None of this is trivial - not least because George Osborne's banking policies, which include putting a ring-fence around retail banks and giving the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee the power to vary banks' capital ratios, are out of step with what most of the eurozone wants and plans.
Given the size of Goldman's historic bonus pools, the value of these shares would certainly run to tens of millions of pounds, and probably to hundreds of millions of pounds, so the tax saving would not be trivial - perhaps double digit millions of pounds (Goldman won't confirm the quantum).
Back to patents only for things which are non-trivial, non-obvious and new and unique please.
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The point about patents is that they are supposed to be for things that are non-trivial and non-obvious.
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"It was a trivial incident - I told her to try and sort it out for herself first of all, and she did, " he says.
And there is a non-trivial chance that the Washington will bungle the hot-button debt limit negotiations.
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But there is a non-trivial problem with moving fast to remedy this alleged flaw.
Becoming a broker-dealer is a non-trivial process and not all of the portals will make it through.
The general election game plays out the polling battle on a computer controlled board that is part-Monopoly, part-Trivial Pursuit.
Unless you were one of those privileged few, then getting access to that warehoused stuff was a highly non-trivial pursuit.
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If it is true that scientific collaboration has involved a non-trivial number of scientists from developing countries, these are normally visiting scientists.
And the transaction costs of negotiating carriage are non-trivial, which is one reason cable TV tends to be skewed toward content offered by major media companies with large catalogs on offer.
Creating that bill is a non-trivial matter.
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That seems like a non-trivial problem.
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According to people close to the sport, if the German authorities charge Mr Ecclestone with a non-trivial offence in relation to the payment to Mr Gribkowsky, (which he has admitted making, though he says he was being blackmailed), he will be permanently removed as chief executive of Formula One Group.
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This crisis begins, in classic chaos-theory fashion, with a trivial event along the 100-mile railroad track that moves most coal out of the Powder River Basin.
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The tournament saw Mr. Kesner and his "Trivial Dispute" co-founder, Gavin Shulman, run through themed rounds on topics such as goats and blue moons, the latter a nod to tournament sponsor Blue Moon Brewing Co.
There are a few cosmetic options as well, including the ability to slim down your main menu by removing items you don't use -- sounds trivial, but this is something, believe it or not, that isn't easily done in Media Center.
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The general atmosphere of both stories and even some of the characters are very similar: both are set in Woodyland, that familiar elegant fantasy version of Manhattan, impeccably furnished, with no brightness, no neon, no pop culture anywhere, and the characters are largely a nattering, trivial, shallowly self-serving bunch.
The power-saving technology described in this patent is trivial and contributes only a negligible reduction in power-consumption, so HTC has removed any allegedly corresponding functionality from all of its current German handsets as a precaution against any attempt by Nokia to extend the scope of the judgment unfairly.
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This last point was contentious to non-programmers but trivial to people who make computers.
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The twice-yearly "Trivial Dispute" Tournament of Champions drew about 75 people to the Alligator Lounge in Williamsburg on a recent Saturday afternoon.
But they are still trivial in terms of decision-making power.
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These are not trivial amounts for workers in low-wage industries like food service, retail, and low-skilled labor.
Right now, their respective guarantee commitments are 211bn euros for Germany and 158bn euros for France - which are not trivial, even for relatively big economies.
One would have to be something of a cynic to think that it was all rather planted: volunteer a near trivial rise in taxes, pre-agreed, in order to fend off demands for rises that might actually bite.
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The controversies range from the trivial to the serious: Walking face-first into a television camera.
Managing the supply-chain database is no trivial matter either.
In addition to the general intermediary role of helping you manage your other portables, Tognazzini postulates "killer applications" that are not only mere go-betweens, but also puzzlingly trivial.
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Trivial contributions are obviously excluded by the substantial-effect test.
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