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77 examples of Elastic in a sentence

All movies require the "suspension of disbelief," that elastic band around our rational minds which allows us to get involved in fiction while knowing it isn't real.
And it has done so by relying on innovative measures that substitute its elastic balance sheet for those of over-extended governments, gun-shy private investors, and fleeing bank depositors.
In a system of elastic money with no intrinsic value, the quantity of money has to change over time if the purchasing power of money is to stay broadly constant.
Few of us, however, respond as emotionally to the threat of chronic disease, a vague and elastic term that is mainly useful for organizing health services.
For example, the impact of a euro depreciation is about three times larger in Italy than it is in Germany, because demand for Germany’s exports of specialized capital goods is not very price elastic.
It helps that these services often can be provided as seamlessly abroad as they are within their country of origin, to the point that the very concept of “abroad” has become rather elastic.
“There is nothing more elastic than the economy, which everyone fears so much because no one understands it.”
By the time a revised task force added dislike of public speaking in 1987, the disorder seemed sufficiently elastic to include virtually everyone on the planet.
Exhausted by the ongoing war, most Chechens now are ready to resolve their problems within the framework provided by Russia's elastic federal structure.
What might an increasingly elastic labor supply mean for Fed policy?
Computers, switches, cables, and software are general_purpose technologies, hence demand for them is likely to be extremely elastic.
Rapidly falling prices and extremely elastic demand will sustain rapid growth in these sectors' share of total economic expenditure.
To achieve this end, whatever needs to be done will be done; principles and rules are elastic.
The rule of law is the choice of the chieftain; freedom of expression is the obligation to obey and conform; transparency is the state’s right to control and manipulate information; and human rights is an elastic concept that depends on political imperatives.
With few exceptions, such as Harvard’s Dani Rodrik and the Nobel laureate Michael Spence, none pointed out that many workers would be displaced and receive little or no compensation, and that rapid globalization can thus stretch a country’s social fabric beyond its elastic limit.
Although the Stability and Growth Pact may be elastic enough to permit some deficit stimulus, a country may feel constrained from acting as aggressively as it wants.
The legislation is not “tax reform” by even the most elastic reading.
The system is very elastic, and has shown itself able to accommodate an increasing number of states.
Because supply is not completely elastic, either, producers and consumers would share the burden of the CO2 tax, meaning that both would have an incentive to reduce their fossil-fuel production and use – and thus their emissions.
In essence, beating the bushes, the two friends flushed a herd of kangaroos that fled by bounding away on their elastic paws.
After two hours of work, reentering to snatch some food and rest, I found a noticeable difference between the clean elastic fluid supplied me by the Rouquayrol device and the Nautilus's atmosphere, which was already charged with carbon dioxide.
All this water contained a considerable amount, and after it was decomposed by our powerful batteries, this life-giving elastic fluid could have been restored to us.
My lungs were gasping in their quest for that enkindling elastic fluid required for breathing, now growing scarcer and scarcer.
His fall was softened a little by the carpet, and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which made the sound muffled and not too noticeable.
Frances moved forward with the elastic step of youth; and, followed by the housekeeper at a little distance, she soon lost sight of the sluggish carriage, that was slowly toiling up the hill, occasionally halting to allow the cattle to breathe.
Dunwoodie paused not to read; but flew, with the elastic spring of joy, to the chamber of the prisoner.
Young, active, and impelled by her generous motive, she moved up the hill with elastic steps, and very soon emerged from the cover of the woods, into an open space of more level ground, that had evidently been cleared of its timber, for the purpose of cultivation.
There was nothing elastic in his tread, but he glided over the ground with enormous strides, and a body bent forward, without appearing to use exertion, or know weariness.
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
His spirits were elastic; his good-humour was restored.
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