Current conditions are keeping economic performance well below potential.

Most local forecasters now put Brazil s growth rates well below potential output.

Archaeological excavations show that, at the lowest level, the Roman engineers had placed a loose layer of stones.

The principle of subsidiarity devolves authority unneeded at higher levels to the lowest feasible level throughout the hierarchy.

Bitumen permeates the dirt at the surface or, where thin layers of compost and sediment intervene, somewhat below basement levels.

According to opinion polls, Nicolas Sarkozy s popularity is at the lowest point seen in decades for a French president.

The lowest elevation in Sweden is in the bay of Lake Hammarsjön, near Kristianstad, at below sea level.

Ongoing private and public debt deleveraging has kept global demand growth below that of supply.

Growth has been virtually flat in developed economies and, at 5.6 in the emerging world, is well below the 7.6 average in the previous five year period.

Availability within 0 5 kms was highest in the NWFP (81 ) and lowest in Balochistan (37 ).

The Federal Reserve is of a similar mind, not only maintaining rock bottom short term interest rates, but also embarking on an adventurous policy targeting long term rates.

Likewise, the notion that blood cholesterol should be as low as possible clears a path to treating healthy people with anti cholesteremic agents.

At a lower level, too, China has unleashed an impressive charm offensive.

This is the lowest level that can be measured in laboratory tests.

Keynesian models claiming a quick boost from higher government spending below full employment show that the effect soon turns negative.

However, rural women are at the lowest level of the digital gender divide.

The downward trend in UNDP supported activities, which started in the early 1990s, continued, and these activities reached their lowest level yet in 2004.

Chinese policymakers should begin with a careful examination of the effects of current financial repression (the practice of keeping interest rates below the market equilibrium level).

When the two sides are anxious to avoid provoking each other, such activities are kept to a minimum, but it would seem that China has taken a conscious decision in recent months to keep the Indians on their toes.

Prior to the crisis, there was plenty of talk, including high level meetings brokered by the International Monetary Fund, but only minimal action.

Further down the chain of supervision, research institutions are designated to manage their own conflicts of interests as well as those of their investigators.

Alternatively, knowing that they cannot fire permanent workers, firms may remain tiny in order to remain below the authorities radar.

This cable shows how Al Faisal asked the Ministry of Information to give him the name of the boy scouts selected for an exchange programme in the United States, a task that is usually assigned to a low level clerk anywhere else

Also, the quality of water is much lower than that of European Union countries.

To make better use of resources, mine action needed to be coordinated at the lowest possible level.

This keeps costs much lower than in France, and Greece, for example, where the retirement age is 60 or below, and where pension outlays are soaring as a result.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are now as high as at any time in decades, and China is engaged in a massive military build up.

ROLAP also has the ability to drill down to the lowest level of detail in the database.

For example, investments to public facilities and information centres with Internet access are supported.

They placed publication bias about halfway down the scale but it should have been much lower.

Second, wealth effects are maximized when debt service is minimized that is, when interest expenses do not swallow the capital gains of asset appreciation.

No one had the slightest idea of why kids died at that time.

The German solution to this conundrum keeping wage growth below that of productivity, thereby reducing unit labor costs took more than a decade to yield results.

Greek sovereign debt has been downgraded to below that of Egypt.

A lower level of recognition was accorded to Ulster Scots, under Part II of the Charter.

Estimates range from a low of 2.1 million to a high of 18 million (Dobyns 1983).

Cash balances were maintained at a minimum level to provide the organisation with maximum returns on investment (Figure 2).

Supporters of the traditional view were somewhat more prevalent among women with lower level of education.

Political systems in which power is least controlled, and the abuse of wealth greatest, are most at risk.

It could do so by buying Italian and Spanish bonds in the secondary market with the pre announced intention of keeping their sovereign interest rates below a certain threshold for a certain time.

But, with real (inflation adjusted) house prices still 40 below the previous peak, a strong recovery for real estate (and the closely related construction industry) seems unlikely.

In April, gold was selling for close to 1,300 per ounce and the price is still hovering below 1400, an almost 30 drop from the 2011 high.

The pyramid was built in one of the lowest regions of Egypt, only 10 meters above sea level.

Recently, international cooperation in minimizing the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster has been stepped up.

In the other two Careers, subordinate even to the lowest ranking of the Diplomats, women, by contrast, form the majority.