And even if the indigenisation rules were suspended or scrapped, that would be no guarantee of security.
The authority has said 1, 300 of its 10, 500 workforce will have to go and a host of services cut back or scrapped.
Such laws need to be revised, or scrapped, with small firms, of which South Africa has far too few, exempted from all but the most basic requirements in employment contracts.
But nobody knows for sure how the currency markets would react were the pact to be diluted or even scrapped.
Congress has made its intent clear: It wants mark-to-market scrapped or at least suspended for a good, long time.
Others worry that the welfare reforms will take effect only in 2017, creating a danger that they might be scrapped or diluted by a future government.
On Wednesday it emerged that a controversial proposal to offer offenders a 50% sentence cut for early guilty pleas is likely to be scrapped or significantly curtailed.
Critics, including Lalit Modi, a former BCCI official who co-founded the IPL, said India Cements was trying to distance Mr. Meiyappan from the team as IPL rules say a franchise that hurts the reputation of the tournament or the BCCI can be scrapped.
This is a fractious, finicky process and tiny defects in the materials, or failures in the alignment of the different layers, can result in 20% or more of a batch being scrapped.
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The navy is open to offers for the former Devonport-based ships, including being scrapped and recycled, reused or sunk to become artificial reefs.
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The fact is, once a game wraps, the dev team has little to do until launch, and so they may cobble together some additional content, perhaps drawn from old ideas that were scrapped due to time constraints or a lack of resources.
Some sources suggested that could be the result of preliminary design work being done for projects later scrapped due to lack of financing or other matters that could result in slower payments.
And he has scrapped earlier talk of defaulting on debts or reversing Mr Cardoso's privatisations.
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Many will need to be scrapped, repealed, defunded, amended or found unconstitutional.
What is more, the court suggested that if the police checks singled out Hispanics or otherwise unduly inconvenienced law-abiding citizens, they might also have to be scrapped. (There have not been any checks yet, since the law has been suspended pending the judgment).
The bar is set high: if half the 27 national parliaments are unhappy, then a majority of national governments (or a majority of members of the European Parliament) can insist a draft measure be scrapped.
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