Sports teams and franchises often insure their star players for extortionate sums, and generally take the stand of insuring an entire player rather than their individual parts.
Later this year, or early next, the bosses of Enron will take the stand to fight fraud charges relating to the demise of the Texan energy-trading company.
Mr Howard himself must share part of the blame because he refused to take a stand on the issue of second-preference votes.
Our real focus should be on the candidates and their views on the issues, because one of them will stand before the nation and take the oath of office and swear to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States.
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That would take much of the tension out of the stand-off and pave the way to more far-reaching negotiations aimed at moving Iran gradually from the dangerous aspects of its programme in return for an equally gradual reintegration of the country into the international commerce and politics.
But Friday's moves were slim, as a dearth of news and low trading volume gave investors little incentive to take a stand ahead of the long New Year-holiday weekend.
The second is to take the ratings of the banks themselves on a stand-alone basis.
Commissioners and owners need to take a stand for the fans of franchises and only permit moves under extreme circumstances.
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Judge Michael Pastor reminded the doctor of his right to take the stand and asked him directly whether he wished to reconsider.
Others, including Vice President Dick Cheney and John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, are urging the court to take a stronger stand in favour of gun rights, and overturn the Washington ban.
But Jonny Bairstow (63no) and Gerard Brophy (41) took the game away from Notts in a fifth-wicket stand of 97 to take the title race to the last game.
Department Deputy Chief Michael Marino also testified Friday, the first of several police brass expected to take the stand.
With Anglo-Saxon liberalism a term of abuse and contempt in the European Parliament, it was judged, there was little chance members of that body would stand by and allow a Briton to take the job of regulating the City.
In the Al Marj Middle School, one can observe how everyone (school, parents, community) can take a stand for teachers in the context of some innovative school projects, such as the ones IQRA is carrying out to foster reading, as a basic competence for improving learning.
With this in mind, my recent participation in the SAP Telco Executive Advisory Council, held this September in Zurich, was the perfect occasion to take the pulse of some key decision makers in the industry and get a better sense of where they stand on this particular topic.
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However, Gupta would have to take the witness stand while the prosecutor asked questions that would fill in the blanks of how they believed the insider transaction went down between Gupta and Rajaratnam.
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America has a choice either to be increasingly rendered a mere bystander, letting political correctness usurp progress or to emerge from the shadows of its super-power status and take a firm stand in the international energy arena.
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So Liberal Democrats must take the pounding of the electorate, ignore the many casualties in their ranks, and stand firm to their principles.
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This year's anti-bullying week focuses on the role of the bystander in a bid to encourage more pupils to take a stand against the bullies.
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The Stand is designed to take on older point of sale systems, which Dorsey said are prone to breaking and also are, well, ugly.
Some of NBC's own employees signed petitions petition at the network's Burbank, California, studios protesting NBC's decision to give Simpson a platform on network television when he didn't take the stand to tell his story in a court of law.
However this was to be Glamorgan's last success of the day as Prince and Croft defied the fading light and an asking rate of sevens runs an over to share their third century stand of the summer and take Lancashire to victory.
"I'm hoping that all of these tech companies take the stand that their privacy policies matter, their users' privacy matters, and no legislation like CISPA should take that away, " Alexis Ohanian, former owner of Reddit (Wired's parent company Conde Nast currently owns Reddit), said in a video posted last week.
And I promise you this: From the minute you put on that uniform to the minute you take it off, and for all the days of your life, this country will stand behind you and will be here for you, because we know that you will be there for us.
As they take charge of their destiny, the American people stand ready to help.
England managed to take only one wicket - and that to end the stand of exactly 200 between Marcus North and Brad Haddin, at which point Ricky Ponting declared.
But Vince and Pothas combined in an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 53 to take Hampshire to the close, with Flintoff ending the day with figures of 0-16 from seven overs.
Irony today is thus a mixture of self-detachment and self-absorption: an unwillingness to take a stand and an eagerness to see the strange workings of fate in mere thwarted desire.
Whether reform follows the scandal will depend on how much heat legislators feel from the stories coming out of Washington and whether there are leaders in the House and Senate willing to take a stand for those issues.
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