Gabriele, a Vatican citizen, has already spent five months since his arrest last May in detention or under house arrest, so in theory he has another 13 months to serve.
White House officials are now offering a theory of summits that was heard occasionally during the cold war era.
This, in turn, could, in theory, justify higher house prices relative to income.
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But when it comes to the biggest house-price bubble in history, theory does not get you very far.
The Biderman Market Theory says that every market has a house and players.
In theory, some kind of compromise between House and Senate remains possible.
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It is true that one theory out there, emanating from the House Republican budget, is that you can do this without looking at tax revenues.
One big problem with that theory: Banks lose money on virtually every house they take back in foreclosure.
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Altogether 25 members of the House of Lords are currently qualified, at least in theory, to participate in Britain's highest court.
In theory this was a good bet: The house could reap a tempting spread between the yield on the derivatives and its own cost of borrowing.
But though in theory the government commands the 308 lower-house votes (out of 513) required there for constitutional change, the bills have languished, in the face of resistance from vested interests.
The Biderman Market Theory says that in all markets there is the house and then there are the players.
One theory goes like this: that most countries have ended up with first house sizes that correspond to the cube root of their populations.
In theory a petition needs more than 100, 000 signatures to trigger a debate in the House of Commons, which last discussed this emotive subject in the 1990s.
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If the full House, as is likely, now votes to hold Mr Holder in contempt, it will in theory fall to federal prosecutors to bring him into line.
One example of which the White House is fond is the atomic clock the Pentagon helped Harvard to develop so that scientists could test Einstein's theory of relativity.
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