Or were there outside forces that conspired to knock them back down the economic ladder?
There clearly was concealment and collusion to perpetrate a fraud within the bank and from outside forces.
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"You actually don't feel like you're doing that much because it's all these outside forces acting upon you, " she said.
Referring to the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, he warned against outside forces responding favorably to requests from Afghan groups for military assistance.
As far as Livni is concerned, there is no vital interest that Israel cannot trust outside forces to secure for it.
If that failed, there would be pressure to bring in outside forces.
China can be a modern, fairly rich and self sufficient country able to defend itself against outside forces be they military or economic.
President Alexander Lukashenko did not say what caused the explosion at the Oktyabrskaya subway station, but suggested outside forces could be behind it.
But to suggest, as the Obama campaign ad does, that Bain shuttered GST simply to make a profit betrays a total misunderstanding of the outside forces affecting all U.S. steel production.
There's no official term for milder forms of "nervous breakdown, " though some patients and clinicians wish there was still a name for a temporary state of being overwhelmed by outside forces without an underlying mental illness.
But it may be that outside forces are more important: for example, a European Union that forbids cosy cartels, American pension funds that demand open accounts for their investments in France, or even the influence of the euro in promoting competition and cross-border mergers.
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The market is supported by bullish outside market forces that include a weaker U.S. dollar index and firmer crude oil prices.
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However, a stronger U.S. dollar index and lower crude oil prices are bearish outside market forces working against the precious metals Friday morning.
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The U.S. dollar index and crude oil will remain two important outside market forces that will have a daily impact on the precious metals markets.
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Gold is under mild selling pressure Wednesday on the bearish outside market forces of a firmer U.S. dollar index and steady to weaker crude oil prices.
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Outside market forces were also in a bullish posture for gold and silver Wednesday, as the U.S. dollar index was weaker and crude oil prices were sharply higher.
In the end, however, the gold and silver markets saw selling pressure intensify amid bearish outside market forces that included a sharply higher U.S. dollar index and lower crude oil prices.
He expected the summit to discuss the question of outside security forces entering Afghanistan, but Washington first wanted Afghans to try to "get rid of the bandits" threatening aid efforts in the war-ravaged state.
It also represents much more: accretive revenues, competitive differentiation, early mover advantages, the ability to monetize existing audiences, and a huge step towards hyper-local sales with the utilization of established inside and outside sales forces.
The rush defense forces outside backs to move forward rapidly towards opposition runners, smothering attacking moves before they develop.
This time, they are not the helpless victims of forces outside their control.
The biggest Russian forces outside the regular army are the interior-ministry troops, numbering about 250, 000, and about 200, 000 border guards.
This week the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which leads ISAF, approved in principle the extension of its peacekeeping forces outside the capital.
On the busiest days, up to 9, 500 police officers will be used, including some from forces outside London, for Games-related operations, it says.
Regional specialists believe that Tanzania's reputation as an honest broker and as a strictly neutral party in the conflicts afflicting its neighbours would be damaged by Tanzanian soldiers serving as mercenaries for forces outside the country.
And so the Iraqi military and the Iraqi police have moved forces in from outside that province, by and large, although they are now also recruiting from within again as the forces regain their strength and their capability and their ability to operate.
The company of Marines that was actually ahead of ours a couple of hours ago came under heavy fire from Iraqi forces just outside the town of Nasiriya.
Finally, forces from the outside are factors that characterize the context in which we operate and make decisions.
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