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Despite recent frenetic summitry the politicians have failed to convince markets that this rescue fund will ever be adequately resourced.

The politicians trying to help rescue their domestic economies aren't making choices with the global economy in mind.

As the crisis has unfolded over the past year, most regulators, politicians, investors and voters have been left in a state of utter shock.

Although the fundamentals are reasonably good, the judgment of politicians is often unreasonably bad.

If some Chinese politicians had not been at loggerheads with one another, China could have become a superpower.

Politicians and average people alike reproved Bush for his aloofness in the face of a tragedy of such a magnitude.

So far, the ECB and European politicians have done just enough to keep the pot simmering without rolling into full boil.

In the end, it was not rapacious politicians who killed the Company, but the greed and power of its managers and shareholders.

Most politicians never get so much attention. Up to now, the Plan had been working nearly perfectly.

The American politicians who used to try to be the peace maker in the Middle East disputes stared war on Iraq .

Love it or hate it, in the last few years, Flash is suddenly being used for more than just animations of politicians singing goofy songs.

Nor they with him: to many of the demonstrators, all politicians, including Mr Obama, are "Republicrats" , each as rotten as the other.

Opposition politicians continuously pressed him on whether he would rule out that he had talked about the bid with News Corp. personnel.

He said politicians on the left and right had avoided talking about the issue of parenting styles, but it was crucial that they now did.

The British public, which had not been unduly angered about the invasion of privacy of stars and politicians, was outraged.

But she says politicians generally fail to live up to their promises, and the European Union overall seems unable to agree on anything.

Another was the reluctance of high-profile politicians to accept a portfolio in a government that may survive only a few months, or less.

The crisis that began a year ago may yet mark another turning-point in the relationship between America's politicians and its central bank.

Now, like clockwork, the banks and politicians who curry their favor are already trying to stop this fee from going into effect.

Opposition politicians told the BBC that many trees had been been cut down in the area, to make way for development schemes.

The Commission president talked about Europe as a global player and leader. He called it a key ambition for this generation of politicians.

Roosevelt was one of the savviest [22]and most hard-headed politicians ever to occupy the White House.

Politicians have become more attracted by the wicked bankers line as time has passed and elections have had to be surmounted.

The politicians in Cairo realised that the matter had gone beyond one of personal rivalries or ambitions.

Let this be a motto for all rulers and politicians in search of a Utopia on earth or a place in the history books for themselves.

even for turning Tokyo into a global financial centre, still the dream of a few visionary politicians.

"In the long term, politicians are not good at understanding financial reporting, and the more they keep out of it, the better, " says Ball.

The time it takes to plan and build a nuclear power station tends to be longer than most politicians are in power.

For while debt can be a problem, the way our politicians and pundits think about debt is all wrong, and exaggerates the problem's size.

Although, he said, none of the nations are showing their hands yet, he predicted politicians would have to find an agreement.

The politicians would try to make a scapegoat of him.

Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by the police.

The 74-year-old Mr Luzhkov was one of Russia's most powerful politicians and a senior figure in the ruling United Russia party.

But she does not seem to share the fervent Atlanticism usual among Lithuanian politicians.

The opinion of Sinopec's Mr. Hou on Northern Gateway echoes that of many executives, investors and politicians across Canada.

Whether they are elected by the people or not, politicians can rarely resist a bit of populism.

In the short term, though, the prospects of a business so dependent on the whims of politicians are bound to be uncertain.

The Dutch researchers say the discovery does not just help voters tell if their politicians are trying to disguise their meaning.

For all that, politicians from within his own party, as well as the opposition, are plotting to oust Mr Kan.

Nevertheless the unprecedented departure seems to have been forced by pressure from the public and politicians.

Washington is still trying to steer a careful line between populist politicians who can sense public anger and the powerful financial lobby.

The party promises "rule by politicians not by bureaucrats" , something that did not happen during the LDP's decades in office.

However, green politicians and environmental campaign groups said the tax as a wasted opportunity and did not go far enough.

However, to make a true leap, we have to see this as a common challenge for the whole industry and for politicians.

While these ideas may not work at least scientists, politicians and other innovators are beginning to explore alternatives.

But it was a sign that Brazilian politicians are waking up to voters' concerns over poor public services.

Sun Yat-sen may have been a great man, but cultural forces are much stronger than any individual or group of politicians.

Yet despite much speechifying from banker-bashing politicians, such views do not seem to have taken hold.

