Conversion
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Regulatory hybrid securities would raise the cost of capital to banks (because creditors would have to be compensated for the
conversion
feature), whereas the banks would rather rely on their “too big to fail” status and future government bailouts.
Another is the
conversion
of renewable energy into hydrogen (by splitting water molecules) or a synthetic liquid fuel made with carbon dioxide from the air.
But, despite paying lip service to the market, the European left remains torn by an inner contradiction between its anti-capitalist origins and its recent
conversion
to free-market economics.
The mass
conversion
to Islam among Persians was the first step toward the establishment of the first caliphate, a political-religious state comprising all Muslim lands.
These debentures should be designed to create a strong incentive for bank managers and shareholders to issue equity rather than suffer
conversion.
Moreover, the technology necessary to convert it into energy – including high-yield burning, gas conversion, and liquefaction into synthetic fuel – has long been mastered.
Navigating the Syrian EndgameSTOCKHOLM – After a suspiciously sudden conversion, Russian President Vladimir Putin now claims to be worried about the fate of millions of refugees who have fled the carnage in Syria.
In Europe,
conversion
is typically confined to underprivileged neighborhoods, populated by young people with no job prospects who generally live in an underground economy of delinquency.
For someone like Hillary Clinton, assuming her
conversion
was real, it could have meant announcing she would no longer take a dime from Wall Street or would not sign another trade agreement if elected.
One key step, therefore, is a large-scale
conversion
of enterprise debt to equity.
This doesn’t amount to a
conversion
to liberal principles or a substitution of Europe for the ideals of the left and of socialism.
When the center left won elections in the past two decades, it did so under a powerful security-oriented leader: Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Sharon (after his conversion), and Sharon’s successor, Olmert.
Beyond broad principles of international law – for example, that what matters for deciding an asset's post-divorce currency denomination are the law governing the underlying contract and the corresponding jurisdiction – there are no agreed rules for deciding how
conversion
into a new currency would be carried out.
In many ways, Asia’s undeniable progress reflects its
conversion
to Western values.
Land
conversion
for grazing (and construction), together with crop tillage, has also caused soil erosion at 15 times its natural rate.
And the currency
conversion
would not save the country one cent with regard to its external debt, which would, of course, remain denominated in euros.
In those months, the seeds of my
conversion
to all things British were planted, which flowered decades later in my becoming a British citizen.
The more serious danger comes from the possible
conversion
of old leftwing constituencies to territorialist platforms.
MUNICH – In May 1998, irrevocable
conversion
rates for the currencies that would be merged into the euro were implemented.
Although the precise nature of the disease’s transmission remains uncertain, a key event in these disorders is the
conversion
of the prion protein’s normal cells to an abnormal form that appears to be the major (if not the sole) component of the infection.
The country is also home to thriving communities of scientists and engineers specializing in nuclear and solar energy, software encryption, coal-to-oil
conversion
and even electric cars.
Clearly, as the austerians’ barricades have weakened under the continuing onslaught of facts (most notably the recessions in Europe, and now Japan’s
conversion
to expansion), the stimulators have found the missteps of Reinhart/Rogoff and Ferguson to be convenient weapons.
“We decided that if we could get 500 people to show interest in a converted car, we could demonstrate that the mass
conversion
scheme would make sense.”
Power
conversion
– translating power resources into effective influence – is a long-standing problem for the US.
The Chinese are testing on a grand scale novel technologies in coal conversion, solar, wind, and carbon sequestration.
Evangelicalism is the fastest-growing world religion by
conversion
– a trend that underlies the strong expansion of Protestantism in traditionally Roman Catholic Latin America.
The triple threat of rising world demand,
conversion
of food into fuel, and climate shocks have conspired to push world food prices much higher than anticipated even a couple of years ago.
For example, if a Muslim decided to renounce his faith, the matter would be handled outside the legal system, or
conversion
records would be sealed.
Information released by the government of Brazil indicates that deforestation of the irreplaceable forests of the Amazon, due to factors such as agricultural conversion, reached 2.6 million hectares (roughly 10,000 square miles) in the past year, bringing the total deforested area of the Amazon to 17%.
The decision to allow opposition leader Alexei Navalny to stand in Moscow’s recent mayoral election was a welcome move toward a more open system, but the political calculation behind it and the likelihood of vote rigging to prevent a runoff against his victorious opponent hardly suggest a Pauline
conversion
to democracy.
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