Still, "this procedure has greatly contributed to control the age of gymnasts, " said a FIG spokesman.
If not, then treaty violators will continue to enjoy impunity, which makes the cwc not worth a fig.
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Customers and investors didn't give a fig whether the Taurus was number one.
If we are lucky, the regional "process" will afford American forces a fig-leaf behind we might obscure our strategic defeat.
But that's a line increasingly coming to serve as a fig-leaf for New Delhi's own political nakedness in the Kashmir valley.
"It's used as a fig leaf, and we decided that for the time being, we're better off without it, " Mekel says.
But a 2003 agreement between the industry's lobby group and the taxman suggests this is little more than a fig leaf.
The committee allowed the boycotters a fig-leaf of sorts: the pressure of sanctions might have helped keep the Austrian coalition in line.
The impression he leaves, however, is that he will pull us out as soon as he finds a shred of a fig leaf.
But even for people who don't care a fig about football, it turns out there's a long tradition of enjoying Super Bowl Sunday.
They sound and move like zombies, and if their hands move at all, it is to assume the military at-ease position or a fig-leaf pose.
This is his cover story, a fig leaf for his smuggling plans, and an illustration of the kind of development that might genuinely help the indigenous peoples.
It has been seen as a fig leaf for US troops in Africa, which could be poised to defend strategic interests like oil in, for example, Nigeria.
It was bad enough that the Fed held rates far too low, but at least a fig leaf of uncertainty kept the most brazen speculators in partial paralysis.
That Mr Jospin did not get very far suggests that Mr Hollande may be satisfied with a fig-leaf perhaps a repackaging of the many official EU policies on growth.
"A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton, " Dirksen would announce, his gray-golden ringlets vibrating with emotion, "has let much of life pass him by!"
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This feature, which Dr. Keynes opposed, was at the time largely a fig leaf, a token to past practices but played no significant role in the function of Bretton Woods.
But these studies have, for years, given politicians enough of a fig leaf to sneak what are effectively outright corporate subsidies through the courts without running afoul of the gift clause.
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The trouble with all these academic studies and their gloomy prognostications is that, on this week's evidence, few small investors show much sign of caring a fig for any of them.
When it was established in 1993, the tribunal was widely seen as a fig-leaf to hide the pusillanimity of the western powers, who did not want to intervene in the conflagration devouring the Balkans.
But what happens if the bulls are right and our GDP growth rate bounces back to a lively, noninflationary 4% ... yet the bears are right as well, and the market doesn't give a fig about growth because it cares only about meeting a statistical average?
It's currently being served with a roasted fig and plum mixture, topped with aged balsamic vinegar.
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The U.S., in turn, must provide Iran with what amounts to a diplomatic fig leaf.
In short, Israel will, for a few fig leaves, be forced to go back to its pre-1967 borders.
The government should not use the coalition as a "fig leaf" for "very serious breaches" of the ministerial code, he said.
So far, much debate has focused on how BP may be forced to cut its dividend as a political fig leaf.
There are the moments of solitude, of quietly trimming topiary, repotting a creeping fig, taking notes or referring to some books on herbs.
In any case, the arbitration is a mere fig-leaf.
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