The second failure is one of honesty. Too many rich-world politicians have failed to tell voters the scale of the problem.

This extraordinary event will at least lead rival politicians of Japan to put down divergences and work together to figure out a budget.

"It is important that all doctors and also politicians are informed about this, " she said.

Anyway, the point is that there's no reason politicians should be exempt from this sort of semiotics.

Politicians do not need ideological differences to get into a fight, to be sure.

Polls come and go, as politicians like to say, but the two big parties seem to be trading fairly consistently at around six points apart.

The best that America's reviled politicians could say was that the deal was a "down payment" on serious future spending cuts.

But don't expect to hear that view in Washington, with unemployment still high and politicians gearing up for an election year.

This proved to be one of the big points of difference between the company bosses and the politicians brainstorming in the mountains.

To break this stalemate, he thinks, "we need an ethical bloc" of even just a few state politicians willing to be practical.

Until this week the politicians trying to tackle the credit crunch had done little to restore this essential ingredient.

Yet politicians also need to tackle the question of whether the state should be handing out so much to so many.

The next government's main job will be to sort all this out. Yet politicians seem loth even to talk about it.

The politicians have had the space to think beyond the next electoral test.

Politicians have found that a good way to get a bit of the President's time is to join him during one of his runs.

Many of the US politicians most reluctant to act on climate change used to argue that there was no point doing so while China did little.

BP will also pay no dividend, as some American politicians have been demanding, for at least the next three quarters.

She has a wide influence there with millions of believers. Even politicians go and call on her. Some of them go so far as to kowtow to her.

Few Argentine politicians are prepared to pay the political cost of spending cuts or tax rises to pay off bondholders.

In most political systems, less than five percent of politicians are female although they seem to attract 50% of the media coverage.

But I got caught up in it because politicians seem bent on ruining Iceland's natural environment.

We seem to be determined to support politicians and policies that do not serve our best interests regardless of the outcome.

Hence, the financial world soon worked out that this was largely a symbolic move meant for an audience of politicians, not investors.

The paper argued that politicians felt it was no longer sufficient to present their case to voters every four or five years.

All this might be dismissed as hot air; Iraqi politicians also responded crossly (see article).

Ideally, politicians who want to save the planet would be honest with voters about how much this will cost.

Sounds like a call to India's politicians for a ramp-up in defense preparations.

It would be depressing if top politicians forgot how close the world economy came to disaster just over a year ago.

When Zhu Rongji was in office, he once assailed the US politicians: how much can China earn from OEM toys for you?

He told his fellow politicians that as a Catholic brought up to think marriage was between a man and woman, he struggled with the decision.

The various accounting bodies are trying to placate the politicians while avoiding watering down standards too much.

That does not imply that politicians will abandon the odd intervention, or stop trying to talk the yen down through verbal intervention.

I make it a point of honour to proceed along very classical lines so that I do not displease our great politicians and wise leaders.

Even attending a convention can be seen as something of a political liability for politicians running against the partisan tide.

It's easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose.

He knew a lot of lawyers who defended people they knew were guilty. Politicians were all corrupt, he thought.

For local politicians, reforming health care is something of a hobby.

Opposition politicians, newspaper columnists and a disaffected former foreign minister are beginning to find their voice.

For this reason successful politicians are apt to be happier at the age of seventy than any other men of equal age.

The question of whether to raise taxes to cut the budget deficit is a real hot potato for a lot of politicians.

the state machinery is not always controlled in the hands of the people. Just a plaything in the hands of national politicians.

The American Vice President Joe Biden has said he believes Iraqi politicians are close to agreeing on forming a new government.

For this reason successful politicians are apt to be happier at the age of seventy than any other men of equal age.

The question of whether to raise taxes to cut the budget deficit is a real hot potato for a lot of politicians.

the state machinery is not always controlled in the hands of the people. Just a plaything in the hands of national politicians.

The American Vice President Joe Biden has said he believes Iraqi politicians are close to agreeing on forming a new government.

Rather than him courting politicians, he said, he wished that politicians "would leave me alone" .

In the final days of the campaign, high profile politicians from both parties are out trying to help the two candidates.

Politicians now contending for the parliamentary "throne" might be advised to read about this Henry VII guy.

You know better than anyone how vital it is to maintain the independence of the Fleet from the machinations of politicians.

However, mainstream politicians do not know how to see them off.

He said he hoped Earth Hour provided a "very big visual message" to politicians that climate change must be addressed quickly.

