Though IMF cash is welcome, private investors know that the fund is first in the queue when money has to be paid back.
That won't be straightforward, especially if Andrew Strauss has to be careful about over-bowling Flintoff, but technically, Onions is ahead in the queue.
There is a small queue in the waiting room as she and her dental nurse inside the surgery give one of her young patients a filling.
That suspicion, along with a widespread conviction among Conservative politicians that the euro is doomed, helps explain why some in Britain complain about the country's notional exposure through IMF membership (even though the fund is always first in the queue to get its money back).
In theory, there is a long queue of coal-fired power stations waiting to be built in America.
In most games, a build queue is an essential part of taking the busy work out of resource management.
But it is not in reverence of those heroes that the men queue.
It claims that it is merely benefiting customers willing to enter into long-term deals by giving them discounted aeroplanes and a favoured place in the queue for delivery when the industry is booming (as it is now).
One of the dynamics of the taxicab business is that the most motivated, entrepreneurial drivers rarely sit in a queue.
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Taxi driver Saif Jassim is finally at the front of the queue at this gas station in south Baghdad.
European leaders in difficulty queue up to underline that the real problem is not a national one but a European or even a global one.
If you visit the Staverton surgery in North West London any Saturday you will see there is a queue waiting for the doors to open at 10am.
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After arriving in the checkout queue just ahead of his opponent, Mr McEnroe is distraught to see an employee appear and open another till, giving Mr Borg the upper hand.
It is an emotional moment for him after standing for a day and a half in a queue to get it.
If there is a downside, it is that small bars are so popular, you still have to queue to get in.
"The problem is, in town - now that the buses are on strike - there's a very long queue, " she says.
Based in New York, she is such an amazing eyebrow-plucker that celebrities from around the world queue to avail of her services.
Also, Watchlist is a great new feature that lets customers keep a running queue of videos they want to see in the future.
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LOVEFiLM's Watch List is also included, allowing film and TV fans to add titles in the streaming library to a personalised queue for easy access later.
In the same way it is inconsiderate to write a check at the supermarket while a dozen people queue up behind you or to check out every book at the library needed for a History 1o1 paper.
If theABAddressBookRef object is used throughout the app, then all usage must be dispatched to the same queue to use ABAddressBookRef in a thread-safe manner.
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One programming tactic is called messaging, which involves electronic documents from a Web service to a queue that then processes each message in periodic batches.
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