Since its founding in 1934, the SNP had experienced its share of surges – the first in the late 1960s, another in the mid-1970s – but more often than not, the party found itself on the political sidelines, its claim to speak for Scotland ignored or disbelieved by most voters.
Even outside the pantomime season, or possibly because of the pantomime season, no honour, out of the blizzard of honorific acronyms and archaisms that surges bianually out of Buckingham Palace, is cherished like that of dame.
The article, Ukip is now more popular than Labour: Nigel Farage gets polls boost as Ukip surges ahead, was inaccurate in one rather important respect.
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They are penned in: lifted and lowered by enormous surges of water in and out of the locks, while tied to locomotives to prevent them touching the sides.
At the heart of his proposal is a plan to swap lots of existing Greek debt for "GDP-linked bonds"—an old idea whose time may at last have come.Since the 1980s globalisation has sent periodic surges of capital from the rich world to sovereign borrowers in the developing world.
When there are surges of capital towards multiple destinations, for example, lots of countries may intervene simultaneously to mute inflows.
Due to new regulatory restrictions and capital rules that make bond-trading less profitable, banks have cut back their inventories to the level of 2002, even though the value of bonds outstanding has doubled since then (see chart).That is a problem when trading surges, as it did between October 10th and 16th, when volumes rose by 67%.
When capital surges in, governments ought to tighten controls; when cash departs, controls can be relaxed.This seems a neat solution, reconciling the dream of free-flowing cash to the untidy reality of global finance.
Raul Velloso, a consultant, points out that public spending typically surges in the year before a presidential election.
Richer Indian and Chinese consumers are indeed eating more meat than they did though a lot less than people do in the West but that shift has not been sudden enough to explain the price surges since 2006.
