Does it plan to swallow Ukraine, Belarus, and the Caucasus?

Only an imperial Russia, however, would dare reabsorb Ukraine.

Will the global ecosystem be able to absorb these additional pollutants without considerable changes in the ecosphere?

They had to move this village in 1987 as a huge dune threatened to swallow it.

China now stands ready to absorb some of that surplus saving to promote a shift toward internal demand.

Clearly, industrialization and export expansion alone cannot absorb China s massive labor force.

Cockroaches eat the feces of other cockroaches, and will cannibalize their fellow cockroaches, too.

Would there be enough demand to absorb the additional output resulting from increasing the workday?

The goal is not to absorb shocks but to reduce income gaps across regions.

Now that the booms have been reversed, a decline in confidence could engulf the world economy, throwing it into recession.

But the WTO induced expansion of non agricultural labor intensive sectors, particularly the textile and clothing industries, could absorb these workers.

It's hard to imagine Twitch being folded into Amazon Instant Video as elegantly as YouTube could have just swallowed Twitch.

The Polish Communists did not intend to build democracy their plan was to absorb moderate opposition groups into a partially modified political system.

If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently.

Government spending on remedying environmental damage could absorb substantial funds if demand side weakness exacerbates the expected supply side slowdown.

Second they always harbor a dangerous explosive potential and can therefore, at any moment, grow into large scale conflicts, threatening to engulf us all.

At best, a nuclear arms race would threaten to consume this already unstable region, which would endanger the NPT, with far reaching global consequences.

The political community of the 1950 s that France had persuaded its five European partners to accept was supposed to absorb both the European Coal and Steel Community and the EDC.

Globalization allowed the US to suck up the savings of the rest of the world and consume more than it produced, with its current account deficit reaching 6.2 of GNP in 2006.

If they back Tung unconditionally for the rest of his term, they can look forward to the collapse of their long term strategy to re absorb Taiwan, for the alternative to peaceful reunification with Taiwan is coercion.

When Britain's Vodafone signaled its intention to takeover Germany's Mannesmann, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder protested against the merger on grounds that it would cost German jobs.

Economic patriotism, the slogan coined by France s Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin following PepsiCo s rumored attempt in July 2005 to takeover Danone, perhaps best encapsulates the political imperative.

Now do we really want to commit ourselves to engulfing all the other religions when their holy books are telling them, Don't listen to the other side, that's just Satan talking!

Finally, to absorb and integrate more than a million asylum seekers and migrants a year, the EU needs to mobilize the private sector NGOs, church groups, and businesses to act as sponsors.

But it is difficult to see how the resulting growth could have been as high reaching an unprecedented 10 or more annually in per capita terms without a global economy able to absorb these countries exports.

Obama can lose these people, however, if he forgets that he is a reconciler, not a class warrior, and goes from tilting towards the poor to soaking the rich.

The output gap reflects a deficit of more than 12 million jobs the number of jobs needed to return to the economy s peak 2007 employment level and absorb the 125,000 people who enter the labor force each month.

The output gap reflects a deficit of more than 12 million jobs the number of jobs needed to return to the economy s peak 2007 employment level and absorb the 125,000 people who enter the labor force each month.

The poor performance of Wall Street and America regulators has cost America a good deal in terms of the soft power of its economic model s attractiveness, but the blow need not be fatal if, in contrast to Japan in the 1990 s, the US manages to absorb the losses and limit the damage.

Holland does not have to sink into the North Sea before we do something about the world's climate pensions do not have to decline to near zero before social policies are adjusted.

Any lower price in euros would cause excess global demand for oil, while a price above 75 euros would not create enough demand to absorb all of the oil that producers wanted to sell at that price.