The possibility of further deficit spending appears remote, if not dead-as-a-doornail.
In an intriguing tip of the hat to a tradition on its way out, if not already dead and buried, the fiery nobleman Adriano is written for a woman.
Such radio waves act like the microwaves in an oven, heating organic matter up to the point where, if it was not dead already, it soon will be.
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UN, which runs a postal service for divided families, he would not know if she was dead or alive.
He has also submitted his account for us to transfer the fund to him including his International passport, we want to hear from you before we can make the transfer to confirm if you are dead or not.
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At the BPI, Sarah Roberts insists the old-style singles chart is not dead - if a single is good enough, it will stay at number one, even if it costs twice as much to buy eight days after it is released.
George (would have been) dead if he had not acted decisively and instantaneously in that moment.
"There is a lot of ignorance about what happens and there is still the old wife's tale about people worrying if someone is actually dead or not before organs are taken, " he said.
So the great tradition is not dead, even if Britain's politicians still have much to learn to reach the standards of Australia, where a future prime minister, Paul Keating, told an incumbent one, Malcolm Fraser, that he looked like an Easter Island statue with an arse full of razor blades.
Defence officials still do not know if Saddam is alive or dead.
The court heard that he still does not know if his parents are alive or dead.
The US insists that the Qatar process is not dead and will respond positively if the Taliban resume that dialogue.
Stephen Varn said three children inside the home were safe, but would not comment when asked if there were any dead bodies in the house.
She said she could not remember what happened with her other pregnancies because she had drunk large quantities of alcohol each time she went into labour, and did not know if the babies had been born dead or alive.
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By contrast, actually eliminating senescent cells may be a logical extension of the process of shutting them down (they certainly cannot cause cancer if they are dead), and thus may not have adverse consequences.
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If Jonathan Ive were dead, which he's not, he'd be spinning in his grave.
But if they are not faced down the Doha trade round is dead, the grand strategy in tatters.
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It was not immediately clear if that number included 7, 700 reported dead in the city of Yingxiu.
But the Ellis group insists that does not mean any potential deal is dead - even if there is a further delay.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Speaking in Warsaw, Mr Hollande said: "The terrorist kingpins have been destroyed, " though it was not immediately clear if he was referring to two leaders reported dead last week.
Kakas said he did not know if there was a relationship between the husband and the dead boy's family.
If it could not arrange its own bail-out, it was dead.
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Conversations are a prototypical way of triggering the crossfire of ideas, but an exchange will not bear fruit if people fear that their ideas will be declared dead on arrival, swept aside as wild, or denounced as dumb.
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When it was discovered in the late 1990s that many of the mussels were actually dead, the EU warned that if the remainder were not immediately protected and their restoration assured, infraction proceedings would follow with the potential for massive fines to be imposed.
If he is wrong, Mr Immelt will have led one of the world's biggest and most powerful companies down a dead-end, and the cost to its reputation, if not its financial performance, is likely to be huge.
"This is an industry where if you get your costs out of line and business is not so good, you're dead, " says Sam Peltzman, a University of Chicago business school economics professor who studies labor and the airline industry.
"This is an industry where if you get your costs out of line and business is not so good, you're dead, " says Sam Peltzman, an economics professor at the University of Chicago business school who studies labor and the airline industry.
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