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I pieced together fragmented, transitory images, consciously analyzed the clues, searched for some logic in my crumbling kaleidoscope, until I saw nothing at all.
But they are transitory moments - literally.
Then it spends its last hour expounding upon the fragile and transitory nature of office friendships amidst corporate backstabbing for advancement and survival -- especially among temps.
What little impact import price shocks have on US inflation is highly transitory, with most of the effect tapering off after just two quarters.
Starting with Cavallo, Argentina’s boosters argue that these problems are transitory, and blame the country’s difficulties on turmoil in world financial markets and the US dollar’s excessive strength in relation to the Euro, which reduces Argentina’s export competitiveness.
The 2.6% headline inflation rate in March was heavily influenced by spiking energy prices, the effects of which should be transitory (events in the Middle East permitting).
And what they need to realize is that, unlike past price declines, this one will not be transitory.
While the Fed tries to look past transitory fluctuations in commodity prices, it will be hard to ignore rising consumer inflation as the huge drop of the past year – particularly in energy prices – stabilizes or even reverses.
The stores of transitory wealth that were created seemed real enough to everyone at the time – real enough to spend, and real enough to hurt those who were obliged to pay them back.
Latin America’s Era of Milk and HoneyWhenever signs of change appear in Latin America’s economies, people ask if the change will be transitory or permanent.
Hints that more robust and balanced policy responses are coming have had a noticeably positive effect, though it may be transitory, depending on implementation.
It is never easy to know whether a deficit is transitory and will soon be reversed or is the precursor to further deficits.
Such a policy can be effective in smoothing over minor and temporary problems but it lets minor problems that are not transitory accumulate until they become major problems.
Was the global financial crisis a harsh but transitory setback to advanced-country growth, or did it expose a deeper long-term malaise?
The positioning of EU countries on the rings around the core would be transitory, with the aim being to facilitate overall convergence.
But a transitory head of state could be elected in a grand assembly of tribal leaders and notables, on the model of the Afghan Loya Jirga.
But this intergovernmental agreement is likely to be only a transitory solution.
National policymakers should also establish incentives – such as transitory export subsidies and import taxes – aimed at improving the balance of payments and stimulating growth without internal devaluation.
With the informal sector continuing to play a major role in emerging economies, women often have access to only unreliable and transitory employment that offers casual and irregular wages.
By contrast, the EU Constitution is written with the unspoken understanding that the institutions it is setting up are transitory, that they are far from optimal, and that it would be desirable to change them right now if political realities allowed it.
On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of global supply chains and employment.
It is neither a transitory moment of delight nor a constant condition.
Thanks to reports just released by the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee – one on the long-term implications of requiring higher capital-to-asset ratios, and one on the transitory effects of introducing them – we know more now about the likely impact of such regulation.
Though he often boasts of keeping Israel secure and strong, his definition of security is so narrow and transitory as to be meaningless.
True counter-cyclical policies call for only transitory expenditures.
Instead, the outbreak’s economic consequences will probably be substantial but transitory.
In some, impressions are vivid and transitory; in others, more deep and lasting: indeed, there are some philosophers who pretend to trace a connection between the physical and mental powers of the animal; but, for my part, madam, I believe that the one is much influenced by habit and association, and the other subject altogether to the peculiar laws of matter."
I am, therefore, in a measure constrained to follow that road, and by it I must travel in spite of all the world, and it will be labour in vain for you to urge me to resist what heaven wills, fate ordains, reason requires, and, above all, my own inclination favours; for knowing as I do the countless toils that are the accompaniments of knight-errantry, I know, too, the infinite blessings that are attained by it; I know that the path of virtue is very narrow, and the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their ends and goals are different, for the broad and easy road of vice ends in death, and the narrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not transitory life, but in that which has no end; I know, as our great Castilian poet says, that—It is by rugged paths like these they goThat scale the heights of immortality,Unreached by those that falter here below."
"Unjust!--unjust!" said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression--as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
It is only because our connection happens to be very transitory, and comes at a peculiarly mournful season, that I consent thus to render it so patient and compliant on my part."