Example collocations logo

Fixed in sentence

1464 examples of Fixed in a sentence

At the same time, it took its previous efforts to decouple the renminbi from the dollar – a shift from a fixed median-price system to a market-based exchange-rate package – a step further, adding 11 currencies to the renminbi’s reference currency basket.
Yet they lack the core software to produce, say, progressive lenses, so they must pay a fixed royalty to a US company for each progressive lens they make.
The fixed interconnected pipelines lock producers and consumers in a near-exclusive embrace.
To assume a constant level and composition of labor demand would be as mistaken as taking current passenger demand as a fixed reference point in planning public-transportation systems.
The Berlin Conference of 1885 fixed the borders of Europe’s African colonies so that they included within them a large variety of languages, religions, and ethnic groups.
In the case of China, the most useful precedent is probably that of Japan in the period from the end of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange-rate regime in August, 1971, to the collapse of its “bubble economy” in 1990.
During that period, the yen’s value more than doubled against the dollar, rising from its original fixed rate of 360 to 144 at the end of 1989.
Over the last 30 years or so, many central bankers supposed that all they needed to do was keep their sights fixed on price stability.
It comprises ten indicators, each of which is based on various sub-indicators, and all of which are aggregated, according to a fixed rule, into a final score that determines a country’s ranking among 190 economies.
And any negotiation must take place within a fixed time period, lest North Korea use that time to create new military facts.
To put it more precisely, everything turns on the French invention of the concept of “revolution,” which quickly rose to the summit of our political thinking, like a fixed star, with the rest of the stars arranging themselves around it.
The fixed star grew darker and became a black hole that swallowed its own light and that of lesser stars.
They may also apply to any country that has maintained a comparatively fixed exchange rate (a category that includes major oil producers).
That is why agreeing to an international economic regime – say, establishing a fixed exchange rate, or adopting a common currency – is a deeply political decision.
As a result, some observers may find the notion of increased monetary integration – even the establishment of a fixed exchange-rate regime based on, say, the Chinese renminbi or the Japanese yen – highly appealing.
For example, the total supply of bitcoins is fixed, as it would be – more or less – for a gold-backed currency.
That must be fixed, which requires that competitiveness become the central focus of longer-term US economic policy – the sooner, the better.
It is an opportune moment: while much of the world’s attention has been fixed on issues of energy supply and security, hundreds of millions of people in the developing world continue to see the supply and security of fresh water as equally, if not more, important.
Interests are not fixed or predetermined.
Local governments’ indebtedness soared, and fixed investment surged toward an unprecedented 50% of GDP.
Looking beyond the old G-7 system, we need a twenty-first-century approach to multilateralism through the dynamism of a flexible network, not new hierarchies of a fixed or static system.
The desire of East and Central European nations to becomepart and parcel of the Western political and economic system iswell understood by most Russians; even their desire to receivefirm and fixed security guarantees are not condemned out of hand.
Loan-guarantee institutions, trust companies, and others sought to benefit from the gap between the 3.5% return on one-year fixed deposits in the official banking system and rates of up to 20% in the shadow-banking sector.
His successor, Mark Carney, has come to embody this view, eschewing fixed policy rules in favor of the constrained discretion implied by guidance ranges for key indicators.
Moreover, unlike official national debt, social-welfare obligations are not fixed in currency.
But this does not mean that pensions and other welfare obligations are entirely fixed.
What this means is that pension and tax institutions must be designed to take better account of the changing circumstances facing different generations, rather than make fixed promises--which most likely cannot be kept, anyway--of a certain payout in the future.
By the middle of this century, life expectancy at age 60 will have risen by about ten years relative to the post-World War II period, when current retirement ages were fixed.
For instance, the fuel efficiency of every automobile and truck is fixed, and most travel is non-discretionary.
The other is to shift from a pure PAYG system to a mixed system that supplements fixed benefits with returns from financial investments.
BackNext