That suggests a different motive: a desire finally to draw a line under the banking crisis.
Due process has been satisfied and I now intend to draw a line under the matter.
The prime minister's official spokesman attempted on Monday to draw a line under the Mittal row.
The euro zone has tried to draw a line around these three relatively small economies.
Clearly, Mr Bush wants to draw a line between himself and Al Gore on this issue.
"This line, " said the policeman, and he proceeded to draw a line with a piece of chalk.
As our elected leaders address these issues, each side has seemed to draw a line in the sand.
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Wadler says it's wrong to draw a line between steroids and growth hormone.
Hodgson said he and Gerrard wanted to draw a line under the matter.
Cynical folk may suspect that HealthSouth's new bylaw is partly intended to draw a line under the firm's past scandals.
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But there too, the government would have to draw a line between the borrowers who qualify and those who don't.
"There's a sense of satisfaction at the verdicts but they want to draw a line under the whole thing, " he said.
Hoping to draw a line under last year's crisis, the Bahraini royal family has staked its reputation on the race passing off peacefully.
Third, while it is tempting to draw a line between the physical world and the virtual, the truth is that these worlds are merging.
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Meanwhile Gordon Brown sought to draw a line under the affair by making it clear this week what he thought honours should be about.
Each time Downing Street has attempted to draw a line under it there has been yet another revelation to re-open it, and even escalate it.
Ideology has become incidental, nothing more than a way to draw a line, the standard which you use to distinguish US from THEM, nothing more.
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In allowing Lehman to go bust when competitors balked at taking it on, Hank Paulson, the treasury secretary, attempted to draw a line in the sand.
Edinburgh City Council said it attached no blame to any parties but believed it was time to draw a line under attempts to turn the school around.
And crucially, Mr Obama has also picked one or two hugely symbolic issues and used them to draw a line under the era of George W Bush.
Voters voted for divided government because they want Republicans to draw a line in the sand against the administration to protect their economic freedom and free markets.
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It is time to draw a line in the sand.
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To create a faux molding, a straight edge and pencil are used to draw a line, then shading is added with paint to give the look of a curve.
Much as Wall Street is keen to draw a line under this latest scandal, you do not need to be unduly perspicacious to find links between this one and other, very recent scandals.
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With sweat pouring off him, he managed to draw a line under the crisis which has been gripping his government recently, and raise delegates' sights to the looming general election.
"You have to draw a line somewhere, " Alderson said.
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Ed Miliband is expected to seek to draw a line under the Blair-Brown era and tell Labour delegates that a new generation is in charge, in his first speech as Labour leader.
To do this, Britain's bank managers are attempting to draw a line under the scandals by reviewing strategies, ring-fencing their operations and disposing or unwinding of assets deemed as risky and loss-making.
While doing his best today to draw a line between Jews and Zionists, he seems to have missed a history lesson from a true and honorable freedom fighter whose birthday Americans celebrated on Monday.
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