Mr. Sarkozy, recognizing that Germany's financial muscle was essential for any bailout, reluctantly gave way.
That is not all: India also wants to make more of its diaspora's financial muscle.
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His allies are looking to the next election as a crucial moment for him to flex his political and financial muscle.
Both companies will have the incentive, and the financial muscle, to innovate in order to gain profits at the other's expense.
This is an open invitation for theft, particularly by corporations that have the financial muscle to harass inventors or struggling small companies.
They are running them more cheaply, and they have the financial muscle to take on Amazon at its own game - price.
We believe that Google and Time Warner Cable may have the motive for this acquisition as well as the financial muscle for the transaction.
Hendrick, because of its financial muscle, also has Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne in its stable, making it the only Sprint Cup team with four drivers.
Even within the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait also boast a lot of financial muscle, and will not tolerate financial institutions decamping wholesale to the Emirates.
When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became clear the owners did not have the financial muscle to compete with other Premier League teams' lavish spending.
And with the club close to signing Benfica defender David Luiz, the bid for Torres shows that Chelsea are still prepared to use their financial muscle to boost their domestic and European ambitions.
Aquamarine Power chief executive, Martin McAdam, said the prize would act as a "global catalyst... bringing together the best brains and financial muscle to crack one of the great challenges of our age".
That would put it at odds with most countries, where mixing business and banking is considered toxic, but would mean new entrants with financial muscle (although the butchest conglomerate of them all, Reliance Industries, said on June 3rd that it would not seek a licence).
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This new body, with financial and regulatory muscle, would also help balance the growing influence of foreign owners in the English game.
Today, it is one of the few financial houses on the island with the muscle to crack the increasingly open and competitive international financial services industry.
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