• But levelling up the capital requirement, rather than levelling down, has revealed a shortfall in some banks.

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  • But if the Bank of England does decide to change rates, the direction will be up rather than down.

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  • He said he had not tried to argue down the price of the land but had tried to get the matter resolved in 2003, rather than allowing it to become protracted.

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  • Arteta was sent off for twice stamping on defender Jara after he was brought down rather recklessly by the Chilean, but Moyes refused to discuss the incident.

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  • But the campaign is right to go down this "rather unusual" approach.

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  • Many want Nato's future to be - perhaps not dim - but toned down into a defensive alliance, rather than a bright force in the world, lighting up the night sky over the Middle East.

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  • Mr. TERRY MADONNA (Director, Keystone Poll): The senator has scratched and literally clawed his way back into this race, not so much by improving his own standing with the voters of the state, but rather by sort of pulling Casey down to him.

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  • But rather than back down, Rumsfeld's forces fired off a letter to the White House, asking the President to take advantage of a swiftly changing situation in Iraq to install Chalabi's interim government.

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  • Some may be used to pay down debt (or rather, to slow its growth), but Tim Geithner, the treasury secretary, wants to keep a healthy buffer to deal with surprises.

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  • "Sean is not the stereotypical cop who is kind of intimidating, but rather a friendly and down-to-earth kind of guy that you would want to be friends with, " David Hou, an MIT sophomore, told CNN.

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  • Rarely did it come down to one superstar, but rather a group of players complementing each other and coming good when the team needed it the most.

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  • What was crucial to South Africa's chances of a functional future was not so much anything he did in his short presidency, from 1994 to 1999, but rather his decision, like George Washington in the early days of the American republic, to step down.

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  • All building societies also have to accept the judgments of their ombudsman, but they draw up his rules rather than having them laid down by law.

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  • But rather than launching a direct attack--a political and public relations nonstarter since the DOJ was breathing down its neck--the company stealthily set out to wreck competitors' currency.

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  • In the 77th minute Pongolle was put through clear on goal but was hauled down by Anthony Gardner, who was inexplicably shown a yellow card rather than red, and then the striker set up substitute John Welsh whose shot was close.

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  • He had brought rather non-standard electricity to it, digging his own trench down from the house, but even more ingeniously, he had made a little hole, about two inches square, in the plywood of the wall facing the house and put a tiny swing latch on it.

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  • But rather than do so, Obama has responded to the public's opposition to his foreign policies by doubling down.

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  • But if you're no longer claiming the deduction, it may make sense to start paying down that debt rather than investing the money.

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  • People with severe symptoms appeared to gain more clear-cut benefit - but this might be more down to the fact that they were less likely to respond to the placebo pill, rather than to respond positively to the drugs.

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