So what you re smelling is several hundred molecules floating through the air, hitting your nose.

Bolstered by funds from the European Stability Mechanism, Spain remains financially afloat for several months.

After being kept afloat for a year with help from the European Central Bank, the Cypriot banks were forced to face their losses.

The banks, having been recapitalized only to the extent necessary to keep them afloat, still have weak balance sheets.

Kress von Kressenstein was responsible for creating special boats for crossing the canal (pontoons) as well as organizing the crossing of the Sinai desert.

In July 2009, a large mass of organic material was found floating in the sea off the northwest Alaskan coast.

For example, Apple s iPhone and Boeing s latest airplane rely heavily on Japanese patented innovations. These comparative advantages may keep Japan above water for a while, but only until China or South Korea catch up.

Wang Youqin reports that on November 4, four bodies were found floating in the lake of the Summer Palace.

Residents living on tiny floating islands fish, tend water buffalo and gather reeds. There is almost no health care and few schools.

Central banks have been handed the job of keeping economies afloat, but most of the money that they print remains stuck in the banking system, unable to arrest stagnating consumption and falling investment.

That loophole allowed his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street to pay themselves billion dollar bonuses while keeping those firms afloat with taxpayers money.

If sovereign wealth funds want to enter and keep capital starved firms afloat in hopes of a big rebound, they should be allowed to do so.

But it's a famous picture, not because of the beauty and majesty of Saturn's rings, but actually because of a tiny, faint blob just hanging underneath one of the rings.

Egypt s government needs to secure consistent foreign financing to keep the country afloat, providing leverage for international opposition to Morsi s efforts to impose an agenda that runs contrary to Egyptians fundamental rights.

True enough, interest rates were falling, though not as fast as the fall in expected profit on new investment. So, even in the so called boom years, most Western economies were kept afloat not by new investment, but by asset bubbles based on increasingly unsustainable leverage.