We took turns the man in the middle slept while the others acted as a buffer.
An insurer also creates an additional pool of capital to act as a buffer, just in case.
The "yellow zone, " which is much larger than the red zone, will act as a buffer zone.
Rising retail sales served as a buffer against slow, but moderating growth in industrial output and investment.
Direct investment serves as a buffer against rapid portfolio outflows, since it operates on a longer time horizon.
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For wealthy countries, welfare states acted as a buffer to the economic shock, even at the expense of growth.
Second, China wants to keep a zany North Korea as a buffer state.
The architects were convinced that something was needed as a buffer between the memorial and the commercial skyscrapers flanking it.
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There are, however, enough fine moments spread throughout the film to serve as a buffer against some of the heavier-handed stuff.
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The trust fund is worth having as a buffer, but it has zero to do with the feasibility of the system.
Japanese officials, among others, have floated the idea of a grain stockpile that might act as a buffer against volatile prices.
The Arab ministers also issued a call for an international force to act as a buffer between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
After all, China hardly needs the benighted North as a buffer anymore.
It is hoped that this no-man's-land can act as a buffer between cattle-raiding groups and brand the new country as the green heart of Africa.
When India was allied with the Soviet Union, China and the United States supported Pakistan as a buffer state, reinforcing the neighbors' historical rivalry.
"Northern Ireland remains insulated from the worst of global economic shocks because our relatively larger public sector acts as a buffer, " Mr Kingon said.
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Besides the Argan tree's various human uses, UNESCO notes, it has had an historical role as a buffer against northern expansion of the Sahara desert.
"Part of my job is to act as a buffer between the parents and the kids, educating them both about how much is too much, " he says.
Developing corporate-bond markets is important for financial stability, both as a buffer when other funding sources run dry and to reduce mismatches in a firm's balance sheet.
New rules on bankers' bonuses and the amount of capital that banks must hold as a buffer have been approved by the European Parliament by a big majority.
In his presentation, he described how Asterisk, an open-source VoIP application, can be attacked using what he said was an "extremely basic" method known as a buffer overflow.
There are steps that could make a difference right now -- steps that can also serve as a buffer in case the situation in Europe gets any worse.
Kyle serves as a buffer for the audience, registering dismay and fending off panic with crude jokes, which makes it easier for us not to fall into a funk.
And they also play a role in mitigating the impacts of climate change through carbon capture storage, acting as a buffer against natural disasters and helping to maintain microclimatic or climatic stability.
In that despatch Mr Chun reportedly says some Chinese officials were willing to "face the new reality" that North Korea was of little value to China as a buffer state.
So in 1997 he set up an artists' community in his home town of Jogjakarta - as a buffer against outside pressures as well as a center for creative interaction.
"Such an arrangement will serve as a buffer for the chief executive and will ultimately help stabilize the SAR government, " says Lee Pang Kwong, a political scientist at Ling Nan College.
The commission, chaired by Sir John Vickers, an independent-minded economist, also called for a big increase in the amount of capital held within these ring-fenced banks as a buffer against losses.
In the bubble era, with unrealised gains on securities portfolios acting as a buffer, and eager bankers a mere phone call away, companies had few incentives to keep more than minimal financial accounts.
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