And if he chose to make use of it - as we might expect him to in the Autumn Statement at the end of November - such a mid-course "correction" was not, under any circumstances, to be confused with Plan B.
He was facing the end of his freedom, and it was a kind of cruelty to make him engage.
But his refusal to countenance structural reform of any sort would surely make it harder for him to persuade Mrs Merkel to tolerate more inflation or consider some form of debt mutualisation.
Gulbis did well to hang in for most of the third set as the boisterous New York crowd willed him to make a fight of it, but Murray finally made the breakthrough in game 11 with a fantastic cross-court backhand winner and he served out for a comfortable victory.
Some people hadn't expected him to make it out of intensive care.
But Sir John, a Royal Society research professor at Oxford University, said his lack of experience would make it easier for him to introduce the fresh approach that the agency would seek to provide.
"I knew from the first time I saw him he was going to make it, there was just something about him, " Kelly said of Broad, who spoke to him last week whilst on tour with England A in Bangladesh.
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It could make it harder for him to woo middle-of-the-road voters in the approach to next September's general election.
It may well make sense to try to coax Mr Mugabe out of his corner rather than back him into it.
And how concerned is he that the pressure that their party faces from the right will make it more difficult for him to reach some kind of agreement with Republicans on a budget?
It is the job of the retailer to make him or her loyal.
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What's more, even though Mr Brown has played fast and loose with the rules for fiscal prudence he put in place, they nevertheless make it harder for him to spend as wildly as some of his predecessors did on finding themselves in a fix.
It would seem to make more sense to have him part of a road show now rather than later.
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And the Israeli media, like the Western media as a whole, are incapable of recognizing that Abdullah has constraints that make it impossible for him to say what he means directly.
That our legislators in their wisdom may soon make this man secretary of defense says as much about them as it does about him.
Women's advocacy groups are calling on Paterson to turn to what they see as an abundance of qualified women when it comes time for him to make his pick.
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Perez is a member of Ferrari's young driver program and it would make sense for him to join the team if Massa is given the push, especially after his stunning performance in the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Why it seems to get the attention that it's getting, I can't explain, but I don't think that she meant it in any way to disarm him or to make him any less of the person that he is.
One of Hershey's closest advisers convinced him that it would make more financial sense for the school trust to diversify its holdings, and Hershey went so far as to agree to a divestiture plan.
That last impression might not be able to persuade him to buy a game that he has not heard of or simply has no opinion of, but if the comments are negative, it could make him think twice before buying a game that he was previously excited to play.
"It was too hard for him to ask for the help and make that part of his life go public, " she said.
Peter Wright QC then accused him of laying a false trail by staging the murders to make it look as if his father had shot his mother before killing himself.
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One thing you can count on, if Peter does make it out, my good friend Rick Maiman will be there to snap a shot of him leaving the prison gates (THANKS FOR THE SHOT TODAY).
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The talent and erudition, the political views and beard-and-bandanna look, all of it meshed with his avowed taste for tobacco and alcohol to make him a romantic outsized figure: part rebel, part intellectual, part Latin hunk, part superstar.
The coroner said he told Mr Booth it was "quite right and proper" for him to campaign to make people aware of the dangers of diuretics and laxatives, which are widely available in pharmacies.
After he installed winglets on his Citation X to make it go even faster, I asked him if he ever throttled back to take advantage of the fuel savings that the winglets gave his airplane.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota warned that House passage would not make him more inclined to bring it up for a vote.
Sandbridge may never make it to the massive scale of Intel, but then, with all of 40 people working for him, Guenter Weinberger and his shop won't have to.
He clicked on a new "Make it for me" link next to a picture of the S'mores cupcakes, which connected him with a local baker via the Zaarly service.
He spent the winter before the 2012 season changing his swing, hoping it would make him a .290 hitter again, despite the defensive shifts and the effects of age.
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