That is what democracy, on economic issues, looks like in the eurozone: operating, barely, in painful slow motion.
From 1997 to 2000, from the moment Athens won the bid, barely a shovel was in motion -- a situation the I.O.C. derided with hollow threats.
And then she stepped from side to side, with a barely discernible motion in her hips, her spine long and straight, her shoulders faintly twitching.
He insisted that windfarms, "even when they are in motion, would barely pull the skin off a rice pudding" and denounced energy saving as a waste of effort.
In antiquity there were rumors that Olympias, Philip's third wife, had set the assassination plot in motion, but barely a whisper about Alexander's involvement.
Over the past 8 years since Climate Week was set in motion, fashion has barely registered, taking a back seat to finance, food, even faith.
Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of Research in Motion, has admitted that they just barely got the Blackberry Storm out by Black Friday.
She escaped, not in one climactic release, but slowly, over the course of a minute, in barely visible motions.
President Obama's address to Congress made it clear that he's barely listened to the national debate on health care that he himself set in motion.
Moreover, the automotive environment is often barely unstructured, incredibly variable, and apparently moving, due to the fact that the camera itself is in motion; therefore, really few assumptions can be made on the scene.
