Financial flows are excessively volatile.

Reputations are volatile. Loyalties are fickle.

The seas are often choppy here.

The security situation remains volatile and unpredictable.

Dam protests can often be volatile.

The humanitarian situation remains very precarious especially in the west and north of the country.

Its politics grew fractious, its policies erratic, and its finances increasingly unstable.

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And it is turned round about by his counsels that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Today, the debate is over core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices because they are too volatile.

Sometimes, an article will be against its policy and usually this policy is unstable and dictated by the papers' relationships with the authorities or the government.

Confidence is a psychological phenomenon, and can make seemingly capricious jumps up as well as down.

Despite the measures taken, the security situation remains volatile and unpredictable.

The state income tax is not only uncompetitively high, but the revenues are volatile.

One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.

The security situation in the western part of the country, in particular, remains volatile and requires close monitoring.

The future is inherently uncertain, and therefore investor psychology is fickle.

Most of them would rather take their chances in Syria than live in Zaatari.

The security situation in the region, particularly in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also remains extremely volatile.

A new period of uncertainty and volatility has begun, and it seems likely to lead to choppy economies and choppy markets.

While women's unemployment is widespread, most of those who work are involved in precarious activities in the informal sector.

India, however, unequivocally condemned the persistence of a fragile situation marked by acts of terrorism and excessively harsh retaliatory measures.

Only oil prices remain high (though volatile), no doubt influenced by the complex political events in the Middle East.

We support arrangements for ensuring that the staff of the United Nations receives adequate protection, especially where conditions are most volatile.

Some argue that the more constraining political systems work well in stable times, but perform poorly under volatile conditions like those prevailing today.

We can only assume, given wars and other uncertainties, that true market prices back then, like today, were quite volatile.

Indeed, where adjustment programmes persisted, the investment cycle often remained volatile, even after the immediate disturbances of the debt crisis subsided.

But the system s extreme progressivity makes proceeds so volatile that the state continually experiences boom bust cycles of rapidly rising revenue, inevitably followed by collapse.

These traders confidently figure that as long as markets gyrate, no matter what the direction, they can always make money.

A United Nations University study shows that ill timed or poorly designed elections in volatile situations can actually fuel chaos and reverse progress towards democracy.

As shown in table 2, over the past six years there have been fairly regular but volatile net inflows of FDI into Africa.

Of course, the people are never truly one fickle in their loyalties and subject to demagoguery, they often unite in opposition but fracture once in command.

It is also clear that, for both regions, net inward FDI has been the main sustaining force, while movements in other kinds of capital have been volatile and unpredictable.

What, then, is an economist to do? One could emulate J.P. Morgan, whose standard response to questions about stock prices, bond prices, and interest rates was to say simply, The market will fluctuate.

As the current report (S 2005 186) of the Secretary General underscores, the security situation is volatile and the human rights situation continues to be a source of great concern, while the economic situation is daily worsening.

Ms. Belmihoub Zerdani requested information on the situation of rural women, who were often illiterate, lived in precarious conditions and had little access to health care.

However, it is often the constraints that they face in other areas that cause them not to be deemed creditworthy (e.g. they are dependent on erratic international market prices and on weather conditions).

It is now in the process of being better funded, but we are eight months into a crisis in which international capital flows became volatile and were driven largely by emergency responses rather than underlying economic fundamentals.

Another alternative is to recall the late Rudi Dornbusch, who taught that any economist who forecasts interest rates based on fundamentals is a fool, because fundamentals are complex and unstable, shifting suddenly and substantially.

A related theory is that emerging economies citizens find it difficult to diversify the huge risk inherent in their fast growing but volatile environments, and feel particularly vulnerable as a result of weak social safety nets.

The countries of the region, and beyond, should keep in mind that a stable Afghanistan, free of extremist violence in what is still a volatile environment, remains vital to international peace and security.

I think there are only two exceptions that I'm aware of two year olds, they are not rational, they have very fickle preferences, they switch what they think all the time, and schizophrenics are probably not rational, but pretty much everybody else is rational.

But if USSOUTHCOM does not implement major changes in how it prosecutes the drug war, the US will find itself facing an increasingly volatile and dangerous set of neighbors to the south.

Of course, we do not have annual data for Babylonian gold prices. We can only assume, given wars and other uncertainties, that true market prices back then, like today, were quite volatile.

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