• Some people will still choose not to buy health insurance, and they will be at the mercy of hospitals.

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  • Huge chunks of GDP and millions of jobs would be at the mercy of Congress and a vast new global-warming bureaucracy.

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  • We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.

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  • If the fund ever needed to sell, it would be at the mercy of buyers because the marketplace for those shares would be illiquid.

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  • UN, we would be at the mercy of the big powers.

    ECONOMIST: United Nations

  • In effect, that means that if his re-election were challenged on legal grounds as it surely would be General Musharraf would be at the mercy of the Supreme Court.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan

  • More troubling is the fact that U.S. naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots and could even be denied passage through the Panama Canal by Hutchinson.

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  • When bills have to get shuffled around and you are living paycheck-to-paycheck, it is easy to be at the mercy of banks and other financial service providers and their fees.

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  • Thus, runs the theory, Mr Abbas will reap the praise for a better life in the West Bank, while Gazans' well-being will be at the mercy of a now-isolated Hamas.

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  • The airline companies always seem to be at the mercy of the fickle consumer and oil prices, so as a sector, they seem to get less attention from analysts and the public.

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  • If GM misses the deadline possible, given displays of reckless brinkmanship by the parties involved or scrambles over the line but still needs more money to stay in business, it will be at the mercy of congressional Democrats who would like to make it an instrument of their environmental agenda.

    ECONOMIST: The car industry

  • "I think it's important for the United States to be less at the mercy of foreign countries and their decision-making and politics, and more under our own control to address these problems, " Abraham said, two days after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut oil output by a million barrels a day.

    CNN: Bush: No 'short-term fixes' to energy woes

  • So although the problem remains when it comes to banks that we can't live with them and we can't live without them (many would say), there is a way for companies to take greater control of their financial destiny and be less at the mercy of the banking system.

    BBC: How business can bypass banks

  • What these events have in common is the rising danger that the West's energy security will be ever-more at the mercy of foreign governments hostile to freedom and its friends.

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  • As a consequence, were Iran to attack Israel with an EMP attack, Israel would be rendered defenseless and at the mercy of Iran and the Arab world.

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  • Democrats being Democrats wasted time disagreeing among themselves, and their charismatic new President allowed himself to be perceived as dealmaker at the mercy of Congress, not an agent for change.

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  • And I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. (Applause.) Folks who have worked hard their whole lives, they shouldn't be spending their golden years at the mercy of an insurance company.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The syntax of the reservation is uncertain, but it is clear that such a state will be a sort of Palestinian bantustan, a farcical territory at the mercy of the Israeli puppeteers with only the power to issue its own pretty stamps.

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  • He wants more of his car parts business to be in the sale of replacement parts, where he is not at the mercy of the sharp-penciled carmakers.

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  • The point is that neither investors nor Moody's believe that the biggest, most complex banks would be left by the Treasury to founder and die at the mercy of markets: the likes of HSBC and Barclays would, in the words of Moody's, still benefit from the probability of systemic support.

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  • As he has done in aerospace, Bossidy wants more of his car parts business to be in the sale of replacement parts, a business where he is not at the mercy of the sharp-penciled carmakers.

    FORBES: Bleeding arm, but no bleeding heart

  • But if they cannot form a coherent front, Sudan's ruthless government will be happy to leave them in limbo, at the mercy of the murderous janjaweed.

    ECONOMIST: Sudan

  • And putting all your savings for retirement at the mercy of the stockmarket may not be such a good idea.

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  • So far, that app is making intelligent use of the shared functions of the social and search giants, and the value of a fast (and, in alien data environments, fairly cheap) map not at the mercy of spotty local internet services should not be underestimated.

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  • She would fry eggs by the platterful and pour black coffee, and be glad they were not in a smoking hulk wrapped around a tree, or at the mercy of the police.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Frogtown'

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