The statement said the Positively Plymouth website "was never designed as a long term exercise, or as a key external marketing tool for the city".

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With domestic sugar producers deprived of this profitable and protective tool, external producers might be able to sell more of their crop here, and with the profits buy US equipment or goods in return.

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Social media is often thought of as an external, customer-facing sales tool.

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Opposition groups will have to compete with each other to have the best plan for their country's future, the best set of internal and external alliances and the most useful operational tool kits and hubs for organizers.

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In the last 60 days the company introduced a range of powerful products, including new Company Pages and the Talent Brand Index, a tool which lets companies understand and improve their external employment brand with pinpoint precision.

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The Bank has resisted calls to raise interest rates - seen as the most effective policy tool in combating inflation - on the basis that temporary, external factors, such as rising oil and food costs, are driving price rises.

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Third, once this tool has been used once, there is likely to be external pressure for it to be used again when other European banks get into trouble, an event that is as sure to happen as night following day.

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