• How nice at the international airport to be spared the nuisance of those arrival and departure cards, and--wow!

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  • Bigger banks, meanwhile, have a larger proportion of big uninsured depositors and creditors available for "haircuts, " allowing small depositors to be spared.

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  • Witnesses may include Arias' friends and family, and Arias could make a statement to the jury pleading for her life to be spared.

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  • From this great contest, the administration wishes to be spared.

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  • Yet when such a storm decides that it will drop in front of you there's nothing to do but find the best available shelter and pray to be spared.

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  • Three weeks on, Christchurch is still digging out from the 6.8-magnitude earthquake (though perhaps acknowledging the good fortune to be spared Japan-like devastation), the worst natural disaster New Zealand has experienced in its short history.

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  • Marconi's top executives had always insisted that it was going to be spared the worst of the telecoms meltdown, because its products were at the high end of the market, and because it was not so heavily dependent as its rivals on the American market.

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  • They point out that Italy, whose prime minister, Massimo D'Alema, has called for Mr Ocalan's life to be spared, could itself have put him on trial when he turned up in Rome last November after his expulsion from Syria, which had long let him operate from its territory.

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  • The individual services have been increasingly at odds with one another as the strategic defence and security review approaches, with signs that Army numbers are likely to be spared, and that the Royal Navy will get its two aircraft carriers, though may have to sacrifice some of its surface fleet - while the RAF could see many jets and some bases cut.

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  • He said while he accepted that Uddin's former partner had written to ask that he be spared from jail, unfortunately in such cases her opinion was "of limited assistance to the court".

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  • Of course the all important rule is all on board is to hydrate well, something the crew discovered toward the end of the first leg of the journey, when water levels on board were so low not enough could be spared to keep the on-board hydroponic garden alive.

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  • Few, equally, are likely to be impressed by the argument that Mr Clinton should be spared because sex has nothing to do with official conduct: they will retort that perjury has everything to do with official duties, since the president is the chief law-enforcement officer in the land.

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  • The city would give incentives to developers to clean up the kind of sites that fell in the light to mid-range of the pollution spectrum and thus languished in state and federal clean-up programs for their lack of severity: if developers complied with environmental guidelines and submitted to oversight, they would be spared the specter of future liability.

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  • It is magical thinking to imagine that somehow we will be spared the plain and foreseeable consequences of our failure of duty.

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  • "Of course, it does not mean that what can be 'spared' in the rich countries could directly be used to feed population in developing countries, " explains Paillard.

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  • But we learned to identify programs that are so important to our core mission that they must be spared from cuts or even provided additional funding.

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  • When Liverpool and Manchester United met on Sunday, no precaution was spared to ensure there would be none of the ugliness seen in past meetings, not least because it was bound to be an emotional afternoon.

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  • This is no accident: the place was built from the ground up to be the best, with no expense spared, including extensive hidden underground tunnels so you never see maids or room service staff walking around the low rise, spread out property.

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  • If U.S. citizens and therefore the government answer yes to these questions, millions of lives will be spared in the coming years.

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  • And if Brazil could be spared the fate that seems to loom, it would do emerging markets all over the world, not least elsewhere in Latin America, a power of good.

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  • Prosecutor Juan Martinez said pointing to Arias' artwork as evidence that her life should be spared wasn't a valid defense.

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  • Referring to an argument that the Secret Service agents involved should be spared harsh penalties because others engaged in similar behavior, Napolitano was unpersuaded.

    CNN: Senators criticize military briefing on Colombia scandal

  • In some cases, motorists will be spared the penalty and points if they agree to undergo training, at their own expense.

    BBC: Fines planned for careless driving

  • By Mr Nakagawa's reasoning, anything better than that ought to be considered a success, and Mr Mori might then be spared from resignation.

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  • When he announced his plans to the nation on Saturday night, he said Israel would be spared the potential risk of holding general elections for both the prime ministership and Knesset at a time of national emergency.

    BBC: Barak 'ambush' galvanises opposition

  • President Mwai Kibaki said: "No effort will be spared in ensuring perpetrators of the heinous act are brought to book".

    BBC: Kenya: Tana River clashes leave dozens dead

  • Its passage is still close enough to approach many communication and weather satellites though NASA scientists said these would be spared.

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  • The BBC's political correspondent Carole Walker said the story would be embarrassment to the international development secretary, who has had his budget spared from cuts.

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  • The relatively large FEMA balance likely means that Republicans will be spared from an internal battle over whether further aid needs to be "paid for" with cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.

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  • The American public would be spared the profound fatigue that has already set in, not to mention the vast expense being incurred.

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