Even privately owned enterprises and foreign joint ventures depend on good relations with government officials to enter and stay in a certain line of business.
During a recent visit to the City by the Bay, we popped into the TechShop hackerspace and were introduced to Max Gunawan, the designer behind Lumio (not to be confused with a certain smartphone line of similar name).
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If you like, you can program Hotmail to automatically flag messages with a particular subject line, from a certain sender, et cetera.
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"Given what we see, it is certain that a criminal line of inquiry is to be number one, " said the prosecutor.
So they literally drew a red line around certain neighborhoods.
The Exiles suddenly began to throw the ball around and it would have paid dividends straight away, but for a superb tackle by Cohen who came off his line and snuffed out a certain scoring move.
And if that trajectory indicates that over the course of a year the RMB has appreciated a certain amount that is more in line in economic fundamentals, then I -- hopefully not only will that be good for the U.S. economy, that will also be good for the Chinese economy and the world economy.
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With certain mage powers, you can draw a line where you want a wall of fire to appear.
The second half began in similar fashion and Negredo set up Perotti for a certain score only for Casillas to charge across his line to save.
"This is for all of the gentlemen of a certain age, " he said after crossing the finish line in temperatures just above zero.
Dr. CIRINCIONE: Certain hard-line Israelis who are aimed at preventing a U.S.-Syrian or an Israeli-Syrian dialogue.
Mohammad Yousuf looks certain to return as Pakistan desperately seek some resilience to a batting line-up that has been blown away far too easily in the course of this series.
Undoubtedly, there are certain eternal lessons about war, which could be seen as having a straight line from Korea, to Vietnam, to the Cold War and into Desert Storm.
We put them on an education assembly line every day, starting with one station that teaches them a certain subject before automatically moving them to the next class after a certain period of time.
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The phone might be able to list the locations of several nearby and the service provider might charge a certain gas station a few dollars to put it at the head of the line in that list in the same way Google.com charges for its search-based text ads.
It seems that Casey draws a line between offering information about a candidate and urging employees to vote a certain way.
It could have been worse for Leeds but Sinfield saved a certain try for ripping the ball from Long's grasp as he went over the line.
It takes some obvious design cues from a certain very popular portable digital music player and sports two relatively large speakers flanking a multi-line LCD.
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The moment of controversy involving goalkeeper Devine came four minutes after the interval with the Tyrone custodian looking certain to have carried a miss-hit free from Aaron Kernan over his own goal-line.
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Setback: prescribed distance landward of a coastal feature (e.g. the line of permanent vegetation), within which all or certain types of development are prohibited.
If you receive a form W-2G, Certain Gambling Winnings, you report the amount in box 1 on your form 1040, line 21 (again, no form 1040-EZ).
The justices seemed troubled by a long and confusing line of decisions where the Supreme Court allowed the government to waive application of the AIA in certain cases and not in others.
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