These this artificially induced consumerism I think it's atrocious.

I've taken two pictures here and I've made them artificially symmetrical.

It also affects negatively the exchange rate by making it appreciate artificially.

We have created such a situation, artificially, by turning on the critic with a flash of light.

I should mention that everything you're seeing here, by the way, is artificially illuminated at great effort.

Isaiah Berlin put it this way Law sets frontiers, not artificially drawn, within which men shall be inviolable.

And some day, artificially intelligent supercomputers will analyze the images without human assistance to summarize them in a connectome.

This work has to go on in an open and transparent manner, without artificially imposed deadlines for decision making.

Morocco, however, had rejected the Baker Plan and characterized the conflict in Western Sahara as artificially created by the Frente POLISARIO.

To now artificially raise the bar as some have sought to do, including very recently is quite clearly arbitrary and self serving.

According to counsel, the information available indicates that he is held in a 2 m2 cell, which is artificially cooled, dark, and without a mattress.

The history of the Armenians has been artificially changed, exaggerated and presented as an ancient one an intensive campaign of moral aggression has been conducted against the Azerbaijanis.

Genetic engineering rests on the manipulation of DNA molecules (whether real or artificially constructed) in order to reprogram foreign cells. As a result, many bacteria today produce human proteins.

We thought if we could use our optical remote control to activate the cells of the Critic, we should be able, artificially, to nag the Actor into changing its policy.

Gas became artificially cheap, consumers seldom bothered to turn the thermostat down, and producers stopped investing. As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.

Some policies and institutions have been tried and failed. These include, in particular, attempts to suppress artificially the fluctuations of the global marketplace by imposing price controls, export controls, marketing boards, and cartels.

Artificially low exchange rates, restrictions on capital flows, and excessively large currency reserves all create global imbalances. Any strategic partnership between Europe and Asia must encourage global economic responsibility based on cooperation and transparency.

Iraq asserts that the use of 2003 population data, and the inclusion of people who were infants in 1991, results in an artificially high estimate of the number of cases of PTSD and panic disorder.

Europe, too, will get a bloody nose if it keeps trying to artificially prop up asset prices in the periphery. The sums required for this could ultimately run into trillions, according to an estimate by Citibank.

Its people were first treated by the slave trade as mere commodities, necessary for economic growth elsewhere. Then colonial powers carved up the continent artificially and arbitrarily, masking their greed behind noble sounding goals theirs was a civilizing mission.

Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.

In Denmark, the Danish National Committee for Pig Production found out that if you sexually stimulate a sow while you artificially inseminate her, you will see a six percent increase in the farrowing rate, which is the number of piglets produced.

So for example I can rear an animal in an environment in which there is meaningless dumb sound, a repertoire of sound that I make up, that I make, just by exposure, artificially important to the animal and its young brain.

After all, managing for the short run encouraged mortgage lenders to offer artificially low teaser interest rates to lure potential homeowners. And then those who bought these mortgages never bothered to investigate their underlying value a spectacular abdication of managerial responsibility.

To be sure, China overcame a similar challenge in its public sector from 1998 to 2001. It pursued growth boosting investment in infrastructure and real estate development to eliminate deflation, while maintaining artificially low interest rates to contain the rise of public debt.

For the moment, America s ability to borrow vast sums at low interest rates acts like a huge dose of steroids on the economy. It artificially props up consumption growth and allows the government to defer hard choices between taxes and military expenditures.

Europeans and Asians saw excessively loose US fiscal and monetary policy as the major culprit. Americans, by contrast, thought that Japan and Germany were artificially holding down their currencies value in order to get an unfair advantage for their politically powerful export industries.

Like most economists, he believes that if policymakers try to keep interest rates at artificially low levels for too long, eventually demand will soar and inflation will jump. So, if inflation is low and stable, central banks cannot be blamed for low long term rates.

As the secretariat was advised during consultations with experts, imposing the requirement of binding bids may be regarded as an effective tool against potential abuses in the ERA, such as by phantom bidders, or members of a cartel who may keep bids artificially high.

