But because the fiddling by many of the banks has ensured that they will survive Mr Soludo's planned consolidation, there will probably have to be another round of mergers before the central bank's target is met.
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To survive, Mr Huang maintained his day job with the Manhattan office of a Taipei-based plastics importer.
The Krewe of America will have to survive, Mr Quinlan says, because it has already spent serious money of its own.
To survive, Mr Vajpayee is in need of a mandate.
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To survive, Mr Hanson is slowly building up a herd of bison on his property, has put up tourist cabins made from his own pine trees, and hopes to attract visitors who can be taken on photo shoots through the scenic Badlands.
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Still, his opponent, Mitchel McLaughlin, is a second-rank republican figure, so Mr Durkan looks likelier to survive than does Mr Trimble.
If Mr Hague does not survive next week's defeat, Mr Portillo is by no means a shoo-in.
So Mr Olmert may survive long enough in his job to sign a deal with Mr Abbas.
"We realized that low-end producers won't last long only creative companies can survive, " said Mr. Zhang.
Mr Hunt may survive but his long-term future looks far from certain.
Equally, though, Mr McCain cannot survive without the support of Republican stalwarts.
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But for Labour to revive, and maybe for Mr Brown to survive, it will take more than a semblance of unity and the odd crowd-pleaser.
Mr Blair may survive in Downing Street for several more months, perhaps well into next year, but he is no longer master of his own destiny.
Before the deal with the provincial governors, Argentines were starting to wonder aloud whether Mr Duhalde would survive until the presidential election fixed for September 2003.
But he added there was a big difference between talk and action and Mr Brown could survive as long as no major figure stood against him.
Mr Blair will survive, but, unless those weapons are found, he will pay a price: people will be less inclined to believe what he says in the future.
Lately, movements in Morgan Stanley's share price have seemed highly correlated with the market's view of whether Mr Purcell will survive as boss a position that has been his alone since January 2001, when he forced out his co-head, John Mack, in a boardroom coup.
Yet although Mr Berlusconi may survive the scandals that have engulfed him, he can scarcely appeal to voters for blood, sweat and tears so long as he insists that Italy has emerged almost unscathed from the world's economic meltdown rather as the barracks in which the G8 summit is being held weathered the earthquake.
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It will need support from five of seven non-aligned parliamentarians, who now include Mr Slipper, to survive.
Mr Oshima predicts that Mr Fukuda will now survive until an election must be called in September 2009.
Even if the Liberals win, Mr Charest may not survive, since his district has a large student population.
But Mr DeLay will probably survive as long as no more serious revelations about him appear (see article).
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"The animals here are all here because we're helping them survive as a species, " Mr. Lukas said, referring to the plantation's extensive breeding and animal-rehabilitation programs.
The de facto government's sole policy has been to survive the seven months left of Mr Zelaya's term and let an elected successor pick up the pieces.
The long march back to sanity under Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Tony Blair had to start in small and cautious steps, and, even then, Mr Smith did not survive to see the fruits of his efforts.
Mr Gutierrez is trying to sound moderate and Mr Chavez himself may not survive in power.
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But many smallholders, such as Mr Langin, could not survive without help, whatever their willingness to adapt.
Mr Chavez looks able to survive until a referendum on his presidency can be held, and possibly even longer.
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