• As a further sop to income-tax advocates, Aldrich would sponsor an income-tax constitutional amendment.

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  • The terms are necessary as a sop to middle-class parents concerned that their children are not being stretched enough.

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  • "The next match is very critical for our team to go for the knockout stage but we will try our best, " Korea coach Jo Tong-sop said.

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  • The four parties - the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK), the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), the Hungarian Coalition (SMK) and the Party of Civic Understanding (SOP) - have already "expressed the will to create, on the basis of the election results, a new Slovak government for the next four-year period", said Mikulas Dzurinda, the leader of SDK, which is the largest of the four parties.

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  • In the current debates about "fairness" - that contemporary sop for the aspirations to what used to be called "equality" - there is scant acknowledgement of the paralysing impact of poverty on social mobility.

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  • Another sop to the soft-hearted 21st-century modern man is the option of using straw to pad your socks and hopefully cushion the blows.

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  • The company has also thrown a one-time sop of 15 free tracks to longtime subscribers like me, but is holding it back until August.

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  • But a clause in the French constitution (a sop for the anti-Turkey camp from the previous president, Jacques Chirac) obliges France to hold referendums before approving new accessions after Croatia's.

    ECONOMIST: Enlargement enriches old as well as new members

  • He argues provocatively that successive American governments chose cheap credit as a sop to the less-skilled parts of its workforce, who increasingly felt themselves being left behind in a globalised world.

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  • Stock markets remain crash-prone despite intermittent rallies and the sop of thinking the worst fate is a double-dip.

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  • The provisions on oil drilling in Alaska are probably too controversial to pass, but support for a natural-gas pipeline may be thrown in as a sop to the state instead.

    ECONOMIST: Energy policy

  • The council ruled that the constitution-drafting commission should be directly elected, perhaps as a sop to easterners who argued that they were underrepresented by the previously proposed allocation of seats in the commission.

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  • Unless you have some capital losses to sop up your gains, you likely don't want to sell the lower-basis shares.

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  • Ammogghiu, another caper-laden classic, is a piquant tomato-based sauce best served with a thick steak and lots of garlic bread to sop up the juices.

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  • Other market-oriented reforms, such as a cut in the unreasonably high subsidy on fertiliser, looked more a sop to the government's critics, and many doubt that the unpopular measure will ever obtain parliamentary approval.

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