Back in 1913, the government had in its hands the option of taxing the rich exclusively.
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Mr. KATTOUF: In some ways it has, because Syria has some cards in its hands.
After all, we're used to thinking Germany holds the euro's future in its hands.
Well, Syria has some cards in its hands that it didn't have before.
Whether or not Portugal can avoid becoming the next domino to fall may no longer be in its hands.
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With TNK-BP in its hands, Rosneft will be in charge of more than 4 million barrels of oil production a day.
While there are, theoretically, some limits on the authority of the other two branches of this supranational institution, discretion about the extent of the tribunal's jurisdiction is exclusively in its hands.
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After decades of failed socialist planning followed by a few more of military crony capitalism, the regime became increasingly aware that once-rich Myanmar had in its hands fallen embarrassingly far behind the neighbours.
The MDC, which had been resisting mounting pressure to settle and said that it would rather have no deal than a bad one, seems confident that it holds enough cards in its hands to make this work.
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Likewise, that company has decided to enter the hardware market hoping that its Surface tablet can make a meaningful dent where its proud partners in Hewlett-Packard and Dell have failed speaks to just how committed Microsoft is in ensuring that its fate is in its own hands.
And the frustrating fact that the island's future is not, and never really has been, in its own hands has a flip side something outside may change in a way that redefines the island's purpose yet again, and brings in new enthusiasms and possibilities.
But the success of Lilly's forthcoming products ultimately lies in its own hands.
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Another Web shop, Scient, has 62% of its equity in the hands of its top two executives and venture backers.
America is also interested in getting its hands on Saudi extremists.
Apart from Vertu and so on, Nokia still can sell its patents, since it still has 30 000 patents in its own hands (in case Nokia needs more cash).
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Relentless in putting its product in the hands of elite designers, Amorim worked to help make the Serpentine Gallery's rooftop pond and mushroom-shaped stools from a dark cork composite.
Sure, a few made it big during the Facebook IPO, but the stock now looks more like the Titanic than like Google (GOOG) and most of its float is locked in the hands of its founders and early investors.
The core economies have deep structural problems and the world economy is in a state of disequilibrium, says Jan Dehn, an economist at Ashmore Group in the U.K. Ashmore has its hands in emerging market debt.
The International Telecommunication Union in Geneva wrings its hands at the prospect of finding orbital slots for the 1, 500 satellites that are now planned on paper.
According to Retro Sound, the Model Two is the only radio made specifically for vintage autos that carries the Made-for-iPod designation, and the only one in its class packing hands-free call features as well.
But they don't want to be seen as having given in to Clinton's terms, which could keep the party's conservative core sitting on its hands in November.
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At precisely the time when it is, in general, taking its deadening hands off finance, it has been doing the opposite in the lending business.
Ultimately, the fate of Telewest is in the hands of its controlling shareholders, Microsoft and Liberty.
However, there are several reasons why the government should be cautious before dipping its hands in taxpayers' pockets.
Miami moved to put more powerful weapons in the hands of its police.
This government had bragged that it never put its hands in the pockets of Italians but the world situation changed.
The United States has paid a huge price to put the future of Iraq in the hands of its people.
And EMI borrowed far too much when controlled by the private equity firm Terra Firma and is now in the hands of its bankers, Citigroup.
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