"We have seven observers on the ground today, two more are arriving on Monday to bring those on the ground to nine ... (and) we will make the numbers up to 30 some time during the course of next week, " said Ahmad Fawzi, spokesman for Annan.
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But as the granddaughter of Greek immigrants, she also understands that our goal when we put together a budget is not just to make the numbers add up.
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To meet both these conditions, and to make the numbers add up, the demands made of those with deposits under 100, 000 euros - those who had been assured that their money was safe - were more severe than anyone had expected.
Moreover, at some point, he could lose patience with the remnant of the Old Labour left and expel them from the ranks, in which case he might need the Lib Dems to make up the numbers.
"I always said that Malaga were not in the Champions League just to make up the numbers, " manager Manuel Pellegrini told reporters.
Scotland's tourism minister told the conference that home visitors could help make up the numbers as tourists from overseas, especially America declines.
Mrs May insisted she first became aware of the problem when G4S admitted it would not be able to fulfil its contractual obligations to games organisers Locog last week, prompting the government to deploy 3, 500 troops to make up the numbers.
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And as migrants from the traditionally Muslim former Soviet Republics come to Moscow to make up the numbers, they bring their culture, their traditions and their faith with them.
The brace of existing mobile operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, will make up the numbers.
"We are not going there to make up the numbers, we are going there to win it, " added Morley.
But Cas quickly proved that they were not there to make up the numbers on this historic night and Ryan McGoldrick went over from close range.
I'm not here to make up the numbers.
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The views of the generals, who make up half the council's numbers, usually prevail.
First, the sheer numbers at the top: women make up less than 20 percent of executive officers and board directors in the industry and less than a quarter of senior officers.
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At a pinch, Mr Trimble may be able to make up the necessary numbers by asking members of the Alliance Party and the Women's Coalition to redesignate themselves as unionists to give him a working majority.
As with any giant bank, there are enormous swings in some very big numbers that make up the bottom line.
And on the numbers, Latinos make up 30 percent of the unemployed.
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So if the passionate staff can work wonders, and they can make the most of their collections, and visitor numbers have held up, does the organisation really need a higher level of funding after all?
The right set of emotions can even make up for bad numbers or technical uncertainty in high risk startups- whereas great numbers will rarely make up for a failure to make people feel the right way about what you are doing.
In the future we will have to depend on immigrants to make up our numbers, for without them Singapore will face the prospect of a shrinking workforce and a stagnant economy.
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The price of housing is another political issue, reflecting the pressure of rising numbers of people in the state capitals, where migrants make up about a third of the population.
Just to make up numbers entirely to make the logical point, say that this part time work lasts until a child is 10, they have two at a 4 or 5 year interval (all reasonable enough numbers but entirely made up as I say).
Cuban-Americans used to be the largest Hispanic group in Florida but have over the last decade become overshadowed in sheer numbers by non-Cuban Latinos, and now make up just 31 percent of the Hispanic population there.
It would not, however, prevent them from counting toward the 250-person threshold meaning that if freelancers terminated in the next 83 days wanted to make the case in court that they were effectively employees entitled to WARN protection, and if the numbers add up, they might still be able to do so.
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Many of the other contenders, however, give the unfortunate impression of having been chosen to make up numbers.
Like a shiny new toy boxed up without the batteries needed to make it go, the holiday numbers Amazon released Thursday are pretty.
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As I tried to make clear, my numbers focus exclusively on what shows up as Medicare spending in the Medicare Trustee reports.
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