Sentence examples for only idiosyncratic from inspiring English sources

Our central assumption is that each firm has access to two investment opportunities, one with only idiosyncratic risk and another one with risk that is correlated across firms.

The Elevator Repair performance wasn't the only idiosyncratic element to the festivities, which included the typical array of readings and exhibitions: over the weekend the players participating in an interactive scavenger hunt were allowed to spend the night in the library piecing together clues based on the collection.

What it had to say was this: I'm 25, I've read almost your complete library every year since I was 15 and respect, admire, and cherish you and what you have said in the last 60-plus years, using only idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines, with ink on bleached and flattened wood pulp, of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.

My three fairly obvious propositions are: first, in Freud's formulation from Civilisation and its Discontents, "happiness is something essentially subjective" (subjective I take it, in the sense of being not only personal but idiosyncratic).

He has found that the percentage of speech that is vocalic, as opposed to consonantal, is not only highly idiosyncratic and stable regardless how fast a person is speaking, but also is not perceived by the ear, making it hard to disguise.

The idea is that convergence can be assumed only if idiosyncratic country-specific shocks have temporary effects on productivity in country A relative to country B. These relative productivity levels would hence follow a stationary process.

The authorities said that in these vulgar rants on the telephone, Mr. Hawkins coached his assistants to speak only in an idiosyncratic code.

We also extend the definition of oblivious equilibrium, originally proposed for models with only firm-specific idiosyncratic random shocks, and our algorithms to accommodate models with industry-wide aggregate shocks.

Two freely admitted to being monoglots: John Prescott, the ever-frank deputy prime minister (who speaks only his own, idiosyncratic dialect of English); and Nick Brown, the agriculture minister, who is responsible for testy negotiations with his European counterparts over BSE.

Such was this difficulty that his first major stage success, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, came together only after the idiosyncratic and autocratic Joan Littlewood had taken it, and him, under her wing for her Theatre Royal, Stratford East.

I don't know if it reflects a more open approach to cultural studies on the part of the University as a whole, or if it's only Harrist's idiosyncratic tastes, but this dual interest in our familiar Western canon with that of other cultures, particularly the Chinese, is timely and refreshing.