If that were the case, even under the fraction reserve system, banks would never be able to loan the amount of money they do.

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While on Mr Davies' assumptions there is no structural case for tighter fiscal policy, if his assumptions were a fraction less optimistic, there would be a case for it.

ECONOMIST: The budget

Then of course, the automobile appeared on the scene, and the use case around gasoline displaced that around the heavier fraction (kerosene) in importance.

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The firm says it complied with three-quarters of these requests, though it does not say whether it handed over all or simply a fraction of the information requested in each case.

ECONOMIST: Government surveillance

Some bankers in Moscow and Paris said they were perplexed by the case, as the sum of five million rubles is a fraction of the 100 million rubles per year that the head of a large Russian bank would expect to earn.

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As is so often the case in other areas, our public landscape and the architecture profession are shaped by only a small fraction of our potential collective genius, and limited by the creative absence of so many.

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Similarly, trying to get a lawyer to take your case on a contingency when the public customer got a six-figure settlement (even if only a fraction of what was sought), might prove difficult if not impossible.

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If that isn't the case, voters deserve to know exactly who is accountable for the decisions of the agency that takes a healthy fraction of their income every year.

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