The U.S., in turn, must provide Iran with what amounts to a diplomatic fig leaf.
Employing special software that can be downloaded for free from other websites, Goto electronically removes the computer-generated fig leaf.
"It's used as a fig leaf, and we decided that for the time being, we're better off without it, " Mekel says.
So far, much debate has focused on how BP may be forced to cut its dividend as a political fig leaf.
But a 2003 agreement between the industry's lobby group and the taxman suggests this is little more than a fig leaf.
Denuded of its foreign-policy fig leaf, the station's continued existence would then be even harder to justify than it is now.
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Murphy's "fig leaf of protection" in not testifying first time round, based on pending criminal proceedings, has now gone, it was claimed.
The impression he leaves, however, is that he will pull us out as soon as he finds a shred of a fig leaf.
Right now lawyers borrow money at high interest rates from outside investors who hide behind the fig leaf of providing debt financing instead of equity.
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This is his cover story, a fig leaf for his smuggling plans, and an illustration of the kind of development that might genuinely help the indigenous peoples.
It was bad enough that the Fed held rates far too low, but at least a fig leaf of uncertainty kept the most brazen speculators in partial paralysis.
The legal fig leaf is mainly to avoid giving the myriad private lawyers who pile on to such cases an adverse ruling to use in their own litigation.
This feature, which Dr. Keynes opposed, was at the time largely a fig leaf, a token to past practices but played no significant role in the function of Bretton Woods.
But these studies have, for years, given politicians enough of a fig leaf to sneak what are effectively outright corporate subsidies through the courts without running afoul of the gift clause.
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The fig leaf of neutrality is no more.
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Better take the hit over a broken pledge ( and Plaid know their fair share about that sort of thing too) than plough more money into a pretty expensive fig leaf, seems to be their take.
We changed the argument from one about the "rights" of so-called private clubs to one about the "wrongs" of a cadre of industry titans using the fig leaf of such memberships to exclude women, the standard this behavior sets in corporate America and damage it does to women at all levels.
The committee allowed the boycotters a fig-leaf of sorts: the pressure of sanctions might have helped keep the Austrian coalition in line.
After that, any deadlines set in the January fig-leaf will kick in.
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They sound and move like zombies, and if their hands move at all, it is to assume the military at-ease position or a fig-leaf pose.
In any case, the arbitration is a mere fig-leaf.
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Another straw in the wind is the continuing disregard about the implications of a U.S. collapse in Iraq (with or without the Baker et.al. diplomatic fig-leaf) for our security here at home.
When it was established in 1993, the tribunal was widely seen as a fig-leaf to hide the pusillanimity of the western powers, who did not want to intervene in the conflagration devouring the Balkans.
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