Regulators then shifted to edicts requiring banks to maintain a specified capital cushion, thick enough to cover potential losses.

In addition, such insulation discourages the raising of additional capital, inducing executives to run banks with a capital level that provides an inadequate cushion for bondholders and depositors.

It provides a cushion.

I borrowed your pin cushion.

In particular, if the firm s equity capital erodes, the government should not provide funds (directly or indirectly) to increase the cushion available to bondholders.

Do you have the air cushion?

It's gone down behind the cushion.

Because it provides a cushion on acidity.

This cushion, this frame it's all her.

Meg had a cushion, Jo a book,

With a pedestal type cushion at her feet,

Last time, a dog came and ripped my cushion.

At the end of 2012, China s commercial banks held 6.4 trillion in core capital and 1.5 trillion in non performing loan provisions, for a risk cushion of roughly 8 trillion.

Leave him. I don't want him bleeding over my cushion.

Because people used to sew and they needed a pin cushion.

It may not heal your grief, but it will cushion it.

Now you will learn, I told you to put a cushion there.

If the financial crisis reveals a structural problem in banking, it is more likely to come from insufficient capital to cushion a bank s fall, or from too many financial institutions having become too big to fail.

Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.

With that guarantee broken by Lehman Brothers collapse, every financial institution immediately sought to acquire a much greater capital cushion in order to avoid the need to draw on government support, but found it impossible to do so.

Malawi could therefore hardly sustain or cushion this kind of massive damage to its economy.

It wasn't right. When I made the promise, I didn't say anything about a cushion.

He had to sit on a cushion, stand still, not move, because it was very painful.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Capital onion soup, capital.

Fortunately, China s relatively strong fiscal and foreign exchange positions can cushion the economy against short term shocks.

This process requires a lot of cushion space between the point she starts falling and the ground.

Identity capital begets identity capital.

Moreover, the European welfare state will cushion the impact of the economic crash, at least for some time.

This amount would allow UNITAR to create a working reserve fund to cushion itself against irregular voluntary contributions.

X. Capital expenditures XI. Capital expenditures

Emerging market policymakers believe that they lack recourse to safety nets that would cushion the impact of volatile flows.

Such risks are mitigated by reducing the fixed cost core to a minimum, and through accumulation of capital through large scale, short duration operations to provide an operating reserve to cushion UNOPS against market volatility, make appropriate insurance provisions and facilitate investment in emerging business opportunities.

Capital

Capital?

At the time the French government favoured new technology, exploring the production of hovercraft and the Aérotrain air cushion vehicle.

In the countries of sub Saharan Africa, State budgetary allocations were not enough to cushion the negative effects of adjustments.

That's what a buffer is, and it's called a buffer because it provides you this kind of cushion of pH.

Mother has so many keys she cannot wear them at her belt so a maid carries them on a cushion

Efratti of From Nation's Capital to Nation's Capital adds

What matters here isn't technical capital, it's social capital.

50. The expansion of capital flows, including ODA, other official capital flows and private capital, was essential.

The quality of cut can be inferior if the grass is pushed away from the blade by the cushion of air.

However, to the extent that public investment grows, aggregate demand increases correspondingly, generating some growth and creating a cushion against recession.

The Committee was pleased that the Government had recognized the need to cushion the impact on women of its structural adjustments