That leads us to the critical point about new regulations: Whom should they try to please?
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, said the eurozone was at a "critical point".
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Since Hamas is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Brotherhood, this was a critical point.
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Speaking after the announcement, he said he was taking over at a "critical point" for Greece.
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It is apparent that we are at a critical point and the stakes have never been higher.
Here's the second critical point: Don't forget robotic space exploration, the other half of what NASA does.
Managers want money in big chunks, and from people who will not take it away at a critical point.
The Venture blowup has been going on for over a year and seems to be reaching a critical point.
Tortorella tersely ended his 90-second press conference, criticizing his team for playing poorly at a critical point of the season.
It also would complicate Democratic fights on health care and energy that could reach a critical point at that time.
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The critical point is to leverage mergers and acquisitions as tools to accelerate strategic shifts, not as answers on their own.
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She said in order to break the cycle some people need to hit a critical point where it's "stop drinking or die".
Disagreements over the program reached a critical point in March 2004, when Attorney General John Ashcroft was in the hospital for gallbladder surgery.
The deadline is still weeks away, but they do definitely want to talk about this and assess where things are at this critical point.
The Supreme Court has made an elegant start at cleaning up the mess of employment discrimination law, in part by insisting on a critical point.
At the same time, advances at the United Nations in building consensus around the obligations that businesses owe to society are reaching a critical point.
The critical point is that while equality may be an accepted philosophy it can only happen once people also agree in practice to be equals.
You can tell the health care debate is reaching a critical point just by the number of ads flooding the airwaves of local and cable television.
To verify those identities--a critical point in securing classified conversations--they'll join the world through the same authentication process they use to log on to their government networks.
The situation, already tense, reached a critical point in late October, when Nicolae Romulus Mailat, a Romanian citizen, was charged with the murder in Rome of Giovanna Reggiani.
The nation, as you know, is at a critical point.
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They're generally in the Army a little over five years and they're also at a critical point because they're deciding whether to stay and make the Army a career.
That's a critical point for EarthLink, which is seeing the numbers of subscribers to its dial-up Internet service decline faster than it can add subscriptions to new broadband services.
The critical point was lost when Black - the outstanding player on the day - brilliantly anticipated a Murray volley and put away her own volley for a winner.
Stern hinted that if the system issues can be agreed upon, it would be a critical point in the negotiating process that could help to bridge the gap between the parties.
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The Forum of Private Business, which represents over 25, 000 small firms, is lobbying for cuts in tax and social security rates to help small companies at this critical point in the cycle.
There are other options for those facing a critical point in their finances, who face a shortfall, and who have not decoupled their endowment and their mortgage, according to Danny Cox, of financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown.
The New York Times story appeared during a critical point in the Senate impeachment trial of Clinton on the charges that Starr had referred to Congress, stemming from his investigation of the president's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Bob Owens of Southington, Connecticut, contends Petraeus is simply doing what soldiers do: "Asking the general if he can win is like asking a professional athlete if he wants the ball in a critical point in the game, " Owens wrote.
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