Behaviour Males and females become sexually mature at two years of age.

Firm fleshed ripe fruit, sombre raptures

When he awakens, he finds a fully mature tree and that he has a grandson.

They can also be found in an immature state in the blood.

It is difficult and time consuming to build mature democracies.

Japan is a mature maritime democracy, and its choice of close partners should reflect that fact.

There is room, in this view, for just one full fledged international currency.

Its author, Raphaël de Benito, argues that conditions for the next crisis are ripe

As an immature debtor borrower, its trade balance and current account are also in deficit as a mature debtor borrower, its trade balance enters surplus and, as a debtor repayer, its current account moves to surplus.

Unfortunately, America s financial reforms have been half baked at best.

If it happened, shame on them if they are that immature and that threatened by me.

As an immature creditor lender, the trade balance and current account are in surplus as well as a mature creditor lender, the trade balance returns to deficit finally, as a creditor borrower, the country s current account swings into deficit.

They are sexually mature the following spring, but often do not mate until later years.

Under the current soft authoritarian regime, I can see only one rather negative scenario for the future authentic, full fledged dictatorship.

The Office of the High Representative will continue to monitor future developments, more especially as it will take some time yet for a fully professional and mature agency to emerge.

The second complication is that, rather than converging, domestic models of financial regulation are multiplying, even among advanced countries with well developed institutions.

If the rental market is well developed (as in, say, Germany), most families might elect not to own.

China is mature enough to understand this nonetheless, a major US military build up throughout the region is another matter.

Picture in a frame, ashes in a bottle, boundless energy confined in the bottle, forcing me to deal with reality, forcing me to deal with being grown up.

Indeed, we should remember that economic growth was sustainable only in countries with highly developed social welfare systems, like France.

Even in countries with well developed systems of corporate governance, arrangements that are excessively lax on corporate insiders persist.

Unfortunately, there is no sign yet that the Democratic leadership is ready for a mature conversation about fiscal consolidation, either.

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.

But the SCO still lacks many essential elements of a full grown NATO style security organization.

The Deauville Partnership launched at the 2011 G 8 Summit was a half baked initiative long overtaken by events.

On January 16, 2008, a California based company, Stemagen, announced that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults.

Few of the forests are fully mature because of previous overcutting and also because of several violent storms during the 1960s, which snapped or uprooted millions of trees.

Individuals growing up in mature democracies such as the United Kingdom can still become alienated and radicalized.

Alas, given their histories of autocratic rule, giant leaps forward to full blown democracy are unlikely.

Reticulocytes develop and mature in the bone marrow and then circulate for about a day in the blood stream before developing into mature red blood cells.

Meanwhile, Henry develops a friendship with a mature, but manipulative girl named Eleanor (Brighid Fleming), and goes to see her one more time before they leave.

A cell may stay in this state for several days, and then either die or irrevocably differentiate into a mature, fully differentiated plasma cell.

Forcing through an immature formula by means of a vote is bound to split Member States and regional groups and thus weaken the authority and role of the United Nations.

Meanwhile, given that many emerging economies have incomplete or immature PRIs, their influence over market price discovery is relatively weak.

The tallest and heaviest sauropod known from a complete skeleton is a specimen of an immature Giraffatitan discovered in Tanzania between 1907 and 1912, now mounted in the Humboldt Museum of Berlin.

Could this little country, like a startup in a mature industry, be the spark plug that influences a 21st century of middle class in China and India?

At the same time, if Turkey is to become a mature, modern democracy, the military will need to accept a less intrusive role in Turkish politics.

Writing in The Financial Times in early November, Ryan suggested, America is eager for an adult conversation on the threat of debt.

But I am able to make the transition from working for children and from working for adults to children, and back and forth, because, you know, I can say that I'm immature, and in a way, that's true.

Polly and Molly (Born 1997), two ewes, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell and to be transgenic animals at the same time.

Furedi say that we need a grown up discussion about our post September 11 world, based on a reasoned evaluation of all the available evidence rather than on irrational fears for the future.

11. Emphasizes the need for an enhanced culture of security awareness on the part of all staff and compliance with safety and security rules and procedures throughout the United Nations system, as well as clear lines of authority and accountability

It is known from only a few specimens, and current estimates put its maximum size at long, based on analysis of smaller and immature specimens, making it the largest known invertebrate.

So, in New York City, on the first Saturday of every summer, Coney Island, our local, charmingly run down amusement park, hosts the Mermaid Parade. It's an amateur parade people come from all over the city people get all dressed up.

Lenin may have gotten the underlying analysis wrong, but today we know that his conclusion may have been right for another reason financial capitalism forces a country into unsustainable indebtedness.