So that by the time each chamber will be considering the heavy-lifting measures at the end, Democrats will be free-rolling, knowing they have a win in the bank, and Republicans will have to make the tough choices in the end.

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Mr Carter said the lorry's rating capacity limiter, which measures lifting operations, and its emergency stop buttons were not working.

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But liberalising measures, such as lifting the cap on foreign direct investment in insurance, win few votes in India.

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Without even lifting a finger to solve the measures discussed our problems could be magnitudes less and some just disappear.

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