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Most philosophers, it seems, have been asleep on the job for a long time.
Finally, you are asleep and dreaming.
Falling asleep is also a gradual transition.
(One of experimental psychology's most interesting findings is that people start to dream before they fall asleep, while they are still physiologically awake.)
You cannot fall asleep unless your focus setting dips below some threshold.
Notice the similarity between falling asleep and thinking creatively - no matter how hard you try, you can not force yourself to do either.
You cannot make yourself fall asleep by concentrating.
To fall asleep you must un -concentrate.
But, like in the case of the sub-prime bubble, most US regulators are still asleep at the wheel.
Dozy watchdogs asleep at the wheel are a trope that trips quickly into journalists’ coverage.
The Closed Marketplace of Economic IdeasMILAN – Imagine that you fell asleep in 2006 and woke up today.
But if US regulators fell asleep on the job, it was not because their economy benefited while everyone else paid the price.
Worse, Trump will be changing the rules of the game at a time when the global economy is already fragile, China is confronting a massively inflated bubble in its financial sector, and Europe is asleep at the wheel of a slow-motion train wreck in Italy’s banking sector.
It now has the lowest sovereign spread for any country in its rating class, indicating that markets think the rating agencies have been asleep at the wheel.
Uneven global regulations, not to mention regulators who fall asleep at the wheel, compound this structural vulnerability.
Throughout most of human history, ice almost completely barred all navigation in the seas surrounding the North Pole, and the Arctic was asleep in a silent indifference.
Time and again, regulators and policymakers – to say nothing of political leaders – have been asleep at the switch in condoning market excesses.
So far, the Old Continent has been asleep at the wheel.
Someone who fell asleep in August 2008 and woke up in 2010 would probably never guess that there had been any interruption whatsoever in China’s burgeoning imbalances with the West.
So far, regulators have been asleep at the wheel as the crypto cancer has metastasized.
The first development was the 2008 global financial crisis, which suggested that central banks had been asleep at the wheel.
The Saudi air defenses – if there were any – seem to have been fast asleep, suggesting that the attackers had intimate knowledge of local conditions.
It seems unlikely that central-bank independence would have survived the even more damning accusation, justified in the event, that monetary policymakers were asleep at the switch.
The invalid fell quietly asleep, but awoke half an hour later with a fit of coughing, and immediately every hope fled from those around him and from himself.
Only at rare moments, when opium made him forget his incessant sufferings for a moment, did he sometimes when half asleep express what was stronger in his soul than in any of the others': 'Oh, if only it were over!' or 'When will this end!'His sufferings, regularly increasing, did their work of preparing him for death.
'So you are not asleep yet?''No, how can I sleep?
I thought you gentlemen were asleep, but then I heard you chatting.
Levin pretended to be asleep, but Oblonsky, having put on his slippers and lit a cigar, left the barn, and their voices soon died away.
Levin could not fall asleep for a long time.
Oblonsky, half asleep, refused to budge so early.
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