But NatWest, Britain's biggest bank by assets, is meanwhile facing a spot of bother.
MI6 has diversified into the war on drugs and a spot of commercial intelligence.
How ironic, then, that the Bank now finds itself in a spot of bother over its own budget.
No doubt Mr Mortier's festival could do with a spot of judicious pruning.
If you are up for a spot of shopping, Doha will not disappoint.
It would have to be for a spot of Peter Crouch-style robot dancing.
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Well, there is a spot of bacon too, but just a tiny bit - you cannot even taste it.
It might sound to outsiders like nothing more than a spot of bickering.
However, each time there's an interest rate rise in the Eurozone, there's a spot of extra upward pressure on the euro.
He lobs a live crawdad impaled on a silver hook into a spot of water 15 feet in front of the boat.
Finish with a swing by the Stadsfeestzaal for a spot of browsing in a magnificent Neoclassicalstyle shopping mall dating from 1908.
The proposed merger brings a spot of cheer to a troubled business.
The Mother City is also a fabulous location for a leisurely game of golf, practicing your yoga moves or a spot of pampering at the spa.
With the economy's prospects still so uncertain, perhaps it is time for the Bank itself to undergo a spot of restructuring and find a new management.
To add a spot of variation, there are also hints of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and, increasingly with every listen, a large dollop of The Doors.
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The Glamorgan players like to indulge in a spot of rugby, and the Queenslander - whose brother plays in the Super 12s - already knows his place.
Notts were in a spot of bother on 35-3 prior to Hussey transforming the innings with two sixes and eight fours in his unbeaten 81 off 42 balls.
Amid the finger pointing and political posturing, the Obama administration seems to have missed a vital detail: The U.S. oil industry is in a spot of bother.
With an economy still growing at over 4%, and record foreign-exchange reserves, this would have been, but for the election, an opportune moment for a spot of serious belt-tightening.
Here are preserved clothing, equipment, bedding and foodstuffs, all arranged on the shelves as though the original occupants have just popped out for a spot of sledging or a quick constitutional.
She got a spot of psoriasis on her face.
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"This is a very thoughtful strategy by Google: Let's build ourselves into the value chain at a spot of vulnerability, which is the software layer, " says Virgin Mobile USA co-founder, Amol Sarva.
Thank heavens then for every so often being able to dabble in a spot of nostalgia, and clap our eyes on Geoff Hurst scoring a hat trick in England's 1966 World Cup triumph.
That party's leader, Paulo Portas, a former newspaper editor, is a good, populist speaker who likes nothing better than a spot of impromptu campaigning, turning up at some market to shake voters' hands.
Critics who dismissed Thai Rak Thai's platform as cheap populism were missing the point: in a country used to receiving policy edicts from on high, a spot of populism was no bad thing.
Not content with offering up merely modular Android tablets, ASUS has revealed a new seven-inch tablet that's water and dust resistant -- perfect for a spot of bath-time browsing or... desert rallying.
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So, on television on March 8th, said Eric Massa, a Democratic congressman from New York who faced a spot of bother in Congress after allegations of groping a male staffer and has now resigned.
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