The situation is still critical.

The situation there was critical.

Has France reached a critical threshold?

The vigils? when despair settles in?

America s role in the process has been crucial.

Europe finds itself at a paradoxical turning point.

Initial international reaction to the Hamas victory has been severe.

Now, as you know we are in critical situation by earthquake.

The fight against the Ebola epidemic is increasingly turning into an international emergency.

Carrasco Tapia died for his vision of critical oppositional journalism.

First, there are two banks in critical condition that would need to be cleaned up.

We can always count on Tom in an emergency.

Reality is catching up with the US, as it already has elsewhere in the world.

A critical test awaits in how the US handles post war Iraq.

Yet it is reasonably clear that a tipping point has been reached.

The situation culminated in June strike of engine drivers.

In the end, if push comes to shove, such military resources matter.

Superconductivity is a quantum state of matter, and it occurs only below a certain critical temperature.

Earnings of both Italian and Spanish bonds are growing towards critical limits.

In this point, changing the scale does not change the physics, because the system is in a fractal state.

Despite our successes we are far from reaching critical mass.

Rather, it must be the product of the widest possible consensus on a critical threat assessment.

Pengelolaan dan konservasi laut merupakan persoalan kritis.

We believe that this government is the last chance for Italy to get out of this emergency situation.

This city will suffer from an acute water shortage unless it rains soon.

But there can be no lender of last resort without a modicum of moral hazard.

The issue is coming to a head in ongoing World Trade Organization negotiations.

Without an inflationary cushion labor markets would have to be modernized, and peso wages would fall to the point were the country could compete internationally.

Fiscal policy would also be straightened out because the central bank was no longer the lender of last resort.

In late March, for example, the lake s water level fell to 9 cm lower than the critical level.

If stability is to be preserved, financial markets need regulators and a lender of last resort.

Brazilian bonds would rally and confidence would return at the sight of a lender of last resort.

What was important was the nation s history, whether that history was mythologized or de mythologized, apologetic or critical.

The absence of a lender of last resort in today s world only magnifies the threat involved in each crisis.

A critical institutional foundation for well functioning property rights is an independent judiciary to enforce them. India s Supreme Court has shown that it is independent, interprets the law faithfully, and does not easily succumb to global corporate interests.

However, opaque solutions designed to avoid critical public scrutiny do not seem particularly democratic.

Kim s specialty, public health, is critical, and the Bank has long supported innovative initiatives in this field.

Moreover, the country s banking system is supported by its rich neighbor s demonstrated willingness to act as a lender of last resort.

But, unlike banks, they do not have the safety net implied by central banks role as lender of last resort.

It takes liquidity to make a market successful, and it can be difficult to get a new one started until it achieves a certain critical mass.

Similar policies are now being implemented in many urban areas, in order to attract a critical mass of creative, technologically savvy people.

It is crucial to engage with the southern Mediterranean region as a critical meeting point a place of political, economic, and energy cooperation.

Following the European decision to tax all depositors, the Mediterranean republic faces a critical situation.

NEW YORK Last week, rumors from the world of print media were rife a hundred reporters from The New York Times news desk to be bought out or to lose their jobs if they refuse steep cutbacks at British newspapers staffs slashed at Condé Nast eight respected editors axed at Glamour magazine. In the United States and elsewhere, there is a sense that the long foreseen implosion of news publishing is accelerating, having reached a kind of critical mass.

The central banker is not only a lender of last resort, but also a speaker of last resort.