• Areas that are predominantly coal or nuclear will be insulated from this to some extent because the grid can only handle so much demand with certain facilities shut down or retired.

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  • Geography thus insulates them, to some extent, from the consequences of high corporate taxes.

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  • It was hard not to gain the impression that the MPs have, to some extent, disengaged from Tony Blair.

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  • As the chart shows, central banks had already been moving away from dollars and towards euros to some extent even when Europe's single currency was falling.

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  • The most eye-catching was a move away from competitive markets, which to some extent would reverse the privatisation of the energy market as there could be a centralised energy buyer that could be government owned or regulated.

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  • For although the future path of technology can, to some extent, be extrapolated from existing trends, the social forces that help or hamper its adoption are far less predictable.

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  • Never mind that, to some extent, the wrongs resulted from what was ill-conceived regulation from the start--a health care system so convoluted and ripe for gaming that it makes the tax code look elegant.

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  • Islamabad's decision to acknowledge links between Pakistan and the attacks on Mumbai is to some extent the result of pressure from the West and the fear of increasing tension with India, the BBC's defence and security correspondent Rob Watson says.

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  • The idea of a Blank Slate has distorted our values in child rearing, sentencing, politics and education, he says, and we have nothing to fear from the idea that we are shaped to some extent by our genes, only a more realistic understanding of what it means to be human.

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  • To some extent, the show has benefited from the failure of two other Disney musicals, "Tarzan" and "The Little Mermaid, " both commercial disappointments on Broadway.

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  • To some extent, consumer technologies have gotten away from them.

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  • While social care spending was, to some extent protected in the 2012 budget (from 136.22m in 2011 to 142.95m in 2012), minister Chris Robertshaw has warned about the need to streamline services.

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  • The extent of those recordings drew some question from Judge Sullivan who noted that some of the recordings went beyond what was necessary in gathering information on the case and included very personal conversations between Mr. Drimal and his wife, Arlene.

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  • My colleagues in parliament and in government can vouch for the fact that I have been a longstanding champion of reform, swift privatisation and liberalisation of Italy's then very large state sector to the extent that I ran into some opposition from the left of my own party in the past.

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  • They do permit me to declare amounts that are the result of passive income and, to some extent, amounts that come in as royalties from projects I did some time ago as profits and take these as dividends.

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  • Other studies have found that to some extent it is possible to predict future house-price movements from information available now, namely past price increases and the deviation of prices from their long-run trend.

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  • "It is only now that we can see the full picture showing the extent of the UK's success in global recruitment, particularly from some of the world's most important emerging economies, " she said.

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  • To some extent she has taken the role by default, as America has stepped back from peacemaking.

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  • In Greece, Portugal and to some extent Italy, the debt problems have largely spread in the other direction - from the government to the banks.

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  • To some extent they are right, but if you were around when the market moved from DOS to Windows, you know if took years to make the switch.

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  • The exemption from the working time directive was negotiated by the Conservative government in 1993 and is used to some extent by other member states, for members of the medical profession for example, although the UK is the only country which has opted out of it altogether.

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  • Not only do we hear our voice from the outside, but we also hear it through our skull, which muffles the sound to some extent.

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  • Some hide their pasts from families for decades, as the authorities obfuscate and lie to cover up the extent of their crimes.

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  • But I think 10 years from now, we might use the Web much more for news -- we even do it to some extent today, but I think it'll be much bigger in 10 years.

    CNN: Searching for answers on the Web

  • "I know over the last couple of months there's been a lot of -- both in debates and newspaper stories, to some extent in television advertising -- there's been a lot of sniping and attacks from one Democratic presidential candidate to another, " he said.

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  • Arnott, who has managed the fund since 2002, believes mean reversion could take hold as soon as some uncertainties are taken removed from the market, especially concerning General Motors, Citigroup, and to a lesser extent, AIG and Bank of America 's merger with Merrill Lynch.

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