Although most people rely heavily on this asset, few have the means to survive should their ability to draw on it be interrupted for even a short period of time.
Like Iceland, Britain does not have a global reserve currency, such as the dollar or the euro, to draw on if it needs to act as lender of last resort.
If Brazil were then to draw on this facility, it would have to offer in return a genuinely credible plan of fiscal reform.
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"I think it is easy to see how the visual arts draw on science as a source of imagery but it is less easy to see how art feeds back into science, " he said.
Relatively few of them--about 0.4%--on any treatment had heart attacks, and that makes it difficult to draw conclusions about whether patients on Prexige were at more risk than those on ibuprofen and naproxen, the older pain drugs in the study.
Unless a country subjects itself to an IMF programme, it may draw on only 20% of the available liquidity from other central banks.
For example China believes it can draw on India's vast reservoir of trained computer scientists to develop the software side of its information technology sector.
Meanwhile, Castile La Mancha has become the fifth of Spain's 17 regional governments to say that it will draw on a rescue fund set up by Madrid.
With a large, flexible pool of foreign students in London to draw on, the company says it can handle expense claims and receipts from anywhere in the world.
Tottenham's 2-2 draw at Wigan on Saturday left it on the outside looking in, now two points behind Arsenal, albeit with a game in hand over its North London rival.
Thanks to the cooperation of numerous research centres and experts, as well as the support of ministries of education throughout the world, it will draw on data from countries in which no or little information about representations of the Holocaust has previously been made available.
That will determine how much it needs to draw on the 100bn euros set aside in July for a bailout of the banks.
Wenger has insisted his team would not fear drawing Chelsea or Manchester United - if their English rivals are part of the quarter-final draw when it takes places on 19 March.
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In these types of situations it is important to draw on one of my favorite investment rules.
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"With so much rugby on at the moment it is tough to draw a crowd, " admitted Tito.
It appears that people draw on different information in deciding which ticket to choose as opposed to how much they are willing to pay.
It calls on the government to draw up laws to close loopholes and name and shame companies that fail to pay their fair share.
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If Samoa is now lucky enough to escape similar turbulence, it may have to draw on the new tradition of power-sharing that Malietoa helped to entrench.
And every program that we have has to be thinking on the front end, how do we make sure that it is inclusive, and building into it our ability to draw on the capacities of persons with disabilities.
And one that would draw down the curtain on life as we know it.
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Among its recommendations, it calls on the Welsh government to draw up an action plan to increase participation.
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In Spain , Atletico Madrid was held to a goalless draw at Malaga as it missed out on the chance to close the gap on leader Barcelona.
We had a tough draw but we'll look positively on it and hopefully it will stand us in good stead for the hard court season to come.
"It's now time to draw a line under 2008 and get on with the important job of making sure our assessment system is the best it can possibly be, so that both pupils and parents can continue to get the information that we know they value, " he said.
It scored on ease of use, color, and low noise on low ISOs, even though it underexposed a few too many shots and apparently wasn't quick to the draw on autofocus.
The Canadas won't be taxed on that either until they (or their children) draw it down some day.
In exploiting a new economic terrain, it was simply good business to draw on first all the advances someone else made.
Your profile begins with your strengths and developmental needs, but it includes all the tools you draw on as a leader.
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