• The automatic spending cuts were included in the bill with the idea that they would be so unpalatable to lawmakers that they would have a strong incentive to avoid them by making a deal to reduce the budget deficit.

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  • The union workers disagreed, and told the investors that they should not only never expect a profit, but that they would continue escalating demands so that additional bankruptcies and additional bailouts of millions of dollars would follow.

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  • Thirty years ago, as I started my so-called career, not a single person told me that computers and technology would get so cheap that they would practically end up being given away in boxes of Cheerios.

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  • Would it concern the administration that the price would become so onerous to BP that they would either go bankrupt or be broken up?

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  • And, as I mentioned yesterday, one possible remedy would be to force the banks to raise so much additional capital that they would feel under enormous pressure to create new credit, so that they could earn an adequate return on this capital.

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  • And what he's threatening to do, really the implicit threat, is that they would split the companies into two so that the safe portion, the municipal bond portion, would be one company, and the troubled portion would be another company, and of course the minute that happens, those troubled companies are basically doomed because it's the municipal bond part of the thing that's holding the whole apparatus up.

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  • There could be the kind of meltdown, I guess, like occurred -- partial meltdown that occurred at Three Mile Island, and that would -- another agency might have the lead -- because they would have the expertise, so they would have the lead in responding to that.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The features on a chip would shrink so much that they would be smaller than a wavelength of light.

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  • The new move was to make a console RPG out of Kingdoms of Amalur whose sales would be so fantastic that they would drive funding of the eventual MMO.

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  • The right said that the best thing that government could do to is to lower the tax burden of business as well as upper middle class and wealthy Americans so that they would invest their money and take risks that were needed to grow the economy.

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  • If taken from the patient being treated, they would not be rejected, so that immuno-suppressants would no longer be needed.

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  • Then some of the actors would race ahead in cars to the next location so that they would arrive before the canoes did.

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  • The nuclei in the plasmoid, so the theory goes, would be moving so fast that when they hit each other they would overcome their mutual electrostatic repulsion and merge.

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  • And the smugglers knew that, so they would routinely come in just under that.

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  • Human ancestors evolved to find mates that would pass on good genes to offspring, so they would naturally be repelled by traits that would be detrimental to survival or indicators of poor health.

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  • The British government promised companies it would pass legislation two years before the directive came into force, so that they would know where they stood.

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  • From what I have seen of Windows 8, it would seem that they have so far missed out on the principles of hierarchy and component scaling that are crucial to making responsive screen designs work.

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  • But the sorts of policies that matter most are so basic that they would never seem weighty or visionary enough to grace a political platform.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • And most important, to go through a period of retraining with all of the replacements and new personnel that would get in, so that the next time they went over they would go as a cohesive and well-trained team.

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  • They would also be so expensive that the Republicans might have to raid the Social Security surplus to pay for them.

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  • Despite the obvious intent of the Founders, they were still skeptical that their brilliant document would be understood, so with that in mind they wrote the 9th and 10th amendments.

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  • 'They would choose a day without rain so that the wood for the fire would not be wet.

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  • When I was a prison doctor, not a few prisoners would demand tranquillizers from me, claiming to be so agitated that they would soon kill someone if they were not calmed down.

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  • One of the papers said steps such as a tax on unhealthy food and drinks and traffic light labelling on food would be so beneficial for health that they would save money in the long run.

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  • "Neither Mr Fuller nor any other member of staff knew that the group was intending to cross a fast flowing river, nor could they reasonably have foreseen that they would attempt to do so, " he said.

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  • But they had planned it in advance, so they knew that it would work.

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  • On a tour of the region, where he stumped for "Project Chariot, " Teller told residents that the explosions would be so precise that they could dig the harbor into the shape of a polar bear.

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  • Others want names that are uncommon enough to bestow uniqueness, but not so exotic that they would be considered weird on the playground.

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  • And since they are staging the South American Under-20 Championships, it was generally assumed that they would do so.

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  • They include the legacy of high debt and earlier deficits, trade unions that have consistently thwarted reform, and obsolete industries producing goods so shoddy that they would be uncompetitive at almost any exchange rate.

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