• He wants global action against what he has described as "staggering" losses to the national exchequers.

    BBC: Europe's push against tax fraud gains momentum

  • This time he has not been joined by the monarch on what the palace has described as a private engagement.

    BBC: Duke of Edinburgh on three-day visit to Canada

  • Ofgem said the proposals, which the industry has described as "challenging", would make the market "simpler, clearer and fairer".

    BBC: Energy bills: Ofgem sets out plan for simpler tariffs

  • Rather, it seeks to tackle what the British Medical Journal has described as the most serious health problem facing the nation.

    ECONOMIST: Health

  • The authority has begun a public consultation ahead of setting what it has described as "the most radical budget in its history".

    BBC: Copeland Council makes jobs warning over budget cuts

  • You have to say that the HP TouchPad, which Hewlett-Packard has described as being the first to run WebOS, also looks mighty impressive.

    FORBES: Written by Si Shen

  • She is a management consultant brought up in a middle-class suburb of Montreal who a friend has described as "one of the boys".

    BBC: A thoroughly modern royal wedding

  • Earlier this month, Facebook unveiled a social search engine called Graph Search, which it has described as a key pillar for the business.

    WSJ: Facebook Revenue Rises 40% as Mobile Ad Sales Strengthen

  • Pfizer has submitted Sutent, a cancer drug that Chief Executive Henry "Hank"McKinnellHenry "Hank" McKinnell has described as "revolutionary", to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Berbatov himself has spoken in recent weeks of his desire to join United, but has not been granted what he has described as his "dream" transfer.

    BBC: Striker search concerns Ferguson

  • The head of the Housing Executive has described as "embarrassing" an Audit Office report which found it had been complacent about poor and bogus repair work by contractors.

    BBC: Red Sky

  • Carmen, apparently, wants to make her directorial debut on a movie called "Bombay Night, " which she has described as a take on "Breakfast at Tiffany's" set in Mumbai.

    WSJ: Hats Off to a Silent-Film Pioneer

  • His comments come in the same week a senior councillor from Cornwall's cabinet resigned over an alleged plan to use what she has described as "lie detector" technology.

    BBC: Alec Robertson

  • The row is intensifying over a ban on France sending military reinforcements to its permanent military garrison in Ivory Coast, a move which General Bedie has described as "unacceptable".

    BBC: Ivory Coast rebels tighten grip

  • After a two-year spell at White Hart Lane, a period the player himself has described as "horrible", Bent is enjoying a renaissance since his record move to Sunderland in the summer.

    BBC: Bent backed for World Cup place

  • But Button responded with a new fastest lap of the race to take his third win of the season and a first in Japan, which he has described as his second home.

    BBC: By Sarah Holt

  • The president's call for tougher border security is part of a broader plan to overhaul a system that he has described as inhumane, with desperate foreigners risking their lives for a chance to earn U.S. wages.

    NPR: Bush Calls for Troops, Funds to Secure Border

  • It took him almost eight weeks to recover, a period of time the athlete has described as "fairly difficult" as it marked the first season in four or five years in which he didn't record a personal best.

    CNN: February 14, 2013 -- Updated 1700 GMT (0100 HKT)

  • Evans, whom Bush has described as a "lifelong friend, " has been active in the former Texas governor's political endeavors since Bush first ran for public office in 1978, when he was defeated in a bid for the U.S. House of Representatives.

    CNN: Senate panel opens confirmation hearings for commerce secretary

  • After all, this alleged leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad -- an organization Attorney General John Ashcroft has described as "one of the most violent terrorist organizations in the world" -- was allowed into the Bush White House on at least one occasion.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Why was Sami Al-Arian in the Bush White House?

  • If used to detonate nuclear weapons in space over targeted nations, such missiles could unleash electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) attacks, resulting in widespread destruction of electrical grids and what a congressional commission has described as the "catastrophic" disruption of civilizations reliant upon them.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: America's commitment to freedom

  • Ironically, the same race also caused what he has described as his one regret in racing - missing out on a trainers' title - when Desert Orchid's victory resulted in David Elsworth leapfrogging Gifford on the final day of the season in 1988.

    BBC: Gifford calls it a day

  • It is clear that electoral worries rather than policy concerns are behind what the White House has described as a "charm offensive, " because since launching this offensive a few weeks ago, Obama not changed any of his policies towards Israel and the wider Middle East.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Netanyahu, Obama's newest prop

  • Solar Frontier, a start-up company based in Tokyo, Japan selling leading-edge solar CIS technology, is opening an office in Khobar, Saudi Arabia to strengthen its position in the emerging solar-power market in the Middle East, which it has described as a strategic priority for long-term growth.

    FORBES: Solar Heats Up in Saudi Arabia

  • And if Congress were not to do that, the impact would be immediate and severe, as our Treasury Secretary has described and as a plethora of outside economists described.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Sir Alex Ferguson, who has announced he is going to retire as Manchester United manager at the end of the season, has been described as "a great friend to Northern Ireland".

    BBC: Northern Ireland tributes to Sir Alex Ferguson

  • The reported sentencing of paralysis for a Saudi man as punishment for paralysing another man has been described as "outrageous" by a leading human rights group.

    BBC: Amnesty 'outrage' at Saudi paralysis sentence

  • Mr Stimson, who worked as the Asian director of Shropshire firm David Austin Roses, has been described as a "remarkable person".

    BBC: Luke Stimson: Crews end search for missing sailor

  • She has been described as "a lightning rod for change", testimony to the fact that she has not been afraid to put a few noses out of joint in the society.

    BBC: Kamlesh Bahl: A lightning rod for change

  • Anka Clarke has described herself as a "scarcely living pregnant skeleton" at this point.

    BBC: News

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