1.   Bored soldiers were showing how various mechanisms operated and explaining the rate at which bullets could be discharged.

2.   It is quite possible that all three mechanisms might operate.

3.   The indirect mechanism operates via interest rates or exchange rates.

4.   It is thought that a similar mechanism operates in the naturally occurring self-cure when large numbers of larvae mature to the infective stage on pasture after rain.

5.   He believes the same mechanism operates in humans as in rats.

6.   Or both mechanisms could be operating together, he said.

7.   Scientists who study changes within the brain say they may have even located an important area where happiness is registered and where the set-point mechanism may operate.

8.   Financing mechanisms must operate on a scale and with the timeliness required to manage shocks effectively.