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.
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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"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This was intended to draw a line under the civil strife that ensued, leaving some 150, 000 dead, after the army stepped in when Islamists won the first round of a general election in 1991.
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.
But the American authorities in particular managed to draw a line under their financial crisis by injecting new capital into the (sometimes unwilling) banks and by showing that those banks could pass fairly rigorous stress tests in May 2009.
"After all, we are working for a common cause, and it is absolutely clear that to draw a line under the Iraq problem one must take into account both what the coalition is doing there and assessments by (U.N. monitors), " he said.
Meanwhile, Weir was keen to draw a line under the fall-out from Wednesday's controversial Old Firm game, which featured red cards for Bougherra, El Hadji Diouf and Steven Whittaker and an angry touchline exchange between Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist and Celtic boss Neil Lennon.
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That is the line taken by those who think the best response to the Stevens report would be to do nothing but use it to draw a line under a brutal period which, it is to be hoped, the peace process is bringing to an end.
"It's now time to draw a line under 2008 and get on with the important job of making sure our assessment system is the best it can possibly be, so that both pupils and parents can continue to get the information that we know they value, " he said.
We need to draw a line under this and he has, his record shows that he's been far too willing to drag his feet on issues like transparency, freedom of information and really shining that light, that bright light of scrutiny on what MP's do with taxpayers' money.
They think the only way to really draw a line under the crisis is for Spain to be taken off the danger list.
Chief executive Michael Clarke said he intended to "draw a line under the performance of 2011" and focus on the refinancing package agreed with banks.
Merlin Attractions Operations, based in Poole, Dorset, said it "chose to plead guilty and draw a line under this incident".
It is both both false and injurious to this country to draw a historical line dividing America under Obama from a benighted past when Islam was supposedly disrespected and demonized.
They can go to their holding camp in Delhi on Friday, sit there and basically draw a line under everything that has happened.
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