Inertia

Inertia, lack of action.

So inertia versus momentum.

It's called inertia. It's how we screw it up.

We talked about inertia and organ donations and checking the box.

So the smaller you make R, the more dramatically the inertia reduces.

We are concerned at the general inertia existing in the entire disarmament machinery.

The one that's the most important is the inertia or the resistance to motion.

Let me now talk about another behavioral obstacle to saving having to do with inertia.

We continue to see demonstrably inefficient practices and inertia, and we keep on repeating them.

So it turns out, the inertia, which governs angular motion, scales as a fifth power of R.

That lends legitimacy to this morning's discussion to our adoption of appeals and proposals to break through the inertia in the other forums.

Naked City is a nickname for New York, and Spleen embodies the melancholia and inertia that come from feeling alienated in an urban environment.

So we must ask ourselves what can be done to hold States accountable for non implementation and for the present inertia in the disarmament machinery.

(c) Measure the mass of the asteroid, the ratio of the moments of inertia and the low order harmonics of the gravity field of the asteroid

Data from these observations make it possible to determine crucial parameters such as the size and albedo of NEOs and provide information on surface characteristics via thermal inertia.

Ultimately, world peace is in the hands of leaders. History honors those who dare to challenge the politics of inertia by opening, through inspired diplomacy, new paths to progress.

That would not be possible until the inertia which had gripped the Conference on Disarmament, the sole multilateral organ for disarmament for more than seven years, had been overcome.

The proposal for freer transatlantic trade is potentially transformational. It comes at a time when the West is increasingly being dragged down by short term disruptions and continued policy inertia.

It's an economic force it's a technical force.

This is not about overwhelming force, but proportional force.

They realized that using force against force doesn't work.

The good news for Americans is that there is enormous inertia in the world trading and financial system. It took many decades and two world wars before the British pound lost its super currency status.

Despite the oil market s size, speculation can move prices because of the inelasticity of demand and supply. Oil demand is slow to change because of behavioral inertia and fixed technology, while adjusting production takes time.

But, in our view, our primary task is to ensure their full implementation and not to allow inertia to impede this, as has been the case in the process of implementing the Millennium Development Goals.

The international community must rouse itself from its comfortable inertia and stop regarding it as inevitable that refugees should be used as pawns in prolonged conflicts and have their basic rights and their dignity violated.

International political indifference and a sense of inertia have characterized the conduct of the international community, which has aggravated the civil war and allowed unabated human suffering and environmental destruction to continue in my country.

Perhaps the most hopeful story is that of Japan, which, after two decades, has finally begun to reverse its entrenched policy inertia. Old habits of coddling agriculture, electric power, and other economic sectors are being disregarded.

You've got to build this force. You've got to seed this force.

That's what keeps the Sys Admin Force from being a pussy force.

Force majeure

Observer Force

Force Commander

Air Force

In most, if not all, of these cases, we see examples of a broader phenomenon what might be called governing by inertia a can't, won't, and shouldn't mentality, to paraphrase the economist Mark Blyth, that blocks effective policymaking.

An Internal Security Force includes both a police force and an information gathering department.

Entry into force

Entry into force

Use more force?

Labor Force Estimates

Jamaica Constabulary Force

Myanmar Police Force

Use of force

My colleagues actually went on to test this limitation, by increasing the moment of inertia of a student, so they had a tail, and running them through and obstacle course, and found a decrement in performance, like you'd predict.

To these we could perhaps add a fourth freedom for the United Nations freedom from the inertia and narrow political interests that hold us back from really revitalizing and reforming the way we organize our work in this Organization.