Left to itself the market will cherry-pick, leaving swathes of bad risks for taxpayers to finance.
Whichever of these approaches works, there seems little hope that NASA, left to itself, will get it right next time.
BBC's justification for the licence fee is that it provides services that the market, left to itself, would not provide.
If the market is left to itself, the farmers will be pushed from the land, and the land itself will go uncultivated.
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If left to itself, Ascension would probably decline into dull, scrubby simplicity.
Left to itself, the market would support a fraction of that number.
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Left to itself, the housing market should ensure that at least some of those who are now marooned in inner cities should be able to move to the suburbs, where land is cheaper.
For Jimmy, the advantage of his system is that once set up, it can be largely left to run itself.
Chowdhry downplayed the reputational risk to Satyam of the World Bank's bribery charges, noting that without offering any proof of wrongdoing, in contrast with other recent IT supplier-client disputes, the global institution seemed to have left itself open to a defamation suit.
Each company was left to fend for itself, coming up with its own proprietary accessories for individual products.
In other cities, the underclass is not left to fend for itself.
But, to appease the left, New Labour seems to have got itself into the ludicrous position of devising a balloting process that is tortuous enough to prevent the outcome for which many on the left thought it had been devised.
But many analysts are optimistic, because, unlike some drugmakers facing patent expirations, Forest has left itself plenty of time to grow Lexapro.
In this adventure, Europe has left itself with no choice but to succeed.
The party would still find itself well to the left of Tony Blair's Labour Party, though: for instance, Mr Hollande defends the 35-hour week.
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So far the Bush campaign has left Mr Bush's record to speak for itself.
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SPD's left wing has shown itself much less willing to accept compromises in order to stay in government.
For what it's worth, I left the brightness to its own devices, automatically adjusting itself based on ambient light available.
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If it abandoned the currency, at huge cost, and left the rest of the euro zone to fend for itself, its commitment to the EU would be in serious doubt.
Their accusations have left the Democrat in a quagmire similar to the war itself, not because they were true (most were either exaggerated or unproven), or because Mr Kerry was slow to respond, but because they exposed a fundamental flaw in his campaign.
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Siemens, Germany's largest engineering conglomerate, has said it will sell around one-seventh of itself and rationalise much of what is left to raise its sagging share price.
As for the bill itself, its meaning is probably now best left to literary critics.
Ludwig von Mises, an economist and former left-winger, said no bureaucracy had the means to restrain itself.
However they still win if they convince a majority that the lawsuit itself is inherently political, addressing concerns better left to elected representatives.
"Surely to leave an individual in this kind of limbo, which he was not left in previous to 2003, is not a practice which would commend itself to the civilised world, " he said.
But if you linger long enough to see the entourages pass and hear the trash talk subside, boxing reveals itself to be a lonely sport men left unaccompanied, armed only with their training and their determination to push forward.
If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.
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Microsoft itself, which has more or less left the security field free to independent firms, is now trying to get in on the act.
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