Here in England, husbands or partners as they are often called, take part in ante-natals too.
Energy Transfer is thus raising the ante in what has become a bidding war for Southern Union.
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Or will they merely serve as the candidates' opening ante in what looks to become a bidding war?
Celebrities have not only upped the ante in terms of trendy maternity fashion, but they have also started a revolution in showcasing their pregnant bellies.
The top 1% or about 3 million households will ante in 36.9%.
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"This allows us to up the ante in terms of what the production is going to entail, " the Grammy- and Tony-winning singer-songwriter said.
Australia, one of our staunchest allies that most Americans seem to take for granted, has upped the ante in the war against terrorism.
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This would really up the ante in terms of markets pressure and maybe lead to ban on shorting any Government bond, cash or future!
Making it even tougher for BlackBerry is increasing competition from retail stalwarts Apple and Samsung that are upping the ante in the enterprise market as well.
Over the past two weeks, the United States and the European Union have upped the ante in the scramble to harness offshore wind power in the Atlantic Ocean.
De Waal upped the ante in 1996 when he rescued Velsheda, originally built for the owner of the British Woolworths chain, from a river in England where she had been grounded and serving as a houseboat.
We upped the ante in December when we opened the doors to our Social Media Listening Command Center, which allows us to monitor over 22, 000 daily posts related to Dell as well as mentions on Twitter using the analytics tool Radian6.
One of its founders who chipped in an undisclosed amount in 1998 saw his ante jump a hundredfold, says Tom J.
And every year, the NBA All Star weekend is one of the biggest parties in the country, but holding it in Las Vegas in 2007 ups the ante.
In fact, interventions do not have to match the total, or even a significant part, of all transactions conducted on the foreign-exchange market to be effective, but only the ex ante imbalances in these transactions.
When a live auction featuring a signed guitar wasn't generating enough interest, Springsteen took the microphone and upped the ante, throwing in a free guitar lesson with himself as the teacher, a ride in the side car of his Harley, eight tickets to the E Street concert of their choice, a backstage tour and lasagna made by his 87-year-old mother, Adele.
But still missing from his CV is a Classic winner - in Queen's Logic, he had the ante-post favourite for the 1, 000 Guineas in 2002 but a last-minute foot injury ruled her out of the running.
Did he force you to ante up any tax in cash, or did he allow you to apply your coupon towards the full bill, including tax?
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Bell tried to up the ante but only succeeded in flashing at a ball from Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers held on to a spectacular diving catch at backward point.
For an organization that says it says it is legitimately committed to the cause and whose revenues number in the billions, upping the ante on its investment into diversity seems like a no-brainier to an increasingly skeptical public.
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Hearing Microsoft's name and "in-car stereo" in the same sentence should elicit any forms of surprise, as we've long since known that Redmond was looking to up the ante of automotive entertainment in a bevy of Ford vehicles later this year.
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The lounge operates five days a week year-round, but Smith upped the ante for fashion week in hosting a huge club room throughout the weekend at the Gansevoort Park Avenue South Hotel-and has no qualms about saying he thinks the models have been forgotten between the chaos of corporate sponsors, VIP passes and predatory agents.
The bad news is that, with each one of those practices, the ante has been upped, in fact, exponentially.
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The cost to the West of restoring the status quo ante is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
In addition, some are exiting due to margin calls in which they otherwise would have to ante up more money to retain a leveraged futures position.
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Ford upped the ante by including luxury features in a pickup truck and slapping on the Lincoln badge and aesthetic to create the Blackwood and the Mark LT, neither of which survived for long.
In the short term, though, Mr Sanader will have to resolve the problem of Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general indicted by the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Take, for example, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, who ante upped big for the fight in Wisconsin.
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Fortunately, investors do not have to ante up to play, as in poker, though investors must work hard to find good opportunities.
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