• These institutions could be carved out of commercial banks, leaving behind the depositor-only entities.

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  • Going forward, will each drilling prospect have to be carved into a separate legal entity with significantly higher insurance?

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  • Finally, though it is easy to call for banks to be carved up, it would be hellishly difficult in practice.

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  • Preventive services would be carved out of the existing health insurance system and financed through a new, public-private system called the Wellness Trust.

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  • In any event, allowing Bosnia to be carved up by its ethnic bosses would set a disastrous precedent for other Balkan countries, especially volatile Macedonia.

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  • International routes will be carved up between two or three mega-alliances.

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  • But Johnson, who had previously said that the stores would be carved up into 100 mini-shops by the end of 2015, on Wednesday backtracked a bit.

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  • Mayawati, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, which is India's largest state and one of its poorest, with 170m people, has been quick to demand that it be carved into four.

    ECONOMIST: Attempts to satisfy demands for local autonomy backfire

  • Despite the many rumours that a new job would be carved out for him - Business and Budget seemed the favourite - he stays put to forge ahead with, if not finish, what he started.

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  • In some future century, a new Mount Rushmore may be carved, to celebrate the figures of our own era who changed the course of the world as dramatically as any presidents or statesmen.

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  • Another advantage to LLCs is that entrepreneurs can divvy up profits any way they choose, whereas with shareholders, the spoils have to be carved up in proportion to each shareholder's percentage ownership in the corporation.

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  • In effect, members argued, an entirely new concept, something like the personal prelature, had to be carved out in order to give Opus Dei the juridical configuration that corresponded to its original spiritual impulse and vision.

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  • More than 3, 000 years ago, between the first and second cataracts on the West Bank and the Nil, the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded a colossal temple, and a smaller one along with it, to be carved out of the rock.

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  • The loss of Cambodia's artists spurred efforts to find survivors who could instruct future generations about the country's ancient arts, some of the instruments of which can be seen carved on the temples of Angkor Wat, which are up to 1, 200 years old, in Siem Reap.

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  • And atop the 200 year old dining tables can be read the carved names of past students--including, most incredibly, Bismarck himself.

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  • When elevated motorways were being built, their architects promised that people could be housed in flats carved out of the support stanchions.

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  • He added that the cost of repairing the entrance and its carved post would be covered by insurance and Ipswich Borough Council's conservation officers were providing advice.

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  • Still, if you're looking for a pocket camcorder that is more than just a dumb pocket camcorder, Kodak seems to be continuing the niche it carved out for itself originally with the Zi8.

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  • Although depicting only the middle torso, and showing signs of having been deliberately smashed (for reasons unknown), the work is boldly carved on both front and back, conveying the physical weight of pregnancy, while also including hands that appear to be bound or decorated by a carved ornamental chain.

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  • "There's an abundance of practical take-aways, " she said, pointing out a carved wall medallion that could be translated into a great throw pillow.

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  • If the strategy fails to revive Carrefour's French hypermarkets by the end of next year, some investors will demand that the firm be taken to the charcuterie counter and carved up.

    ECONOMIST: Carrefour

  • Michie's Whale Skull Bone will be made using a metal framework inside a carved dense polystyrene material which is then coated in reinforced concrete.

    BBC: Sculptures selected for Dunnet Head and beach

  • "It's one of the largest and finest in the collection of early medieval carved stone grave slabs and crosses to be found at Iona Abbey, " he said.

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  • Best of all, the probe found that, although Schiaperelli's original canali were indeed an artefact of his telescope, the planet did have canyons and what appeared to be networks of valleys that seemed to have been carved by water flows aeons ago.

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  • The museum and several Native Hawaiian groups are struggling to figure out what should be done with 83 objects, including bones and rare carved artifacts taken from sacred burial caves in Kawaihae, on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1905.

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  • They are a hard-working couple: Willem-Alexander regularly gives speeches at water conferences, sharing his low-lying nation's centuries of experience battling to stay dry, while soon-to-be Queen Maxima, a former investment banker, has carved out a career as a microfinance expert.

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  • They would be paid the principal plus interest once the land had been carved into plots and sold.

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  • Do absolutely nothing else, and you might be amazed that this one toe of pressure actually initiates a solid carved turn.

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  • Your first stop should be the artisan tent, where you can pick up local whiskey, hand-carved shepherds' crooks, jars of honey and embroidered tea cosies - most of them sold by the producers themselves.

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  • His officials had worked out a compromise by which the circle would be excavated and moved to another site before building began (though the circle, carved in soft limestone, might crumble in the process).

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