And secondly, the challenges that have been brought on
by the contraction of the Canadian business community, and their consolidation, and the resulting conflicts issues that have arisen — their impact on practice, business development, and so on.
A pregnancy loss caused
by the contraction of some bacterial infection may be completely treatable by an antibiotic.
The ability of a muscle to produce full motor - unit activation may be enhanced when preceded immediately
by a contraction of the muscle's antagonist.
According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), a physical activity it is «any bodily movement that is produced
by the contraction of skeletal muscle and that substantially increases energy expenditure.»
The strength is determined
by contraction of the pelvic floor during the internal exam.
However, this causes very little movement in the lower spine and this movement is mainly caused
by contraction of the hip flexor muscles.
Stars are formed
by the contraction of interstellar gas and dust.
Hiccups are caused
by contraction of your baby's diaphragm, which is the muscle below her rib cage that controls her breathing, accompanied by closure of the vocal cords.
Baby hiccups are caused
by a contraction of the diaphragm and the quick closing of the vocal cords.
But this is accomplished
by a contraction of the domain of existence; it is too easy.
These cramps are caused
by contractions of your uterus as it shrinks back to its pre-pregnancy size and location after you have your baby.
Some mothers find that they have no urge to push, the baby is simply pushed out
by the contractions of the uterus.
Scientists in Korea have designed a crablike robot that is smaller than the thickness of a fingernail and powered
by contractions of cardiac tissue.
It's proven that muscles generate a stronger contraction when they're preceded
by contractions of an opposing muscles group.
Instead, it is caused
by contractions of the uterus that are pushing your baby down and out of the birth canal.
Not exact matches
The extent
of the
contraction is especially apparent when compared to the United States: a study compiled
by Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association found that from 2003 to 2008, venture capital investment as a share
of GDP dropped 35 % in Canada; meanwhile, south
of the border, it increased
by 17 %.
The State essentially guarantees
by its (mis) management and manipulation, the ensuing collapse will not be limited to certain sectors
of the private economy but will cause massive
contraction in the entire economy — including the State's share
of the national income.
Commercial rents in the Perth CBD have been tipped to fall
by 9.4 per cent over the next 12 months, with the Western Australian capital one
of only two major Australian cities to experience a
contraction in office rental values.
Much
of this
contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline
by 40 per cent over the course
of the year.
Typically, the description means a sharp
contraction followed
by a long period
of slow or stagnant growth.
But as the global fi nancial crisis spread, Ireland became one
of its worst victims, with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink
by 13.5 %
by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime economic
contractions ever seen.
In July, when the Bank
of Canada cut its policy to its current setting
of 0.5 %, policy makers expressed concern over weak non-energy exports and a deep
contraction in business investment brought on
by the collapse
of commodity prices.
A bubble is an economic cycle characterized
by the rapid escalation
of asset prices followed
by a
contraction.
A tiny quiver in the joint followed immediately
by an extension and
contraction of the muscle being worked.
What's more, the number
of active North American oil rigs fell
by two in the week ended June 30, from 758 to 756 rigs, the first such
contraction since January, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count.
Normally the
contraction impact
of much weaker iron ore export prices should be partially mitigated
by the expansion impact
of a weaker Australian dollar, as iron - related inflows drop sharply.
Greek budgets include tax hikes and spending cuts
by more than $ 4.5 billion, a debt increase to more than 200 percent
of GDP, an economic
contraction of 1.3 percent and a new rise in unemployment
by almost one percentage point to 25.4 percent.
«This would affect those on a lower income the most, with a significant devaluation
of the new currency,
by 65 percent, and financial
contraction of 22 percent on top
of the (GDP) reduction
of 14 percent that occurred between 2009 and 2011.»
Much
of this stagnation is supposed to have been caused
by a monetary
contraction leading to the resumption
of specie payments in 1879.
Much
of the improvement was driven
by a recovery in greater China (PRC, Hong Kong and Macau), where demand appears to be normalizing following two - plus years
of contraction after a government crackdown on gifting reduced demand for luxury watches.
The eurozone composite PMI compiled
by Markit hit 53.9 in October, one
of the strongest readings over the past four years and well above the dividing line between expansion and
contraction.
