Sentence examples for Adjustable from inspiring English sources

There Ive designed the Macintosh Folio tablet concept for Apple, which had a stylus and an adjustable angled screen, as well as a sink, toilet and bath for British bathroom firm Ideal Standard.

The Nethrone goes further: it is an ergonomic seat in an adjustable chrome frame which doubles as a monitor stand.

Sustainable Spaces, a company in San Francisco that assesses the environmental performance of houses, measures how airtight a home is using a device called a "calibrated blower door"—an adjustable barrier that suspends a powerful fan in a blocked doorway.

Ms Bair does an especially good job of describing a wide array of toxic financial products, such as the hybrid adjustable rate mortgage.

Ever since the post-war Bretton Woods system of fixed but adjustable exchange rates fell apart in the 1970s, academics have offered Utopian blueprints for a new version.

He has also founded the Centre for Vision in the Developing World (CVDW), and produced more than 40,000 pairs of adjustable glasses.

Most other regimes are either less sophisticated, or they are hamstrung by non-adjustable capital charges that are set at a minimum by law.Then there is the Brussels hurdle.

Mr Cagan marries the statistics and concludes that going by today's prices some 1.1m mortgages (or 13% of all adjustable-rate mortgages originated between 2004 and 2006), worth $326 billion, are heading for repossession in the next few years.

Many European countries have adjustable-rate mortgages that move in step with changes in official interest rates: two-thirds of the outstanding mortgages in Britain, for example, are of this kind.

Losses at Danish mortgage banks remained low and there was plenty of liquidity throughout the crisis.The Danish system, like the American one, also protects borrowers from interest-rate risk by offering long-term fixed-rate mortgages (although adjustable-rate mortgages were spreading fast before the crisis).

Other changes to the mortgage market, such as better underwriting, greater use of covered bonds and more adjustable-rate mortgages, would help reduce the need for a guarantee.