It was never clear whether his aim was to get negotiations started without too much loss of face or just to head off sanctions.

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For instance the light pipes currently suffer from too much light loss unless they are kept short, and there were complications in creating completely enclosed hollow areas.

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Not least because many Tory MPs - as individuals - will not grieve too much at the loss of boundary changes.

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This cash has given managers and their political masters tremendous latitude to advance the state-capitalist model without worrying too much about profit and loss.

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But if the money were to come from the EFSF, well in those circumstances Finland has said it would fear that the money would be too much at risk of loss - so it is demanding collateral or security for its share of any such loan.

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The main argument advanced for not putting options into the profit-and-loss account is perfectly simple: to do so would cost American companies too much.

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After decades of relative economic decline and population loss, the north has a problem unimaginable in most of the south: too much old housing.

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Too much mercury in one's diet from any source can cause loss of coordination, blindness or even death.

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She approached the 2001 French Open as one of the tournament favourites, but the expectation from home fans proved too much for her to bear and she suffered an embarrassing first-round loss.

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Rather than taking a chance on such a "sure loss, " investors prefer to gamble on high-flying tech stocks, even though they pay far too much for the chance of striking it rich.

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