• The role of pension funds in such suits became all the more important after the securities-law reform of 1995 that limited the ability of some plaintiffs to file shareholder lawsuits.

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  • This will provide the GOP with an important lesson that Democrats, with their head full of idealism and hope and change, have learned over the past four years: the limited ability of the President to control the economy.

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  • In recent years, the high costs of regulatory compliance associated with Sarbanes-Oxley and the effects of Dodd-Frank combined with a waning initial public offering (IPO) market and increasing global competition have limited the ability of smaller companies to access new capital through the public markets.

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  • Last year the Supreme Court limited the ability of small outfits in patent cases to get injunctions against large companies.

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  • It will be under strict instructions to cut payments to Medicare providers, regardless of the consequences, with limited ability for Congress to overrule its edicts.

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  • Handheld computers and wireless net-phones would also benefit from a less chatty protocol, more efficient use of their limited battery power, the ability to cope in noisy environments, and an easier way to send files while on the move (from, say, digital cameras).

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  • It was justified as a tax on the ability of stockholders to enjoy limited liability.

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  • In this context, he attaches particular importance to Senator Pinochet's memory deficit for recent events, which would affect his ability to relate and understand items of information given to him at a trial, and to his limited ability to comprehend complex sentences and questions and to process verbal information.

    BBC: Straw's statement in full

  • The issue is that Jones-Drew, who is only 27-years-old, has been informed about the short shelf life of an NFL player (particularly a running back), may be entering the best years of his career (from a production standpoint), and wants to take advantage of his limited opportunity to capitalize on his proven ability to rack up rushing yards (he had 1, 606 yards rushing in 2011).

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  • Despite the Government loan guarantees, American bankers said that they were worried about the declining ability of the Soviet Union to pay its bills and that their own financial problems had limited their ability to make loans to anyone.

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  • The complaint also states that regional providers face significant competitive limitations, largely stemming from their lack of national networks, and are therefore limited in their ability to compete with the four national carriers.

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  • Officials are unable to describe the full scope of the problem, however, because they have had limited ability to pull together all the private data.

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  • The unique ability of technology to enable today's limited educational resources to scale quickly and affordably across great distances to a great many people makes it an essential ingredient in our efforts to transform education.

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  • Typically, we have limited ability to obtain a complete 360 degree view of our prospects and customers.

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  • But for retirees with limited ability to boost their income and greater likelihood of big medical bills, it's even more of an uphill battle.

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  • The barriers we break in pursuit of our inquisitiveness result in our ability to peer beyond our limited horizon, watching the singularity if ever we can, would the ultimate achievement of us homosapiens.

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  • They set the broad parameters of Iranian foreign policy and strategy, leaving the president with a limited ability to maneuver in determining the country's international relations.

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  • But Lord Falconer argued that MPs would have "a more limited ability to evict a government which has lost the confidence of the Commons".

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  • Because this infrastructure is quickly aging and the ability to produce more electricity is limited in some parts of the country, energy efficiency will undoubtedly be a key factor in addressing this growth.

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  • Reconnecting a mere 10% to 15% of nerves across a crushed spine may be enough for paraplegics to regain limited walking ability or for quadriplegics to be able to use their hands again, estimates Dr. Volker Dietz, who treats spinal cord patients at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich.

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  • As well, Iraqi insurgents often are launching their attacks from densely populated regions, "so even though the point of launch can be determined with great precision, the ability to shoot back is limited, " Scales says.

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  • In the current issue of the journal Nature, Hod Lipson from Cornell University describes robots in his lab with a limited ability to self-reproduce.

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  • The ability of luxury companies to provide more products and services to these consumers is only limited by how much effort they put into it.

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  • The limited ability to introduce major hardware improvements puts more pressure on Samsung to address one of its biggest weaknesses in its fight against Apple: software.

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  • Our ability to conceptualize and implement a vision of an Ideal and Just Society is extremely limited, and the political route between the obvious and simple system of natural liberty that Adam Smith found so compelling and the Ideal and Just Society some people want to see is fraught with peril.

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  • They have limited ability to drill in many oil-prone regions, such as Russia and part of the Middle East, due to politics.

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  • Monitor said failings in the appointment system "seriously compromises the ability of the trust to manage quality of care" because it could place only "limited reliance" on operational data.

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  • His ability to implement unpopular reforms will anyway be limited by the opposition conservatives' control of the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature, where Germany's 16 states are represented.

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  • But what happens then is that we no longer have the ability to borrow money, but we have bills coming due and a limited amount of cash in our pockets.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • For all their mastery of the field, these professionals find their ability to meaningful grow revenues and consequently their personal wealth is sadly limited.

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