Might not earthquakes simply be too expensive, and too mercifully infrequent, a problem to be worth poor countries doing very much about?
The roads were empty except for a black Mercedes that would whiz by once or twice a day and an equally infrequent Bedouin on a camel.
Elections are infrequent and, as a previous brief in this series noted, political parties can be vague about their governing intentions.
Despite its relatively central location just northwest of the Kremlin, the only way to get to the complex is either by infrequent metro service on a newly built line, or via narrow off ramps from Moscow's busiest ring road that often are clogged by construction vehicles.
As a result, in sports where the inherent demands limits its athletes to an infrequent competition schedule, there existed a very real possibility that unless a trip to the U.K. proved particularly fruitful, it could yield more in U.K. tax than it did in winnings.
Catholic blogger The Anchoress asked a couple of younger infrequent church-goers what they thought.
Their reasoning: Mac viruses are infrequent enough that they are not a problem for them to deal with.
Everywhere there are huge bleached whalebones, the crumbling hulks of shipwrecks, dead plants, and the footprints of infrequent desert creatures, all on a desperate search for sustenance.
He goes on to describe how they would tweak gameplay to maximize revenue before fun, making item drops more infrequent to frustrate players into spending a couple of bucks to advance their game.
Seth Solomonow, a city DOT spokesman, wrote in an email that bike-share issues had been relatively infrequent, scattered and not affecting the system as a whole.
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As Mr Vedral points out, it says that an unexpected, infrequent event contains much more information than a more regular happening.
Aha delivers a user-friendly experience requiring infrequent smartphone software updates, with in-vehicle content and channel access updating simply and automatically throughout the vehicle life.
Issuers prefer staleness for "stability's" sake, and rating agencies are happy to stick with a business model that relies on infrequent rating revisions to minimize costs.
In a country where public dissent is rare and demonstrators infrequent, these organizers spurred tens of thousands of people to turn out to protest the regime of President Mubarak.
After decades of expensive and infrequent space travel we seem to be at the cusp of a new generation of much less expensive and faster growing commercial space transportation options.
Today, U.S. troops are allowed off the base only on infrequent "cultural tours" or for organized community service, such as a recent effort to refurbish a school near the base.
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The prudent use of coastal development setbacks or establishing a safe distance between buildings and the active beach zone can ensure that space is provided for a beach to move naturally, both during normal events and infrequent hurricanes, thereby ensuring the beach is conserved for all to enjoy and that coastal infrastructure remains intact.
Nabito have a great sense of humor and lightness of touch which is all too infrequent in smart architecture.
For me, as a journalist and a resolute CSR practitioner, it is indeed heartening to see that those small, infrequent attempts are now becoming frequent analogies and commentaries within the circles of mainstream media.
The handset, which also features a dust and splash-proof keypad and an FM radio, has been primarily launched as a low-end phone that would appeal to customers in the developing world who may have infrequent access to electricity.
While athletes who compete regularly throughout the year with only limited events located within the U.K., such as Spanish-league soccer players, benefited from a low allocation percentage, this methodology served to disproportionately punish those athletes who competed on an infrequent basis.
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