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

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But its people deserve to be spared the dictator's gun and be given a chance of a better future.

    ECONOMIST: The challenge of Libya

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

    WSJ: In Cyprus Rescue, Germany Forged a New Vision for Bank Union

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

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Did Malaysia really deserve to be spared as its leaders still claim?

    ECONOMIST: Rise.Fall.Rise?

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

    WSJ: Fouad Ajami: Obama and the Eisenhower Standard

  • 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.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Path of Destruction

  • BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A newly released videotape shows an American taken hostage last year in Iraq pleading to be spared from a "definite death" as a rifle barrel points at his head.

    CNN: U.S. hostage pleads for life in tape

  • 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.

    FORBES: New Zealand Whine

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: The mess at Marconi

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey and Abdullah Ocalan

  • 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.

    BBC: RAF Typhoon jets

  • 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".

    BBC: Belfast man jailed for biting off part of his partner's ear

  • 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.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Another reason for the absence of controversy was just about everyone in the world also agreed with President George W. Bush that no effort--let me get this out of the way, okay--that no effort should be spared to prevent Iran from succeeding in its quest for nuclear weapons.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Norman Podhoretz receives the Center's Mightier Pen Award

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: The last mile

  • Why should bond investors, who unlike taxpayers have had a choice over where to put their money, be spared?

    ECONOMIST: Sovereign policy

  • 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.

    FORBES: Is The EPA About To Shut Down Urban Renewal Across The U.S.?

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

    FORBES: A Call to Arms on Climate Change

  • "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.

    CNN: French report suggests new ways to feed the future

  • 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.

    FORBES: Why We Need Fulbrights

  • 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.

    WSJ: Manchester United, Liverpool Make a Pitch for Empathy: Marcotti on Soccer

  • 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.

    FORBES: Las Ventanas al Paraiso, Los Cabos, Mexico

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

    NPR: Sudan Sanctions: Too Little, Too Late?

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: The emerging-market sickness is sizing up a new victim

  • That might deprive you of a few good moments in your childhood but it would save you a considerable amount of time as an adult not to mention the fact that you'd be spared at least one traumatic experience, i.e. the goldfish bowl.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Elegance Of The Hedgehog'

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

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • 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

  • If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is not just as we wish it to be then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience: The New Chemical Weapons Treaty Is A Dangerous Delusion

  • If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is -- not just as we wish it to be -- then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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