Please, use the cushion.

Do you have the air cushion?

However, to the extent that public investment grows, aggregate demand increases correspondingly, generating some growth and creating a cushion against recession.

Ten ball, three cushion, in the side.

Because people used to sew and they needed a pin cushion.

They provide the rural population with access to savings within the local area and with a certain cushion against economic fluctuations, and they encourage a cooperative and community feeling.

Fortunately, China s relatively strong fiscal and foreign exchange positions can cushion the economy against short term shocks. And, notwithstanding corruption induced fragility, the bureaucracy s capacity to implement policy is sound.

Oil and gas export revenues were being paid into a national fund, to assure sustainable social and economic development and cushion the country against the impact of unfavourable external factors.

Don't sit on that cushion. You shouldn't drop your ash all over the place.

He had to sit on a cushion, stand still, not move, because it was very painful.

An even larger portion would have been unprofitable without the government subsidies that cushion potential losses.

Experience in many countries had shown that they could cushion recessionary pressures and help to stabilize the economy.

Borrowing and lending institutions will need to change, so that they better cushion people against the risk of personal bankruptcy. Financial markets will have to be broadened, so that people and businesses can better hedge their risks.

We therefore call for fairer rules to govern international business and trade, in particular measures to cushion the impacts of adverse changes.

It seeks to examine a set of policy measures aiming to cushion the impact of economic and social downturns and overcome prevailing conditions.

Such risks are mitigated by reducing the fixed cost core to a minimum, and through accumulation of capital through large scale, short duration operations to provide an operating reserve to cushion UNOPS against market volatility, make appropriate insurance provisions and facilitate investment in emerging business opportunities.

Such an arrangement would provide a cushion to protect investors from potential or unanticipated declines in the expected flow of revenue available for debt servicing.

In a few weeks, we will put in place a social safety net that will cushion the impact of high oil prices on the poor.

In recognition of these concerns, negotiating partners needed to seek to extend adequate transitory adjustment support measures to cushion developing countries from anticipated trade shocks.

There are no social security systems to protect the dispossessed, to cushion their fall and rehabilitate them so that they can live a productive life.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?

Ideally, they would develop a set of specially tailored financial tools. For example, raising banks capital requirements when credit is booming could restrain lending and strengthen banks cushion against losses, while setting ceilings on loan to value ratios could rein in exuberant property markets, thereby heading off excessive risks for borrowers and lenders.

The rude awakening came when property values began to decline. For those without an equity cushion, refinancing was not a possibility, and rising interest rates have led to default, foreclosure, and homelessness.

However, even for financial systems, there is disagreement about other attributes, such as the ability to provide a financial cushion with which to soften the impact of unexpected economic downturns or turbulence.

58. Also requests the Secretary General to ensure that posts are not deliberately left vacant to provide a cushion for absorbing the costs of special missions and other activities authorized within available resources

The problem is imminent in North America, the Euro Area, and Japan. But, before long, many developing countries will also have to face up to it, and in many cases without a cushion of affluence.

In addition to providing a cushion for planning contingencies, the liquidity provision covers the cash flow imbalance that often occurs in the first quarter of the year, when disbursements can exceed receipts for regular resources.

Emerging market policymakers believe that they lack recourse to safety nets that would cushion the impact of volatile flows. Their efforts to self insure, by, say, building up their foreign exchange reserves, perpetuate global economic imbalances.

The deleveraging of governments, financial institutions, and households is one major cause of the sluggish economic recovery. But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.

But they have not prevented a borrowing binge in their private sectors. Since private debts have a way of turning into public liabilities, a low government debt burden might not, in fact, provide these countries with the cushion that they think they have.

The additional 15 million would serve to increase the current level of contributions, and provide the operational flexibility and a cushion of certainty to further strengthen the operational capability of UNDCP, in particular its expert capacity, its information base and inter agency cooperation.

It thereby diverts policymakers attention from the main issues. If the financial crisis reveals a structural problem in banking, it is more likely to come from insufficient capital to cushion a bank s fall, or from too many financial institutions having become too big to fail.

30. According to the administering Power, the aim and effect of legislation and action by the Government in those areas is to create a society in which individual effort is rewarded while a cushion is provided often with voluntary help for the less fortunate.

Spoken against violence, against incidents.

Besides, what would a containment policy applied to Russia today look like? Russia s leaders, tucked behind the political safety cushion provided by high energy prices, rightly feel that time is working in their favor, that we in the West need Russia more than Russia needs us.

I talk against violence, against terrorism.

A resentment against the press. Against outsiders.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

The discussion quickly turned to the difficulty of measuring inflation accurately and the need to build in a safety cushion to avoid deflation. According to Greenspan, Price stability is that state in which expected changes in the general price level do not effectively alter business and household decisions.

For fiscal policy, the crisis showed the value of maintaining low public debt and deficits during good times countries with healthier public finances have more space to cushion the economic impact of crises. But the Great Recession has caused public debt and deficits in many advanced economies to soar.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.