Mr. Najib's predecessors crafted the measures to give a leg up to the country's ethnic-Malay Muslims to reduce tensions with the wealthier ethnic-Chinese population.
Its pledges to unwind a decades-old race-based affirmative action policy designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population and reduce corruption have a strong appeal among mostly younger voters, analysts say.
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He may have more support to continue rolling back some affirmative action policies introduced over 30 years ago to give a leg-up to the majority ethnic-Malay population.
Some of them do come with a background of the East African nations, and whatever that is, it does seem to give them a leg up, shall we say, in the distance-running events.
So, if you thought building that slick new game for Android or iOS was going to give you a leg up on the coding competition when seeking work at Facebook HQ... think again.
That solid operating experience is sure to give the firm a leg up with entrepreneurs.
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We just went ahead and started taking some steps on our own to give working Americans a leg up in a tough economy.
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Our first focus will be looking at trade and exports to see how we can better reform these functions to give American companies a leg up in the global economy.
Paying attention to historical trends can give you a leg up.
His advice for young people first entering the SVSC is to use one of three approaches to get access to people who can give them a leg up on the ladder.
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And as a new government, more representative government, emerges in Libya, ultimately this will be an very important corpus of assets to give the new Libyan leadership a leg up on its task forward.
Unlike many men, who prefer not to let their competitive edge be known, my experience tells me that most female entrepreneurs are willing to share their secrets to success in order to gain tips from other successful business people and even to help give a newbie a leg-up.
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The Internet was supposed to give small businesses a fast and cheap leg up.
If you know how to write and how to give a presentation, you will have a leg up in your career.
The "Herminator" endured skin grafts and surgery to implant a titanium rod in his leg, but was not ready to give up and was duly rewarded on Saturday.
Ahead of a larger event at PAX, neither wanted to reveal anything about their play that would give their steep competition a leg up on them in the coming event.
To give non-English-speaking children a leg-up, the government agreed last year that all pupils should be taught in their mother tongue for at least the first three years of primary school.
Meantime, the International Shareholder Services says that such thinking is a business imperative: Two-thirds of the companies that it surveyed said that good governance is the right thing to do and that such standards also give enterprises a leg up.
"Being attractive or aesthetically appealing does give you a leg up, but if you don't have anything to back it up, nothing really materializes or comes from it, " he says.
But zinc fingers, because of their precision, could give Dow a significant leg up by cutting a year or two off the six to eight years it now takes to develop a modified plant and get it past regulators.
The result does give Vertex a leg up on Merck, but, again, the company is already expected to dominate and that is baked into its stock valuation.
That Genie can let you watch already recorded episodes right away and pull from any broadcasts its finds may give it a leg up, but so far we haven't seen recommendation systems good enough to promote switching from one service to another.
Osasuna looked like comfortably seeing out the remaining minutes until Hemdani picked up a loose clearance to drive in a stoppage-time equaliser that give Rangers hope for the second leg.
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