• And it means showing due determination to take hold of the country's public finances by collecting taxes and controlling spending.

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  • None of them tried to stop the attack, and nobody tried to take hold of Stan when he turned away and walked off down the road.

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  • The timelessness, that sense of being out of the runnels of work, deadlines and completion obligations is slow to appear and it is difficult to take hold of.

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  • They were interested in the chancellor's decision to take hold of the big pile of interest payments sitting in the Bank as a result of its policy of quantitative easing.

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  • But you need to take hold of your future.

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  • By and large, most economists I speak to think the Chancellor's decision to take hold of that big cash surplus sitting in the Bank of England's quantitative easing account is perfectly sensible.

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  • Experts say al-Assad's regime is faltering after nearly two years of fending off the persistent rebellion, and a former high-ranking Israeli Intelligence official said Hezbollah probably wants to take hold of all the weapons it can before that happens.

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  • In Central and Eastern Europe, where the concept of a benevolent state has yet to take hold after the fiasco of communism, corruption in business and public life is rife.

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  • "You need a combination of circumstances that all have to mesh perfectly for this kind of event to take hold, " Schaffner said.

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  • Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres urged Arafat to "take hold" of the situation, warning all the recent movement toward resuming peace talks could be lost if he does not.

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  • But what we can do is to be friends to Israel, honest in our assessments of what it's going to take, hold the Palestinians accountable for their end of the bargain, and move the process forward.

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  • After the credit crisis set in and the healing aspects of deflation began to take hold, central banks rapidly expanded the supply of base money in an effort to quickly erode the purchasing power of their currencies and bring real estate prices higher.

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  • "The best way to either eliminate the virus or allow the immune system to suppress residual virus is to treat someone as early as possible after infection so as not to allow a substantial reservoir of the virus to take hold, " Fauci told CNN.

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  • Surely, any rational legislator in Congress would understand that reaching a negotiated deal was far preferable to the unacceptably painful results of allowing the sequester to take hold.

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  • But the truly creative and destructive forces of the cloud are also beginning to take hold on the customer side in the form of fresh thinking about what IT should be and what it can achieve, new products and services and business models made possible by and those freed-up IT dollars, and new ideas unlocked by those innovative approaches.

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  • This down-to-earth girl that smelled good and wanted to be a nurse would take and hold one of his hands in both of hers to unfreeze him and make him look at her, and she would say that she cannot do it.

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  • It said that against a background of fragile recovery in manufacturing, business needs a breathing space to allow tentative signs of improving conditions to take a firmer hold.

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  • That all suggests Smith is undoubtedly right that we are at the perfect convergence for new types of loyalty programs to take hold to simultaneously provide better rewards to consumers, benefit businesses and create stronger ties of loyalty between the two.

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  • For now then, grandkids and parents would do well to take advantage of something the baby boomers still seem to hold dear -- balance.

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  • To make it shine again, we must take care of each other, hold on to each other and help each other through the pain.

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  • Action to take: Buy shares of EWQ at market and plan to hold for 6-12 months.

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  • From then until 1990, when peace of a sort began gradually to take hold, Jim Muir was caught up covering the fascinating and often horrendous twists and turns of a conflict whose many complex elements would erupt in ever-different and more startling ways as the local, regional and international powers slugged it out on Lebanese soil.

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  • For the moment, they have allowed the market forces of deflation to take hold.

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  • If you know that all good innovation takes just a bit of time to take hold, then take the long view.

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  • "The sheer pent-up demand ... is about to take hold, " President Charles Evans of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was quoted as saying in a speech Tuesday.

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  • The data's release came as measures to attempt to curb illegal downloading began to take hold, such as the blocking of popular piracy websites and the relegation and removal of search results from Google.

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  • Or in a couple of days to hold the numerous bilateral meetings which take place so effortlessly in the corridors of APEC summits.

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  • Citizens too, if they are able to do so, have a huge economic incentive right now to take their money out of Greek banks, and either hold it in cash or transfer it to a perceived safe haven, such as Germany.

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  • The rich can hold just enough cash to take advantage of bargains when they appear.

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  • They stick him in a crate and shove him in the hold of a ship to take him home.

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