• Said approvingly, and probably true (Hanwell tried hard to be generous in his interpretations), if you happened not to be his son.

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  • At the moment, schools can be generous in awarding early pensions because they never see the bill the cost is shared across every school in the country.

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  • The joint operation, which also involves the Bank of Canada, was a sign that the ECB philosophy, to be generous in times of liquidity shortage, is gaining traction.

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  • He would be generous in giving the Palestinians space for a state on the West Bank, though by implication nothing like as ample as suggested by Mr Clinton or even by the Israeli prime minister's two predecessors.

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  • The money from rescinded oil and gas tax breaks would fund alternative and renewable fuel initiatives--and subsidies wouldn't be as generous in a stripped-down version of the bill.

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  • Neither could interest rate cuts coax banks, which are currently re-evaluating risk and keeping a tight grasp on their balance sheet, to be more generous in their lending to house buyers.

    BBC: Bank governor offers bleak view

  • Of course, feeling like you have enough money to be generous with, or in the case of companies, that you feel you can be generous with your potential competitors, is a nice problem to have.

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  • In a conference call Sunday, Feinberg said he plans to be more generous than any court would be in determining payments.

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  • But eventually all the easy steps will be exhausted and the generous contracts won in better times will be worked off.

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  • And I wish I could be as generous as Sam in assuming the State Department is guilty merely of incompetent vetting.

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  • Belgian pensions actually tend to be less generous than pensions in other European nations, according to data from Eurostat, the EU statistics agency.

    WSJ: Public-Sector Strikes Hit European Holiday Travel

  • One group of people who should join the fray are Muslim thinkers who live in the West and are hence free to interpret their own religion, and interact with other faiths, in a more generous spirit than tends to be possible in the more conservative atmosphere of most Muslim-majority societies.

    ECONOMIST: Islam and Christianity

  • One slight surprise is that coastal elites actually appear to be a little more generous than those in fly-over country, in that they spend nearly 30% more on gifts.

    FORBES: Red And Blue State Stereotypes Confirmed By E-Commerce Data

  • America is unlikely to be as generous with cash as it is in kind.

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  • Perhaps the bigger question is whether Congress should be so generous to taxpayers with outsized loans in the first place.

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  • They had made over-generous promises, which could not be honoured in the longer term and were already ruinously burdensome.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • "In football you have to be generous, " he said.

    BBC: Camacho has score to settle with French

  • In those days he could be generous, amusing, an expansive man my brother, Walt, plays the role at times but there were signs, perceptible to me if not to others, when an explosion was imminent.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Trauma'

  • When we turn judgment into curiosity, seeking to find the request for help underneath the accusation, we put ourselves in the optimal position to be generous to others and hence more happy and productive.

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  • Generous compensation plans and perks might be put in place because buyout firms need to maintain good relationships with corporate managers, who choose which firm will take them private and then eventually public again, says Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger professor of business and professor of Law at Stanford University.

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  • The pension tax reliefs that were very generous in the past have had to be removed.

    BBC: Take your politics too seriously

  • As a writer, all I could hope to be, if nothing else, is honest and generous in spirit.

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  • Cantor Fitzgerald Chief Executive Howard Lutnick has finally decided to be more generous to the families of employees who died in the World Trade Center attack.

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  • Megson's Bolton gave Atletico a tough time at the Reebok Stadium in the first encounter and during the 90 minutes at the Vicente Calderon the Premier League side were in no mood to be any more generous.

    BBC: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Bolton

  • Most of this success can be attributed to the generous outpouring from the international community in the immediate aftermath of the quake and to many of the Haitians in the United States and Canada who have returned to help create a better future for their homeland.

    CNN: A chance for a prosperous, stable Haiti

  • Be generous, and assume that attempts to manipulate LIBOR are in the past.

    ECONOMIST: Interest rates

  • Work-life experts caution that many flex-work programs appear more generous on paper than in practice and can be highly dependent on individual supervisors.

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  • Even if a majority of Acehnese can be persuaded to make peace now in return for a generous ration of autonomy, many Indonesians worry that in the end this will only increase their desire to go their own entirely separate way.

    ECONOMIST: A Survey of Indonesia

  • While Berman has been collecting material on Dole for a year, the Dole campaign has only one researcher on staff--it fired its other one a few weeks ago--and now must rely on a Republican National Committee search operation that Dole officials say, in their most generous tones, could be much better.

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  • Such numbers might be too big even for the relatively generous wiggle-room offered in the Maastricht treaty.

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