By shifting the donkeywork of supplying energy for transport to power stations—which generally burn coal—they make drivers less vulnerable to the vagaries of the petroleum trade.
By making its own polysilicon and building its own power plants, it hopes to protect itself from the vagaries of supply in an immature market and also boost demand for its products.
The final reason for concern arises from the vagaries of the financial crisis.
The regular operations in money markets by the Federal Reserve and its brethren are designed to meet the vagaries of demand for ready cash.
In countries with no welfare state, where a new and vibrant urban capitalism is loosening the old bonds of extended families, private insurance is the best bulwark against the vagaries of fate.
Though yesterday's decision was the right result, the process by which it was achieved was a reminder of the vagaries of the EU approach to anti-dumping actions.
The rationale for excluding food and fuel is to filter out prices that jump around for temporary reasons, such as the vagaries of the weather or the messy politics of the Middle East.
The additional layer of uniform felt like another shield of protection, another barrier against the messy and dangerous vagaries of life.
One would be that a woman's choice of perfume will resist the vagaries of fashion.
This is not the first time Japan’s leaders have tried to emphasise the fun side of life to strengthen Japan’s domestic economy and leave it less vulnerable to the vagaries of world trade.
Ensuring that the market functions well is the best way to insulate consumers against the vagaries of a single supplier.
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.
Getting people to care about a climate threat that is decades away is hard enough, they say, without adding in the vagaries of natural climate cycles.
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