It was this fear rather than a love of Hussein or even appreciation for his materialistic largesse that girded the apparatus together.

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The government's debt is offset by financial assets and girded by domestic household savings in the banks which buy Japanese Government Bonds (JGB's)--of which 95% are held by domestic investors.

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For he would see the graces of them all, and would be pleased in heart gazing at the well-girded women and the men with their swift ships and great renown.

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Whether the domestic banks and other credit institutions will be girded in the end for all of the various comeuppances of the long Chinese boom is, as even Jing Ulrich warns, another unknown.

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What can be a more fundamental boardroom responsibility than to insist on a coherent strategic plan girded by realistic growth projections and, crucially, guided by a sense of what the company actually sells?

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In the Biblical story of David and Goliath, David initially put on a coat of mail and a brass helmet and girded himself with a sword: he prepared to wage a conventional battle of swords against Goliath.

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