It is also an "enabler" for renewable energy, providing a source of electricity that can step in to fill the gap when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining.
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For this season anyway the spotlight will not be shining quite so brightly on Bristol with the arrival in the Championship of Worcester Warriors just up the M5.
Afghanistan is not quite the shining success that Mr Bush is claiming it to be in his own election campaign though it looks a whole lot less ugly than Iraq.
Worse still is the general public perception that the president's cabinet is not as clean as it should be - as shown by the stories seeping out of the investigations by the National Assembly, itself not clad in shining armour.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development does not exactly have a shining record as a forecaster.
Knowing that you might not be seen as the shining white knight just prepares you for all situations.
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This is not because it is a shining example of efficiency and democratic accountability, but because its overall economic and fiscal outlook is, at the moment, surprisingly robust.
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For the next eight months, her family struggled to figure out what happened to their soccer loving, artistic, horse crazy daughter, whose gentle smile, long dark hair and shining eyes did not bely a struggling soul.
And Africa's rulers, with one or two shining exceptions, have not yet done so.
And some designs provide power round the clock, not just when the sun is shining, by storing energy in the form of molten salt.
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Three weeks in, Johnson's attempts to build a bright, shining, new team have not been without hiccups.
In previous missions in Earth orbit, you lost a lot of the mission time because you could not observe when the Earth itself was shining in the telescope.
Sure, Deus Ex was a shining beacon of level design and plot arguably not matched to this day (though prequel Human Revolution came close).
Matthew Leyland, reviews editor at Total Film magazine, is not surprised that people continue to be captivated by The Shining so long after it was released.
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They will be shining their shovels in Poland, South Africa and China, but not in the Ruhr.
Among Mr Fujimori's many enemies were not just Peru's democratic opposition, but the imprisoned leaders of the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrilla movements.
And today, you're the ones receiving it not just for what you do, but for what you represent -- for the shining example that you set every single day and the inspiration that you give each of us as fellow citizens, including your President.
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But reforms should be aimed at shining a light on this dark corner of the financial markets through better disclosure, not banning or invalidating the instruments.
At night Baku is ablaze with amazing lights - not least from the Eurovision venue, The Crystal Hall, which is living up to its name and shining into the night sky like a beacon by the Caspian Sea.
That is not as intrusive as the traditional method of replacing the whole thing every time, but is worse than merely shining a laser on it using light to let the light in, as it were.
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