• The drive, on the opposite bank of the river from the camp, took nearly two hours.

    NEWYORKER: The Taliban��s Opium War

  • Places along the Teign include the village of Shaldon, which lies on the opposite bank of the estuary to Teignmouth.

    BBC: Devon's rivers: The River Teign

  • On the opposite bank of the estuary, North East Lincolnshire Council is also trying to deal with problems caused by the caterpillars.

    BBC: Natural invasion causes health problems

  • You can see Margaret Island, Castle Hill, Gellert Hill and the great sprawl of the Pest side of town on the opposite bank.

    BBC: A Danube-led tour of Budapest

  • Nearby, a DynCorp crew had opened full automatic fire on a group of gunmen who had moved from deeper in the orchard to the treeline on the opposite bank and were shooting at us.

    NEWYORKER: The Taliban��s Opium War

  • Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.

    WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling

  • The Irish did the opposite, giving blanket bank guarantees in September 2008 which have recently been extended to the end of June at least.

    ECONOMIST: Restructuring banks

  • Even as the government tries to prop up corporate Japan, the central bank's policy has the opposite effect, increasing deflationary pressures and keeping the yen high.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese finances

  • When central banks make a move it is never gentle and for the time being traders, particularly at the retail level, will probably want to exercise a great deal of caution before perhaps taking the opposite side of the trade from a central bank, either one.

    FORBES: Dollar-Yen Speculators At Mercy Of Fed, Bank Of Japan

  • By 1931 the stress in the global system was about to take down institutions at the opposite end to America: Credit Anstalt bank in Vienna sparked the 1931 banking crisis, which quickly spread to Bank of the United States (see my October 2009 film on 70 years after).

    BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

  • Jimmy Lee, who runs that arm of Chase, has a record of paying top dollar to get the people he wants, and he is the opposite of a big-bank bureaucrat.

    ECONOMIST: Investment banking

  • Of course our central bank could make the opposite mistake, easing too much in a panic.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • They are betting against another entity such as a bank or a hedge fund, which is taking the opposite position.

    FORBES: Snowy Roads Aren't Putting a Damper on High Gas Prices

  • On the other, the broad St Lawrence River is a steely grey-blue, its opposite bank a distant misty outline.

    BBC: A theatrical journey into Canada��s Charlevoix

  • NatWest is paying an extraordinary sum for his firm, which is why the bank's share price has moved just as sharply in the opposite direction.

    ECONOMIST: Legal robbery

  • We and our allies should take the opposite tack: no aid and no diplomatic boodle (like membership in the World Bank) unless North Korea genuinely opens itself up to the outside world.

    FORBES: EXTORTION

  • This is, in other words, the opposite of trying to prop up a currency, which strains the foreign currency reserves of the central bank.

    FORBES: Central Banks Are Never "Out of Ammunition"

  • The London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel almost opposite the Houses of Parliament, will eventually be an easy walk from the arts centre at the South Bank.

    ECONOMIST: The Thames

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