The answer, as is often the case, depends on which economist you ask. If I understand Bernanke correctly, he would argue that nothing fundamental went wrong, and that a temporary savings glut has artificially lengthened the time it takes for aggressive monetary expansion to restore full prosperity.

The agenda is long, but it is hardly a secret. It includes developing the services sector, funding the social safety net, liberalizing an antiquated residential permit system (hukou), reforming state owned enterprises, and ending financial repression on households by lifting artificially low interest rates on savings.

This approach has ended up exacerbating the segregation of the poor. It artificially creates as in France socially homogenous poor neighborhoods where the unskilled live among themselves, disconnected from others, making it harder for them to benefit from the agglomeration economies that would boost their productivity.

It was also observed that, where the rules would award the contract to the second best bidder, there had been instances observed in practice of a bidder placing an artificially low but winning bid, in the knowledge that the second best bidder would receive the contract.

Artificially creating a new European polity split between left and right would create new struggles and intensify old ones about redistribution. The only thing that would hold the left together would be the claim that there should be more redistribution but to whom, and according to what mechanism?

French President Nicolas Sarkozy s call for the European Central Bank to intervene to curtail the soaring euro is commonly seen as a sign that he neither understands nor trusts markets. Indeed, some now view Sarkozy as a traditional Gaullist who wants to help French producers by artificially devaluing the euro.

Western Europe has already experienced three decades of indirect migration into the welfare state, as social benefits have created artificially high wages for the unskilled, simultaneously fueling excessive immigration and unemployment. Immigrants have crowded out domestic residents who prefer the benefits to engaging in low wage competition with the newcomers.

Maintaining these countries excessive prices and nominal incomes with artificially cheap credit guaranteed by other countries would only make the loss of competitiveness permanent. The entrenchment of debtor creditor relationships between the states of the eurozone would fuel political tension as occurred in the United States in its first decades.

The express concentration on an individual enterprise only, without considering the presence of other group companies in the source State, could give rise to abuses, in cases where a group artificially splits up its activities over separate entities of that group, and where each company stays below the permanent establishment threshold of article 5.

In 2007, melamine was deliberately added to an ingredient in pet food to enhance artificially its protein levels, causing renal failure in hundreds of cats and dogs in North America, Europe, and Africa. Later that year, diethylene glycol was mislabeled as non toxic glycerin, then mixed into cold medicine, killing at least 100 people in Panama, including many children.

EU wide investment guarantees would artificially reduce the rate of interest under which single EU countries could borrow and thus encourage these countries to take on more debt, effectively suspending the self correcting mechanism of the capital markets. That would lead to the next act in the European debt disaster, with consequences that far outweigh the TTIP s benefits.

More important, financial repression is contributing to a widening disparity between state owned enterprises (SOEs) and small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), with the former enjoying artificially low interest rates from commercial banks and the latter forced to pay extremely high interest rates in the shadow banking system (or unable to access external financing at all).

The polarization of borrowing costs has politically explosive distributional effects Germany is borrowing and refinancing its existing debt at artificially low interest rates. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, investor flight from the government debt markets of the eurozone s struggling members to Germany has already saved the German government almost 70 billion ( 88 billion).

Socialization of bank debt across borders implies that a country s private borrowing costs are artificially reduced below market rates, as insurance (in the form of credit default swaps) is provided free of charge by other countries. Thus, capital flows from the core to the periphery would continue to exceed the optimal amount, undermining growth for Europe as a whole.

In other words, banks take risks, get paid for the upside, and then transfer the downside to shareholders, taxpayers, and even retirees. In order to rescue the banking system, the Federal Reserve, for example, put interest rates at artificially low levels as was disclosed recently, it also has provided secret loans of 1.2 trillion to banks.

China will come under pressure to revalue its currency (now being held at artificially low levels) so that Chinese exports are more expensive and imports from others (including the US) cheaper. And China and other developing countries will be expected to do their share to reduce carbon emissions and slow the pace of global climate change.