If they are keynoting this is like asking for three wishes in a way where the Genie uses the first one themselves.

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Or, if GBL wishes, after three years it can sell its stake or offer it in an IPO.

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Nor will it make the EU more democratic or bring it any closer to ordinary citizens: indeed, voters in three countries said no to its provisions, only for their wishes to be steamrollered.

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Although the seperate boards of governors are responsible for the running of the three grammar schools, it is unlikely they would defy the wishes of the trustees who set up and own the schools.

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The Barclays deal comes six months after the NatWest Bank was taken over, against its wishes, by the Royal Bank of Scotland in a three way battle.

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Toledo Mayor Michael Bell , an Independent, has been to China three times over the past several years to encourage investment in his city, and election or no election, wishes that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would stay away from his part of Ohio.

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