• And if there had not been a number of errors in the field, Australia could have been dismissed for a much lesser total.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | India battle against Australia

  • The corporation agrees to the set of facts and to plead no contest to criminal charges should the government see fit to raise them later, a scenario which occurs only if the company does not abide by a number of conditions.

    FORBES: Justice 'Deferred'

  • But does it also enmesh, if not totally muzzle, quite a number of important backbench figures.

    BBC: Muzzled?

  • It finds the policy of inviting the Soviets to play an even greater role in the Middle East -- given the mischievous, if not destructive, nature of a number of Moscow's recent initiatives -- to be most worrisome.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Care should not be a lottery, it should not be that if you are number 49 of 50 patients that you get good quality care but if you happen to be number 50 you don't get good quality care.

    BBC: 'Care should not be a lottery'

  • If money is a number, not an object, then the need for security shifts from protecting that object to protecting access to that number.

    FORBES: A Survival Guide for Retail Banking

  • Never mind clawing back the bonuses, these executives should be trampling over each other to voluntarily return at least a portion, if not all, of the incentives they earned for a fair number of years prior to the debacle in 2008.

    FORBES: Clawing Back Wall Street Pay

  • If you do not have a Social Security Number for your dependent, and your dependent qualifies for a Social Security Number, you need to file a form SS5, Application for a Social Security Card (downloads as a pdf), with the Social Security Administration (SSA).

    FORBES: Ask The Taxgirl: Social Security Numbers for Dependents

  • If a single force was not possible, he added there were "a number of different things that could be done".

    BBC: Cornwall's county-only police force remembered

  • "It's not as big a number if you're talking about 700 or a thousand or however many have been through Guantanamo, " he said.

    CNN: What's next for Guantanamo Bay detainees?

  • Vanishing Point theatre - which is planning several international collaborations this year - said its future programme would be left "constrained and compromised" if it could not apply for funding over a number of years.

    BBC: Creative Scotland arts funding shake-up sparks concerns

  • He should be able to win over a substantial number of Democrats with a simple argument: if we do not control health care spending, it will crowd out everything else that government does.

    FORBES: The Economy is Finally Showing Signs of Life: Don't Sabotage it!

  • Their governing body went bust just before the Games, and coaches hadn't been paid for a number of weeks, if not months.

    BBC: Day 14 as it happened

  • Two other lists that stood out for their high number of selections, if not a broad range of styles, were those at Ruth's Chris and Morton's.

    FORBES: Food And Wine

  • Obviously, if the private sector does not begin adding a meaningful number of jobs, expect the unemployment number to remain high and possibly rise in the second half of 2010, just in time for the November elections.

    FORBES: Employment Numbers: No Lipstick On This Pig

  • He suggested that females may perceive the song as abnormal if they could not hear the lower frequencies and, over a period of time, this could have a potential impact on the abundance of the species as if adults were not pairing and mating then the number of offspring would decrease as a result.

    BBC: Traffic noise driving songbirds to the limit in cities

  • Joining hands with a party that is clearly supported by a significant number of Turks, if not its meddlesome generals, would surely help shore up Turkey's wobbly democracy, the argument goes.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey: A man for all Turks? | The

  • Adding irony to the decision, it comes just as the Chinese government is indicating that it is actively encouraging, if not forcing, consolidation and greater market concentration in a number of areas, including steel, cars and airlines, and just after it imposed a new oligopoly in telecommunications.

    ECONOMIST: Coca-Cola in China

  • This apparent hardening of the authorities' approach to suspected opposition, whether violent or not, comes despite a number of notable if tentative steps taken since 2001 to modernise the Saudi judicial system.

    ECONOMIST: A human-rights report takes the kingdom to task

  • Specifically, the Center has learned that there may be a number of documents -- many, if not all of them, classified -- that could shed light on this question.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • If you can not tell a member of your family, there are a number of charities who can help you cope with the stress and help you work out a debt management strategy.

    BBC: How can I manage my debt?

  • Bullish players are in attendance, although a number of strategists do appear to be initiating cautious if not outright bearish positions on the stock.

    FORBES: Disney Bulls And Bears Play Mickey Mouse Games In Options Pits

  • If you did not bring your own bike, you can rent one at a number of places in Sag Harbor, Southampton and East Hampton.

    BBC: Visiting the Hamptons off season

  • At the BPI, Sarah Roberts insists the old-style singles chart is not dead - if a single is good enough, it will stay at number one, even if it costs twice as much to buy eight days after it is released.

    BBC: Keeping music alive

  • Meanwhile, a second study from the Commission of all 68 NHS specialist community mental health trusts in England, found that almost half of under 65s needing specialist mental healthcare still do not have an out-of-hours number if they are in a crisis.

    BBC: Mental services 'shut to elderly'

  • Pawlenty has not yet put forward a specific number, but when (and if) he does, it should be 3.5% or higher.

    FORBES: Social Security Needs Growth, Not Cuts

  • It would be very hard for the European Commission not to reach such conclusions, even if the investigation will drag on for a number of years to do so.

    FORBES: Getting Tough With Gazprom Could Be Suicide For Europe

  • But what if I were to tell you that those statistics may not matter as much as a far smaller number?

    FORBES: Connect

  • On the other hand, if the work is isolated or requires a small number of players, the Cloud may not improve productivity at all.

    FORBES: Stairway to Heaven: How to Get on the Cloud

  • When the controversial law on NGOs was approved in November, a number of prominent Russian groups said they would not comply - even if that risked closure.

    BBC: Russia NGOs decry 'intimidation' raids

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