• Investors are longing for growth stories, so they will push back on pricing when portfolio companies with weak balance sheets try to tap equity markets in order to de-leverage.

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  • He has assumed greater responsibility in the middle order following Aravinda de Silva's decision to retire from Test cricket.

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  • Do you want a restraining order on Cruella De Ville?

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  • The committee took evidence from Barnardo's, the Poor Sisters of Nazareth and the De La Salle Order.

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  • Giving a cut to one of the favoured circle came to be seen as de rigueur in order to gain a licence or agency quickly.

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  • Brother Francis Manning of the De La Salle Order spoke briefly to welcome the inquiry, saying he hoped it would be "a source of comfort and closure for all involved".

    BBC: OFMDFM Committee

  • More recently he said he would back a shotgun merger between the French firms Suez and the state-controlled Gaz de France in order to ward off a bid for Suez by the Italian utility Enel.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Owing to the basic truth that we produce in order to consume, and that consumption of shelter is a given, the best path for the government to take in order to save housing would be to de-emphasize its ownership, or at the very least make it equal in the eyes of the law with regard to other investments.

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  • His other decorations include Germany's Federal Order of Merit and France's Officier de la Legion d'Honneur.

    NPR: Last Survivor Of Plot To Kill Hitler Dies At 90

  • Americans usually take her advice, noted Ms. De Barros, while the French tend to order from the list: "French people don't like to be told what to do, " she said.

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  • Until a few weeks ago it was a foregone conclusion that Turkey's parliament, dominated as it is by the right, would have Mr Ocalan sent to the gallows, even though Turkey has in fact observed a de facto moratorium on executions since 1984 in order to improve its chances of joining the European Union.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey: Will Ocalan die? | The

  • Owais Shah, promoted to the top of the order with Denly, was dropped on nought by wicketkeeper AB de Villiers, but having made 27 he was caught at point.

    BBC: South Africa deny battling Lions

  • In September of last year, a massive explosion at a Pemex natural-gas plant near the northern border city of Reynosa killed 30 workers and caused critical shortages of the fuel, causing the state-run electricity company Comision Federal de Electricidad to switch to more expensive fuels in order to free up some natural gas for industry.

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  • Analysts argue that revaluation is in order, a stance that received a boost last May when Kuwait de-pegged its dinar from the dollar, shifting to a floating basket exchange system.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Ponting fell soon after, while Cameron White (30) threatened a lower-order renaissance alongside Hopes before the hard-hitting Victorian edged Steyn to De Villiers, who was keeping wicket in place of the injured Mark Boucher.

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  • At Restaurant Au Pied de Cochon, fries are cooked in duck fat and guests can order regular poutine or with foie gras chunks and sauce.

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  • In order to train for her job as a test driver for the Formula One team Marussia, Maria de Villota puts on a weighted helmet and does a couple hundred head rolls.

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  • More recently he said he would back a shotgun merger between the French firms Suez (nyse: SZE - news - people ) and the state-controlled Gaz de France (other-otc: GZFCF - news - people ) in order to ward off a bid for Suez by the Italian utility Enel (nyse: EN - news - people ).

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  • De Gaulle's vision of Franco-German reconciliation, of the building of a new European order with France and Germany as its centre of gravity, ended - according to one British historian - a historic enmity created by the division of Charlemagne's empire in the ninth century.

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