Blue Cross doesn't have spare equipment on-site, however, and Ackermann acknowledges that obtaining new equipment from suppliers may take a while.

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Tools, fittings and spare equipment were kept at the St Katherine's Court flat for the complex's refurbishment and other work in the area.

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Some PoE equipment uses spare wires in cables that link computers back to network hubs and pump power down these.

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For years, the focus has been on little else but getting costs down, with the result that the system does not have up-to-date equipment, the spare parts, the cyber-security research, or other programs, processes, or institutional capabilities we need.

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He said he lost swords, spare blades, Team GB-branded kit, coaching equipment and an electric scoreboard.

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Mr Derbyshire lost swords, spare blades, Team GB-branded kit, coaching equipment and an electric scoreboard during the incident.

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The delays were caused by new Argentine import restrictions, which the company said has hindered its ability to purchase necessary spare parts in-country to keep all open-pit mining equipment in continuous operation.

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Training has been cut, and there are growing shortages of spare parts, to the point where our people are having to cannibalize equipment to keep at least some of it going.

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This kind of equipment-for-oil compensation deal -- predicated on necessarily vague and speculative terms to spare Moscow the problem of immediate, hard currency payments -- is altogether too easily translated into "debt forgiveness" in the future.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy