As a precursor to privatisation, both banks felt they had to start paying dividends again.
Wealth here has always come as a consequence of survival, never as a precursor to it.
Perhaps Wisconsin should be seen as a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, and perhaps Occupy Wall Street is only the beginning.
Michael Howard, the Tory leader, said on November 10th that unelected regional assemblies, set up as a precursor to elected bodies, should be abolished.
The deal is a big step toward a closer banking union across the 17-nation eurozone, which could be seen as a precursor to fiscal union.
The United States and other Western nations have demanded that Iran stopped its uranium-enrichment program, which they perceive as a precursor to production of nuclear warhead-grade material.
Two years ago, Mr Samper called for the demilitarisation of an area in the south of the country as a precursor to peace talks with the guerrillas.
The second panel has been interpreted as a precursor of sorts to the artist's stark and curvaceous "Blue Nudes, " cutouts from 1952 and, perhaps, a reference to Scheherazade herself.
This was the second largest capital injection in as many weeks and prior to what many see as a precursor to additional action by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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The comic-book series "From Hell, " in which Moore uses the Jack the Ripper killings as a precursor to 20th-century violence, runs to about 500 pages, including 40-plus pages of footnotes.
When I was an undergraduate in the mid-seventies, the 200 pioneer women in my class would talk about navigating the virile plains of Princeton as a precursor to professional success.
The Magna Carta, viewed by many as a precursor to the rights we now take for granted, was pried from King John of England literally at the point of a sword.
The minister said she hoped to see the Irish Open as a precursor to the British Open returning to Royal Portrush, and there had already been visits from the R and A golfing administrators.
At a marathon presentation in Turin of his five-year plan for Fiat on April 21st he confirmed, as expected, that he is planning to separate Fiat's other businesses from Fiat Auto as a precursor to creating a combined entity with Chrysler.
But it could deal a mortal blow to Mr Blair's project to form a progressive anti-Conservative coalition at national level with the Liberal Democrats, and to portray the Scottish coalition as a shining precursor.
Should we fail to do so, historians may well regard Ariel Sharon's legacy of weakening his country in the face of its enemies as the precursor to a devastating new phase in the War for the Free World.
One key element in searching for life on Mars is the presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere As a simple carbon compound, methane is often a precursor to the formation of the complex organic chemicals that make life possible.
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How else could he have become such a chronicler whose greatest work is still studied as the precursor of the modern psychological novel?
Considering October of 1987, bubble theorists would likely explain the Oct. 19 crash as a function of a market that similarly spiraled out of control--its impressive rise throughout the '80s a precursor to its ugly, 24.5% collapse.
That negative growth, correlated as it was with a big drop in government spending, is a precursor of things to come.
It was actually Democrats who proved how little electoral success an abundance of riches could buy in 2004, when left-leaning 527s (a sort of precursor to super PACs) spent almost twice as much as right-leaning ones without toppling Mr Bush.
There is even a precedent: Italy imposed a small tax on all deposits in 1992 as part of its battle to stay in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, a precursor to the single currency.
Cyber experts are calling a newer trojan called Duqu, which has been targeted at industrial systems, as the precursor to the next Stuxnet.
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Or to put it another way, banking union might be a precursor to the kind of fiscal and balance-sheet union that is widely regarded as the sine qua non of eurozone survival, but that supposedly vital financial union has not happened yet.
As of 2008, 23% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 had diabetes or the precursor condition known as pre-diabetes, up from just 9% in 1999, according to a new analysis of national survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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