They hold substantially more capital, the financial buffer they need to absorb losses.
The UK, with its ageing population, would need to absorb a fair chunk of that total.
"Students need to absorb everything they can," she said, "from the small tasks to the big ones".
And, in order to choose which future we want, we need to absorb the lessons of the past.
My Thursday column argues that we need to absorb more of an education culture, like the one so common in the Confucian belt of East Asia.
For Murray to keep the symmetry alive, he will need to absorb plenty more pace and beat Berdych, who holds a 4-2 edge over Murray.
Holoparasite species that do not need to absorb water from the soil may have root systems that are greatly reduced in size or missing entirely.
For each scenario, we estimate the cost burden that individuals and households across the income distribution would need to absorb to maintain their current GP service utilisation.
To do this maintenance, muscles must make protein, and to do so they need to absorb amino acids, the constituent parts of proteins, from the blood.
To overcome these issues, leaders need to absorb three key lessons about how to manage the inherent tensions between defining technical requirements and achieving valuable business outcomes.
We start at this lower energy state and go up -- that means we need to absorb a photon, we have to take in energy.
