The result is inaction and fear, conditions that make the stock market ripe for a crash.
Areas that are ripe for development include marketing, such as loyalty schemes, and games that involve new data sharing.
For instance, China has 60,000 out-of-home advertising firms, many of them microbusinesses with one or two signs, and is clearly ripe for rationalisation.
I doubt it, but we cannot be sure, because there are bound to be fields in other countries ripe for exploitation with the same technology.
For instance, Earth 2 can be seen hanging in the sky near Polaris, the north star, which would put its orbit perpendicular to the solar system’s ecliptic—and ripe for discovery long ago.
Nowhere in the Arab world, where the system of state control tends to be more subtle and the regimes’ opponents are divided, looks ripe for an upheaval of this sort.
The time is ripe for great sociological changes.
Scientists are worried that global warming is making conditions ripe for another deadly ocean burp.
The conditions are ripe for outbreaks of dengue to ravage parts of this region time and time again.
This Caucasian fruit is pear shaped, sour and astringent and too hard as to be eaten fresh. It has to be left to ripe for a few days.
In a bid to escape the vagaries of consumer electronics, Samsung may be ploughing headlong into the areas most ripe for invasion by a new breed of emerging-market titans.
The West is ripe for frugal innovation.
A hospital consultant said conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera, typhoid and malaria.
Then the cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her Cousins (like all the natives, Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm up the trees and throw down the big ripe nuts.
On big party nights, the department now saves about $15, 000 on overtime pay, because officers are deployed to areas that the software deems ripe for criminal activity.
When a husband or wife is "stolen" by another person,that husband or wife was already ripe for the stealing,was al-ready predisposed toward a new "love bandit" was only taking what was waiting to be taken,what wanted to be taken.
One area that is ripe for parallelization is sorting and searching in large data sets.
FOR a couple of decades around the middle of the 19th century an extravagant delusion overcame a Russia that was all too ripe for some escapism.
After the new York session saw the Greek Parliament pass the new five year austerity package, the environment was ripe for the risk on atmosphere that was clearly present in Asia today.
a good time to plant tomatoes; the right time to act; the time is ripe for great sociological changes.
It had lain fallow all his life so far as the abstract thought of the books was concerned, and it was ripe for the sowing.
The conditions for maintaining mature systems are often ripe for an Agile approach.
There are plenty of inefficient state-owned enterprises ripe for privatisation. A more vibrant small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector could encourage some Romanians abroad to return home.
To introduce regional national autonomy in the southwest, we should begin in eastern Xikang, for conditions there are ripe for this.
Since I have just mentioned the media as ripe for public ownership, let us take this as an exemplary case.
This situation will be ripe for political favoritism, but fortunately you will be able to see others' motives quite clearly as everything will be out in the open.
The time is ripe for great societal changes.
Emergent democracies created markets that were ripe for exploitation.
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