As the muni yield curve steepens investors will start interpreting that steepening as a reflection of increased risk.
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Consumers identify strongly with brands, particularly younger consumers, who view their relationship with brands as a reflection of self.
As for the notoriously harsh world of fashion, Lagerfeld sees it merely as a reflection of the way the world works.
Accessible and well rooted in their experience, music and song is popular with young people as a reflection of their universe.
Ransom tells CNET she imagined the currently dormant project as a reflection of the "overstimulation" us humans encounter in a digital world.
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But he acknowledged he was flattered by the poll numbers, citing them as a reflection of how well police officers do their jobs.
"We do not see this breach as a reflection on their playing form or a cost-cutting exercise, as has been suggested, " he said.
They were not designed as remedial efforts to achieve diversity, but to maintain it, as a reflection of the larger communities' racial makeup.
Mr. Jain proudly points to the diversity of the band members' ethnic and religious backgrounds as a reflection of their home base in Brooklyn.
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Guido Steinberg, a terrorism expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, sees the project as a reflection of competition inside the Salafist camp.
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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle viewed the formation of society as a reflection of the profound need for human affiliation rather than simply a contractual arrangement between otherwise detached individuals.
Finally, the bumper pay can be seen as a reflection of the success of the London Stock Exchange at becoming the listing destination of choice for global commodities companies.
The last election in 2005 took three days, and correspondents say the number of meetings this time is being seen as a reflection of the many challenges facing the Church.
The last election in 2005 took two days, and correspondents say the number of meetings this time is being seen as a reflection of the many challenges facing the Church.
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But Mr Friedman has written about the law less as a collection of rules and judgments, and more as a reflection of powerful social forces shaping all aspects of American life.
The armed forces now talk a lot about flexibility, though this is not so much a voguish notion as a reflection of the difficulty of imagining threats to a country that is almost instinctively pacifist.
On the other flank, many people who use e-mail decided a long time ago to go with nothing at all, or with "Hi" (followed by the recipient's name), as a reflection of the new informality and ease of note-writing.
School grades are cited, for example, as a form of extrinsic recognition if students see them as a reflection of their ability yet they fall in the intrinsic bucket of motivation if they are seen as what is accomplished in class.
Although some modern scholars drive past the notion of evil and instead explain Hitler's conduct as a reflection of his childhood and self-esteem issues, for most survivors of the 20th century he is confirmation of our instinctive sense that evil does exist.
As a reflection of the rest of pop culture, something it has captured for nearly 30 years, MTV has embraced geeks in a big way (the sitcom "The Hard Times of RJ Berger" will start its second season soon, and there's even a site called "MTV Geek" now).
Besides evoking nostalgia, the pitch is an illustration of what Windows Phone's live tiles can do as well as a reflection of Microsoft coming full circle -- as it was two decades ago, Redmond is fighting for market attention at a time when new interface concepts are challenging its main business.
Arguably, then, gold's rise to date is not as much a reflection on U.S. monetary management as it is an echo of the commodity boom.
At the other, you have tentative tenderfeet who take any critical feedback as a direct reflection on their skills and ability.
Remember that in a truly well run economy prices actually should fall, as a direct reflection of the fact that productivity should rise.
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My friends who study advertising as both a reflection and shaper of cultural norms would not disagree with my impression: We talk about the death of command and control leadership, and praise the rise of a new, more collaborative, breed of leader.
"Anthropologists would argue that regarding faith healers as a less appropriate choice than physicians is a reflection of our own faith in medicine rather than in community as a way of finding a remedy for life's problems, " she said.
Indeed, it's a tacitly grim, as well as hilarious, picture of a couple struggling to make their marriage work, just as Ben and his achievement-free buds are a sharply comic reflection of American adolescence as a lifelong career.
It called for a "fundamental reform" of a "system which is used more as punishment than a true reflection of what schools are doing".
Figuring his political career was over, Kucinich launched into a lengthy period of self-reflection and emerged as a committed pacifist.
Yet this production succeeds as a thoughtful, entertaining reflection on the evolution of Shakespeare's art and characters of any and all genders.
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