But is Berlin's ceding power to Brussels also the route to a United States of Europe?
He will remain chairman for some period of time after ceding the chief executive title.
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Between those two factors, organizations are ceding a risky amount of control over vital information.
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Ignoring any media is merely ceding your ability to influence the audience engaging with that media.
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We saw IBM give way to Microsoft and now see Microsoft ceding ground to Google.
The government also charged that Microsoft bullied computer makers into ceding control of the computer's desktop.
President Jagdeo is now practised at international grandstanding about ceding Guyana's rainforests in a noble global cause.
Which means he is not ceding any authority, even though he is under pressure to do so.
Ceding the C block to Verizon would allow Google to exit the auction gracefully and direct its billions elsewhere.
Even carmakers that are officially supporting MirrorLink express ambivalence over ceding control to mobile devices and potentially degrading its brand.
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As you saw in Iraq, there was a gradual ceding of security control and lead to the Iraq security forces.
Other goalies making big money and now ceding playing time to cheaper players: Dallas's Kari Lehtonen and Boston's Tim Thomas.
Instead, Labour MPs are caught in between, slowly ceding ownership of one of their more far-sighted innovations without repudiating it.
Some politicians, including the head of the congressional committee that oversees the SEC, worry about ceding standard-setting power to the IASB.
Ceding these capabilities can impact national security issues over time and drive up long-term costs to maintain and improve military capabilities.
Now at age 63, Dalio is ceding more responsibility and selling ownership stakes in his firm to his employees and clients.
Her liberal partners warn against ceding more power to EU bureaucrats.
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Mr Abbas has something to show for ceding a measure of control.
The Colombians embarked on a peace process with FARC in the late nineties, ceding a piece of territory the size of Switzerland.
In addition, the president, Mahinda Rajapakse, has a personality-centred style of leadership that does not seem suited to ceding power to provincial authorities.
The company may be content to program business computers, but Mr. Kempin says ceding innovation to competitors will spell the end for Mr. Ballmer.
Ceding more seats to the opposition could undercut Mr. Najib's ambitions to liberalize the country's economy and propel it onto a faster growth path.
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Ceding more seats to the opposition could limit Mr. Najib's ambitions to liberalize the country's economy and propel it onto a faster growth path.
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The legal rulings are making it increasingly difficult for Argentina to find a way to continue to service debt without ceding to the holdouts.
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Merchants need to be careful in ceding this position to Groupon.
They also argue that Israel set a horrible precedent for future negotiations with its neighbors by ceding the entire Sinai in exchange for the treaty.
Dell has consciously backed away from the consumer market, ceding its number one market share to HP and also behind Acer in terms of unit sales.
All this was intended to placate countries that say America is being too heavy-handed and is not ceding authority to Iraqis as fast as it should.
But I see this as part of the process of the US ceding consumption to fast growing Asian economies, such as China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Instead of combating the in-store plague of smartphone-enabled comparison shoppers with mobile calls-to-action, the retailers we studied are currently ceding that ground to third-party apps and competitors.
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