And the bystanders are absorbing some of the hardest blows.

Cities have a lot of black asphalt and dark, heat absorbing structures.

Currently, this combined NPF is absorbing the Uralsib and Russian Standard funds.

Absorbing information on the internet is like drinking water from a fire hydrant.

By suppressing internal rivals and absorbing their assets, the regime created a dual monopoly.

Prestige spending has increased, absorbing enormous sums for the benefit of a privileged minority.

Every country groans under the burden of educating, employing and absorbing so many young people.

The country as a whole is absorbing an astounding three quarters of global excess savings.

If Europe has trouble absorbing a million refugees, how will it eventually handle 20 million?

These real investments are overshadowed by the games that have been absorbing most participants in financial markets.

After absorbing the Lighthouse Service in 1939, the U.S. Coast Guard serviced the light twice each year.

Which is used actually to identify chemical elements in a cool matter, which is absorbing exactly at those frequencies.

Talk of re establishing the Soviet Union or at least absorbing Abkhazia and South Ossetia has always been politically marginal.

Japanese company Unipac has even developed an air conditioner filter capable of absorbing about 99 percent pollen within an hour.

In fact, the system s resilience in absorbing huge disruptions the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 earthquake is one key reason for its survival.

Peculiar tunnels above the freeway, capable of absorbing the carbon monoxide emitted by automobiles, are already being tested on the roads in Great Britain.

Little doubt remains that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming by spewing carbon dioxide and other heat absorbing, or greenhouse, gases into the air.

Creating and satisfying new consumer desires keeps the system going by absorbing the labor and purchasing power released by the increasingly efficient satisfaction of old ones.

The 6 meter high tunnel was built from some of the latest polymer materials, which are capable of absorbing the harmful substances contained in automobile exhaust.

And the economies and societies of frontline states like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, already under severe stress from absorbing millions of such refugees, face even greater risks.

For instance, an extreme cooperation exists between plants and the mycorrhizal fungi that grow on their roots and aid the plant in absorbing nutrients from the soil.

While the manufacturing approach served China well for 30 years, its dependence on capital intensive, labor saving productivity enhancement makes it incapable of absorbing the country s massive labor surplus.

For starters, the EU should commit to absorbing at least 500,000 asylum seekers a year, while working to convince the rest of the world to accept an equal number.

It is an absorbing odyssey of two nations with mutually exclusive claims on sacred lands and religious shrines that are central in the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Money helps, but so do other things, such as close human relationships, acts of kindness, absorbing interests, and the chance to live in a free, ethical, and well governed democratic society.

Large budget deficits are absorbing the national savings that should be used to expand business investment, and are increasing the national debt that will have to be financed by future taxes.

In order that passengers not be harmed even by the blast wave of an explosive detonated near the automobile, the interior of the car is equipped with special shock absorbing chairs.

While there has been talk of the DPJ simply absorbing the much smaller Isshin no To, it's likely an entirely new party, with new branding will emerge before the summer elections.

58. Also requests the Secretary General to ensure that posts are not deliberately left vacant to provide a cushion for absorbing the costs of special missions and other activities authorized within available resources

After 1971 Arad began absorbing olim (Jewish immigrants), mostly from the Soviet Union, but also from English speaking countries and Latin America, and its population increased from 4,000 in 1969 to 10,500 in 1974.

For the moment, such immigration has almost stopped, owing to rapid economic growth indeed, the fastest in Europe in recent years, which is absorbing the country s available labor and has thus stemmed the flow of emigrants.

Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the region suffered the burden of absorbing Palestinian refugees fleeing the fighting in the southern part of mandatory Palestine, which would later become Israel.

Given that one of the first symptoms of intoxication is vomiting, and that 70 of the remaining nicotine in the digestive tract is metabolized by the liver before it reaches other organs, absorbing that much nicotine is not easy.

Because this thing codes ones and zeros, and this thing codes A, T, C, Gs, and it sits up there, absorbing energy on a tree, and one fine day it has enough energy to say, execute, and it goes thump . Right?

The implication is that potential borrowers are not absorbing as many imports as they could and not relying, as they should, on the multilateral pooling of reserves that the Fund is meant to use to give confidence to its members.

And what we've been able to do is engineer a virus to basically take dye absorbing molecules and line them up on the surface of the virus so it acts as an antenna, and you get an energy transfer across the virus.

Little doubt remains that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming by spewing carbon dioxide and other heat absorbing, or greenhouse, gases into the air. Analysis of tree rings identifies fossil fuels as the source of the 30 increase in greenhouse gases over pre industrial levels.

Creating and satisfying new consumer desires keeps the system going by absorbing the labor and purchasing power released by the increasingly efficient satisfaction of old ones. At the other end of this process, producers who satisfy old desires continue economizing, because they compete for employees and consumers with producers who satisfy new desires.

In the end, surveys suggest that what people want most is not wealth so much as happiness and the satisfaction that comes from a full and meaningful life. Money helps, but so do other things, such as close human relationships, acts of kindness, absorbing interests, and the chance to live in a free, ethical, and well governed democratic society.