vagaries

Though neighbours disapproved of his vagaries, they did not treat him with hostility , as they might have done a stranger.

Some of these attributes and attitudes may be permanent, or at least only partially subject to the vagaries of the economic cycle.

Just a few decades of life, the vagaries of life, in my youth has not faded before God, I can arrange to meet you, I am really happy.

But he knew too much about the vagaries of women to be caught like this.

Parents of stubborn teenagers rejoice, or at least relax: That adolescent attitude stems, in part, from the vagaries of brain development.

Investors like the idea that death, like destruction, should be largely uncorrelated with the vagaries of financial markets.

We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence.

They decided to protect themselves against the vagaries of global finance by accumulating vast claims on the issuers of reserve currencies.

True Love rests in its natural unalloyed state, balanced and poised in its own energy, unaffected by the vagaries of human condition.

The inadequacies and vagaries of these two outdated schemes have bewildered and frustrated generations of library users.

So markets are subject to the vagaries of fashion even more than scholarship and popular opinion, which are subject to it more than enough.

The regular operations in money markets by the Federal Reserve and its brethren are designed to meet the vagaries of demand for ready cash.

To that extent, mankind is still vulnerable to the vagaries of the planet.

Happiness is ephemeral, subject to the vagaries of everything from the weather to the size of your bank account.

Where postal communication is to be used, does the timetable take fully into account the vagaries of the postal distribution system?

Many want affordable health care, affordable education, and they don't want it to be subject to the vagaries of an unregulated market.

However, the vagaries of international currency movements mean such a result is far from assured.

So, understand the vagaries of the different cultures you are dealing with and all will be well with your global corporate strategy, right?

Those who defend the vagaries of modern English spelling always say that by looking at an English word one can learn its history.

Of course, if you're not familiar with the vagaries of XML, it might be better to parse out JSON.

Ensuring that the market functions well is the best way to insulate consumers against the vagaries of a single supplier.

Robust ideas than improve the human experience that are impervious to the vagaries of the construction process.

But hundreds of thousands of older varieties and wild relatives are left to the vagaries of land-use change, global warming and chance.

Given the vagaries of intercontinental mail, it's possible that Akerlof made it back to the States before Stiglitz's shirts did.

The price of doing nothing again would be to condemn Russia to the vagaries of the oil market.

In his nine volumes he displayed the liveliest interest in human vagaries , together with the wide view that makes the work a classic .

Instead, governments should try to revive domestic consumption, which would help insulate the region from the vagaries of the world economy.

Thanks to the vagaries of the voting system, there could well be a big gap between votes won across the country and seats won in Parliament.

The additional layer of uniform felt like another shield of protection, another barrier against the messy and dangerous vagaries of life.

Agriculture in the twenty-first century will continue to be plagued by the vagaries of weather.

Emerging markets heeded Martin Feldstein's advice and took out an insurance policy against the vagaries of financial globalisation.

Unlucky that I was, I had to bear the brunt of the ridicule which was more properly the due of the vagaries of English spelling.

The question is why. Why has anger become a reflexive response to the inevitable vagaries of national life?

Participants who made notes to compensate for the vagaries of memory were likely to make the best decisions.

However, the vagaries of representing non-integral numbers do occasionally sneak into otherwise integer-centric programs.

Unlike the domestic political vagaries that have hobbled the talks in the past, there is nothing transient about the rise of China.

However, it relies on the vagaries of occupant interaction to exploit the passive design potential and achieve comfortable results.

Fourth, forcing banks to hold, permanently, large amounts of sovereign debt will make them vulnerable to the vagaries of the bond market.

However, when you're a creature of government you should be prepared for the vagaries of your patron.

These vagaries of U. S. agriculture illustrate its dynamic, unstable nature and confirm the hazards of forecasting its future.

She avoided the vagaries of court politics and intrigue, and instead concentrated on bettering herself and helping others.

Entrepreneurs can't completely inoculate their businesses from the vagaries of the market.

And China's government has tricks up its sleeve that could make fund raising less dependent on the vagaries of overseas sentiment .

But history--and China--shows it's usually a distant next best thing, painfully vulnerable to the vagaries of self interest.

Its climate is subjected to the vagaries of both tropical and extratropical weather systems.

In our Peter Pan culture, limits offend, as does commitment beyond the vagaries of our shifting desires.

More reliable forecasts of the vagaries of their free but fickle fuel supply will help them do so.

Vagaries of the stock market price, and sometimes looks very calm, and sometimes it will be intense turbulence.

Below Daka there is a hiccup in the geological succession where the vagaries of rifting and erosion have deleted a hunk of time.

Critics have charged that the Magic's four-out system, heavily reliant on the vagaries of 3-point shooting, is too unstable to succeed.

But capital-account convertibility would make the yuan subject to the vagaries of market forces.

Fortunes depend on the vagaries of the volatile New Zealand dollar, although applications for 2008 have risen.

But being resigned to the vagaries of nature and fate does not make life 'cheap. '

That is attractive, particularly in a world where investors are reeling from the vagaries of excessively complex, disembodied cyber-finance.

Crops grown on irrigated land are not dependent on the vagaries of the weather.

and second, the vagaries of the international timber market our dependence on imports is very passive.

Irregular rainfall, periodic flooding, and the vagaries of nature combined to make the surrounding land marginal for cattle farming.

Pre-built code is less sensitive to system vagaries and thus more uniform and predictable.

Visibility is more subtle; it deals with the vagaries of memory caching and compiler optimizations.

Competition and the vagaries of consumer taste have clipped the appeal of netbooks.

But at the end, the music back to the wave ntao days, ups and downs, the vagaries of the image.

That will keep the world's most vulnerable populations at the mercy of nature's vagaries for far too long.

Thereafter you are subject to the vagaries of the market.

And contact itself is subject to infinite vagaries.

90 percent of Africa's agricultural land is rain-fed and subject to the vagaries of weather.

Changes in profit after tax were caused by the vagaries of income tax legislation.

Wang is used to the vagaries of government decisions.

But both kinds of investment are far less exposed to the vagaries of the commodity markets than big oil projects.

The Chinese are justifiably nervous, however, about the vagaries of world commodity prices.

At first glance, the holiday season in western economies seems a treat for those concerned with such vagaries as GDP growth.

He understands the vagaries of business. He is very supportive of what we are doing and pleased with our progress.

its military operations of the Road, after Sun Wu's play, as the vagaries of military theory;

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