• What these policymakers miss is that manufacturing is a central pillar of innovation.

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  • Even more to the point, Times executives have made building up digital circulation revenues the central pillar of their strategy.

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  • How big a customer base can it build a relationship with, and keep in touch with, to become a central pillar in their lives?

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  • Stakeholder pensions are a central pillar of the government's welfare policy.

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  • President Hosni Mubarak has been the central pillar of the alliance between Western powers and authoritarian Arab leaders and without him it may not be sustainable.

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  • Across the bay from Rio, it perches on a cliff-top - an upturned flying saucer, its curves reflected in a pool which encircles its central pillar.

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  • Although attacking Israel on the Palestinian issue is the central pillar of these groups' missions, they are also involved in defending Iran's nuclear weapons program and championing Syria in Washington.

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  • Is the answer that, like a tall pine tree, the Japanese pagoda with its massive trunk-like central pillar known as a shinbashira simply flexes and sways when riding out a typhoon or an earthquake?

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  • Darwin's observation that species evolve over the course of generations through the natural selection of favourable traits has become a central pillar of biological thinking and has influenced many other fields of scientific endeavour.

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  • His hockey stick, which purported to demonstrate the link between man-made carbon emissions and catastrophic global warming, was the central pillar of the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report, and it brought him near-legendary status in his community.

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  • Moreover the institution of the waqf, or endowment, is a central pillar of Islamic society, and this Deed therefore provides an important record of political and economic administration in Central Asia at a time of great dynamism and change.

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  • The central pillar of the policy was import substitution, the belief that India needed to rely on internal markets for development, not international trade - a belief generated by a mixture of socialism and the experience of colonial exploitation.

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  • According to this myth - which has been the central pillar of Israel's foreign policy and domestic politics since Yitzhak Rabin first accepted the PLO as a legitimate actor in 1993 - it doesn't matter how obvious it is that the Palestinians are uninterested in peaceful coexistence with Israel.

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  • Mr Bush is a pillar in the central nave.

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  • The boundaries cover the central area around the Asokan pillar of 130 by 150 metres with a buffer zone designated as the remaining area within the water body as designed by the renowned Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange in a Master Plan for Lumbini.

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  • Syrian state television, meanwhile, broadcast images early Monday showing a damaged police car in Damascus and a pillar with a missing chunk of concrete outside the Central Bank of Syria building, also in the capital.

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  • As part of a three-pillar strategy announced in January, Japan has ramped up government spending and the country's central bank is injecting money into the economy on a massive scale.

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