So only a few countries give voters Swiss-style rights to take their own proposals to the ballot box.
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The mistakes that were repeatedly made (British Leyland, Concorde, steel nationalisation and the rest) are so many, and the successes (essentially, only the pharmaceutical industry) so few, as to make one almost cry out in anger.
There have been so far only a few court cases revolving around the question of euthanasia.
So far only a few Chinese firms have acquired global brands.
It is disappointing that the title game is a rematch, if only because there are so few opportunities in this sport to see top teams from different conferences meet.
Luckily, moving to the states stunted my growth only a few inches so now I tower over a mere 60% of my peers like Lurch from The Adam's Family.
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NC, called the JavaStation, last year, but says it has only shipped a few thousand so far, and those are mostly prototypes in pilot projects.
So it surprised only a few when Grisha started travelling back, seeing old friends and making new ones, looking for his own golden formula.
But the real problem is that so few (only a fifth) of those with the necessary qualifications are from working-class backgrounds to start with.
Only a few authors (so far) have been definitively found out, and none of them have really lost anything, except for a bit of self-respect and for some that appears to be expendable anyway.
So far, only a few governments have made moves towards dealing with their toxic assets: the U.K.'s asset protection program insures banks against future losses on bad assets but in return requires pledges that participating institutions increase domestic lending.
So-called "ventricular support" devices are nothing new, but the previously cumbersome size meant that they could only remain in the patient for only a few months, so were used as a short-term measure to keep desperately ill patients alive until a transplant organ could be found.
With so few bothering to vote, it now only takes a determined few to throw out an unpopular council.
For more than fifty years, no one but Inch managed it, and only a few dozen have done so in the half century since.
So I will only revisit a few details of his analysis.
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Only a few weeks after the so-called London Whale debacle, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has filed a petition against the bank in the context of an investigation into the alleged manipulation of energy markets in California and the Midwest.
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Toyota has so far managed to sell only a few hundred Priuses per year in China.
So even if you make only a few dollars on an investment, be happy.
Until recently, the cost to store, access and analyze big data was so high that only government and a few business models could justify the cost.
Some 74% of U.S. employers already offer employee wellness programs, but these have had only a modest effect so far, because few employees have chosen to participate.
How many self-important people are there in positions of power, restrained by ethics or decorum from telling us all what they really think, and only a few keystrokes away from doing so?
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Traditional cellphone makers like Palm, Research in Motion, Samsung and Motorola will all soon launch their best efforts, but each handset has ugly faults when compared with the halo-encircled iPhone--which, admittedly, has only been shown to a lucky few so far.
"In our year in the Unibond League we only lost two games and so had a few long unbeaten runs, but to go 14 games unbeaten in a league as competitive as the Conference is tremendous, especially for a part-time club, " Stride added.
This is especially more so after increasing their AP program only a few weeks ago.
Despite his popularity, there are only a few recordings of his music, so this new release, called LUX AETERNA, is most welcome.
Only a few years earlier it had erupted so violently that thousands of people had been buried alive or sucked into sudden crevices.
That said, the ruling has only been in effect for a few weeks so it will be interesting to see how it finally shakes out.
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