Their proportions are perfect.

Pollution is a global externality of enormous proportions.

Even America s vaunted judicial system has failed to constrain obvious abuses.

The weak fiscal position will severely constrain whatever government comes to power.

These activities both damage the PBOC s balance sheet and constrain monetary policy.

The risk of inaction or inappropriate action has reached enormous proportions.

Instead, emerging markets are suffering financial convulsions of possibly historic proportions.

By 2010, the proportions were roughly 2 , 17 , and 81 , respectively.

It would be a mistake of historic proportions to delay it.

Above all, will they be vehicles to promote or, paradoxically, constrain China s interests?

These proportions will rise even higher as emerging market countries urbanize rapidly.

In their minds, these bodies merely impede and constrain realization of the people s will.

So there was nothing to stop these social epidemics from attaining ridiculous proportions.

Immunization campaigns, when properly funded, have reached huge proportions of very poor children.

Expressing grave concern about the appalling proportions of the humanitarian crisis affecting the country,

By contrast, Iceland s debt has become so large that it is likely to constrain future growth.

This will constrain the ability of central banks to respond to the downside risks to growth.

When a stock market boom reaches historic proportions, a story always develops to rationalize it.

But this would be a devastating mistake of immediate, as well as inter generational, proportions.

China and other developing Asian economies are experiencing an industrial accident crisis of world historical proportions.

Moreover, the accord does not rule out all nuclear related research and does not constrain work on missiles.

Moreover, a budget of staggering proportions has been made available to the government to organise the event.

Moreover, human actions threaten substantially higher proportions of other well known groups such as flowering plants and amphibians.

Moreover, human actions threaten substantially higher proportions of other well known groups such as flowering plants and amphibians.

Astronomers refer to these heavier elements as metals and to the proportions of these elements as the metallicity.

Exploring the formation of the national income, Kuznets studied proportions between output and income, consumption and savings, etc.

This means that they will have to limit China s strategic and military options, even if they cannot constrain its ambitions.

It also carries lessons about how the resilient and impersonal forces of history can constrain any leader s drive for change.

As a result, predictions for the United States where household deleveraging continues to constrain economic growth have fallen short only modestly.

Would this justify exempting these firms from existing regulations that constrain their decisions with respect to lending, investment, or capital reserves?

Fortunately, the most significant potential limitations land, water, and nutrients seem unlikely to constrain global output excessively in the foreseeable future.

The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game changer of historic proportions.

These undesirable consequences of the expansion of world markets have assumed alarming proportions within a relatively short period of time.

Like the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the building's proportions revolve around the number 8, associated with prosperity in Chinese culture.

From a regulator s perspective, this is a powerful argument for requiring higher capital to constrain the risk that banks can take on.

Avoiding that outcome will require US political leaders to constrain the growth of entitlement spending and bolster support for middle income individuals.

It helps to constrain further development and proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons and strengthens political support for the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.

It will take more than what we have seen so far to return the US current account deficit to reasonable proportions.

Health groups have called for an urgent summit to tackle alcohol fuelled violence, which has reached epidemic proportions throughout the country.

If they over constrain the financial sector, risk may migrate outside the regulatory frontier, where it will be harder to measure and monitor.

And even when other factors constrain growth more, they cannot be changed without changing the shape and form of the economy s capital stock.

Green investment which, as the World Bank recently proved using robust economic modeling, does not constrain economic growth is a good place to start.

Such changes, in his opinion, are essential for overall growth and, once started, shape, constrain or support the subsequent economic development of the country.

No one checks the forms, and the proportions allocated to administration and program expenses are easily massaged with a little creative accounting.

It is easy to imagine what the euro s failure would mean for the EU as a whole a disaster of historic proportions.