Egypt, which has always had a deep, rather proprietorial, concern for Sudan, has chosen this moment for a new initiative.

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And the unification of consumer lenders' jealously guarded proprietorial credit databases into a national whole would remove an important barrier to entry.

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Yadav, 49, has always governed his home state with a proprietorial air while directing a jaundiced eye at the central powers in New Delhi.

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There is something proprietorial in my motives, I cannot deny it.

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This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.

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