The U.S., in turn, must provide Iran with what amounts to a diplomatic fig leaf.
Employing special software that can be downloaded for free from other websites, Goto electronically removes the computer-generated fig leaf.
She dismissed suggestions she was the "fig leaf" in a new team dominated by settler leaders and right-wing opponents of peace.
"It's used as a fig leaf, and we decided that for the time being, we're better off without it, " Mekel says.
The government should not use the coalition as a "fig leaf" for "very serious breaches" of the ministerial code, he said.
So far, much debate has focused on how BP may be forced to cut its dividend as a political fig leaf.
But a 2003 agreement between the industry's lobby group and the taxman suggests this is little more than a fig leaf.
Denuded of its foreign-policy fig leaf, the station's continued existence would then be even harder to justify than it is now.
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Murphy's "fig leaf of protection" in not testifying first time round, based on pending criminal proceedings, has now gone, it was claimed.
The impression he leaves, however, is that he will pull us out as soon as he finds a shred of a fig leaf.
Right now lawyers borrow money at high interest rates from outside investors who hide behind the fig leaf of providing debt financing instead of equity.
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This is his cover story, a fig leaf for his smuggling plans, and an illustration of the kind of development that might genuinely help the indigenous peoples.
It has been seen as a fig leaf for US troops in Africa, which could be poised to defend strategic interests like oil in, for example, Nigeria.
It was bad enough that the Fed held rates far too low, but at least a fig leaf of uncertainty kept the most brazen speculators in partial paralysis.
The legal fig leaf is mainly to avoid giving the myriad private lawyers who pile on to such cases an adverse ruling to use in their own litigation.
This feature, which Dr. Keynes opposed, was at the time largely a fig leaf, a token to past practices but played no significant role in the function of Bretton Woods.
But these studies have, for years, given politicians enough of a fig leaf to sneak what are effectively outright corporate subsidies through the courts without running afoul of the gift clause.
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The fig leaf of neutrality is no more.
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Better take the hit over a broken pledge ( and Plaid know their fair share about that sort of thing too) than plough more money into a pretty expensive fig leaf, seems to be their take.
The petition is meaningless, except in this respect: as a demonstration that so many people would support kicking someone out of the country for purely political reasons, without even the fig leaf of a technical offense.
Russian foreign policy had always been motivated by fear of the outside world, and Marxism gave the current regime, which Kennan considered simply the latest in a line of Oriental despotisms, an ideological fig leaf for its insecurity and paranoia.
It is one thing if Jim Baker and his unaccountable gang have convinced themselves and irresponsible politicians on both sides of the aisle that we must "be willing to negotiate with our enemies" in order to secure the political fig leaf needed to obscure our surrender in Iraq.
We changed the argument from one about the "rights" of so-called private clubs to one about the "wrongs" of a cadre of industry titans using the fig leaf of such memberships to exclude women, the standard this behavior sets in corporate America and damage it does to women at all levels.
And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7, 000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machine gun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is nonaggressive.
Nothing can legitimise poverty and injustice at this scale, not even fig-leaf democracies.
If we are lucky, the regional "process" will afford American forces a fig-leaf behind we might obscure our strategic defeat.
But that's a line increasingly coming to serve as a fig-leaf for New Delhi's own political nakedness in the Kashmir valley.
The committee allowed the boycotters a fig-leaf of sorts: the pressure of sanctions might have helped keep the Austrian coalition in line.
After that, any deadlines set in the January fig-leaf will kick in.
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