In a faint echo of the 1970s Congress introduced a wage-subsidy scheme last year.
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And Hughes, 20, had a nightmare start, slashing at a short Steyn delivery off the fourth ball of the first over and only succeeding in getting a faint under-edge through to Mark Boucher.
Even though BP is in trouble, most sell-side analysts know the first rule of job preservation is to throw their support behind a beleaguered company in the faint hope that their firm may get a banking mandate if the company is the target of a takeover or is forced to sell itself.
Liverpool were comfortably in command throughout the rest of the half, and despite faint signs of a Chelsea recovery in the early stages of the second period, it was Benitez's side who looked more likely to add to their lead.
Many miles later, the road is but a faint single track in a thick bamboo forest.
Meehan is expecting a packed Parc des Sports Aguilera on Saturday as Bath go in search of a win that would give them a faint hope of Heineken Cup progress.
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For the best film in Venice, this faint praise was a disgrace.
Unlike the larger Kuiper-belt objects, comet-sized ones would be too faint to show up in a single photograph even one taken by the mighty Hubble.
In gold-rimmed spectacles, he appeared the archetypal bootmaker. (He had lost a more fashionable plastic pair in Brazil.) His head, bald and browned, bore a faint pink welt.
Through the vertical glass panels shone a faint crescent moon, entangled in the tops of the tall pines.
In Cambodia, mass-fainting incidents, in which large groups of workers faint within a short period, have raised concerns about worker malnutrition, excessive heat and poor ventilation of factories.
He nodded, though Lucy could still hear a more-than-faint wheeze in his breathing.
"I take some satisfaction in being right, " he says, with a faint chuckle.
The faint projection of a plot synopsis in calligraphic lettering on a draped, translucent curtain is too brief and hazy to be fully taken in.
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The faint traces of concrete foundations in the earth are a poignant reminder of the town that has been lost.
Sure, putting a huge slug of your wealth in three stocks is not for the faint of heart.
The sky beyond is washed with strokes of cobalt and cerulean blue, and a faint but perceptible smell of aniseed and wild garlic hangs in the air.
On a recent Sunday morning, after services at the tiny Lebanon Lutheran Church in Amidon, local farmers talked about their plight with a mixture of exasperation and faint hope.
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Faint though it is, there is a glimmer of hope in financial markets: interest rates on short-term loans between banks and on longer-term corporate debt have fallen notably since the autumn, and there has been a flood of new bond issues.
The faint hope that NATO could negotiate a quick way out still beat in some hearts.
Staying in the game while a company is accused of fraudulent business practices is not for the faint-hearted, after all.
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This is not simply spicy fried chicken, it is its own unique food group, found almost no place else (though I read about a Nashville hot fried chicken joint in Brooklyn), and it is not for the faint of heart.
Her brother the Duke of Gloucester who led her was so shocked at seeing her in such a situation that he looked as pale as death and as if he was ready to faint away.
There is even a feeling, a faint sense sometimes that we have been relegated to the role of walk-on in someone else's drama, that as citizens we are crucial and yet somehow ... extraneous.
Perhaps in the faint recollection that his Christian Democratic predecessor as chancellor, Helmut Kohl, also ran into a streak of bad election results after coming to power in 1982, yet went on to keep office for a record 16 years.
The 36-year-old reached 46 before he got a faint edge to a lifting ball from Broad, leaving him with only one half century in his last 10 ODI matches.
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As Old Trafford celebrated at the final whistle, Ancelotti cut a predictably disconsolate figure with only the very faint prospect of challenging United for the title left in his attempts to follow up the Premier League and FA Cup Double he claimed in his first season.
Scientists have used chromophores for decades to detect chemicals, but, until Fido, they weren't sensitive enough to detect trace explosives because each molecule of TNT vapor would switch off just a single chromophore, with the result that faint wisps of evil chemicals caused no visible change in luminosity.
Now that Dr van Paradijs's team, and another led by Kailash Sahu at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, have had time to look properly at the fading point of light, they have noticed a faint fuzz around it that looks as if it could be a galaxy playing host to a dramatic explosion.
For a moment I focus on the glass and catch the faint, honest reflection of my eye staring back at me, a lock of gray straggly hair in its way.
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