When a critical mass has been attained, there's an abrupt acceleration in recruitment.

The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super eruptions.

Mechanisms to prevent abrupt changes in the scale should also be integrated into the methodology.

The international community should stop placing its hope in some abrupt change of heart on the generals part.

However, the ability to tap into domestic savings and issue bonds in national currency reduces exposure to abrupt changes in foreign investors' confidence.

I'd go to Central Park and see the rolling topography of Central Park come up against the abrupt and sheer topography of midtown Manhattan.

Finally, it is critical to ensure a stable global macroeconomic environment, including, in particular, the avoidance of large and abrupt changes in international interest rates and exchange rates.

History suggests that interest rates will not remain at record low levels indefinitely, and that when change comes, it might be abrupt. Why should we expect this time to be different?

The Republic of Guinea's Social Security Code is designed to protect employees and their families against any economic and social deprivation resulting from the loss or abrupt collapse of their income.

7. Urges all development partners to support the implementation of the transition strategy and to avoid any abrupt reductions in either official development assistance or technical assistance provided to the graduated country

None of this is to say that the international financial realities a country faces are necessarily always reasonable. Sometimes global financial markets eagerness to lend results in unreasonable booms, followed by abrupt reversals.

To explain this abrupt and radical change requires examining more closely the relationship between the monetary base and inflation, and understanding the changing role of the reserves that commercial banks hold at the Federal Reserve.

Obviously, some cultures have their own jargon and tone, so Digital Mirror looks at the relative as well as absolute frequency of the values that it measures. Is Juan obsequiously polite to Alice, but abrupt to Marvin?

As a country which had experienced dramatic changes in its assessed contributions over a short period, the Republic of Korea believed that the level of such contributions should be predictable and that abrupt fluctuations should be avoided.

But now, in an abrupt and commendable turnabout, the Obama administration put the issue of conflicts of interest in the financial sector firmly on the table. The specific context involves the investment advice given to people saving for retirement.

8. Invites development and trading partners to consider extending to the graduated country trade preferences previously made available as a result of least developed country status, or reducing them in a phased manner in order to avoid their abrupt reduction

Timing is also an issue, especially with respect to saving incentives. To avoid the shortfall in aggregate demand that might arise from an abrupt surge in saving, these measures should be phased in over a period of 3 5 years.

These assumptions took a hard hit in the crisis, causing an abrupt shift to far more intrusive regulation. Finding a new and stable relationship between the financial authorities and private firms will depend crucially on a reworking of our intellectual models.

Therefore, and in view of the fact that Costa Rica's assessed contributions had increased by 95 per cent following the 2003 recalculation, the Committee on Contributions should develop options or models incorporating measures to minimize the impact of abrupt and disproportionate increases in assessment rates.

The Party s abrupt vilification of Bo after lauding him for his leadership in Chongqing has fueled public cynicism over his orchestrated downfall and laid bare the leadership s thin ideological core. If China is to preserve its gains in global stature, it must avoid a political hard landing.

This activism was interpreted as a sign of an emerging rule of law culture in China. But Chen s career as a legal activist met an abrupt end with a conviction for disturbing public order, and most experts inside and outside of China considered his ensuing confinement to be unlawful.

CAMBRIDGE The world economy has seen globalization collapse once already. The gold standard era with its free capital mobility and open trade came to an abrupt end in 1914 and could not be resuscitated after World War I. Are we about to witness a similar global economic breakdown?

To be sure, as the A market headed toward 5,000, regulators finally realized that the risk of a sharp correction was rising, too. But, instead of working incrementally to create strong, targeted regulations, they performed an abrupt about face, warning investors about risky bubbles and declaring war on margin finance.

Subsidiaries host countries, for their part, must reassure parent banks that financial regulation will remain predictable. Some of the recent abrupt and at times overly ambitious measures to tax the industry or redistribute the burden of foreign currency loans have undermined capital cushions and set back recovery in credit and growth.

But the emerging Obama doctrine suggests that elections alone do not make true democracy, and that, as has been the case in the Arab world, any abrupt move to democracy is bound to produce chaos. Moreover, in Africa post authoritarian rulers are not necessarily respectful of human rights and decent governance.

The United States has also signaled a fundamental, abrupt shift in its global climate policy. In his first, post election public address, Barack Obama declared that his presidency will mark a new chapter in America s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs.

Only when the credit bubble burst triggering an abrupt adjustment, rather than the gradual adaptation of skills and human capital that would have occurred in more normal times did millions of workers suddenly find themselves unemployed. The implication is that the economic logic equating automation with increased productivity has not been invalidated its proof has merely been delayed.

