But the political relevance of these changing economic realities is close to nil.

With a single Instagram update, the whole smart filtering system will be destroyed.

Instead, political life here has been reduced to mere formality.

But all the hard work these states have undertaken to prepare themselves for EU membership may be squandered should they choose to adopt the euro too soon.

French growth is close to zero.

The chances of success are near zero.

Today, many African countries are ravaged by conflict and, as the EU rendered war between its members redundant, practical regional integration could achieve the same in Africa.

Third, democracy should not be reduced to mere respect for majority decisions.

This monster could take everyone back to zero, a fresh start.

This year it will be nearly eliminated.

As bandwidth grows the cost of information transmission will move toward zero.

Key interest rates have remained close to zero for six years now.

This would appear to nullify the very purpose of the arrangement, which is to free Asia from the IMF.

Technologies now in development could even eliminate auto related fatalities altogether.

How do you provide medically relevant information at as close as possible to zero cost? How do you do it?

The five recommendations from the symposium, if implemented well, will lead to zero poaching in Asia.

The derivative of a constant function is always zero.

With interest rates reaching almost zero, this liquidity trap has paralyzed Japan's monetary policy.

Monetary policy is constrained by the proximity to zero interest rates and repeated rounds of quantitative easing.

CAMBRIDGE The rate of inflation is now close to zero in the United States and several other major countries.

But their funding costs are not zero.

Ideally, the number should be zero.

And it s completely inefficient, economically.

Second, any improvement in GDP derived from stronger exports leads to an increase in imports. Empirical studies estimate that the overall impact of a weaker US dollar on the trade balance is close to zero.

Empirical studies estimate that the overall impact of a weaker US dollar on the trade balance is close to zero.

Your weapon's durability is very low. You should get it fixed before it breaks.

On the other hand, talk of military intervention which, under the circumstances, would largely boil down to air strikes is cheap.

Despite an electoral law favoring it, Tudjman's mammoth organization has been reduced to a mere 40 seats in the 151 seat lower chamber of the Sabor (parliament). The coalition of Ivica Ra an's ex Communists (SDP) and Drazen Budiša's right liberals (HSLS), known as the Two , hold 71 seats.

Despite an electoral law favoring it, Tudjman's mammoth organization has been reduced to a mere 40 seats in the 151 seat lower chamber of the Sabor (parliament).

When it comes to romance, they are zero.

Policy interest rates around the world are likely to head toward zero the United States and Japan are already there.

Even before the eurozone crisis erupted in 2010, the productivity of capital investment in Italy was close to zero.

So throughout most of human history, average sugar consumption was near zero.

Terminology The term 'almost every' in the context of random graphs refers to a sequence of spaces and probabilities, such that the error probabilities tend to zero.

Sharp rises in sovereign, corporate, and interbank liquidity spreads will increase the cost of capital, and increases in risk aversion, volatility, and sovereign risk will undermine business, investor, and consumer confidence further.

Growth may be close to zero by the end of this year, as fiscal austerity kicks in and stock markets fall.

In any case, the eurozone seems stuck with near zero rates at increasingly long maturities.

Economic determinists predicted that he did not stand a chance.

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That is true of both monetary and fiscal policy the two mainstays of modern countercyclical stabilization.

Indeed, HFT firms talk of a race to zero, the point at which trading takes place at close to the speed of light.

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while.

Policy interest rates are close to zero in the major economies in the developed world, and outsize budget deficits are the norm.

Yet, despite all this, employment remained stagnant net job creation in the United States continues to stall.

The result is that net social security liabilities are essentially zero.