• There is another reason, too, why Malaysia's capital controls deserve little credit for its economic performance: they were applied so narrowly and imposed so belatedly that they have had little effect.

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  • Moreover, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has defined independence so narrowly that it is almost meaningless.

    ECONOMIST: Campaign finance

  • Expecting to get dramatic growth, or value, out of a system so narrowly focused is expecting the impossible.

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  • And that is why, as I mentioned earlier, his focus has been so narrowly keyed into the measures that we can take to grow the economy and create jobs.

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  • However, officials in the latter group are focused so narrowly on "safety" that they ignore the fact that because all drugs have side-effects, safety cannot be evaluated in a vacuum.

    FORBES: Commentary

  • As the game entered its final 15 minutes Milan's efforts carried an increasing desperation, but an effort from Pato flew so narrowly off target that the massed ranks of visiting fans thought they had equalised.

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  • Given that virtually all US telecom equipment is produced in China, in some measure, the Committee's narrow focus addresses the overall issue of risk to US telecom infrastructure so narrowly that it omits from the Committee's inquiry the suppliers of the vast majority of equipment used in the US market.

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  • Real's Ronaldo has so often trailed narrowly behind Messi on the pitch, and so it is the financial stakes.

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  • "Masculinity in America is so very narrowly defined, and it's an interesting juxtaposition to have that conversation during the Super Bowl, " Siddiquee said.

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  • The battery never went as far as advertised, and it was so heavy that I narrowly missed breaking some toes as it crashed to the ground on the way into the living room.

    NEWYORKER: Green Giant

  • Susan Collins, R-Maine, spent the weekend scrubbing the bill of spending that does not narrowly target job and economic growth so moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats will be more likely to vote for it.

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  • That there was even a world's most expensive bagel demonstrates how many most-expensive products can coexist so long as categories are defined narrowly.

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  • Even so, the study suggests they were narrowly beaten by combined sales of iOS and Android game apps over 2012's final quarter.

    BBC: Smart device games outsell portable console titles

  • So while the law itself might have been narrowly written it may well not work out that way.

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  • What the five Law Lords in the current majority have done is to interpret international law, and the British statutes implementing it, as narrowly as possible, but to interpret the Extradition Act so adventurously that even British lawyers who specialise in fighting extradition cases are amazed.

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  • So is there a checklist then that will more narrowly define what "imminent threat" is?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • So far, BindView has avoided that fate by narrowly focusing on areas such as e-mail security.

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  • Carbone then shot narrowly wide from Merson's cross - the best effort of the match so far.

    BBC: Last-day winner for Sheringham

  • True to her word, the following morning Witheford was confronted with two zebras -- one of them so flighty it dashed straight out onto the motorway, where it narrowly escaped oncoming traffic.

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  • The low-key start to the second half would have suited Everton as they defended their first-leg advantage, while Pienaar, who like so many of his team-mates saw precious little of the ball, narrowly missed with a curling effort from 25 yards.

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  • About 25% of the money will go to "charity, " narrowly defined: family shelters, drug treatment centers, soup kitchens, programs to vaccinate children in Africa and so on.

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