The situation in Scotland is increasingly characterised by the immobilisation of households.
In Millennium, he contended that modern society would be increasingly characterised by nomadism, and presciently predicted that "nomad goods" (gadgets that facilitate virtual travel) would be a feature of the new millennium.
Juan Rosell, president of the Spanish Employers' Confederation, said: "An EU without the UK would be weakened, and both would lose credibility in international forums which are increasingly characterised by the predominance of big decision-making hubs.
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Her emails, meanwhile, become increasingly characterised by an ugly and insistent antisemitism: "I say if I can't write my book and get emotionally and verbally raped by James Lasdun, a Jew disguising himself as an English-American, well then, the Holocaust Industry Books should all be banned as should the films".
When I judged the Booker, in 1997, it seemed to me generally to be a bad time for fiction, with the British novel being increasingly characterised by nothing so much as introversion, nostalgia and mistrust of the fictional possibilities of the present.
The current focus on tighter airport security should prove supportive for detection, and although government finances remain under pressure, could help ease previously flagged concerns surrounding a general lack of visibility of order flow at the division (business increasingly characterised by lumpy government contracts).
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"When the economy does eventually recover, Scotland risks being left with a labour market increasingly characterised by part-time, low wage, insecure employment".
