Its semblance of stability depends on a series of negotiated pacts, brokered by the Americans, over items of presumably binding common interest, such as the apportioning of oil revenues and of ministries, and defense arrangements.
One main implication was the need for more reliance on fiscal policy and for larger deficits than would have been the case absent the binding zero interest rate constraint.
Certainly, the politics of binding the interests of earners and employers (small businesses are responsible for 60% of all private-sector jobs) seems smart.
For many in Britain and the US (which, post-1945, gradually assumed Britain's geostrategic role in the Arabian peninsula, as elsewhere), the rationale binding western interests so closely to the Saudi state is no longer obvious, persuasive, welcome or easily justified.
He praised "the EU's secret weapon - an unrivalled way of binding our interests so tightly that war becomes impossible".
Mr. Baucus discerned a new "sense of inevitability" binding lawmakers and interest groups otherwise inclined to fight.
He wouldn't say exactly how much was in those various bags; he had been told not to, and that imperative was apparently more binding than any interest the Afghan people — let alone American taxpayers — might have in knowing how money flowed through a Presidential office.
Three of the flexible loops on one side of the protein are surface-exposed and have proved to be a convenient interface for binding ligands of interest (Fig. 1A).
There was no common interest binding us together.
For determination of regional radioligand binding, regions of interest (ROIs) were manually delineated on each individual MR-image using the Human Brain Atlas software.
