I'm stable.

He has a grip of steel.

This is a business paper.

I have a business meeting.

A clamshell's hard.

Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

Above all, Europe needs conviction.

It is this hard inflexibility that is a sign of vulnerability.

A business game in the airport takes place at Domodedovo.

I have a business trip to France in the fall.

But the stranglehold of North Korea s dictatorship is based on total isolation.

When its grip was loosened, any semblance of law and order disappeared.

His administration is trapped more and more in the paralyzing grip of special interest groups.

It makes good political sense it could make good business sense as well.

But it needs great doctrinal clarity, a firm political will, and a constitution.

In March, a high quality Moscow business daily, Vedomosti, published a letter from Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

It built on the Friedman Hayek conception of rolling back the social democratic welfare state, but added a new set of ideas to the rudimentary state that remained a state imbued solely with what Joseph Nye called hard power.

Such hard power means law and order within and military might without.

What had become of his usually quiet and firm manner and the carelessly calm expression of his face?

The president s authority is draining away precipitately, and his vice like grip on his People s Democratic Party (PDP) has loosened.

The NSW business community is represented by the NSW Business Chamber which has 30,000 members.

But even before, there were signs that AKP's growing hold over society could cause conflict.

What we saw in the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas was the depletion of matter, some solid substance falling down and disintegrating.

No one is likely to certify that Iraq is corruption free or even ranks low on corruption internationally.

Decades old, apparently immovable autocracies are finding their hold on power unhinged change is invading their static environs.

Tom couldn't go on the picnic with us today because he had an important business meeting.

But Latin America is deeply troubled it needs decisive, bold leadership at home and imaginative, unwavering support abroad.

The Wall Street Journal, for example, America s leading business newspaper, has run an aggressive editorial campaign against climate science for decades.

By investing in American and European assets, Russia s government and business elites are buying a stake in the global economy.

Tom couldn't go on the picnic with us today because he had an important business meeting.

The head of the Save a tree initiative, Nadya Tverdaya, who is also involved in the project, but who lives in Thailand, has suggested planting palms there.

Surveys indicate that business confidence is up throughout the euro zone economy, indicating that a domestic investment boom may be around the corner.

Surveys show that business confidence is up throughout the euro zone economy, indicating that a domestic investment boom may be around the corner.

These protests have run, on and off, for nearly 200 days, with crowd sizes ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands. It is widely known that the anti Thaksin business elites provided the money to keep people in the street.

Recognizing that effective action requires strong political commitment, in particular at the national but also at the international level,

Under President Kuchma, the economy has recently started to boom thanks partly to Yushchenko's brief, reformist premiership four years ago but the oligarchs' grip has grown tighter.

What one thing can you start counting today that actually would be meaningful in your life, whether it's your work life or your business life?

Traditional business wisdom holds that trust is earned by predictable behavior, but when everything is consistent and standardized, how do you create meaningful experiences?

Similarly, the business press has described many a CEO as charismatic when things are going well, only to withdraw the label when profits fall.

Even in Kenya, where the stranglehold that the dominant Kenya African National Union (KANU) party had on politics from 1969 was finally broken in 2002, multi party politics has proven to be a fragile thing.

Incentives, competition, hard budget constraints, sound money, fiscal sustainability, property rights are central to the ways in which economists think about policy and its reform. But these principles do not demand specific institutional solutions.

Incentives, competition, hard budget constraints, sound money, fiscal sustainability, property rights are central to the ways in which economists think about policy and its reform.

If more information circulates freely in the country, and more individuals experience other ways of life by traveling abroad, authoritarianism s grip will loosen.

In order to bolster these countries social and economic advancement, the development agenda in the coming years should include a robust commitment to promoting gender equality.

The minister of health, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, also criticized the budget allocation, saying We don't know what happened to the hard currency allocated to the purchase of medicine.