When they have meetings with their review boards or mental health professionals, they're placed in immobile booths like this.

He spoke with a cold, disciplined energy. In repose (as witnessed on the split screen in the reaction shots) he was often perfectly immobile, almost stony, as if posing for a portrait.

By contrast, labor in the EU is largely immobile. Despite populist speeches about the threat posed by Polish plumbers, net migration flows between regions are generally insensitive to differences in unemployment rates among regions.

Moving and buying a new apartment in a different place is almost impossible, which makes Russian workers highly immobile. In Soviet times, people were proud of the fact that they had only one or two jobs during their lifetime.

Wealth taxes that target land and structures are arguably insulated from some of these concerns, and property taxes are relatively underused outside the Anglo Saxon countries. In theory, taxing immobile assets is less distortionary, though taxes on structures obviously can discourage both maintenance and new construction.

In addition, many Sunni scholars have argued that Al Qaeda s ideology and tactics are illegitimate, and that Muslims should refrain from jihad and remain obedient to their rulers. The term for those who have not joined Al Qaeda s jihad is the sitters or the immobile ones ( qaaidun ).

According to conventional wisdom, the corporate tax burden is borne principally by the owners of capital in the form of lower returns. But, as capital becomes more mobile, relatively immobile workers are bearing more of the burden in the form of lower wages and fewer job opportunities.

ROME Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi s political and sexual exploits make headlines around the world, and not just in the tabloid press. These stories would be no more than funny which they are certainly are if they were not so damaging to Italy and revelatory of the country s immobile politics.

The attorney has also lodged a special complaint with the Egyptian Minister of the Interior, the Chief Public Prosecutor and the Director General of the Prison Institutions, alleging improper treatment of the complainant during his hospitalisation, including being chained to the bed and rendered immobile on medical grounds, and being returned to prison prior to recuperation.