Is that observation fair, that he has a narrow base among the supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr?

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For many of Poland's peers the crisis exposed the narrow base of their economies.

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Thanks to Iraq's vanishingly narrow tax base, oil accounts for almost all of the government's projected 2004 revenues.

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Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University): Well, I think what this really represents to me is Bush's--the Bush administration's willingness to only appeal to a very narrow conservative base.

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Most Palestinian analysts put his outburst down to the fact that the declaration exposed just how narrow his base of support has become: it consists mainly of his Fatah movement and, as the statement showed, not even all its members.

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The German tax system is indeed riddled with exemptions, which narrow the tax base and push up tax rates, and most experts on efficient taxation agree it would make sense to do away with them.

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It says that even if al-Maliki has the right intentions, he may simply not have the political or security capabilities to take the steps which had been mentioned earlier in the memo which risk alienating his narrow Sadrist political base, meaning Moqtada al-Sadr, the militia leader.

NPR: Hadley's Memo on Maliki Reveals U.S. Analysis

Mr Weicker's base is too narrow, and Mr Trump's too flash.

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Some form of equity issue is likely in the form of depositary receipts, because Yuksi wants to broaden a shareholding base that will be narrow at first.

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The peninsula is connected to the rest of the island by the Elephant Pass, a narrow causeway that the government has controlled for more than a decade from a huge military base.

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