Investors seem to have overlooked other sections of his speech in which he indicated that the central bank could do nothing about it.

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The committee also chided the office of the information commissioner for going beyond what it could say for sure when it told the Sunday Times that the act had been broken but that it could do nothing about it because six months had elapsed.

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"It wasn't a surprise, it was just so wicked that there was nothing they could do about it, " he says.

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It was a shame that it had come to that, but there was absolutely nothing that Tengo could do about it.

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"Once there was nothing they could do about it, they accepted it, " he says.

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I'm under contract here for another two years, so even if I were interested there'd be nothing I could do about it!

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When the nurse went into the room she was met by two care assistants who were upset because the patient was laying awkwardly and there was nothing they could do about it, she said.

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