To buy time, Miller orchestrated a massive restructuring--selling assets, issuing stock and refinancing bank debt.
Advertisers prefer to buy time on Russian-language programmes, where they can reach much bigger audiences.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 was intended to provide breathing space and to buy time.
Tehran is using the prebargaining bargaining and any subsequent talks as a way to buy time.
Military analysts think that Pakistan may be seeking to buy time for the intruders.
This prospect is sufficiently worrying to make it right to buy time by providing a bail-out for Greece.
Perhaps Apple was trying to buy time to find out where the Shenzhen business was getting its wares.
Second, what the Europeans are still doing is providing liquidity to buy time.
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Some of the biggest banks, for example, have tried to buy time by underestimating the size of their losses.
The voters did not elect Netanyahu to lead us simply to buy time.
To buy time on any of the top five Russian TV channels you must go through Lisovsky or an allied company.
He was arrested in the United States in August after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator.
The banking laws introduced at the beginning of the month were intended to buy time while the second stage of the debt-rescheduling plan is completed.
Dell, perhaps to buy time to reinvent itself, rumbled with rumors of a leveraged buyout, with lots of questions floating about how founder Michael Dell would balance his interests.
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So the citizens of Premont are rallying reluctantly around the new superintendent's last-ditch plan to buy time by suspending sports and using the money to make improvements mandated by the state.
Driven to live long enough so that her kids would remember their mother, Giusti embarked on her life-long mission to buy time, and in so doing, she came to some sobering realizations.
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Mr Cardoso's strategy was thus to use foreign capital, attracted partly by privatisation, to buy time while he tackled the public sector, something which his officials always insisted could be done only gradually.
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Their goal is to buy time after a car accident, gunshot wound or massive heart attack to get a person into the hospital and into surgery before they die or suffer extensive brain damage.
Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota on immigration charges a month before the September 11 attacks after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator at a flight school.
Late May brought another summit of U.S.-China policymaking as top officials on both sides tried mostly to buy time to get to an economic even keel before drastic steps are forced on them by domestic pressures.
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Ironically, it was concern by AOL that it would be shut out of high-speed, broadband internet services that led it to advocate "open-access" to cable systems - before it decided to buy Time Warner to assure its access to such services.
Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientist, recently argued that one further generation of nuclear power stations is needed (in Britain at least) to buy time, in order to keep down emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, while new carbon-free non-nuclear technologies are developed.
She fears that protective networks in Serbia and elsewhere are trying to buy time until the 2008 deadline for the completion of trials, and has asked the council for reassurance that the court will be kept open for as long as it took to bring the fugitives to justice.
It is now clear that the NFA is totally confused and in an attempt to save their faces, they are putting up Chukwu to buy time as everyone, including Chukwu himself, knows that whoever must lead the Eagles today must be someone with some solid international credentials otherwise the boys will treat him very shabbily.
In many cases he extended the time in which some trades would complete to buy him time to make up any losses.
They can decide to just delay all, most or some parts of implementation to buy more time to more definitively kick the can.
Sanchez said he expects that ultimately a deal will get done before the deadline, or a small stop-gap measure will be agreed to in order to buy more time, which would cause gold prices to retreat.
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Most political economists I speak to believe this has been the logic all along, and brave though it has been for Prime Minister George Papandreou to try and buy time to do a proper structural reform of Greece, the implosion of Spain and Italy has robbed him of that time.
Ask your broker why is now the time to buy into stocks as opposed to any time over the last four years?
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