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China faces the possibility of a second downturn with its fate still wedded to that of the West.

To this day, Japan is still wedded to its old ways, despite 20 years of evidence they no longer work.

The firm's two founders and much of its engineering staff were too emotionally wedded to its past successes to make a break.

It is odd that an industry that would not be seen dead in last season's colour is wedded to the last century's technology.

Only Prof Sargent's econometricians were wedded to a single model and could, as usual, explain the crisis only after it had occurred.

Mr Zenawi remains wedded to what he calls "revolutionary democracy" , which emphasises collective will over individual ambition.

Under this argument, China's economy remains too wedded to fixed investment and exports, abetted by an artificially depressed yuan.

Fred has been wedded to his wife for nearly thirty-five years.

Sixteen years on, the hermit kingdom is obviously still wedded to its Songun ( "military first" ) doctrine.

For the most part, Benedict is surprisingly open though unsurprisingly wedded to orthodoxy, even as he defends it spiritedly.

Throughout the two-day funeral, officials have stressed Pyongyang will remain wedded to the ideology of songun, or "military first" .

In fact only a person who hopes in God can wait for him. Hope is always wedded to faith.

Americans are just so wedded to saying OK, let's just turn the page and everything's going to be fine.

Others are so wedded to pacifism that the Americans wonder if the Japanese would actually turn up if they were needed.

But the Huns were much more wedded to the nomadic life than the early Greeks, who were rather migratory cattle farmers than true nomads.

Yet, in both places, a large part of the population is still wedded to Pushtunwali.

And it won't go. Ideas have to be wedded to action; if there is no sex, no vitality in them, there is no action.

China's leaders remain irrevocably wedded to the principle of "non-interference" in a country's internal affairs.

If you are then still wedded to the idea and if the economy is picking up a bit, perhaps you should think again.

He spends most evenings at the office. You could say he's wedded to the job.

The FASB has yet to produce proposals on financial assets and is more wedded to a fair-value regime.

The blast was a reminder that, 50 years after it was founded, Eta remains stubbornly wedded to violence.

Biological life is wedded to a particular hardware: carbon-based DNA molecules.

Concerns about safety, which keep many would-be cyclists wedded to their cars, seem overblown.

Some experts argue that Asians remain wedded to the idea because Confucian tradition emphasizes respect for hierarchy and order.

However laziness and vanity are wedded to them. So the strive for them is just a hot air.

Hence, political systems wedded to end-state preferences are necessarily unstable and coercive.

Japanese men last century became the world's workaholics , wedded to their companies and spending more time away from home than in it.

Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

Marketing and PR work on short time frames and are wedded to sets of individual campaigns or short term objectives.

All these firms are wedded to specific products, not deeper philosophies, and are having trouble navigating technological shifts.

On the fiscal side, for better or worse the new prime minister appears wedded to deficit-reduction efforts.

It seems like you are wedded to this idea, so you will probably make it work!

There are two types of Japanese consumers: those who are very high-tech and others who are still wedded to traditional forms.

For those who are wedded to the idea of a chronological format, there are still tricks to employ.

when i travelled to here and to there, i was tired of thee, o road, but now when thou leadest me to everywhere iam wedded to thee in love.

We've grown vulgar and venal, wedded to the almighty dollar and the lowest common denominator.

The old leadership is wedded to the one-child policy, but the new leadership, which is due to take over next year, can think afresh.

Business schools remain wedded to theory; business is about action.

In Europe, we are wedded to pigeonholing institutions.

I have always been wedded to MS Windows because that is what I grew up with.

BANK supervisors and central bankers are less wedded to their mystique than they once were.

They will outperform those wedded to market share, EBITDA growth, or EPS management.

They are also too wedded to Japan to move to cheaper manufacturing locations.

Not only was India wedded to Soviet-style economic management but television had barely arrived.

On industrial policy he remains wedded to dirigisme.

When I traveled to here and to there, I was tired of thee, O Road, but now when you lead me to everywhere I am wedded to thee in love.

but now when thou leadest me to everywhere I am wedded to thee in love.

eg: She is wedded to that dog, everywhere she goes, the dog has to go too.

They are wedded to the hard euro and to the single mandate.

Wedded to lore and logic long ago.

I do want you to know that I am not "wedded" to working in the southeast.

I an wedded to thee in love.

He has been wedded to translation.

I am wedded to thee in love .

I want to be wedded to you .

a person completely wedded to a profession

On one side is Apple, a secretive endeavour which is seemingly wedded to old, closed ways of competing;