The
contraction in this margin partly reflected the growing popularity
of loans secured
by residential property, which have a lower indicator rate than other loans and in most cases no additional risk margin.
Ironically, over the long term, that was precisely the case that existed when the company was traded, but this truth was obscured
by the expansion and
contraction of trading multiples.
Unfortunately, average weekly hours fell
by -0.58 %, resulting in a net
contraction in labor input during the month
of February.
Credit strategists are increasingly disturbed
by a sudden and rare
contraction of U.S. bank lending, fearing a synchronized slowdown in the U.S. and China this year that could catch euphoric markets badly off guard.
Just as an aside: Let's not even bother with the part
of Wallison's argument where he cites a study
by economists Michael Bordo and Joseph Haubrich claiming «deep
contractions breed strong recoveries.»
As noted above, the contractionary impulse arising from the Asian crisis has occurred in two stages — an initial, rapid
contraction in the economies first affected
by the regional financial instability, and a more delayed slowing
of other economies in the region.
However, U.S. - based module manufacturers will still not be able to supply more than a fraction
of domestic demand, and even under the forecasts
of contraction within the U.S. market published
by analysts including GTM Research and IHS Markit, imports will still account for the large majority
of modules installed, at least for the next few years.
Companies in the benchmark gauge for American equities trade at 10.2 times 2012 forecast earnings, compared with the average in economic
contractions since 1957
of 13.7, according to data compiled
by Bloomberg.
The mechanisms
of this international capitalist recession, the latest
of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis
of world capitalism, are well known:
contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume
of loans accumulated
by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries
by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.
Sagan's second alternative, the oscillating universe model has been discredited
by a lack
of sufficient matter to cause a
contraction.1 It was further discredited
by the discovery
of dark energy, which shows that the universe is actually expanding at an ever increasing rate.2 So, Sagan's first alternative is the one that turned out to be true.
There these excitations release further excitations which — possibly mediated
by fibers
of associative regions — run to the motoric center
of the right hand and from there to the muscles
of the right hand, where they cause
contractions, so that the hand moves towards the candlestick and grasps it.
Contraction permits material movement to be perceived
by consciousness; it regulates external duration according to the needs
of internal duration and thereby makes it possible for consciousness to act on matter.
This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value
of the U.S. dollar followed
by a severe
contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.
2) The nebula began a
contraction that may have been triggered
by the shock wave
of a nearby supernova.
Is not this precisely the kind
of spectacle to which we are now awakening (still without really believing in it); the spectacle
of Mankind, suddenly shaken out
of a deceptive inertia, being swept along ever more rapidly,
by the current
of its own proliferation and
contraction, into the diminishing circles
of a sort
of maelstrom coiling irresistibly upon itself?
I suggested that the very excess
of external compression to which we are subjected
by the relative
contraction of our planet may one day cause us to breach that mysterious wall
of growing repulsion which, more often than not, sets the human molecules in opposition to one another, and enter the powerful, still unknown field
of our basic affinities.
He seemed to me to be exactly like a man who should begin
by saying that I, Socrates, do all I do
by mind, but who, when he went on to assign a cause for each
of my actions, should say, first that I am sitting here now because my body is composed
of bones and muscles, and that the bones are hard and divided
by joints, while the muscles can be tightened and relaxed and, together with the flesh and the skin which contains it, cover the bones; and that therefore when the bones are raised in their sockets
by the
contraction or relaxation
of the muscles, I am now able to bend my limbs; — and that that is the cause
of my sitting here un prison] all huddled up.
I would certainly agree, as Eric Voegelin put it in his lectures on Hitler and the Germans, that Aquinas» understanding
of the corpus mysticum was subsequently, tragically, overshadowed
by a «ghettoizing» conception
of the Church among both Catholics and Protestants and that Pius XII's Mystici Corporis Christi represents «the most severe
contraction of the membership
of the Church that it had ever received.»
This again is achieved
by a series
of steps, each
of which triggers off pre-set neural mechanisms, activates linguistic holons
of a more and more automatised type; the canons
of grammar and syntax exert their rule unconsciously, automatically; and the last step in articulating the sounds
of speech is performed
by entirely mechanised patterns
of muscle
contractions.