Could any manager be more firmly entrenched at the head of his company than Bill Gates?
Lately, however, he seems to have moved more firmly into the realm of tenuous treatments for serious conditions.
More firmly, she thanked Anton and told him she had to leave soon.
Yet voters may wonder why the government had not acted more firmly before.
The 210-year-old company, known once primarily for its chemical business, is trying to roots its business more firmly in agriculture products.
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Compared with the recent tribunals on former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Sierra Leone and East Timor, Cambodia's is much more firmly based in national law.
In humans, the researchers speculated, it might simply be that the balance between these two abilities is weighted more firmly towards scarring in humans.
By getting Mr Waigel to take the tricky finance job in the post-Strauss era, Mr Kohl bound Bavarians much more firmly with government discipline.
With the MSWM transaction the firm is planting its flag more firmly in the wealth management space while pulling back on riskier activities like trading.
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Mr Erdogan's AK party, he adds, has also begun to embrace Islam more firmly at home, suggesting some influence of religious ideology over foreign policy.
If your home is older, a few hundred dollars spent on anchor bolts and earthquake brackets will secure the structure more firmly to its foundation.
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America's Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed an overhaul of the way banks report loans on their sheets, by linking them more firmly to market valuations.
Which puts the airtime providers more firmly in the driving seat.
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Service companies are even more firmly embedded in the local economy.
Well then, say the europhiles, all the more reason to lodge Britain more firmly at Europe's heart, so that our arguments will be listened to more carefully.
It will send you an e-mail message when a book you are looking for (or might just be interested in) is coming out, hooking you ever more firmly.
The oddsmakers in Vegas are more firmly on my side.
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And now that English football's most decorated player has etched his name even more firmly into the annals of his club's history he has surely ensured that his achievements will prove unsurpassable.
The high cost of technology and the gains it promises are now tipping the balance more firmly in the direction of the very big ones and against small regional or community banks.
Yet the company believes that its ability to manufacture high quality materials at lower costs will allow it to offer a better overall product at cheaper prices than its more firmly entrenched competitors.
The Kurds, they say, are even attempting to frighten them into fleeing east into areas more firmly controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) from its headquarters in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
"If there is one principle of planning law more firmly settled than any other, it is that matters of planning judgment are within the exclusive province of the local planning authority or the Secretary of State, " the judge added.
Big weapons programs eventually do that by providing thousands of production jobs scattered across the nation, but if they fail to make the transition from research to production soon enough, they risk losing funding to other programs that are more firmly rooted in the political culture.
Their more-firmly-tied exchange rates and current-account surpluses generally date only from 1998 when these countries needed to rebuild reserves after the Asian crisis.
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So for years to come, many more households will be firmly focused on saving, splashing out only occasionally on a big-ticket item.
Many Lib Dems feel emboldened to rebel after their party conference voted firmly to oppose more secret courts.
Nicky Kinnaird, the force behind the upscale Space NK apothecaries, said that lipstick, more than gloss, is firmly on trend.
And, despite kicking his next attempt, Robinson added six more points to put the hosts firmly in control.
While the Wii was trying to innovate with its motion controls, the 360 and PS3 were firmly fixed on a more traditional evolution of gaming, with regular controllers and better graphics.
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But the presence of portals at CES makes an even more significant statement: The portals firmly believe that theirs is the content medium of the future, and it has only just begun.
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