• Neither the Liberal Democrats or Labour are fielding enough candidates to form an overall majority - so any great gains by them would mean some sort of consensus.

    BBC: Shropshire

  • That doesn't mean we are extortionists by any means.

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  • "By that I mean try to imagine creating a cavity inside your mouth without any air bubbles and by letting in no air through your lips or throat -- it's basically impossible at sea level because the air pressure outside your mouth pushes the air pocket closed, " he said.

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  • That could mean that any bond purchases made by the ECB will be smaller than the markets are expecting.

    ECONOMIST: The European Central Bank

  • And even though this time the water will be rougher and deeper than it was four years ago, it does not mean that the Fed will do the economy any good by breaking out its heavy artillery once again.

    FORBES: Fed Is Killing The Recovery With Quantitative Easing

  • In fact, in today's fragile markets, almost any financial institution is systemically significant -- if what we mean by the term is that its collapse will stimulate fear about the stability of others.

    WSJ: Not Everything Can Be Too Big to Fail

  • By hungry I mean two things: First, they have very little, if any cash to pay people who work there.

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  • Mr. McCOLLOM: We now have this tremendous data set that's being returned by the Mars rover that--I mean, we wouldn't have any debates if that data wasn't there.

    NPR: Mars Rover Marks Second Anniversary of Landing

  • Assuming that the majority is correct in it's assumption that there are 11 or 17, can anyone imagine a trial in this court or in any other court in which the issue of whether certain occasions by definition could not mean 17 and occasionally could not refer to 11 would be the issue being litigated?

    CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement

  • Brinqa and other such software is used by large IT shops, especially in the financial services industry, for whom any outage could mean a significant loss of revenue, or could trigger regulatory scrutiny.

    FORBES: Elevating the IT Risk Management Conversation to the Boardroom

  • In principle, a default by Greece or by any other euro-zone country would not threaten the euro any more than default by New York City in 1975, or California today, would mean the end of the dollar.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Roy, earlier on you were saying that really they were making a pig's dinner of this, Labour, this particular crisis, and obviously Keith Vaz and all those things that were brought up by Mr Hinduja there, I mean it's up to Labour really whether this crisis has any effect is it?

    BBC: News Online

  • The changes put forward mean that any increase of 5% or more in private income would have to be approved by a foundation trust's council of governors.

    BBC: Ministers offer more concessions on NHS bill

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