The box has holes in it.

The box has holes in it.

The diameter of the hole was slightly larger.

Of course, there remain gaping holes in the data.

It distributes itself, flows through further holes, distributes itself.

Structural Booms

Tom coaxed the mouse out of the hole in the wall with a piece of bread.

These structural impediments cannot be removed.

andyxianwong sees structural flaws in the proposal

Galvanization often fails at seams, holes, and joints where there are gaps in the coating.

But we also need other structural measures.

Why do the five yen coin and the fifty yen coin have holes in the center?

Due to excessive drought, a woman is digging small holes around apricot trees in order to accumulate rainwater.

To this end, incisions are made (what we call openings ) and in these incisions a powder is placed, for the protection of that initiate.

Negotiators will also have to overcome significant structural obstacles.

But longer term structural issues are weighing down labor markets as well.

Likewise, competitiveness losses have been partly reversed as wages have lagged productivity growth, thus reducing unit labor costs, and some structural reforms are ongoing.

Tom comes from a culture where women artificially color their lips and put holes in their earlobes.

Second, domestic de leveraging dynamics are aggravating other structural impediments.

Structural factors go a long way to explain this deficiency.

France urgently needs structural reforms and thus a strong government.

Meanwhile, the types of structural changes that Argentina needs have not been made.

Structural and competitive impediments to growth have been largely ignored.

And never mind growth enhancing structural reforms.

We are determined to press ahead with the structural reforms needed to succeed.

What the best structural reforms actually are remains a matter for debate.

Structural reforms, to root out corruption and crony capitalism, were doubtless overdue.

Structural barriers do not represent the only problems of access to treatment in the health care system.

Fiscal discipline remains essential, as are deep structural reforms.

What is needed is not structural reform within Greece and Spain so much as structural reform of the eurozone s design and a fundamental rethinking of the policy frameworks that have resulted in the monetary union s spectacularly bad performance.

Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.

In the past, foreign exchange markets paid less attention to structural factors.

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive.

A weak German economy makes the necessary structural adjustments in the eurozone periphery much more difficult.

We walk the town s deserted streets as he points out the fresh bullet holes and rocket craters that dot many of its houses.

Today, we are seeing the structural changes that we had hoped to see years ago.

For all of China s long term structural problems, it is not exactly slipping into recession.

Europe needs structural reforms and tighter fiscal management, not inflation.

There are structural reasons for the eurozone economy s slow recovery from the financial meltdown in its periphery.

Fifth, structural reforms are still occurring at a snail s pace, holding back potential growth.

If structural reforms are not done right, the Brisbane Summit will come to be regarded as a failure.

But that involves structural change in those economies as well, and thus will take time.

To be sure, the EU s technocratic focus on structural reforms is having some effect in the region.

In any resource rich and undemocratic country, the political class and the business interests that surround it have little or no incentive to support stronger property rights, the rule of law, and competition.

I see these powerful upswings as investment booms as having structural causes and effects.