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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The fig leaf of neutrality is no more.
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The petition is meaningless, except in this respect: as a demonstration that so many people would support kicking someone out of the country for purely political reasons, without even the fig leaf of a technical offense.
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 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.
She dismissed suggestions she was the "fig leaf" in a new team dominated by settler leaders and right-wing opponents of peace.
It is one thing if Jim Baker and his unaccountable gang have convinced themselves and irresponsible politicians on both sides of the aisle that we must "be willing to negotiate with our enemies" in order to secure the political fig leaf needed to obscure our surrender in Iraq.
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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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.
The government should not use the coalition as a "fig leaf" for "very serious breaches" of the ministerial code, he said.
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.
Employing special software that can be downloaded for free from other websites, Goto electronically removes the computer-generated fig leaf.
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.
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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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.
But a 2003 agreement between the industry's lobby group and the taxman suggests this is little more than a fig leaf.
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.
"It's used as a fig leaf, and we decided that for the time being, we're better off without it, " Mekel says.
If we are lucky, the regional "process" will afford American forces a fig-leaf behind we might obscure our strategic defeat.
That Mr Jospin did not get very far suggests that Mr Hollande may be satisfied with a fig-leaf perhaps a repackaging of the many official EU policies on growth.
Russian foreign policy had always been motivated by fear of the outside world, and Marxism gave the current regime, which Kennan considered simply the latest in a line of Oriental despotisms, an ideological fig leaf for its insecurity and paranoia.
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.
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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But that's a line increasingly coming to serve as a fig-leaf for New Delhi's own political nakedness in the Kashmir valley.
The U.S., in turn, must provide Iran with what amounts to a diplomatic fig leaf.
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