Not so long ago, government-controlled companies were regarded as half-formed creatures destined for full privatisation.
The 1949 Communist Revolution hastened the process, as antique structures were regarded as vestiges of a feudal era.
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New Zealand said the threats were regarded as real although they could not pinpoint specific targets or dates.
The windows were regarded as immutable, but Mr Turner was determined to move cable up the food chain.
So all eyes turn to Spain and Italy, two countries that were regarded as too big to bail out.
To the new Rwandan government, however, they were regarded as fugitives from justice.
When I was growing up, for instance, conglomerates were regarded as management miracles.
One of the first to do so was the Hermitage, because its holdings were regarded as the property of the tsar.
It might then be possible to patch into one of the surviving cells replacements for whatever genes were regarded as needing to be changed.
As to importance, when originally identified as distinct, the archaea, too, were regarded as marginal yet their methane-generating properties are now a factor in climate-change calculations.
Chris Tew, former Assistant Chief Constable of Leicestershire, admitted many of Ms Pilkington's calls to police were not linked and were regarded as anti-social behaviour.
While the monied hob-nobbed around cosmopolitan London, the Black Country got grimy producing the country's wealth, and perhaps as a consequence, its citizens were regarded as dull.
The filibustering old bulls of that era were regarded as malefactors of the worst order by progressives in both parties and by much of the general public.
But the films never rang entirely true because their directors (such as Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson) were regarded as slumming privately educated, middle-class intellectuals, playing at being workers.
At SIFMA, the American securities industry conference in New York in June, Mary Shapiro, head of the SEC, and Christine Lagarde, front-runner for the chief of the International Monetary Fund, were regarded as only slightly better.
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The lucky few who made it into elite institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology for engineering were regarded almost as a special breed.
Diploma holders were often regarded as more practical and experienced than those with degrees.
This leads to match-ups with teams that were often regarded as having failing seasons.
In the ancient world, the 'gods' were rarely regarded as supernatural beings with discrete personalities, living a totally separate metaphysical existence.
"The Old Bunch" is a reminder of why novelists were once regarded as gods gods in the sense of being omniscient.
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The electoral campaign had built up slowly, with the Council of Guardians eliminating all but the four candidates, who were widely regarded as weak challengers to Mr Ahmadinejad.
However, remember that this time last year Tasha Danvers and Germaine Mason were each regarded as no better than potential finalists, yet both went on to win Olympic medals.
France's Fourth Republic saw a series of weak, short-lived governments, whose rule was generally marked by crisis and compromise, and whose leaders were often regarded as corrupt and effete.
Whereas Mr Ramos's policies were widely regarded as putting the Philippines on the path to rapid development, Mr Estrada, before he was elected, was not considered up to the job.
With most Lebanese, including many Shias, just beginning to taste the fruits of reconstruction, and with a record summer tourist season in prospect, the Islamists were widely regarded as a dangerous anomaly.
There were serious doubts about his ability to do this, however, and when Mr Primakov produced a budget in December it contained assumptions about help from foreign creditors which were widely regarded as unrealistic.
Journalists in Myanmar, also known as Burma, were regarded for decades as among the most restricted in the world, subjected to routine state surveillance, phone taps, imprisonment and censorship so intense that independent papers could not publish on a daily basis.
Born into a community of stateless survivors in the mountains of what had once been Carinthia, their natural language a dialect enlivened by words from a dozen others, they were regarded often now as Gypsies.
Many pediatricians felt denigrated because the care that they were providing was not regarded as sufficiently consequential to be covered by third parties, as was that of their brethren in internal medicine.
Indeed, while Sir Bernard's words were regarded by political journalists as the authentic echo of his boss, some suggest that with Mr Campbell it is sometimes the other way round: that when the prime minister speaks, what you get is pure Campbell.
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