Define a core business and be brave enough to raise the equity to fund it.

明确业务的核心，并且有足够勇气增加为其筹集资金投入该项业务。

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The share placing, which is the equivalent of 4% of Standard Chartered's issued share capital, will raise the bank's core tier one ratio - a key measure of strength - from 7.6% to 8.4%.

这场股票配售的份额相当于渣打银行已发行股本的4%，这将提高渣打银行的一项银行实力的关键指标——核心资本充足率(core tier one ratio)，从7.6%提升至8.4%。

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The securities can be converted at will by a bank to raise its core capital levels.

银行可以在任何时候转换这些证券以提高核心资本水平。

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Critics of standards-based reform argue that, in seeking to raise student achievement in core academic subjects as measured by the new assessments, teachers and school administrators have narrowed the curriculum at the expense of artistic, affective, and other "non-core" subjects.

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She plans to move to the state, and to make more use of both her prodigious ability to raise money and her fiercely loyal core group of liberal supporters, who, if properly motivated, will knock on every door.

ECONOMIST: Hillary Clinton

In corporate news Ford Motor is in talks to sell its Volvo unit, the culmination of a prescient multiyear strategy to raise cash and to concentrate on its core American brands.

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