the Council by imposing rigid guidelines.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

On the day the earth and mountains will rock violently , and the mountains turn to a heap of poured out sand .

On a day when the earth and the mountains will tremble , and the mountains turn into dunes of flowing sand .

upon the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains become a slipping heap of sand .

On a Day whereon the earth and the mountains shall quake , and the mountains shall become a sand heap poured forth .

On the Day when the earth and the mountains will be in violent shake , and the mountains will be a heap of sand poured out and flowing down .

On the Day when the earth and the mountains tremble , and the mountains become heaps of sand .

( They will come across all this ) on the Day when the earth and the mountains shall tremble violently and the mountains shall crumble into heaps of scattered sand .

On the day when the earth and the hills rock , and the hills become a heap of running sand .

the day when the earth and the mountains will quake , and the mountains will be like dunes of shifting sand .

On the Day when the earth with all its mountains quake and the mountains become heaps of shifting sand .

On the Day the earth and the mountains will convulse and the mountains will become a heap of sand pouring down .

On that day , the earth and the mountains will be violently shaken , and the mountains will be turned into heaps of moving sand .

On the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains shall become ( as ) heaps of sand let loose .

on the Day the earth and mountains shall shake and the mountains crumble into shifting sand dunes .

One Day the earth and the mountains will be in violent commotion . And the mountains will be as a heap of sand poured out and flowing down .

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

And that was a very, very, very big part of my process.

It's a very, very strong force.

All right. This is pretty good this is pretty good.

Language is very different. Language is very precise.

And institutions are going to come under an increasing degree of pressure, and the more rigidly managed, and the more they rely on information monopolies, the greater the pressure is going to be.

At some point, merchants find that they can not gain profit if they cut the price further so the sticky price remains.

There are no separate schools for girls or for boys in Tajikistan, and study programmes are not analyzed from the standpoint of gender stereotypes.

The stability of the international financial system today depends on the willingness of countries with rigid exchange rates to allow greater flexibility.

When asked about the role of capital controls, Strauss Kahn said he was not wedded to any rigid ideology on the subject.

So again, it was very, very popular and very, very useful.

The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.

There were are still prejudicial stereotypes particularly the belief that the woman's place is in the home which traditionally undermine women's rights.

So we live on the most fragile, little soap bubble you can imagine, a very sacred soap bubble, but one that is very, very easy to affect.

So with that said, we only have a very, very short time.

This is a flower that really, really smells pretty nasty and is designed, again, evolved, to look like carrion.