Nevertheless, the fear of imminent defaults has led some politicians to call for a federal law allowing states to declare bankruptcy.

Trains rival politicians as a subject on which the only acceptable attitude is one of permanent disappointment, leavened with rage.

Some French politicians suspect the United States of using Britain as a Trojan Horse to undermine the long-term aims of the European Union.

He explained that investors would not trust the bank if it were controlled by politicians.

But how much do you know or care about where politicians stand on Fannie and Freddie?

Bankers had become a "convenient scapegoat" for politicians, regulators, central bankers and the media, he said.

Alas, there seems to be much less of this waste than the politicians like to claim, at least as far as head counts are concerned.

No doubt it would be awkward to see the wisdom of experts punctured and the pet policies of politicians discredited on a regular basis.

The poets, politicians, and craftsmen all believe they that have knowledge of things that they do not know.

Investors are not sure what Chinese figures to believe, and do not know how its politicians will respond.

Investors are not sure what Chinese figures to believe, and do not know how its politicians will respond.

Politicians in the U. S. say BP should be using all its resources to stop the spill and clean up the Gulf, not rewarding shareholders.

Weed, however, did not think his proposal was foolish. He began to build support for General Taylor among Whig politicians.

He encouraged them to call their local politicians to tell them how they feel, a spokesman for the company confirmed.

"The politicians are tied up . . . I don't think they have time to think about [central bank policy], " said the person close to the BoJ.

These nanny state politicians are nothing but enablers. They tell you what you want to hear.

To see this merely as a means for greedy politicians to enrich themselves would be to underestimate its significance.

The turnout tends to be low in special elections, as elsewhere; but politicians can usually depend on older voters to make the effort.

Mr. Murdoch's 'newspapers were used to bully and intimidate political leaders and individual politicians, ' he said.

The odd thing is that America's politicians should find this attitude so hard to understand: their sentiments on the matter are the same.

The odd thing is that America's politicians should find this attitude so hard to understand: their sentiments on the matter are the same.

Since cloning is not yet ready to be made accessible, by any means, to the general public, it is not yet a major issue to politicians.

But voters have had a chance to see PP politicians in action since the party's victory in local and regional elections in May.

So all this turned out to be a grand charade -- and politicians are great at charades.

He used to say artists used lies to tell the truth, while politicians used them to cover the truth up.

And if it did, what are the odds of the UAW or Washington politicians giving their blessing? Pretty close to zero.

The next step is to boost the credibility of these principles with rules and institutions to reinforce future politicians' resolve.

New media seem to be as much a risk as an asset for politicians.

Jeans can send out a powerful egalitarian message, but are far more likely to be a sartorial deathtrap for politicians.

"Few politicians, especially women, go out with glasses. We're happy to see her wear the glasses, " a company spokeswoman said.

"Few politicians, especially women, go out with glasses. We're happy to see her wear the glasses, " a company spokeswoman said.

We're not politicians, like you; we've gone through hell long enough to want something of the other thing.

Politicians tend to overestimate how much public opinion, once formed, can be moved by tactics and strategies.

The curious thing was that it was business people who thought business could teach politicians nothing.

It had a functioning democracy, but ever-squabbling politicians seemed unable to get things done.

At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politicians own failings.

Politicians will then no longer be able to choose their voters, but will have to appeal to a broad cross-section of them.

Then, while politicians elsewhere were squaring up to their banks, Mr Rudd decided to go one better, and take on the miners.

Assiya's saga began a year ago when a woman who was a family friend sold her to two criminals who had family ties to prominent politicians.

Politicians give maybe the prime example of the battle between the comparative merits of imagination versus that of experience.

Politicians give maybe the prime example of the battle between the comparative merits of imagination versus that of experience.

That said, the reaction of the politicians also reflects a secret shame at the depths to which they once stooped to gain favours.

Worryingly, politicians are already in something of a funk.

Scientists have been trying to advise politicians about finding an acceptable level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

By reinstating Parliament, Mr Morsi is trying to wrench back some of the authority stripped from civilian politicians.

The politicians who planned the euro generally did not think about future current account imbalances or other economic problems.

The western politicians are always pointing their fingers at china for one reason or another, as if they were always right.

His fate in the last election, she said, would serve as a reminder to all politicians that popularity does not last.

Politicians have had little to say about this in their quest for Bundestag seats.

But yesterday at least, the underclass stereotype beloved of certain politicians simply did not apply.

Regulators and politicians have tried to do some of the things that might have averted the last crisis.

