• Banks, awash in bad debt, are to be encouraged to start lending again to property and construction projects, and the central bank will be less strict in classifying bad loans.

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  • According to a series of CBS News polls asking if gun control laws should be made more strict, less strict or stay the same, 53 percent said it should be more strict when asked in the first week of February.

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  • Any and all information provided will be treated in strict confidence.

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  • Consequently, the study of corruption ought to include acts that may be legal in a strict narrow sense but where the rules of the game have been bent.

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  • Smith has Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's blessing to instill collaboration among all Microsofties--even if it has to be drilled into them in strict legalese.

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  • "The added credibility of Brent and of taking 30% in the local elections earlier this year means that we come under the microscope more and we have to be more professional and more strict in our entire approach as a party, " he said.

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  • Abramovich clearly made a mistake in allowing himself to be roped into testifying in a courtroom where strict legal procedures are followed.

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  • Growth in 2013 is expected to be moderate due to relatively strict government regulations and a decline in the number of foreign visitors.

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  • Unlike the crown, which is awarded on the Monday of eisteddfod week for poems in the free metres, the chair is reserved for poems in cynghanedd, the ancient system of strict poetic metres which requires poems to be written in a complex mix of consonantal harmony, stress, rhythm and rhyme.

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  • The shift provides signals that less aggressive government spending measures will be taken in favor of more strict cut-backs from Washington.

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  • We early on made provisions for that type of burial, and we wanted to make sure that it was going to be done, again, in strict conformance.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "As concerned ... restrictive conditions and lack of human contact, the court found that, if the applicants were convicted as charged, the U.S. authorities would be justified in considering them a significant security risk and in imposing strict limitations on their ability to communicate with the outside world, " the court ruled.

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  • In 1996 the American burger chain won this second battle: the Appeal Court, in essence, applied a less strict test of what it meant to be well-known in South Africa, and accepted the evidence in the two surveys because it thought that whites represented McDonald's target market.

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  • In the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority, an independent body which oversees the industry, has strict rules on what can be shown in commercials.

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  • Even though the story is not fully told, the more positive experience of Chinalco in Peru can only be reproduced in countries that maintain a strict rule of law and proper enforcement.

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  • If the Court's strict constructionists are to be intellectually honest in their interpretation of the meaning of "scheme" liability in StoneRidge next week, it would prove a revolutionary milestone in the saga of investor rights.

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  • The objective of the SGP was for strict fiscal discipline to be maintained and enforced in the process of European Monetary Union (EMU).

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  • The Haitian government must be willing to have strict oversight imposed upon it in the beginning of this process and see a relaxation of that oversight as it proves it is able manage the funds with minimal corruption.

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  • The funding programme, which runs annually from December to November, is split into two levels of funding - Podium and Development - each with strict criteria and standards which must be met in selection and maintained with the support of UKA staff.

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  • It is worth noting that if the Honduran Constitution was good enough to allow Honduras to be a member of the OAS in the first place, even with its strict prohibition of multiple presidential terms, then it cannot be un-constitutional to remove Zelaya because he repeatedly violated it.

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  • It's not enough to just arrest them, but action should be so strict that no one should dare to act in such a manner again.

    BBC: Delhi bus gang rape: Uproar in Indian parliament

  • Mark to market rules and strict ratings may be appropriate (though unfair) in the good times as a means of preparing institutions for the bad times.

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  • In many of these cases I can make a plausible argument that the government activities in question can be justified under a strict libertarian conception of the role of government.

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  • Last month, a senior judge ruled Jordan had not proved that the retrial of Abu Qatada - who is currently living under strict bail conditions in London - would be free of evidence obtained by torture.

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  • In May media reports quoted Gustavo Larrea, a government minister and a confidant of President Rafael Correa, as saying that miners in Ecuador would be hit with a strict tax hike that would take away 70% to 80% of revenues.

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  • This verdict may also increase tensions within Turkey between those who believe religion should be allowed a more open role in public life and those who argue that any move away from strict secularism would be a betrayal of the country's founding principles.

    BBC: Despatches

  • Strict rules against firing will be dropped for new hires in companies with up to ten employees, and not merely five, as the government had proposed.

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  • If people have no way to eat other than through the government, then the government ends up having very strict control over them, and they can be punished in all sorts of ways for expressing their own opinions.

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  • Consider what happened in South Africa after the government decided to be strict about enforcing minimum wages.

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  • Any aid should be in-kind and only provided under the most strict oversight by the nations providing it, not by the UN or Palestinian NGOs.

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