"Will we be able to absorb a barrel of oil at one hundred dollars?
And Plexiglas, which is better able to absorb a misfire, is replacing the stiff cardboard gun barrels through which shells are usually fired.
Ms. Ponder said by e-mail that she did not feel shortchanged by her brief China trip because she was "able to absorb a huge amount of culture" and meet people.
These are incredible films – especially Steve McQueen's masterpiece – but our popular culture only seems able to absorb a subservient narrative of the black experience, while there are so many other narratives waiting to be told.
Then you go in search of proper buns: soft and not at all crusty, with enough structure to be able to absorb a great deal of fat and flavor without falling apart.
The European Union, seeing that markets are able to absorb a default like this sans bail-out, may feel less of a need to step in on behalf of Ireland or Greece.In a sense, this is like a tremor in an earthquake-prone area, providing authorities with some information about which structures can survive a bigger temblor and which can't.
Several experts agreed that the critical question may not be the number of deaths but the length of the conflict -- that people might be better able to absorb a high number of casualties in a short conflict than a steady stream totaling the same amount over a longer period.
The Good Dog teams go through a nine-week training course, said Susan Fireman, executive trainer and program coordinator for upstate New York, the Berkshires in Massachusetts and Litchfield County, Conn. "These dogs have to be very calm and be able to absorb a certain amount of stress without becoming stressed themselves," she said.
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's finance minister, this week cautioned, "Anyone who says they know what will happen if Greece is pushed out of the euro is deluded".Optimists argue that the euro zone is much better able to absorb a Greek shock today than it was in 2011.
Marketmakers are unlikely to be able to absorb a sudden batch of sell orders; Goldman Sachs reckons that dealers' inventories of corporate bonds are 40% lower than they were in 2006.For bond funds, such as exchange-traded funds, the effect may resemble a bank run, as retail investors, alarmed by losses, rush to sell their holdings, prompting further sales of corporate bonds and even bigger losses.
