I'm hoping we will now have action on the pitch rather than off it.
With such powerful opponents, most politicians would rather put off reform until they need to.
"I'd rather trade off a little bit of current dividend yield for sustainable dividend growth, " says Chuck Carlson, editor of DRIP Investor.
They say the main problem is that most small businesses don't actually want to borrow - that they would rather pay off their debts.
The global audit firm would rather come off as stupid than complicit in the actions of whomever broke the law and stole MF Global customer funds.
Cook's punishment was being made to bowl, for the first time in Test cricket, and his rather rusty off-spinners signalled the point when a uniquely cricketing gentleman's agreement could be made and the match could end.
They buy to indulge themselves and seek to feel unique rather than show off their wealth.
It is a desire to pay this off rather than spend that is slowing economic growth.
She added that rather than sell off the factory, it could be earning money for the government.
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Historic liabilities have to be honoured (and properly accounted for, rather than hidden off the government's balance-sheet).
Schmidt, of course, is now the CEO of Google, where search and sort has paid off rather nicely.
Britain will purchase Meteor air-to-air missiles from a European consortium rather than an off-the-shelf product from America's Raytheon.
He predicted the Obama administration would back off rather than court further outrage.
When the economy and consumption slowed down, manufacturers laid employees off rather rapidly.
Benefits could be used to supplement wages at businesses that cut hours rather than lay off workers, for instance.
Racing cars are really like upside-down aeroplanes, using their aerodynamics to stay on the ground rather than take off.
But we have not learned yet how to use them to cool us off rather than contribute to our overheating.
The track is now "sealed, " or packed down so that excess water rolls off rather being absorbed in the surface.
Rather than going off to the monastery to ponder the larger meanings, Paycheck keeps a foot planted in the tavern.
And that political solution seems farther off rather than closer these days.
For their part, paternalistic companies have in the past shared jobs around when times were hard, rather than laying off surplus workers.
Rather than storm off, he volunteered to pack up his corner office and move across the hall at the company's Auburn Hills, Michigan headquarters.
The puzzle is Mr. Soderbergh's approach to what might have been an intriguing experiment, rather than the off-putting one it turned out to be.
For the moment, the merger seems to put off rather that hasten the idea of a status-destroying, wealth-creating break-up at either Lyonnaise or Suez.
Even if house prices merely flatten off rather than fall, consumer borrowing and spending could slow sharply as people feel constrained to put more money aside.
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The trainees discovered the advantages of levelling the steep slopes into horizontall terraces, in order for the rain to penetrate the hillside rather than running off the surface.
Which may well have been something that would have been picked up under this older doctrine of passing off rather than the patent law that was actually used.
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And a better understanding of what drove the numbers down can steer us toward doing things that make people better off rather than congratulating ourselves on how moral we are.
Poland thinks it can win Spain as an ally if it argues for phasing out (rather than cutting off) funds to regions now receiving them, alongside payments to new members.
That's the kind of thing he could do here at home rather than go off for a weekend in Jeddah, I think in a way that only amounts to a gesture.
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