• Supplanting fossil fuels with biofuels has, with good reason, emerged as a prime candidate.

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  • Mr. Page was found guilty of first-degree murder and was a prime candidate for the death penalty.

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  • The Railroad Minister, Liu Zhijun, did not initially look like a prime candidate for a dramatic public disgrace.

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  • Even if he is found innocent, he would be a prime candidate for deportation under the government's new blacklist rule.

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  • Companies will begin to dump supplies as they see future projects stalled, noted Carter, who considered Pepco a prime candidate.

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  • Carbon sequestration, which offers the possibility of capturing carbon produced by dirty power stations and storing it underground, is a prime candidate.

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  • Consider UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles, a prime candidate for advanced electronic learning methods if ever there was one.

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  • The state-owned electricity monopoly is one of Europe's biggest companies, worth some euro60 billion and a prime candidate for a multi-tranche privatisation.

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  • While more than half of people in the United States have a profile, that figure is less than 5 percent in Russia making it a prime candidate for growth.

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  • Not only is the industry a prime candidate for customer-help lines, but the Ministry of Health and Welfare is currently reviewing which drugs can be sold over the counter.

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  • The money-losing Hornets were a prime candidate to move after the NBA bought the team from George Shinn in a seller-financed deal in December, 2010 after a local buyer could not be found.

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  • Similarly, a huge increase in defence spending and a lot of well-directed western military aid does not on its own make Georgia a prime candidate to join NATO, desirable though that might be for other reasons.

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  • The United Kingdom is a prime candidate.

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  • In January, Craig Williams, executive director of the Chemical Weapons Working Group based in Berea, Kentucky, insisted that the arsenal's stockpile was a prime candidate for neutralisation, a process planned for bulk chemical-agent stockpiles at the sites in Maryland and Indiana.

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  • ON's acquisition of Powergen, a company we identified a year ago as a prime takeover candidate (" Bargains And Dogs" May 1, 2000).

    FORBES: Another Look

  • In addition, the company has licenses from the Federal Telecommunications Commission to offer services in a total of 160 markets in the U.S.--a market opportunity which could make WinStar a giant of tomorrow, or at least a prime takeover candidate.

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  • In a gesture to those who object to a foreign-born prime minister, Mrs Gandhi said she would not be a candidate for prime minister.

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  • In Gujarat, the emergence of BJP leader Narendra Modi - who recently won a fourth successive term as chief minister of the state - as a potential prime ministerial candidate appears imminent.

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  • Now another Tanaka is gracing the headlines - the late premier's daughter Makiko, who despite her scant five years as an LDP parliamentarian ranks high in public opinion polls as a future prime ministerial candidate.

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  • The two parties are hoping to form a centre-right government, but have not named a candidate for prime minister.

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  • And for all Mr Gandhi's shortcomings as a campaigner, Congress's rivals have yet to find a candidate for prime minister with comparable crowd-pulling power.

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  • Among them was Oday Mohammed, a businessman who brought his mother, wife and children along with him to vote for a candidate from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law bloc.

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  • On the face of things, Mr Borrell's resignation, barely a year after he won the party's first ever primary to choose a candidate for the prime ministership, was caused by allegations of financial wrongdoing by two officials who worked alongside him when, as a junior finance minister under Mr Gonzalez, he pursued rich and famous tax-evaders.

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  • Salem Al Meslet, a candidate for Prime Minister, said international support will be key.

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  • This may cause your card provider's computer algorithms to single you out as a prime cash-strapped candidate for a spending limit cut.

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  • The PPP is likely preparing a new candidate for prime minister in case the Supreme Court orders Mr. Gilani's removal, Mr. Rizvi said.

    WSJ: Pakistan Premier Charged

  • His People of Freedom (PDL) party is hoping to form a centre-right coalition government with another party after elections on 24-25 February, but have not named a candidate for prime minister.

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  • The residence of Gomes, the prime minister and a presidential candidate, was looted, witnesses said, as were the homes of some government ministers, including Interior Minister Fernando Gomes.

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  • As people on the left began to mutter that Mr Amato was a competent prime minister but an unconvincing candidate to win an election, the mayor let it be known that he is available.

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  • Having kept a relatively low profile since being forced to step down as Italy's premier last year, Silvio Berlusconi, the bad boy of Italian politics, has decided to run for the fourth time as the centre-right's prime ministerial candidate in a keenly awaited parliamentary election likely to take place in February.

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