After an at times heated debate, the council voted 27 to 19 to change its rules so that in future the top posts will be allocated on the strength of political parties and not political groups.
Indeed, if he is elected Nov. 2, Kerry would be, on the strength of his wife's fortune, the third-richest U.S. president.
Such a process puts a premium on good lawyering, which is exactly where it ought to be, rather than on the strength of the adversary's purse or willpower.
This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.
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Markets also will be eyeing news reports on the strength of post-Thanksgiving Black Friday holiday sales for signs of how the economy is holding up, Gero said.
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Last-hired, first-fired agreements are not debt, but they are contracts which cannot be cleared and depending on the strength of the collective bargaining agent, have a high cost of breach.
And we recognize no two nations achieve these rights in exactly the same way, but there is no question that your country will be stronger if it draws on the strength of all of its people.
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If history repeats, investors should be booking profits on this strength, not piling on to what could be the end of a momentum run for stocks.
But it will all but rule out the wild cards who used to be able to seize national attention on the strength of their performances in Iowa or New Hampshire.
Adidas is catching up with Nike in the race to be China's top sportswear company, on the strength of products like high-heeled tennis shoes.
Finally, Best Buy now looks to be capitalizing on its strength in the services segment.
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Local TV and radio deals are likely to be bolstered in the future on the strength of this championship, and the brand becomes that much more attractive.
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By using a virus to smuggle in a piece of DNA code into cells, the crucial genes could be turned on and the athlete would gain tremendous advantages in strength or endurance.
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Microsoft has bet big on the Windows 8 platform and its strength will be key for the firm going forward.
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The general consensus was that while Germany may not culturally be the most entrepreneurial country, the emphasis on execution was a national strength.
In future they will be handed out on the basis of party strength and not that of political groupings.
He said local authorities had been asked to hoist a danger signal of 3 out of 10 a moderate signal , which might be increased depending on the storm's strength and direction.
For example, they will no longer be able to deny customers coverage on the strength of some pre-existing condition, or put a cap on how much health care they will pay for over a lifetime.
All markets need to pause and take a break and the bulls appear to be merely gathering strength for their next big upside assault on the key target from the October 2012 peak.
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The amount of charge that can be stored depends on the surface area of the electrodes, the strength and composition of the insulation between them, and how close they are together.
If, on the other hand, stocks do rebound, it will be the strength of the rebound that may give us some clues as to how it might withstand a failure by the supercommittee.
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Advertising can never be evaluated on creative strength alone, outside the category and the brand problems and strengths.
Your vote this spring on the Peacekeeper missile will be a critical test of our resolve to maintain the strength we need and move toward mutual and verifiable arms reductions.
From here on, the factors important to success in the traditional brick-and- mortar retail business -- pricing power based on brand strength and economies of scale -- also will be required on the Internet.
"All the potential effort that these countries are doing painfully for internal devaluation by cutting wages, keeping them below productivity growth and so on can be undone by the strength of the euro, " said economist Nouriel Roubini at an interview in Davos last month.
However, the claims that the defects can be passed on, if proven, would add strength to Thalidomide UK's repeated calls for the size of the fund to be boosted.
The work of a Disney animator, as the studios roared from strength to strength, could be as numbing as the daily grind on any other production line.
The change in strategy comes as the yen's dramatic decline early this year has paused, suggesting the Japanese stock market may be less dependent on the direction of the currency and tied more closely to the strength of an economic recovery in Japan.
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