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.
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.
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.
Police and prosecutors are hoping to draw a line under this affair by stressing their commitment to victims, but apologies and sympathetic statements do not alter the fact that courts are necessarily adversarial and unemotional places.
Fallon's solicitor, Christopher Stewart-Moore, told the BBC his client was currently riding in California, but that Fallon had told him he was "very glad to draw a line on the past, and move forward in a positive manner".
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