Politicians are quick to say that Poland "has no problems with tighter discipline and budget control" .

Yasuo Fukuda, whose father was also prime minister, had a strong aversion to politicians and worked for an oil company for 17 years.

Politicians are beginning to come round to the idea of a unified city-plus-suburbs structure for Paris.

Nor are they willing to see European politicians exert undue influence over any special IMF fund to which they contribute.

But the Fed's hair is manifestly not on fire, nor do most politicians seem to see any urgency about the situation.

The dreamers are the central bankers, bureaucrats and politicians (not just in Europe) who believe bad debts do not need to be written down.

Russian politicians sometimes sound like opposition leaders, and Mr Medvedev makes pledges as if he were a presidential candidate.

The politicians, you could sense, were in his palm, awed by the plain fact of his being there, and embarrassed by the pie-thrower.

What I took away was the arrogance that the success of things like the death-panel smear has obviously engendered in Republican politicians.

So far, regulators and politicians seem to be plumping for the second option.

He said that if politicians do not wake up now, do not act immediately, then economic turmoil will continue for several years.

All in all, the politicians charged with safeguarding the fisheries seem to be failing.

Doctorates are in demand all over the world, but Germany is where politicians seem to need them most.

To stop the division and the long-existing feud between senior Somali politicians, I decided to step down from my position.

Public support from Chinese politicians for democracy and human rights is often little more than lip service.

You still don't sense our politicians are saying, "Wait a minute; stop everything; we have got to work together. "

When western politicians talk about "credibility" in Afghanistan, it is often their own credibility they are worrying about most.

Another claim, that he was, in 1968, one of the first Western politicians to call for an end to apartheid, is simply bunk.

Most of his MPs understand that while much of the public may dislike the EU, they also distrust politicians who seem obsessed with it.

Mr. Obama's star may have dimmed slightly in the U. S. , but politicians in Europe hope some of his stardust rubs off on them.

On the question of targetting Gaddafi, there appears to be a division of opinion among senior politicians and the senior General in the UK.

Rather than hitting back with superior products, the company hid behind politicians who appeared to help it in the short term.

As the IMF has proved, it is often a lot easier for an outside body to impose tough changes than it is for locally elected politicians.

Neither politicians nor the military seemed ready to embrace a drastic step that many insisted was needed to end the unrest.

Breaking up the biggest banks might not make them safer, and politicians seem not to have the stomach for the fight it would entail.

There is a limit as to how much politicians can affect the workings of our most intimate lives.

I don't mean he knows "people" , that he is connected to celebrities or gangsters or politicians, although I suppose he might be.

The investigation comes as opposition politicians say Prime Minister Naoto Kan's office appeared to have meddled in the recovery operation.

Yet even if politicians take their eyes off the ball at their feet, they have their sights firmly set on an ambitious horizon.

"I use my artistic identity to laugh at the stupid politicians and hopefully the world will laugh with me, " he said.

America's politicians are not the only ones to have fingered speculators for the feverish rise in the price of oil and other raw materials.

I'm sure half the politicians are ready to seize hold of my skirts and drag me from square to square.

But, rather than leave so much of our fate to chance, we'd be better off doing what politicians always say they want to do: lessen the U.

In practice, politicians and their staff act as if every public relations battle has dramatic electoral consequences.

A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone.

Italian bankers and politicians came out so strongly in support of ENEL that it is now in a stronger position to bid for Suez.

The recent focus on school food shows the public and politicians are beginning to realise the scale of the challenge.

When politicians say they want to talk to their constituents, it is often a polite fiction.

And although there is no law against closing down loss-making businesses, most bosses and politicians act as if there were.

Indeed, if politicians had paid greater heed to the exchanges, they would have noticed that food prices may be about to turn.

Eurozone politicians have been a sorry mess over the past two years.

By evening, Egyptian politicians were beginning to position themselves to run for office.

Furthermore, the whole concept of a minority (politicians) banning things for the majority is repugnant.

Caste politicians are not alone in arguing that this makes a nonsense of the system.

As India's politicians gear up for a general election, competitive populism is the only game in town.

There seems no doubt that resistance from politicians and investors to a seriously big package is melting.

Truth has been a rare commodity over many years, and your politicians have only themselves to blame for your lack of trust in them.

When the global economy is falling off the edge of a cliff it is not too hard for politicians to put aside their differences.

French politicians, in the run-up to the presidential election next year, are unlikely to have anything useful to contribute.

