Lloyds has said that following discussions with the banking regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority, it does not need to sell new shares to boost its capital resources and enhance its ability to absorb future losses.
The former affords scale and scope, whereas the latter provides access to multiple and varied resources, learning opportunities, and the ability to arbitrage them across countries.
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If the EPA and the DOE have the ability and the resources to apply meaningful energy performance standards to the likes of washing machines and refrigerators, why not to trail runners and waterproof jackets?
Countries are ranked on their consumption of renewable resources versus their biocapacity, or ability to produce renewable resources and absorb CO2 emissions.
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And right now we have more resources and we have a greater ability to help than ever before.
While e-books might have started out as a high-tech novelty for early adopters, they may ultimately prove to be a great equalizer across boundaries of ability, resources and education.
And our economy depends critically on our ability to maintain access to markets and resources, open sea lanes, etc.
With such a large focus dedicated to maintenance, training and administration, the ability of IT managers to find the time and resources to invest in innovation, even process improvement initiatives will be hampered, if not completely derailed.
You might even say health insurance companies and their ability to pool resources are responsible for every medical advancement since 1960.
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Seven years on, there is much greater respect for the American military, its staying power, its ability to commit massive resources and readiness to rethink tactics.
We have the technology and ability to exploit the resources found on the moon and in the asteroid belt as well as sending a manned mission to Mars to set up a permanent base.
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It has to be regarded as a powerful new force in a world where population growth and competition for resources have changed the economic and political ground rules for ever, apparently crippling the ability of old-style free-market economics to deliver growth.
Doubts have also been cast on the ability of the FSA's resources and staff to monitor thousands of firms each year.
As Chinese companies continue to move outward and, in addition to securing natural resources and infrastructure projects, acquire distribution networks, IP, and yes, even manufacturing facilities, their ability to draw upon a pool of global talent will be closely watched.
There are ways to enhance consumer protections without limiting the ability of banking regulators to use their considerable resources and powers over banks to directly enforce consumer compliance in banks.
Like China, the prodigious expansion of power production from renewable-energy resources like wind, solar energy and geothermal has outpaced the ability of the transmission systems to move these new power supplies to centers of demand.
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It takes the ability and the know-how to use the resources that are available.
"We believe the Project RAY device will enhance the ability of blind and visually impaired people to access resources and information independently, " said Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel for Qualcomm.
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The proposal as drafted would create reporting requirements, regulatory impediments and certifications that could substantially affect the ability to produce resources that are placed in the BLMs stewardship for the benefit of all Americans.
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The ability to share programmes lessened the strain on local resources and, by the time additional stations were launched in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee, listeners were enjoying a significant amount of programming relayed from London.
People will develop respect for your unwavering focus and ability to get a mountain accomplished with a molehill of resources.
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They use resources effectively and efficiently both to improve their bottom line and to strengthen their ability to provide quality products and services.
These high-penetration levels have put enormous pressure on the electric grid and created considerable doubts about the ability to interconnect more variable resources with the grid safely.
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Of course, not all companies are as lucrative or as large as Google, and perhaps resources are not as vast, but every company has the ability to place some type of wellness program in place.
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At its basics, cloud computing represents the ability for software developers to cheaply and easily use the resources of masses of servers sitting somewhere in a data center (essentially supercomputers) to do something interesting or useful.
"Our ability to create the ideal mix of device and cloud resources has resulted in a platform that completely changes the economics of television content creation, " said David McElhatten , senior vice president, studio and services for ActiveVideo Networks.
Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, welcomed the new test, but said it was also important to keep supporting nurses, through training and resources, so they could keep doing their jobs to the best of their ability.
Connectional intelligence is your ability to make breakthroughs by connecting ideas, people, information, and resources.
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It's one reason why big pharma is finding research tough going, why there are doubts about the ability of HTS to deliver results, and why the industry is pooling resources in this way.
The unique ability of technology to enable today's limited educational resources to scale quickly and affordably across great distances to a great many people makes it an essential ingredient in our efforts to transform education.
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