Mr Koizumi will hardly be able to make a dent on these while in office.
OECD, a steep, lasting fall in stockmarkets could inflict a real dent on consumer spending.
Even though a vessel surplus has helped put a dent on prices, the effects will be short-term.
This, combined with Bolsa Familia, has made a dent on inequality, the most persistent symptom of Brazil's failure.
Technologies exist that will allow humanity to make a rapid dent on emissions.
It is considered vital: Mr Walder describes it as the only scheme that will make a dent on overcrowding.
And there are some signs that the temporary shocks may have left a more lasting dent on the psyche of firms and shoppers.
So apparent antidotes to ageing, such as immigration of younger workers, would require huge inflows to make a real dent on dependency ratios.
Maybe one of the reasons why the USPGA had failed to make a dent on the European consciousness was the lack of a winner from this continent.
Right now, biodiesel is a growing industry but hasn't made an appreciable dent on the global dependence on heavy crude oil, from which diesel fuel is processed.
It needs to create a lot of jobs each month just to stand still, let alone make a dent on the 9.2% unemployment rate (which rose again last month).
And for Google to be successful it doesn't have to beat Facebook, it just needs to get enough people in these circles to spend time there to make a dent on what Facebook does.
The two sides battered one another into submission in the closing stages, but neither could make a dent on the scoreboard, with a late drive from Hearts substitute Gary Glen slipping a foot wide.
"With Girdwood what we had in front of us was a unique opportunity to make some sort of dent on the waiting list and to see it in the context of an overall very good and positive development for the city as a whole in terms of economic regeneration, social use, leisure and of course housing, " he said.
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Asked about Hewitt's behaviour on court, Dent said some of it could not be considered "super sportsmanship".
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Indepen-dent production houses have grown rich on plugging the gaps.
Whether it can dent the power of the existing lobby on America's Congress remains to be seen.
Although Mr. Yigal says he only hoped the committee would help him make a "significant dent" in his expenses, some on the committee viewed it as an aggressive money grab.
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Certainly popular today, especially among young gun buyers more familiar perhaps with Call of Duty than the deer blind, an all-out ban on modern sporting rifles could dent the industry.
Gordon Strachan's side was below-strength and it showed as they never looked like making a dent in a dismal Champions League record on their travels that now reads played 17, lost 16 and drawn one.
One wonders, though, what tales Rainbow Warrior 3 will have to tell at the end of its working life - and how much of a dent it'll manage to make on the less tractable issues that head today's agenda.
Rich, bitter and set on revenge, Mr Reddy may dent Congress's support.
How else to explain how he could slap his name on the technology-heavy AIM Dent Demographic Trends fund in June 1999, just in time to get clobbered by the tech collapse?
But most experts agree that the country will make a serious dent in child malnutrition only when it focuses on pregnant women and the very young, perhaps by providing an additional worker in each anganwadi centre to make home visits.
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