Merkel is saying that if Greece fails, it would be nothing short of catastrophic.
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One partner might want the goal to be nothing short of market domination.
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"I think a McCain presidency - especially with Ms Palin as vice-president - would be nothing short of catastrophic, " he said.
The next iPhone, according to numerous leaked reports will be nothing short of the mobile phone to rule all mobile phones.
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For Brabin to take them back through it in his first full season in charge would be nothing short of remarkable.
"I think it would be nothing short of a catastrophe if the centre wasn't allowed to achieve its full potential, " Ms Lewis said.
For Russia to achieve similar performance in the midst of a growing world economy and high oil prices would be nothing short of shocking.
"When patrons are ordering from Mr Puck's menus, they expect the food and presentation to be nothing short of outstanding, " said Larry Korman, AKA's president.
China wants to enhance its domestic production as a pricing hedge, all while the U.S. considers domestic energy development to be nothing short of a second industrial revolution.
If the proposal actually does get drafted and announced that month, and subsequently presented to the new Diet session next month (as planned), it will be nothing short of miraculous.
Scottish National Party fisheries spokesman Richard Lochhead wished the new council well - but agreed that it would be "nothing short of a worthy but glorified talking shop".
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What you consider an ordinary part of living would be for them nothing short of a miracle.
Mahathir's policy of isolationism, in what used to be Asia's most internationalized manufacturing economy, is nothing short of a disaster.
An upstart organization calling itself the International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) looks to be out to bring back the VR glory days, recently announcing that it's planning nothing short of an entirely new network that'll be all VR all the time, existing alongside the plain-old, apparently not-suitable-for-VR Internet.
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Nothing short of a unified force will be capable of outmaneuvering Gazprom.
But raising duty will be a short-term squeeze on household spending, with nothing like the hit of a VAT increase, for example, which affects all products.
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Nothing short of merger madness--what other explanation could there be for the valuation of these deals?
Nothing short of full disclosure and investigation of any potential related harm should be acceptable to participants and taxpayers.
Once, many moons ago, I spent a month in Iceland with too little money and nothing to slow a march of days that seemed already to be getting much too short.
Most of the people coming from abroad to watch or participate in World Cup soccer will be entering the country through GRU. And for years, it has been nothing short of a nightmare.
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"They were educated in a system that knew nothing of collegiality and were trained to be obedient to the Pope but in a very, very short time - perhaps two or three weeks - with daring, but gently, they threw out the preparatory materials, " he told Robert Mickens of The Tablet.
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