If banks have survived, it is thanks to the Bank of Spain's tight regulation and to the prudence of Spanish bankers.
If country music has been saved from commercial Nashville's oily quiffs and bubblegum lyrics, it is thanks to a single-handed rescue operation by this great man.
It is thanks to him, more than anybody else, that the Democratic base is now as energised and optimistic as it was passive and pessimistic back in 2002.
"It is thanks to the Franco-German cooperation he maintained with Chancellor Kohl that during his 14 years in office such enormous progress has been made in Europe, " Dehaene said.
It is thanks to this co-operation, says DC Sadler, that month on month, almost without exception, the number of people receiving drugs treatment across the North East has gradually increased.
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Of course, it is thanks to Planck that we now know there is slightly more "stuff" out there than we thought, even if most of it is in a form beyond direct observation.
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Higher capital costs make Brazil less competitive and Brazil is already being priced out as it is thanks to rising labor costs and the usual bottlenecks in the country, mainly on the logistics side of moving things in and out of Brazil.
It is thanks to companies like these that Italy still exports more food-processing machines, washing machines, fridges, shoes and shoe-making machines, ski boots, ceramic tiles, jewels, woollen and silk clothes, radiators and boilers, optical frames and neck-ties than any other country in the world.
Bee products were used by prehistoric communities for technological, artistic and medical purposes, but it is thanks to the Lonche finding that we can now imagine men doing dentistry in Neolithic Europe, ' said the study's lead author, Federico Bernardini, a postdoctoral fellow at ICTP's Multidisciplinary Laboratory.
One year later, it is largely thanks to the Recovery Act that a second depression is no longer a possibility.
To hear them say it, revenue sharing has made the league what it is today thanks to revenue equality driving team parity.
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If it has, it is no thanks to what governments (least of all Japan's) have done so far.
These developers and investors feel like Twitter is as popular as it is today thanks to their work, and that instead of supporting them, Twitter now plans to use its popularity to crush them.
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It is partly thanks to the success of Aqaba and the free trade agreement with the US that US President George W Bush recently announced plans to expand the free trade zone throughout the Middle East.
It is thanks above all to that unrivalled early-warning system that Mr Kohl has survived so long.
It is widely visible thanks to its three church towers and the ruins of a crusader castle built by the Boniface de Montferrat from Italy.
It is late, thanks to prevarication by committees of industry bigwigs.
It is also boosting markets thanks to hefty share-buying by trust banks managing public money.
Yet in Western Europe it is inconceivable today, thanks to democracy sinking real roots, thanks to the positive forces of change we helped put in motion.
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Facebook's messaging initiative comes as the company seeks to bolster the impression that it is poised for significant financial growth, thanks to enduring interest from both advertisers and existing users.
It is lighter, relatively spicy thanks to a generous dose of chiles and influenced by Indian and Spanish cooking.
At bottom is raw data, like stock prices, and thanks to Google and others it is almost worthless.
Today, the Reinsch cottonseed has much better things to do than stay on the farm, and thanks to the farmers' marketing efforts, it is much too valuable to use as animal feed.
Thanks, it is believed, to price adjustments, the sales of new homes are surprisingly strong.
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But it is undeniably experiencing a comeback, thanks to the moves Larsen orchestrated.
It is going to be again, thanks to the people in this room.
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It is true that, thanks in part to rising commodity prices, a buoyant world economy and less-profligate governments, many emerging economies are in better shape than they were.
It is a great diving spot, thanks to the red coral that gives the Red Sea its name, but as a duty-free destination where people come to shop, the city has ambitions to be more like Dubai.
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