They worry that introducing top-up fees would scare off potential students from poor families.
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It's also discouraging people from setting up new businesses and it's putting off potential foreign investors.
What's needed are "grand bargains" in both the U.S. and Europe to stave off potential calamity.
There's always the risk that design work will turn off potential buyers, particularly those looking to put their own stamp on the home.
Mr Hariri defends his decision by claiming that the airing of dirty laundry on international channels puts off potential investors and offends conservative Arab regimes.
Yes, people have issues with the game, but they do have huge fanbases as evidenced by their sales, and such promotion might turn off potential buyers.
Universities have been worried that charging too little will make them look like poor quality - and that charging too much will put off potential applicants.
If you shoot for an aggressive number, y0u can spend a long time and come up with no offers, having turned off potential offers at a realistic value.
Disclosure of financial information is awful, putting off potential buyers.
Instead, the House passed a bill that failed to cut subsidies significantly and bought off potential opposition from urban Democrats with spending on a range of social and environmental programmes.
Darmer brushes off potential concerns of McNamee's credibility that stem from his earlier admitted lies to the Mitchell investigators, when he denied having shot up Clemens with performance enhancing drugs.
With rowdy Algerian fans throwing missiles onto the pitch, a detachment of Tunisian policemen arrived in the 75th minute to ward off potential trouble as tensions rose in Sousse's Stade Olympique.
The company is fending off potential competition from Facebook Places check-ins and from Twitter by working more closely with merchants to create more promotions to lure foot traffic through the Foursquare service.
Insurers would love to collect more background information on the personal habits of those buying motor, household and life policies, but do not want to put off potential customers with intrusive questionnaires.
Career coaches say the big issue for entrepreneurs who want to quit running their own shows and go to work for bigger companies is finding a way not to scare off potential employers.
This is a perfect example of what I wrote yesterday about why the big studios really need to focus on blockbusters with lots of spin-off potential even if it means no more mid-budget movies.
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But once Dr Mahathir does finally retire, will Mr Badawi, his chosen heir, be strong enough to fend off potential challengers, such as Tengku (Prince) Razaleigh Hamzah, from Kelantan, or the defence minister, Najib Tun Razak?
Analysts recently found North America to be abundant in natural gas reserves, a fuel touted by many as the bridge between traditional fossil fuels that we greatly depend on now and the far off potential of renewable energy technologies.
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The Lib Dems have also ditched any policies that might put off potential supporters, such as raising the basic rate of income tax, and they have stopped banging on about things that do not stir the popular imagination, such as proportional representation.
Sometimes, their broadcasts brought election and security officials scurrying in to head off a potential problem.
On Wednesday it rallied off that potential support back up almost to its 21-day m.a. again.
The vote basically pushes off a potential default on our debt and allows us to borrow.
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However. given the Stormont parties' propensity for locking horns, I'm not writing off the potential for deadlock.
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Although private supersonic travel is some way off, potential producers are enrouraged by the success of Executive Jet Inc.
But has he been too quick to write off the potential of Twitter as a way of tracking the spread of viruses?
To show off the potential of some new techniques, Dr Levoy created the SynthCam app for the iPhone and other Apple devices.
They must wait 30 days to repurchase the stock, however, if they want the flexibility of writing off a potential loss on the new position.
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As expected, the repellent put the insects off their potential meal.
The board of film rental firm Netflix has adopted a "poison pill" strategy to ward off a potential hostile takeover bid by activist investor Carl Icahn.
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