Mr. Gates has also suggested that his review will take a dim view of the Marines as a "second land army" - the sort of role it has reluctantly taken on in recent years due to the fact that the Nation's "first" one, the U.S. Army, is too small to perform all that is being asked of it.
Mr Bush is less likely than some of his predecessors to take a relaxed view of such talk.
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Lottery Commission chairman Lord Burns was asked on Tuesday to take a fresh view of the bidding, after a process in which Camelot won a High Court battle claiming its bid had not been fairly treated.
He added that when people "looked at the Middle East today" he thought that in the "broad sweep of history, people will take a different view of it".
"It is particularly regrettable that the government of Pakistan did not heed the pleas of the government of India, Sarabjit's family and of civil society of India and Pakistan to take a humanitarian view of this case" and transfer him for medical treatment, Prime Minister Singh said in his statement Thursday.
It is part of a drive to force banks to take a tougher view of credit worthiness, and to slow industrial expansion in sectors such as steel and cement which are driving up inflation and threatening growth.
While three of them, including Lehman Brothers, take a dim view of the prospects for American shares, the other four have either marginally increased their allocations, or have maintained them at the same levels as in the previous quarter.
First, perform thousands of fatigue tests in the laboratory and then take a probabilistic view of things.
The government of the Province of Saskatchewan served notice this week that it would take a dim view of any state-controlled entity swallowing Potash Corp.
"Whites take a dimmer view of Obama's effect on race relations, with a third believing that the new presidency has not changed race relations in the country and 15 percent of whites saying that Obama has made race relations worse, " Holland added.
The potentially perverse effects of the proposed reform are not the only reason why many Italians take a dim view of it.
He also hopes employees will take a softer view of their own boss after reading the book, which portrays Mr. Jobs as a brilliant but mercurial leader.
The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to issue new regulations on website accessibility later this year that could take a broad view of the ADA's jurisdiction over websites.
Until the credit squeeze, Europeans could afford to take a relaxed view of an American slowdown.
"But wise commentators will always take a nuanced view of someone's death, " he says.
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There are other reasons for markets to take a negative view of the British economy.
Justice Scott will presumably take a dim view of the impartiality of Fiji's courts.
Crocker, meanwhile, is expected to take a positive view of political progress in Iraq.
In fact, East European converts to the free market take a dim view of Austria altogether.
Officials take a dim view of European-style welfare systems, which are said to beget laziness.
Or perhaps it's polls showing most Americans take a dim view of the partisan gridlock in Washington.
Also, I figured the TSA would take a dim view of bear spray on my flight home.
MICs that take a different view of the trade-off between greenery and growth, and hence borrow elsewhere.
But the emphasis on long-term investing had helped investors take a calm view of the current crises.
They take a dim view of market forces, which they suspect will loosen the party's grip on power.
Hadep's travails suggest that the authorities take a dim view of even the mildest form of Kurdish nationalism.
As the leader in mobile phones, Nokia now has to take a broader view of the market, he believes.
Gore's opponents take a cynical view of his new, more public emphasis on religion in the aftermath of Littleton.
Do the research and see what the geologists, the guys who take a long view of climate have to say.
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Mr Carney is understood to want to take a wider view of managing the economy, rather than simply focussing on inflation.
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