Without them, voters could react badly to a back-door injection of public funds if bank bosses and shareholders did not take responsibility for their mistakes.

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The carmaker has returned as the world's largest by volume - less than three years after it was rescued from bankruptcy by a US government cash injection - on the back of strong performance in both North and South America, as well as in Asia, including the buoyant Chinese market.

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Hughes needed an injection of painkiller in September 2011 to alleviate a seven-year-old back injury that recurred.

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The injection of fresh cash by central banks eventually succeeded in pushing money-market rates back down.

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