He has a bit of breathing space: his proprietors have deep pockets, and are committed to promoting black culture.
As successful executives, they have deep pockets and, as company directors or officers, also rely upon insurance policies or company bylaws to pay for their legal costs.
Yota's backers have deep pockets and useful connections.
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They have very deep pockets to spend on tendering for NHS services.
And they would have considerable doubts about whether the government of an independent Scotland would have deep enough pockets to do the same.
But you have to have pretty deep pockets and a very big space to put something like this on display and maintain it.
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Ideally, your family and friends would have deep enough pockets to invest more cash if needed, provided they are happy with the progress you made with their initial investment.
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If they had to pay for access to the Net, consumers would suffer, but so would the next generation of Internet companies that do not have such deep pockets.
"If you look at the biggest European banks, their central banks do not necessarily have as deep pockets as the Federal Reserve to bail them out, " said Mr Ponzo.
To be sure, Groupon is a public company with a lot of funding and they have friends with deep pockets.
The thinking is that these investors have the experience and deep enough pockets to withstand losses, given that start-ups have a high failure rate.
With such writing on the blackboard, the teachers' unions have reached deep into their pockets to fight the spectre of competition.
Still, China does at least have trousers, with deep pockets.
Both firms, however, have links to prominent libertarians with deep pockets.
Adrian Monck, head of journalism at City University London, said that Al Jazeera is fortunate to have an owner with "extremely deep pockets" and little concern with financial success or demographics.
The appeal of playing in the Olympic Stadium is simple: aside from the brand recognition of the Olympics, much of the infrastructure is publicly funded, meaning that clubs will not have to dig deep into their own pockets for an asset that will ultimately bring in massive revenues.
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Yet, despite deep pockets, mainland firms have not had it all their own way.
But they do have a number of advantages: enormous experience, deep pockets and strong global footprints.
Its biggest competitor (LivingSocial) is nearly out of business and other would-be players with deep pockets (Amazon and Google) have lost most of their interest in doing much here.
Now, with Viacom's deep pockets, the expectations for better programming have increased.
Over the years, I have known quite a few traders and several with quite deep pockets, but very few would ride a 17% gain to a loss, By early June 2012, ( UTX) was down 5% for the year.
Traditionally, patent trolls have not targeted startups because they perceived them as not having the deep pockets that make the cost of litigation worthwhile.
"We have a culture of trying to place blame on the manufacturer or someone else with deep pockets, but ultimately the safety of children is beholden to their parents, " Felman says.
And previous studies have found most lawsuits are against larger companies, perhaps indicating a desire to empty deep pockets rather than ferret out financial fraud, which one might suspect would be more common at smaller, more loosely governed companies.
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In an ideal world it should also have language in its bylaws promising to defend and indemnify directors (except for their own misdeeds) and pockets deep enough to back up that promise.
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