Yet Mr Hollande cannot afford to be complacent, given worries about turnout and the potential for unpredictable three-way run-offs.
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Perhaps not much sign of focus there, but this is a slimmed-down bank half way through its run-off programme, and half way through the time limit it set itself for turnaround.
The hours of killing time before riding over to the hall, the putrid vending-machine meals on the run, the way-too-early-in-the-morning vans to the airport -- the dreary parts all become more than worth it when, for an hour or so, the singers can once again personally deliver a bit of happiness to the audiences who still adore their music.
After scratching around for 21, the opener wanted an optimistic second run when half-way down the wicket but Chanderpaul refused, leaving Bresnan at the stumps to send him packing.
At its Gogarburn headquarters, the lender has announced that it's just passed the half-way point of its sale and run-off of those assets it doesn't want or need.
But as it turned out, the German government was just as unrelaxed about allowing EADS - owner of Airbus and therefore a strategically important manufacturer - to run itself in an arms-length and commercial way.
Which is one reason the bull market has a long way to run--the bears are basing their case on a wrong argument.
They say they want to represent people purely over local issues and to make sure Surrey County Council is run in a cost-efficient way.
In August to September last year, China sent its one and only icebreaker Xue Long (Snow Dragon) on a successful two-way test run of the NSR.
Missing players of the quality of Mohamed Aboutrika, Mohamed Barakat and Amr Zaki, Hassan Shehata's side racked up the goals and the wins, and maintained their remarkable unbeaten run - which stretches all the way back to Tunisia in 2004.
Citibank--then a lean company well run by banking pioneer Walter Wriston--found a way to get around those limits.
The Wildcats clawed their way back with a 9-2 run to stay within reach, but never made it all the way back.
Collingwood said some words of wisdom from skipper Michael Vaughan - also under pressure after a bad run of scores - had helped settle him on his way to the crease.
Having people motivated by extrinsic goals (money) is a very bad way to run knowledge-based organizations.
She describes the home-based, women-run business phenomenon in this way: "Society has gone through several stages of blue collar and white collar, " she says.
Shanklin's run paved the way for ex-Dragon Sweeney to touch down after 54 minutes and nine minutes later Blair put the Blues in the lead for the first time with a penalty.
Schmidt and other insiders believe they may have found a world-changing way to run a company. (Then again, nothing Google does, in its own view, is ever average.) Most firms still look like the refining and manufacturing businesses of Rockefeller and Ford.
When these governors ran for office, they sold themselves as chief-executive types who would run the states in a more up-to-date way than older Republicans would.
We run our warehouse 24-7, which is not the most efficient way to run a warehouse but it gets the shoes out to the customers as quickly as possible.
Democrats want private health insurance working more like government-run Medicare, not the other way around.
It, along with the millions of other female-run enterprises, is changing the way we live.
Indeed, it would take many more jumbo managed account mandates to even start to give the impression that Europe has found a way to replace that run-off.
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And I want them to think -- and this is something that Dean said -- if Dean can run all the way across the country, then I want you to think, as kids, as Dean would say, that you can at least walk a mile, maybe run, you can go outside and play, you can jump, you can do whatever.
They range from a simple ger (a felt tent) that acts as a half-way house, to the well-organised home for 130 children run by Father Gilbert.
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Medicare, the government-run insurance scheme for those over 65, could show the way, by making much more use of results-based schemes and encouraging more competition among its various providers and insurers.
The difference, of course, is that this is the company's first old-school convertible to run Windows 8, whose finger-friendliness has the potential to change the way we interact with PCs like this.
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If we want more people to be able to afford houses in the long-run, a two-year tax holiday for home-buyers isn't the way to do it.
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