Sentence examples for soft capital from inspiring English sources

Thanks to "soft capital", this virtuous cycle is taking hold throughout technology.On September 18th, The Economist will launch its own Innovation Awards scheme with a ceremony in San Francisco to announce the winners in each of five categories bioscience, communications, computing, energy and environment, and nanotechnology.

According to the firm, tepid demand for IT services as well as soft capital spending have been exacerbated by the extension of the economic slowdown to Europe.

There were some indications that the Fed's outlook about the dangers from softer capital spending had changed just in the last week or so.

But Mr. Gore is so afraid of reviving the old Democratic label of being soft on capital punishment that he can't capitalize on the issue despite fresh evidence that the administration of the death penalty is seriously flawed.

He added: "We may not have many gunboats any more, but we hardly need them, because we are already fulfilling our destiny as the soft power capital of the world – and that is thanks to a woman who knew all about soft power and the deep Freudian terror that every man has for the inner recesses of a handbag".

Even the affluent neighbourhoods of Damascus are trembling from the onset of winter, because heating fuel has become as scarce as freedom; the regime's thugs have monopolised its use and are hoarding it, to give the soft, conservative capital a small taste of the discomforts and disasters for which it should brace itself if it joins the rest of the country in revolt – which it is already doing.

China must be careful not to fall into another more modern trap: letting its hard power undermine the soft power capital it has built up over decades.

He produced a list of 10 death row inmates whose executions he believed had been unnecessarily delayed and spent the closing days of the campaign attacking Democratic incumbent Lawton Chiles for being soft on capital punishment.

Regulators are not going soft on their capital demands.

"We are looking at a very soft trend in capital spending in the coming months," said Millan Mulraine, a senior economist at TD Securities in New York.

Why? Natural disasters destroy the economy's physical infrastructure but, provided death is limited, leave intact its more critical soft infrastructure the human capital, the business relationships, the know-how.Financial crises are a different story.