HSBC's conservative approach to investment banking has stood it in good stead when the financial world has gone to pot, but when times were good, it was an embarrassment.
Built in France, the main structure was originally destined to be a railway station in Cairo, but the deal fell through and so the President of Haiti Florvil Hyppolite had it shipped over in 1891, and there it stood until it was destroyed by the earthquake of 2010.
However British Conservative MEP Ashley Fox said he welcomed the new agreement as it stood, saying it improved openness and transparency whilst still maintaining the "legitimate right of member states for confidentiality of certain documents".
It appeared half a mile from where Holbeck Hall Hotel once stood before it was destroyed by a landslip in 1993.
His mother said nothing, so he brought a chair near the stove and stood on it.
We had devoted our energies to scaling the mountain not realizing that a taller one stood behind it.
Although Pietersen himself has denied the speculation, many journalists have stood by it, believing that he intends to focus on Tests and Twenty20 cricket, including the Indian Premier League.
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Approaching the wall, his countenance darkened, and he stood before it in silence for several minutes before turning to us saying, 'We have got to find a way to knock this down.
Mr Blair hinted in the Commons this week that it stood closer to the euro-zone than it did when Mr Brown set out his tests.
It stood on a hill, and everywhere you looked it was like a picture postcard.
The dollar index has even popped, firming to 76.4, a full point higher than it stood at this time a week ago, when it touched a 15-month low.
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We first got a look at the 13.3-inch device back at CES in January, where it stood out with a flip-and-fold design that lets it transform into a tablet from a notebook and vice versa.
It stood majestic in all its golden splendor with wisps of clouds floating across it.
Under South African law as it stood at the time, a company lost its right to the trademark if it languished unused on the books for five years, unless there was a good reason.
Completed in 1854, it stood on the highest pinnacle of the rock, but even at that height it was pounded mercilessly by high seas, and during storms the crockery would rattle off the table.
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Following its completion in 1931, it stood as the world's tallest building for more than 40 years -- it set the tone of the future and remains the most iconic symbol of Manhattan Island.
Yau demanded an apology, but the magazine issued a statement saying it stood by its story.
As Torvalds rolled out new versions of Linux, it stood for more than free software.
But Labour, Tory and Lib Dem members refused to support the legislation as it stood.
If America just stood by, it would lose the trust of its allies across the world.
The Conservatives said the bill, as it stood, was an "Amstrad" when "we wanted an IPod".
The alliance as it stood, however, was not equipped to help clients tap world financial markets.
If Ranbaxy had managed to launch Lipitor early, it stood to make billions of dollars in sales.
The last time the index was below 50 was in December 2010, when it stood at 49.7.
It stood at 39.31 to the dollar at Tuesday's close, but had weakened to 39.90 early on Wednesday.
Incidentally Nevada and other states also offer this feature, but because more companies use Delaware, it stood out from the crowd.
The Times, which had separately published a series of its own articles about Apple's factories, said it stood by those.
It stood at 168, 022 lots for futures and options combined as of Oct. 11, up from 162, 314 the previous week.
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