The most significant takeaway from the Vickers report is the idea of a ring-fence around retail banking.
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Mr Miliband urged the PM to stop any of the centres being closed by reinstating the ring-fence around their funding.
None of this is trivial - not least because George Osborne's banking policies, which include putting a ring-fence around retail banks and giving the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee the power to vary banks' capital ratios, are out of step with what most of the eurozone wants and plans.
The report was also able to follow the movements of a ring-necked parakeet around London, as the British range of this colourful bird expanded.
Councillor David Begg, convenor of Edinburgh's transport committee, chaired a meeting earlier this month of Scottish councils to discuss how to finance public-transport improvements with revenues from a road-pricing ring around Edinburgh.
In 1998, after a legislative battle, King signed a law granting, for the first time, island dwellers legal control of a three-mile ring of water around their island.
The Independent Commission on Banking is expected to recommend that the government should legislate almost immediately for big banks to put a ring fence or firewall around their retail banking operations - but the implementation of the ring fence, to separate retail banks from investment banks, should then be phased in over a period of years.
Or to put it another way, it is difficult to embark on the disposal of RBS and Lloyds until we know how much more of Lloyds might be hived off by government fiat and how far the profitability of RBS could be reduced by the ring-fence expected to be erected around the retail activities of universal banks like it.
The Storm2's dimensions are about the same as before, but it looks a bit sleeker, thanks to details like a ring of dark chrome around the touch-screen.
Tibaldi signatures include a clear ring around the barrel and a tie-shaped clip.
At 4 am, when the wake-up bells ring each morning, the tall trees smell like earth and fog creeps around the elegant Burmese-style pagodas and gazebos, making their statues of mythical lions and other creatures look as though they have just emerged from another world.
Otherwise, it's aimed more at the casual carry-around crowd with a 40 percent smaller body, touch-screen focus selection, control ring exposure adjustment, a 3-inch 920k dot TFT LCD, art filters (in the smartphone app), image (or film) stabilization and 1080P 30 fps HD video.
It also features replaceable faceplates and is said to have some sort of lighting arrangement around the swivel ring that's user-customizable -- perfect for your next fog-filled rave.
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The company has built an entire curriculum around it, printed in several three-ring binders.
Inside the Dreamhouse, girls dance around a 10-foot-tall diamond ring and look into cases featuring 6-inch, red-sequined, platform heels.
The problem has been the connections between the giant magnets that help steer charged particles around the LHC's 27km-long ring.
If the lever is placed at an angle, the ring around the lens switches to digital control to change exposure-related settings quickly and easily.
The Olympus XZ-2 is equipped with the world's first hybrid control ring, built around the lens, which allows users to easily assign function settings to their preferences as well as switch between analog and digital operation of the ring.
Big companies have the lawyers and the money to build ring fences of utility and design patents around their products so only the largest and best-financed competitors can even think of entering their markets, he said.
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It was reported that a migratory bird - a common European bee-eater - caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after it was found dead in a field with a metal ring around its leg stamped "Israel".
The Stylus XZ-10, which launched just this week, includes a small arsenal of features that you wouldn't normally find on a pocketable cam, including incredibly fast autofocus, a control ring around the lens, a dedicated mode dial and a very sharp (920k-dot) 3-inch LCD.
Reagan had just been given the award -- a 2-foot-high crystal statue of an eagle -- when a man named Richard Paul Springer, 41, walked through the ring of security around the former president and onto the stage, grabbed the crystal eagle, smashed it forcefully to the floor (with Reagan being struck by the flying glass), and commandeered the microphone.
Shenae loved Dora the Explorer, chicken nuggets and singing Ring Around the Rosy with her sisters, Thomas said, and she still sees her apple-cheeked face.
The new compact, dubbed the WG-3, maintains the unique design of the other two Optios, including a nifty LED ring around the lens for lighting macro shots.
Lemme tick off a bunch of breed points for poodles: Tail set, topline, feet, condition of coat, soundness moving up, down and around the ring, placement of ear leathers, under jaw, color of eyes (dark and almond-shaped), layback of shoulder, expression and temperament.
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