Economists refer to these cyclical movements about the trend as business cycles.

It is therefore necessary to adapt the Maastricht criteria to the current climate and economic realities characterised by larger cyclical movements.

In addition there are parallels between the marked short run fluctuations in the UK since the 1970s and interwar cyclical movements.

But analysts known as market technicians, who use performance charts to find price trends and cyclical movements in stocks, had been seeing cracks for weeks, if not months.

His theory did not attempt to explain how long waves are generated at the international level or the mechanisms by which national economies' cyclical movements are linked.

The teachings of the Mys- teries placed great importance on the cyclical movements of Nature; now she understood them in the depths of her soul.

It is a style of samba practiced during dance festivals and involves short steps and cyclical movements typical of samba.

The meta-narrative itself has never proceeded in a straight functional line, but, as indicated by Malia and Foglesong, in cyclical movements of indifference-engagement-disengagement.

It said all this with a soaring series of cyclical movements that held all the rolling majesty of grand symphony, as uniquely different from each other as snowflakes, and as similar.

Annette Roux, the chairwoman of Bénéteau, which builds boats in France and in Marion, S.C., said the pleasure boat market had "become a lot less sensitive to cyclical movements."

In fact, the economies in certain Member States are characterised by larger cyclical movements, as they require a high level of public investment and their potential for growth exceeds that of the mature economies within the EU.

His technical analysis of cyclical movements in gold, interest rates, currencies and share prices for the Deliberations research service enabled him to predict the bear market of 1980, the bull market that began two years later and the subsequent crash.

In my view, it should be about striking the right balance between the need, recognised also by my own group, to reach a structural credit balance in the medium term and the equally important need to take into account the economic reality and cyclical movements.