It was narrowly backed in Scotland and Northern Ireland and looks set to be introduced there.
The candidate he backed in Ecuador didn't do as well as expected, for instance.
The Wildlife Conservation Society, a charity backed in South Sudan with American government cash, hopes so.
But the proposals were backed in the Assembly by 88 votes to 17 with only the UUP voting against.
MSPs on the committee backed in principle the proposals in the Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Bill.
On Tuesday, the popular petition was easily backed in parliament, where the governing conservative Popular Party (PP) has a majority.
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One project I backed in 2010 has been dead since Feb 2011, with questions going unanswered across all their sites.
You pointed out that Treasury debt is also asset-backed in the sense that the govt has assets it can sell off (military bases, etc).
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The idea is being backed in a petition to governments by 44 NGOs representing millions of people concerned about the impacts of climate change.
He is equally clear, though, that he is not apologising for the policy he backed in government which, he believes, will come to be seen as fair.
While having little impact in Lima, the strike was widely backed in southern towns, with protesters blocking roads and the railway to the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu.
Second Sight is backed in part by the billionaire medical device investor Al Mann, who is its chairman, and by the legendary device inventor and venture capitalist Thomas Forgarty.
"When you talk about the sectors that are leading on the way down, they're all commodity-backed in some fashion, " said Will Bertsch, a head of trading for BMO Capital Markets.
New public-private urban regeneration companies, which have planning and compulsory purchase power, similar to ones already introduced in Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester, are also likely to be backed in new areas such as Leicester.
Aura is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer backed in part by Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), which specializes in using magnetic technology as opposed to radio signals for near-field communications.
The projects backed in Copenhagen demand relatively little of the governments that would have to implement them, and thus reflect one of the key lessons that have been learned from the many mistakes donors have made over the years (see article).
European stocks took another subprime-related tumble on Thursday after one of the continent's biggest banks, BNP Paribas , froze three funds that invested in asset-backed securities in America.
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon also said that they are seeing a large amount of trade finance revolvers and asset sales in mortgage-backed securities in Europe.
Gore's hopes rest partly on people like Chuck O'Neal, 55, a Macon insurance salesman who voted for Bush's father in 1988 but backed Clinton in 1992 and 1996.
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Authorities allege the ratings agency consciously understated the risks in mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, defrauding buyers of such securities counting on an accurate opinion.
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Talisman for its involvement in Sudan, though it backed off in the face of lobbyists.
In 1996 the Sandoz family backed Parmigiani in a venture to sell watches under his own name.
Mr Putin said he still needed to read the Russian bill in detail, though he backed it in principle.
Numerous and often outlandish pronouncements in the media have not been backed up in the ring and that has not endeared him to the British public, many of whom cheered openly as they witnessed his fall from grace.
Aside from the problems in the bond markets in general and the asset-backed sector in particular, First Marblehead has had to contend with an investigation into the student-lending industry announced by New York in August and questions about the planned acquisition of Sallie Mae.
In this important mortgage-backed securities case, attorneys for the New Jersey Carpenters Vacation Fund allege that misstatements and omissions regarding residential mortgage loans in offering documents relied upon by buyers of certain mortgage-backed securities resulted in material losses.
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