That's led many people (CNBC's Dylan Ratigan is a partcularly vocal advocate of this position) to argue that interest-rate cuts are basically ineffective instruments in the kind of financial crisis we're seeing, not because interest rates are already so low (they're clearly not in the U.K. or Europe), but because banks simply aren't willing to lend, no matter what the potential profit spread.
Basically, NextBug instruments the Bugzilla interface used for browsing and for selecting bugs reported for a system.
And, of course, practically all the financial institutions with which you deal, except maybe investment companies, their portfolios are basically credit instruments, which they bought as performing loans and they hope to keep as performing loans.
We had a couple more guys who came in, but Bill played basically every instrument.
Instead, the Philippine state is basically an instrument of extra-state, parochial interests, which hardly coincide with the broader national interest.
According to Greg Phillip's analysis of the crash, the pilot of the plane attempting to land in low visibility conditions could undertake a "look-see approach," which is basically an instrument approach up to the point when the pilot can continue to land using external visual references.
Instruments: So basically the common used instruments are: Vocals, synthesizers, keyboards, and drum machines.
"Technology lets us basically create new instruments and new sounds".
Their act, which involved hammily pretending to play various objects in time with a piped-in soundtrack — lip-synching with instruments, basically — included a ditty called "MySpace" and a video of the band members, naked, banging drums on some or another industrial rooftop.
During our sample period, banks could comply with Basel I by basically issuing hybrid instruments because they were included in the definition of Tier I.
