(n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
(n.) An embankment against inundation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Sue Anne Tay In 2008, a group of Shanghai urban planning academics and advisers, led by the respected preservationist Professor Ruan Yisan (responsible for championing the Bund restoration), proposed to local authorities to preserve 111 historically significant shikumen neighbourhoods.
(2) He expects total outflows of about €800m, including conversions into German bunds [bonds] and other such things."
(3) The propose analysed the main percentages be bunded in Literature.
(4) But the deal's deliberate opaqueness, mixed with uncertainly over how long it would take for the money to be paid out, saw spreads soar again this week, with the difference in yields between Greek and benchmark German 10-year bunds increasing to about 4.15% yesterday.
(5) 9.04pm BST 60 min: There's plenty of tiki taka on display, but it's all coming from Bayern, who triangluate beautifully down the right, their supporters indulging in some loud bundes¡olé!
(6) Money also flowed into German government debt, a classic safe haven, driving down the yield on bunds.
(7) This narrowed the spread between 10-year gilts and Bunds - a barometer of investor sentiment - to 92 basis points from 96 basis points yesterday.
(8) Behind us was the Bund, the waterfront of aristocratic Italian Renaissance and art deco buildings that sprang up at the start of the 20th century, the last commercial frenzy in the city.
(9) The yield on German 10-year bunds fell to a new low of 0.718% as investors abandoned shares for the relative safety of government bonds.
(10) "With any luck we will start to see those Bund spreads coming down over the next few months and that should improve prospects for growth," she said.
(11) It estimates that if yields could fall back relative to German government bonds - also know as Bunds - to a spread last seen in January it would improve Greece's large deficit by 0.9% of GDP and also significantly boost growth.
(12) 12 Shortly you will come to a path running along the Bund on your right.
(13) Government costs of borrowing : German government Bunds rally - making it cheaper for Germany to borrow as investors seek a safe haven.
(14) On Monday, as the euro fell on the foreign exchanges, the Greek stock market plunged and investors piled into the safe haven of German bunds, it no longer seems quite so far-fetched.
(15) Britain's total personal, corporate and government debt is substantially worse than Italy's, but the bond markets now freakishly rate London a safe haven, with the interest rate on gilts falling to 2.1%, just a smidgen over German bunds.
(16) More here : German Oct trade surplus narrows, gives euro zone cheer 8.15am GMT Chinese trade surplus hits five-year high A tourist with a protective mask watches the buildings at the Bund under heavy haze in Shanghai, China, this morning.
(17) At 9am there were a few hundred students near the Bund, Shanghai's river-front, several thousand more in People's Square and hundreds more here and there throughout the downtown area.
(18) Spain's main Ibex 35 stock index rallied on the report, up 1.6% by lunchtime, while the spread between Spanish government bonds and their equivalent German Bunds narrowed.
(19) The world has been sorely disappointed," said Hubert Weiger, head of Germany's association for environment and nature protection, Bund.
(20) • US 10-year Treasury yield: 2.88%, down from 2.97% overnight • UK 10-year gilt yield : 2.93%, down from 3% overnight • German 10-year bund yield : 1.94%, down from 2.04% overnight Updated at 2.02pm BST 1.55pm BST Economics professor Nouriel Roubini insists today's jobs data means the US Fed should not slow its stimulus programme yet: Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) Q2 growth is 1.9% ex inv.
State
Definition:
(n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
(n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
(n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
(n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
(n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
(n.) Estate, possession.
(n.) A person of high rank.
(n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
(n.) The principal persons in a government.
(n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
(n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
(n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
(n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
(n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
(a.) Stately.
(a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
(v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
(v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
(n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(5) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(7) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(8) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(9) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(10) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
(11) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(12) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(13) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(14) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(16) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(17) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(18) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(19) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
(20) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.