In the last few years he played a significant role in ensuring that the Group is in good financial standing.
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The country Musharraf took over from the civilians in 1999 was close to a failed state, especially in terms of its international financial standing.
Most have only seen their financial standing improve over their lifetimes.
Stack is a buyer of PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) because of the company's profitability, competitive advantage and financial standing.
And Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang has said that he wants to develop an Islamic bond market in 2008, in order to boost the region's global financial standing.
Skilling's defense attorney Daniel Petrocelli boldly decried that they would prove Enron to be a sound company in good financial standing and that a "run on the bank" led to its bankruptcy.
Yet with the Giants moving into New Meadowlands Stadium this year (shared with the Jets) the Eagles will once again be the poorest member of the NFC East despite its lofty financial standing in the NFL overall.
This has been one of the financial titans still standing, as other banks collapsed or were brought up in distress.
Or, with few major financial institutions still standing after the meltdown would a take-down of Goldman jeopardize the entire banking system?
Mr Balls thinks a short-term fiscal stimulus would pay for itself, at least over a few years, and would not seriously jeopardise the government's standing in financial markets.
When the researchers controlled for connections between socio-economic status and beverage preference, they found that wine-drinkers with the same financial resources and social standing as beer-drinkers or teetotallers simply lead more sensible and healthier lives.
Much of the economic advice to Africa, which focuses only on the macroeconomic impacts of large infrastructure investments and less on the microeconomic benefits of such financial outlays, is standing in the way of common sense.
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To separate the effects of money from the effects of diet and choice of drink, Dr Barefoot, Dr Gronbaek and their team analysed data from a group of subjects who possessed similar financial means and social standing.
Now, when it comes to giving our young people the education they deserve, understand this -- Barack knows that like me and like so many of you, there is absolutely no way we could have gone to college without financial aid. (Applause.) We would not be standing here today without financial aid.
The locals in Frankfurt say the affair has done no harm at all to their city's standing as a financial centre, and it shows that German investors demand high standards.
For example, Merrill Lynch shares the view of many environmental and conservation NGOs that the most effective way to address deforestation which is responsible for 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions is to create a financial incentive to keep forests standing.
It would be nice to think there is a "free lunch" available here - a cost-free way for the government to lend its good standing in the financial markets to worthy private projects, to make it easier for them to raise the money they need.
Now, when it comes to giving our young people the education they deserve, see, Barack knows that like me, and like so many of you, we never could have attended college without financial aid -- never. (Applause.) We would not be standing here if not for financial aid.
It was at this time that many large financial firms -- those left standing -- teetered on the brink of collapse, overwhelmed by the consequences of their irresponsible decisions.
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If you bank online, the only thing standing between you and a financial disaster is your password (and perhaps your username).
This innovation greatly boosted London's standing as a cross-border financial centre.
But amid increasing economic uncertainty, including a stagnant unemployment figure, slow GDP growth and overall global financial strains, the Obama asked his last standing economic advisor to stay on board and he did.
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Standing on the roof of Two World Financial Center, amid mounds of debris that still litter the streets and rooftops around the World Trade Center, New York police officers -- among them former Marines -- raised the flags of the United States, Marines, Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.
Standing too long in the middle of the financial equivalent of the river Styx can have severe consequences.
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Words I've put in a row have appeared in the Financial Times, where I'm a long-standing contributor, The Economist and The Times of London, among others.
But the about-turn on three-month money made it look inconsistent, and the Northern Rock affair has damaged its public standing, even if the government and the Financial Services Authority, Britain's banking supervisor, were also at fault.
It didn't help that Countrywide Financial, one of the biggest independent mortgage lenders left standing, came out Tuesday with a dismal second-quarter earnings report (down 33%) and said the business wouldn't show signs of improvement for months.
We would not be standing here today if it weren't for financial aid.
China, North Korea's most important financial and military backer, also welcomed the announcement and reiterated long-standing calls by Beijing for a resumption of six-party talks.
He was faced with the difficult task of striking the proper balance between standing up for taxpayers and returning a measure of stability to our financial system.
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