But now he himself, to put the wind up his top managers, has raised the spectre of a takeover.
"They put the wind up us a bit yesterday by knocking us over so quickly but I was really pleased with the way the boys fought today in pretty hot conditions, " said Australia coach Tim Nielsen.
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He is back on terra firma when he argues that the euro will put a strong wind behind the liberalisation of capital markets and will help set Europe's over-regulated economies free.
The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition, a lobbying outfit for the wind industry and local wind advocates, has put legislation into play in the North Carolina legislature that would likely result in the development of a whopping 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2027.
Burning wooden embers from the building and the prevailing wind conditions put a number of other properties in the area at risk, including a nearby community college.
That should put wind in the sails of the many other public figures who suspect they were targets.
The proud studio that once put out films like Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago has been reduced to middling hits like Hot Tub Time Machine and outright failures like the recent Fame remake.
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In the Australian state of Victoria, concern over the threat that turbines could pose to the rare orange-bellied parrot nearly put paid to a wind farm, the Bald Hills project, in 2006.
Every election cycle, candidates that endorse (or even say nice things about) the FAIR tax wind up getting attacked and put on the defensive.
Please, don't put us back on the (wind, or solar) farm.
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To put the scale in perspective, the average nameplate capacity of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2010 was about 1.79 MW, up from 1.74 MW in 2009 and 1.66 MW in 2008, according to the 2010 Wind Technologies Market Report.
It's big and shiny, built in 90 days, but the contractor put it together in a way that when the first stiff wind comes, the house blows down.
The nuclear deal serves to put wind into Roh's flagging sails and makes it more likely that South Korea will continue to draw closer to both China and North Korea.
The government scheme will be put to a vote of creditors on 19 May and the petition to wind-up the bank has been adjourned until 27 May.
Plans for a hotel and houses on the estate have been put on hold until a decision is made on a proposed wind farm off the coast of the links.
The day after Thanksgiving the parks and the sidewalks were covered with snow and the chilling wind was blowing across the department store windows that had already put up the Christmas decorations.
They're "licking their finger and testing the wind, " as Timmerman put it -- trying to figure out how to please all constituencies.
The February midday wind carried a scrap of newspaper, which Benny tracked down and put in the trash.
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It is essential that wind energy not be directly put into the grid, even a smart grid, but used as locally as possible.
As we wind down for the holidays, and put the first year of Dodd-Frank behind us, now is a great time to look forward and backward.
But councillor Wynne Jones, who has responsibility for regeneration and development, said the council had decided to put all current and expected wind power applications on hold.
Aboard Outrageous, heeling in the wind, we figured that we'd put the worst behind us.
In August last year, Powys council said planning applications for wind farms had been put on hold amid concerns about the county's "inadequate" road network.
It estimates more than 11% of the island's 68, 900 population has put their name to the petition which calls for a ban on commercial wind turbines in any Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a separation distance of at least 1.5km (0.9 miles) from housing.
Moving forward, we will continue to invest in new technologies that put Americans to work in the jobs of tomorrow -- from building advanced wind turbines and long-lasting batteries to developing cutting-edge clean coal technologies and next generation biofuels.
And that's why we put in record amounts of money for solar and wind and biodiesel and all the other alternative clean energy sources that are out there.
Finding corporate patrons to put hundreds of millions of dollars into wind projects has become increasingly important given the limited pool of traditional financiers willing to risk the uncertainty over a federal production tax credit that is crucial to the industry.
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So when you develop the wind, you can then remove natural gas from power generation and put it into a transportation fuel market.
The council has installed its own equipment around the building to monitor wind conditions so that warnings and diversions can be put in place when necessary.
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