Much of the cash the government needs can continue to be borrowed from taxpayers at home - pension funds such as government bonds, or gilts, because they can match the fixed returns against their liabilities, and cash is pouring into National Savings, which are invested in gilts as nervous savers shun risky looking banks.
"There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum.
With the stock of Berkshire Hathaway on the rise again after taking a beating in the last year -- and the New Economy stocks Warren E. Buffett has shunned now looking more risky -- shareholders came to his annual meeting over the weekend willing to grant him some vindication.
I was willing to be shunned and looked down upon.
During the SOFREP taping, he said, "Those guys and girls who came back with P.T.S.D., they're not to be shunned and looked down on.
If he could prove that, it would make his strategy of shunning Hulu look smart.
In biblical times, children brought honor to a woman, and a woman who could not have children was shunned and looked down on.
The second row from the front was shunned – that looks like I was deliberately avoiding the front but desperately wanting to sit there.
She resembled a nonthreatening aunt, people in Chinatown recalled: she was short and amiable, wore no makeup and shunned fancy clothes, looking every bit like someone who grew up in rural China.
Letting the kids wear an England shirt during a World Cup is OK, just about, but anything more is shunned for fear of looking like a friend of Nick Griffin.
In a world that tends to shun accountability, Belichick looks for players who thrive on it.
