Capacity to absorb an innovation

I was also inspired by Walt Whitman, who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him.

Inability to absorb the nutrients at normal rate leads to sooner death

It feels like it's going to absorb you into another world.

Remaining shares have been adjusted accordingly to absorb this slight revision.

Some development programmes target income generating activities to absorb the demobilized.

Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near insolvent sovereigns inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems. As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

Would the institutions absorb any of these costs?

However, there was increasing pressure on budgets, and it was noted that there was a limit to the ability to absorb the costs of inflation and to continue to provide effective administration and financial support and, in particular, to ensure the proper functioning of internal controls.

Equally important were training and the development of national capacity to absorb technology.

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

Financial markets have also made clear that the ability of other major deficit countries, like Brazil and India, to absorb capital flows is reaching its limit. Since the world is a closed system, this raises the question Who will run the world s deficits?

(b) United Nations University (i) Strengthening the ability of recipient countries to absorb increased aid flows and to use them effectively for development (ii) Addressing and resolving the environmental causes and consequences of violent conflict (iii) New initiatives to mobilize private and public finance for education

That gives the leaf ample opportunity to absorb every photon of light passing through.

While some of this 7.3 million in additional cost should be met from other resources funding, the ability of UNDP to absorb part of or all of the balance in the 2004 2005 biennial support budget needs to be fully assessed during the last quarter of 2005.

The supply cannot absorb the labour available in the market.

Skill number one is the ability to recognize success and the ability to recognize failure.

Indeed, the ICBC s non performing loan (NPL) ratio for LFP loans is as low as 0.3 , while the corresponding coverage ratio the bank s ability to absorb losses from NPLs is 1,066 . According to the NAO, the NPL ratio for the RMB10.7 trillion in local government debt is roughly 2.3 .

By invisible, I mean it doesn't absorb in the electromagnetic spectrum.

The amount of energy you absorb is your change in enthalpy.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

Some people have a better musical ability and ability to appreciate music than others have.

The persistence, their ability to deal with ambiguity, their ability to tackle problems that they haven't seen before.

He therefore agreed with the Advisory Committee that UNFICYP should be encouraged to absorb the cost overruns.

It is morally reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

They'll absorb bullets and shrapnel... and by doing so make it possible for others to get through.

The average man fails not because he lacks ability, but because he lacks ability to concentrate.

Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

It improves our ability to learn.

(d) Ability to implement the Protocol

It improves our ability to learn.

His delegation concurred with the Advisory Committee that every effort should be made to absorb the requested amount.

Moreover, the inbuilt capacity to absorb and convert extraregional systemic factors can determine the strength of regional stabilization.

Likewise, the English language s ability to produce and absorb neologisms is an important reason why it will endure as the world s lingua franca. The Oxford English Dictionary, now updated quarterly, revised more than 1,900 entries in its March 2011 edition, and added new terms, such as subdomain, dataveillance, and geotagging.

Last month, the bank paid 1.1 billion in dividends, reducing its ability to absorb future losses on its investments. If policymakers and regulators do not strengthen their reform efforts, taxpayers and shareholders not bankers like Dimon will be the ones who suffer the consequences of the next crisis as well.

In the case of the capture spiral, it needs to be so stretchy to absorb the impact of flying prey.

In the case of the capture spiral, it needs to be so stretchy to absorb the impact of flying prey.

Communication ability

And everyone has the ability to contribute.

Weak ability to manage the educational system.

The ability to share lessons and experience

It undermines the Organization s ability to operate.

Energy is the ability to do work.