Yang said that human-rights groups and foreign politicians were violating the Olympic Charter by trying to 'politicize' the Games.

In a country where tycoons are often the children of politicians, Mr Ma stands out.

Politicians have to start sounding out whether the bill can be reconsidered; if not, it would be time for tweaks.

Thanks to its posturing politicians, Britain will soon start to run out of electricity. What should it do?

Politicians will no doubt come up with all manner of responses over the weeks to come.

So alongside the bad-tempered bargaining among politicians, there was an equally arduous negotiation with Greece's creditors.

Southern politicians say they are not allowed to examine the books to see whether they are getting their fair share.

In Bulgaria brazen attempts to rig a nuclear power tender seem to have left politicians helpless.

All struggled to make a contribution, but there is no doubt they had greater knowledge than many politicians.

De Boer today also warned politicians heading to the next round of international climate talks not to be too ambitious.

But if the generals have not always done well by the politicians, the politicians have far more often let down the generals.

Some politicians criticised me for giving the enemy a soapbox, but the BBC backed me up.

Visiting western politicians and businessmen say bureaucrats appear paralysed as they wait to see what will happen next.

Months of studying, learning hundreds of acronyms and obscure politicians' names to be able to answer tricky quiz questions in seconds.

Mr. Murdoch has spent time trying to court and influence politicians himself, a task that many proprietors left to their newspapers.

One of his demands is the creation of an independent agency to monitor politicians and government officials.

Their logic seems to be that if economists got things wrong, then politicians will do better.

Some of this cheating has been of an old familiar sort: building Ponzi schemes and bribing politicians to secure favourable deals.

ONCE a year, Washington, DC, receives a group of visitors who put the city's resident politicians to shame: the governors of the 50 states.

The state of the world's economy means politicians are looking for any excuse to save money. Not a good moment to be squabbling.

If the Fed put the ball back in the government's court, politicians may feel added impetus to deal with thorny economic issues.

The politicians (at least most of them) don't seem to give a damn!

Governor Rick Scott has been a supporter of business relations with China, but other local politicians have not been as hospitable.

Politicians are starting to realise what the markets sniffed out long ago: on its current course Greece will not be able to pay its debts.

Politicians may have to turn to the nascent renewables industry to help ease the crunch.

Mr Nakagawa, one of the few senior politicians around Mr Abe not to have visited China recently, is rather less effusive.

Politicians have escaped corruption charges because probes often are held up in parliament until a statute of limitations expires.

But this will be at a time of China's own choosing, rather than in a manner and on a timetable set by foreign politicians.

European politicians are desperately trying to cram the genie back into the bottle.

The task of managing the mess has fallen to an interim government of technocrats, former opposition politicians and a few Mubarak holdovers.

Ideology is no longer a philosophical debate, but a tool employed by ambitious politicians and armchair idealists.

Unless the briny is lapping at the door, which generally takes a hurricane, politicians give little thought to the sea.

Recent statements from top European politicians make it quite clear that they would like this tradition to continue.

The question of how to finance the long-term care of the elderly, and disabled adults of working age, has long vexed politicians.

"Insufficient" was the word Socialist politicians reached for most often.

As the West too suffers through a protracted downturn while its politicians bicker and dawdle, more voices are asking if the U.

With the possible exception of a tiny minority of its members, the politicians of the Second Republic were a despicable horde.

So far, they have focused on wind energy, but Shi informs the politicians change is just around the corner.

Opposition politicians say the prime minister should not use the energy bill as a bargaining chip for the timing of his resignation.

Thanks to its posturing politicians, Britain will soon start to run out of electricity.

And he's always been crooked so don't tell me you think politicians are honest.

Over the longer haul, it remains to be seen when and how politicians in the United States will take up the real budget issues.

Sunde, who said he "loves" the party but, is not a member, called on fellow Swedes to support politicians willing to change current laws.

A few retired politicians were dragged out to reminisce about slights suffered at the hands of the perfidious Frogs.

She said, his fate in the last election served to remind the politicians that popularity could not last long.

Its immense oil wealth, which should be used to help the country develop, makes politicians particularly anxious to hold onto office.

The car parts supplier is the preferred bidder and has the backing of large parts of the German government as well as regional politicians.

Some politicians and activists believe attitudes could be changed by tax laws that penalise investors who trade in and out of stocks.

Even a few politicians are beginning to recognize this, and some of them even to state it clearly.

Although the former King Mihai abdicated in 1947, he still seems to have the power to complicate politicians' lives.