But, unlike his fellow-villagers, he was renowned for having a deficit: he had been born in a lean year, and, to make matters worse, an estranged aunt had once lifted him from his crib and praised Heaven for what a gorgeous, fat, rosy baby he was thereby sealing forever his fate to be generally impoverished, crippled, struck down and taken by the Devil at some unexpected time, in some terrifying way.
But France and Russia have a list of oil contracts waiting to go ahead once sanctions are lifted, and both countries are among Iraq's biggest creditors.
The well-worn tarp once rolled back lifted my spirits, convinced that this huge, black, antique Rolls Royce, (in the family for more than a decade) could get the job done.
As the international diplomacy continues, it is seems ever more certain that a diplomatic solution may partly depend on who gets the billions of dollars worth of business in Iraq once sanctions are lifted.
Once the emergency was lifted, the birth rate rocketed, but has since come down again.
Once that ban is lifted, stock markets could become heavy again because of banking worries there, he said.
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But Lukoil hopes that once the restrictions are lifted the oil field will become a major part of its international operations.
The blue-faced man lowered the piece of paper in his right hand onto the left-hand stack, transferred it instantly to the right-hand stack, then lifted it once again into the air.
Once the cap was lifted, it meant that a millionaire, for example, might end up paying 10 times as much for Medicare as he had previously even though the Medicare benefit had not changed at all.
They have lifted the trophy once, and been beaten finalists four times.
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Once he throttled up, the 22 lifted me up and just flat out pinned me up against the 2.
She could count the times he had crossed the threshold of her room, but now he lifted her in his arms as he once had their sick spaniel and slid her into his sedan.
When the barriers are lifted, farmers may find they have lost access to once-secure markets.
Once loaded into her stable on the ground, Black Caviar was lifted into the cargo plane by a scissor lift.
Both their books exude the doom-laden mood that has now lifted from the country, though it will very likely descend once more soon enough.
Once it emerges from default, the ratings on the defaulted bonds would be lifted, too.
Nearly three decades later, the ban was lifted, allowing a new generation of young Shanghaiers to enjoy the once forbidden art.
Nor does it have to be showy: I once saw a New York City Ballet audience burst into applause when a ballerina lifted her leg into a flawless arabesque.
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The fear is that once the unprecedented capital controls - which are in place for an indefinite time - are lifted, the wealthiest will rush to move their deposits abroad, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports from Nicosia.
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