But that could change, and suddenly.

BRUSSELS Financial crises tend to start abruptly and end by surprise.

Turkey abruptly shifted its stance on Syria, and aligned its position with that of the major Western powers, for two reasons.

In many countries, economic output sank dramatically, more so than in Europe s west.

So why is the US suddenly acting so aggressively? Why didn t America take action much earlier?

When President Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations in New York last September, he suddenly felt himself surrounded by light.

Suddenly, in the face of the economic crisis, these problems have become major sources of political instability.

Indeed, the historical evidence slams you over the head with the fact that, whereas government debt can drift upward inexorably for years, the end usually comes quite suddenly.

As an inducement to peaceful change, China can also guarantee the personal safety and wealth of the military junta should its members have to leave Burma suddenly.

In this chaotic freedom, suddenly revealed secrets destroyed families and friendships and a common sense of togetherness it shattered social stability, as insecure or falsified as that was.

All of a sudden, issuers had much more influence on the rating agencies, which, like any good seller, were ready to bend a little not to alienate important customers.

Between October 23 24, 2007 the comet suffered a sudden outburst which caused it to brighten by factor of about half a million.

But the war in Lebanon and its consequences have caused a sudden and fundamental change in the leisurely pursuit of this policy.

Clearly, the Arab world was changing, and the US was suddenly no longer an enemy, but a friend.

These assumptions took a hard hit in the crisis, causing an abrupt shift to far more intrusive regulation.

That was clearly demonstrated by the events of 28 February 2004 and by the November 2004 crisis, when the situation took a dramatic turn for the worse.

The French commentator Hervé Juvin extolled this new attitude towards the body in his 2005 surprise bestseller, L avènement du corps (The Coming of the Body) .

Emerging countries are inundated with capital inflows one day, and faced with abrupt and equally destabilizing outflows the next.

Situation in Aleppo is neither a surprise, nor a one off.

As a result, even if the will to change suddenly and miraculously emerged in today s Kremlin, the illegitimacy of the entire federal government would render effective policymaking impossible.

All of a sudden, the door opened and a man entered the room.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül abruptly cancelled a recent press conference in Copenhagen when he spied a Kurdish journalist in the audience and the Danes refused to evict him.

But the undervaluation of the renminbi, which is currently 45 , has persisted for many years. So why is the US suddenly acting so aggressively?

However, late last year, Everbright Bank and some others began offering fixed rate mortgages. Take up has been slow, but the April 2006 surprise hike in bank rates may help to sow greater public awareness of interest rate risk.

In that regard, there had been a significant breakthrough.

But this case is not about oligarchs trying to interfere in politics it is about a group of artists and curators whose professional activities have unexpectedly turned into a political hot potato.

This was followed by approval of the law, a request for its revision, and a surprise official meeting with the leader of Hamas.

In many countries, economic output sank dramatically, more so than in Europe s west. This decline seems to have stopped, and the most recent data indicate that the bottom may have been reached.

The oil producing countries have suffered a sudden reversal of fortune.

Financial flows are excessively volatile. Emerging countries are inundated with capital inflows one day, and faced with abrupt and equally destabilizing outflows the next.

The history of legislative reform is substantially a punctuated equilibrium, with long periods of time during which public apathy prevents any progress, interrupted by scandals that suddenly make progress possible.

There s no way for us to measure how long we are here, we can only estimate it, and we can t keep this up for long, for fear of a sudden entrance by our tormentor.

He unexpectedly died in 1974, in the aftermath of a prostate surgery.

In April, 1915, hundreds of young men were suddenly imprisoned.

But perhaps more surprisingly, the translations that we get from people using the site, even though they're just beginners, the translations that we get are as accurate as those of professional language translators, which is very surprising.

China made a dramatic entry into the picture last April, when Nigerian officials announced that China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) had bought a 45 stake in a Nigerian oil field for more than 2 billion.

Indeed, intolerance goes right to the top of the Turkish government. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül abruptly cancelled a recent press conference in Copenhagen when he spied a Kurdish journalist in the audience and the Danes refused to evict him.

But the emerging Obama doctrine suggests that elections alone do not make true democracy, and that, as has been the case in the Arab world, any abrupt move to democracy is bound to produce chaos.

In the first two, the US reassures each of these region s countries that there will be no sudden change in the balance of power that will threaten them.

And anybody who is hit with this feels this sudden burst of heat and just wants to get out of the way.

Xi s visit is not expected to usher in any breakthroughs.

The speeding vehicle skidded and crashed head on into the rear end of a truck before the driver could say Jack Robinson.

The sudden death in late December of Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan s authoritarian president for life who declared himself Turkmenbashi (Leader of all Turkmens), jeopardizes stability in a country that is an increasingly important supplier of energy to Europe.

In 2005, remittances I just took one country, Nigeria but increasing dramatically.

Such natural disasters occur suddenly, without warning.