Back in mid-December, at the government's so-called conjunctural summit, Deutsche Bank chairman Josef Ackermann proposed the creation of a "Bad Bank," because German banks continue to be burdened with hundreds of billions in worthless securities.    From Wordnik.com.  [LaRouche's Latest] Reference

The social universe contains a great deal of stuff that is random, chaotic, and conjunctural.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

" The biggest conjunctural risk that we face is bad news on the world economy, and in particular the euro area, " Mr. King said.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOE: U.K. Growth Depends on Global Cooperation] Reference

Another point: the crisis facing California now, like the one in 2001-03, are not conjunctural, but exacerbated by a dysfunctional tax system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Should California Be Broken Up?] Reference

More than anything else, the alliance is based on a conjunctural convergence of interests on war and international convulsion in the Middle East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the Plan to Bomb Iran] Reference

But no amount of rationalization or denial can hide the looming truth that the collapse of the newspapers is not coincidental, conjunctural, or containable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Tapscott: Macrowikinomics: Rebooting the Economy] Reference

A previous posting argued that most social facts don't admit of social explanation because they are too fundamentally conjunctural or too boringly ordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

He interrogates the similarities and differences between the two organisations and reflects on the institutional, political and conjunctural context within which the two organisations operated.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEBATING CASTELLS AND CARNOY ON THE NETWORK SOCIETY1] Reference

Oil prices are surging - whether, as some argue, as a result of oil production peaking, or as a result of perhaps more conjunctural factors including a voracious Chinese demand for oil and other commodities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech by Jeremy Cronin, Chairperson of Portifolio Committee on Transport, during the Appropriation Bill Debate] Reference

Mr. Fisher has worked for the bank since 1990, and was previously private secretary to former governor Eddie George, head of the conjunctural assessment and projections division and an economist and manager.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOE taps Fisher as new director] Reference

It is that social regularities are "phenomenal" rather than "governing": they emerge as the result of the workings of common social-causal mechanisms, and social causation is generally conjunctural and contingent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

It is often needlessly opaque (a chapter title on page 576 reads: "A conjunctural horizon of ideas and non-synchronous rhythm in the complex transformation of a culture," when in fact he is talking about Thomas Kuhn's notion of shifts in scientific models).    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis, Wojtyla?] Reference

My views emphasize the contingency of social processes, lack of social regularities, multiple conjunctural causes at work, plasticity of social institutions, the value of ethnographic work, and the need for a plurality of methods of inquiry and explanation in the social sciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

This makes the relations fragile and flimsy against the conjunctural fluctuations.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The biggest conjunctural risk we face is from bad news from the world economy and in particular the euro area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recovery needs G-20 unity, Bank of England says - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

The capacity for dealing with the context (political, cultural, conjunctural, etc.) is critical for any leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [IESE Business School - News] Reference

This is not a conjunctural conduct, instead it is a Cuban tradition which has been existing since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

Others stress the social, cultural and conjunctural factors which determine whether available opportunities are in fact perceived, and by whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

However, if well as the Fed's recent decision to shift from credit to quantitative those conjunctural elements no longer support the demand, we easing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

If only conjunctural, the news is still good, for it cannot but highlight the system's anti-white nature, of which most white Americans are still clueless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teknosis] Reference

Against unemployment, "structural" as well as "conjunctural," the time is ripe to advance along with the slogan of public works, the slogan of a sliding scale of working hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist] Reference

The turbulence in world financial markets is the expression of not merely a conjunctural downturn, but rather a systemic disorder which is already destabilizing international politics.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

However, external conjunctural factors may have also hampered demand: the banks demand is traditionally weaker The FOMC announced that it would expand its balance sheet by during the financial year-end period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Even more importantly - as will be argued in this post - there are serious theoretical grounds (in the context of Italy's ageing population problem) for postulating that Italy's retail sales may NEVER rebound again on more than a conjunctural basis, that is we may see local "peaks" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [BONOBO LAND] Reference

1 The program of the SEP is of a principled, not of a conjunctural and pragmatic character.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In social-democratic societies the only way you’re born poor is conjunctural parental happenstance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Social Mobility in America] Reference

Re: In social-democratic societies the only way you’re born poor is conjunctural parental happenstance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Social Mobility in America] Reference

It’s so conjunctural, in fact, that it’s relatively unlikely to carry with it residential segregation or any of the other isolating factors that reproduce low attainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Social Mobility in America] Reference

B u s in e s s a n d t h e E n g lis h L a n g u a g e E x p e r ie n c e - S e m in a r S e r ie s Observed environments change according to Braudel's construct: i.e. global warming: long term patterns (40,000 year glacial cycles) conjunctural patterns - last 150 years = +. 5°C event patterns - last 3 years - polar ice melting Agricultural societies changes dramatically with environmental cycles at all three rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Historical change is conjunctural and contingent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic history analyzed] Reference

If in the past two years intensified exploitation brought about the evident growth of the strike movement, the basis for it was created by a conjunctural rise in the economy, not a decline. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defence of Marxism] Reference

It directs aid at core political processes and institutions - especially elections, political parties, and politically oriented civil society groups - often at important conjunctural moments and with the hope of catalytic effects ". contrasts this with a developmental approach, which tends to measure the quality of a democracy based on how well it delivers equality, welfare, justice and other socioeconomic outcomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference