But delegates refused the request by a wafer-thin majority and the shark ban was upheld.
What if it's unsliced, which means it can be cut wafer-thin or doorstop thick?
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Already, though sales of Wi-Fi equipment are booming, prices have tumbled, and margins are now wafer-thin.
It has delivered several divisive wafer-thin majority rulings in recent years, prompting criticism from liberals.
Mass modification is less labour-intensive and thus, for an industry with wafer-thin margins, more appealing.
Conveyor belts carried long, wafer-thin strips of metal into printing-press-like rollers, which coated them with electrode-active material.
The centre-left won the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, with a wafer-thin margin of the nationwide vote.
She leads a minority government which relies on independents for its wafer-thin majority.
With huge oversupply in some industries, and big rises in raw-materials costs, many manufacturers are having to endure wafer-thin margins.
WiCC is a wafer-thin card that consumers can insert into compatible phones or cases to instantly upgrade them for wireless power.
There's no detachable battery and the only access offered by the phone is the wafer-thin panel covering the micro-SIM and microSD slots.
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Mr Paisley wants the poll to be a re-run of the 1998 referendum which gave Mr Trimble a wafer-thin margin among unionists.
In a business with wafer-thin margins, Eastern Europe's labour costs are crucial.
Keyboards: The Surface Pro offers two kinds of wafer-thin keyboards which are magnetically and electrically linked to the base of the tablet.
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The move by Mr Slipper, a former opposition lawmaker, into the Speaker's post had helped secure Prime Minister Julia Gillard's wafer-thin parliamentary majority.
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Scale and an uncanny ability to predict commodity-price movements has allowed Glencore to make decent returns in a business where margins are wafer-thin.
The truth is the ISP business is characterized by wafer-thin margins, low barriers to entry, flat-rate pricing, intense national competition and high customer support costs.
His re-election in 2004 was achieved by only a wafer-thin margin.
The support of two rural MPs, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, gave Ms Gillard's Labor party its wafer-thin majority, after several weeks of talks following inconclusive election.
Sandwiched between them was a wafer-thin disc of membrane tissue.
Despite charging what may seem high interest rates, MFIs typically have wafer-thin margins because of the high costs of making and collecting payments on millions of tiny loans.
In many export industries, particularly steel, margins are already wafer-thin.
But the second is that we need to recognise that consent for Britain's membership of the EU and all the ways that it's changed has become wafer-thin in Britain.
In the same way that wafer-thin tech and telecom firms became massively valued, whopping price tags were slapped on intangible media assets - and companies are now having to pay for that carelessness.
As if to prove his point, Ballmer also welcomed onstage program manager Janet Galore, who gave brief demos of some Microsoft product prototypes, including a tabletop-like touch screen and a flexible, wafer-thin digital screen you can roll up like a piece of paper.
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Dive into the crowd at MacWorld gathered around Apple's latest product, the MacBook Air, and they'll quickly point out what could be the wafer-thin machines biggest flaw: Users can't swap in fresh batteries. (See: " Into Thin (MacBook) Air") That could be a deal-breaker for road warriors looking for a lightweight notebook.
Tapio Wirkkala's wafer-thin laminated wood bowls and fluid, flaring glass, and the objects of art and manufacture of Timo Sarpaneva, Kaj Franck and other Finnish architects and artisans prove once again that the intrinsic quality of materials reduced to their most basic, sensuous essence, shaped by the creative imagination of an artist, beats all the kitsch in the world.
The firm also sells imaging and infrared detector products that SunPower makes using its thin-wafer manufacturing process for solar cells.
As a result, "democratic consent for the EU in Britain is now wafer thin, " he said, and public disillusionment is at an all-time high.
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The margins in this business are going to be wafer thin, so Spotify cannot afford to be a minor player in the US market - it's got to do what it has achieved in Europe and prove that millions are prepared to pay for access to music.
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