To a large extent this reflected the shocking growth in alcoholism and binge drinking, and to a lesser extent it reflected a genuine society-wide sense of malaise and hopelessness and a breakdown in the basic functionality of the public health system.
So my bet is that the main outcome of the current kerfuffle will be to hand a stick to Labour (and to a lesser extent the Lib Dems) to beat the Conservatives with, and make it much harder for them to legislate in a way Labour doesn't like.
To a large extent, a failure to provide reliable metrics has held back the growth of Internet search advertising because keyword auction prices are largely opaque.
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To a dismaying extent for a party that seeks to govern the United Kingdom, the Tories are the party of the south-east half of England (excluding London), where more than half their seats are.
Every company maneuvers the numbers to a certain extent to achieve budgets and get bonuses.
Mr Mesic's success has been due to a great extent to his personality and style - accessible, witty, blunt.
And as this becomes more global, there is even an African and a kind of, to a lesser extent, a European flair.
While they cannot be enforced in California, most states will enforce these agreements to a limited extent to protect the trade secrets of the employer.
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So Central Europe remains, to a large extent, a place where people want to negate their geography.
More importantly it engenders trust among the rest of the executive team, giving the IT team the credibility to push strategic plans, attend board meetings, and to a greater extent earn a place among the direct reports to the CEO.
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Power may shift in two other directions: abroad and, to a lesser extent, to boutique investment banks.
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Mr Neustadt received access to Washington policymakers, their files and, to a lesser extent, to British sources.
And the preamble has a language that, to a certain extent, replicates a legal principle of the unchangeability of circumstances that were basis for the treaty.
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And I think to a certain extent, that learning how to handle that, learning how to handle that appropriately, is a normal developmental process.
We are all shell shocked Sam to a certain extent and this is how retailers need to approach him: like a skittish dog who you are trying to lure with a treat.
Even if the pavement gets uneven and the car starts to move around a bit, it remains committed to the line to a surprising extent.
U.ed drove Spratt and, to a lesser extent, Conrad to write watered-down resolutions that included as little detail as necessary.
"I can plainly see that we have thought much alike and to a certain extent have come to similar conclusions, " wrote Darwin.
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In their advice and assistance to countries in Southeast Asia, the IMF and the World Bank, to a large extent acting jointly, have devoted a large part of their efforts to banking and corporate sector restructuring.
And to a large extent the success of the product class as a whole is due to the ground cut by the Rio line of players put out by SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ).
So of course to a certain extent, you have to play to television rules.
Blacks and, to a lesser extent, Hispanics tend to oppose gay marriage more strongly than whites do.
Once we get past our school years with standardized tests and regular percentage grades, we emerge into the adult world where, to a great extent, we get to determine what is important to us.
"He has been cooperative to a certain extent, but was reluctant to answer critical questions, " the prosecutor's office said.
"To a great extent businesses have been subjected to 'initiative fatigue', " he said.
The physical basis for seasonal climate prediction lies, to a great extent, in being able to forecast the slowly varying interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans.
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Though West has been largely discredited, prosecutors and state officials in Mississippi (and to a lesser extent in Louisiana) continue to defend convictions won based on his testimony.
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And so perhaps the information that I get also is skewed to a certain extent because people are coming to discuss their financial issues and to try to get relief (unintelligible).
Or, at a time of economic stagnation in much of the rich West, you might ask yourself why all that cheap money created by central banks seems to have pumped up the price of financial assets to a disturbing extent, while doing little to stimulate job creation.
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