And this leads to the first concrete benefit to an effective risk assessment: business buy-in.
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Portsmouth informally enquired about McCormack last month but Hull's offer was the first concrete bid.
The first concrete talks on that took place last week - last Thursday, here in Berlin.
This, according to campaigners in the US, is the first concrete sign of it happening in practice.
One of the first concrete steps that Desertec announced was a plan to build three solar power plants in Morocco.
That's not going to happen if you keep running head first into concrete structures.
The current quarter was supposed to be the first to show concrete gains in profitability from a large management shake-up last December and from a new search-advertising technology, called Panama, that was introduced earlier this year.
It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.
Additionally, estate planning laws have been made (reasonably) concrete for the first time in over a decade.
While the change is not immediately obvious outside of Yoyogi Station, the first stop past Shinjuku, concrete evidence lies a few blocks away, at Yoyogi Village.
The first stage involved placing a special concrete blanket across the depressurised pipeline.
When the Palestinian fighters came from Jordan in the late 1960s we had more say here, and they encouraged us to get out of the wind and rain and we made houses out of concrete blocks for the first time.
First, the United States will take concrete steps towards a world without nuclear weapons.
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First, I am not presenting a concrete case against this law, as there are many other provisions in it.
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He had a vision of doing all of his class work digitally, a vision that became concrete once he acquired his first iPhone.
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Oil is stored in first-world depots, water in concrete pits.
"The first squadrons to arrive at the new concrete airfield were two squadrons of Beaufighters who flew against enemy shipping - one from New Zealand, the other from Australia, " he added.
The U.S. position, shared with South Korea, has been that Pyongyang must first show it is willing to take concrete steps toward a suspension of its nuclear program before those talks can resume.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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"These are concrete measures that we consider a positive first step, " White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
Mr. Payne contributed the first feature: a snake run, or bumpy concrete rut that starts shallow and opens into a deep bowl.
Many experiences from coastal managers, scientists, engineers on the implementation of concrete adaptation techniques were documented through the first phase of the project (2008-2012).
First of all, she avoids abstraction and gives concrete examples.
They prefer to focus on the first stage of his plan, which is more concrete: If elected, Bush says he would immediately push through a four-year program to provide a prescription drug subsidy for low-income seniors and the disabled until the larger reforms are in place.
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Conversion seems to be a big problem: in the case of the Sungshan complex, which collapsed into itself, the superintendent of the residential part of the building says a bank that rented out the first two floors had stripped the steel columns of concrete reinforcement during renovations earlier this year.
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Those statistical aggregates devastated me to tears when I first read them, and inspired me to take direct concrete action.
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The statement is the first public signal from the government that it will take concrete steps in response to reports in state-run media, though it was unclear from the report just how it would heighten oversight of the industry.
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