The heavily Bedouin city is historically volatile, experiencing bouts of civil unrest in the last decade over fuel price increases and pro-Iraq protests.
That's not far off base, but, of course, the writer's job is to say those things that appear unsayable, to cloak with language those volatile experiences that seem barely able to endure it.
It has since become more volatile, experiencing a drop of over half of its value in one day.
After the May 1999 momentum peak, the energy sector became volatile, experiencing -5% to -7% pullbacks in each of the subsequent four months before embarking on a more substantial -17% correction.
Workers exposed to volatile organochlorines experienced a deficit of all-cause [SMR = 0.91; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.89 0.93] and all-cancer (SMR = 0.93; 95% CI, 0.89 0.97) mortality, with no evidence of increased risks for any cancer of a priori interest.
But after what Safin, the maturing yet still-volatile Russian, experienced at the hands of his better-known elders in the last two days, the No. 1 ranking might feel like a consolation prize.
The feeling of being either over- or under-challenged seems to be a rather volatile than enduring experience, which may also be a sign of instructional quality.
While volatile couples may experience intense interchanges that can at times be painful to one or both of them, addressing a difference directly, even somewhat unskillfully, is far better than avoiding the acknowledgment of differences altogether.
An aide to Sir Menzies said all parties were experiencing volatile poll ratings.