Moreover, financial markets consider QE so likely that the largest part of its bond rate and exchange rate consequences have already been priced in. Should the ECB disappoint expectations, bond and foreign exchange markets would confront an abrupt and damaging unwinding of positions long term interest rates would rise, stock markets would sink, and the exchange rate would appreciate.

Previous legislation, if not reversed, will lead to large abrupt tax hikes and spending cuts, which the Congressional Budget Office forecasts would likely cause a recession in 2013. While a post election, lame duck session of Congress will address the fiscal cliff, the deep differences between Republicans and Democrats on taxes and spending remain wide and difficult to bridge.

Co sponsored by Spain and Turkey, the Alliance of Civilizations initiative is not devoid of political calculation. To the Spaniards, it helps to justify their abrupt withdrawal from Iraq in 2004 for the Turks, it is yet another vehicle in their struggle, as the vital bridge between Islam and the West, for admission into the European Union.

Other catastrophic risks include natural epidemics (the 1918 1919 Spanish influenza killed between 20 million and 40 million people), nuclear or biological attacks by terrorists, certain types of lab accidents, and abrupt global warming. The probability of catastrophes, whether intentional or not, resulting from human activity appears to be increasing because of the rapidity and direction of technological advances.

What s more, Mousavi and Karroubi, perhaps chastened in part by the unfulfilled promises and excesses of the Islamic Revolution are seemingly in no hurry to see abrupt change. Instead, they have pursued a gradualist approach that aims to co opt and recruit disaffected members of the traditional classes, including clergy and Revolutionary Guardsmen, to the Green Movement.

But the political reality is that China s government favors rapid growth in the short run over the structural reforms needed to sustain long term economic performance. Fiscal consolidation and the abrupt closure and restructuring of inefficient banks and state enterprises would, after all, constitute a powerful brake on short term growth, threatening social peace and political stability.

In view of the abrupt increases in the assessed contributions of many of its members and the ensuing imbalances in their national budgets, the Rio Group attached considerable significance to the question of the scale of assessments, particularly since the scale established by the United Nations affected the level of contributions payable to other international organizations.

The US and NATO would prefer to avoid an abrupt and complete withdrawal a preference that Afghanistan s neighbors share, fearing that any resulting disorder would spill over their borders. The problem is that Karzai has refused to sign a painstakingly negotiated bilateral security agreement governing a post 2014 US NATO mission in Afghanistan, leaving Obama with little choice but to begin contingency planning.

But the Iranian revolution holds another lesson for Pakistani liberals obsessed with evicting the Shah, Iran s intelligentsia was delusional about their own society and their potential to emerge victorious via an abrupt political upheaval. Once the Shah left, the radical minority that was willing to fight and die for its cause devoured the moderate majority, establishing Islamist rule in short order.

And the Fed is likely to raise rates only if it judges US economic growth to be strong and sustainable, which would be a positive sign for the global economy in general. Furthermore, a delay in raising rates carries its own dangers, encouraging yield hungry investors to take larger risks possibly necessitating a sharper or more abrupt change in interest rates in the future.

Years of Western backed repressive authoritarianism nipped in the bud any potential growth of a liberal alternative to the incumbent Arab regimes, and turned any abrupt move to free elections into a dangerous exercise in Islamic democracy. A democracy that produces governments led by Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Muslim Brotherhood is inevitably bound to be anti Western and opposed to an American inspired peace process with Israel.

Many affected countries including those hit by the trade effects (such as China, South Korea, Taiwan, and eurozone members) and those susceptible to the capital flow channel (such as Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico) have not yet had enough time to react. Japan s policy change was big and abrupt, and several of the countries on the receiving end have been focused on complex domestic challenges.

But these reforms went in precisely the opposite direction from today's proposed changes fewer limits on policy makers' discretion, more power to the Board, and a larger role for the New York Fed, all to enable the Federal Reserve System to react more quickly and robustly in a crisis. It is far from clear, in other words, that the right response to the latest crisis is an abrupt about face.

The immediate cause of the government s demise was Parliament s rejection of the center left coalition s proposed budget, in favor of the budget presented by the center right Alliance parties, which formed the previous government. Having failed to pass its first budget owing to the abrupt decision by the far right Swedish Democrats (SD) to support the Alliance alternative the government could not simply continue as if nothing had happened.

The US Defense Department justifies this change as part of the so called Global Posture Review that it has been carrying out to provide more flexibility and mobility in deploying troops to more urgently needed places around the world. But the unilateral nature of the announcement, and the abrupt timing of the plan, has incited alarm in South Korea, and perhaps in Japan, that withdrawal could pose serious risks to the vital role that US forces have performed in deterring another war in Korea.