Monopolist Gates understands that slow-moving, ineffectual government intervention will not restrain him from sticking it to competitors and customers alike.

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Although objections came from some of his fellow cardinals, the pope did not restrain Ratzinger, in part because their friendship went back four decades, to the time when the two were young priests at the Vatican II meetings in Rome.

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Obviously, the ceiling itself does not fundamentally restrain public debt, nor the excessive deficit-spending which causes debt to build.

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Environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife apparently are not bothered by the security risks that such a porous border creates -- at least not enough to restrain themselves from filing a lawsuit to prevent the DHS from doing the job that Congress is requiring it to do.

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Few people will buy individual insurance policies under Mr McCain's plan, he predicts, and Mr Obama's does not do enough to restrain costs.

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Yet, for all that, Mr Mishkin stuck to the Fed's line that it should not have tried to restrain house prices with higher interest rates.

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The reason is that Microsoft will not be killing Nook to restrain trade or to gain market share.

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Ms Heaton said Miss Gabbidon did not use excessive force to restrain the two defendants, but she was suspended and a month later the school was closed down.

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In truth, the only thing this plan will stimulate is larger deficits, meaning the Fed will be forced to do more, not less QE in an effort to restrain rates.

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Twombly dismissed claims that telecommunications companies had conspired to restrain trade (by agreeing not to compete with one another) in the absence of any factual allegations making it plausible that any such conspiracy existed.

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But there is a strong feeling that measures designed merely to restrain or modify Microsoft's behaviour will not go far enough.

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This suggests that to restrain government health spending, policy must reduce existing subsidies, not introduce new government insurance.

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"Not necessarily depression per se, but it's the ability to restrain yourself from acting on suicidal thoughts, " Brent said.

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