• Mr Clegg is promising to ensure that the next government spending review will not include further spending cuts without a measure of wealth tax.

    BBC: Lib Dem conference: Clegg promises to push for wealth tax

  • William Powell AM on behalf of the Liberal Democrats called for recognition of the UK Government's Green Deal that intends to ensure energy companies will be required, under the new Energy Company Obligation (ECO), to focus their assistance on the poorest and most vulnerable households and properties which cannot achieve financial savings without a measure of support.

    BBC: Plaid Cymru debate on energy

  • One is to send him a clean bill that's, you know, a measure without any of the timetables or goals or benchmarks, just the money for the war.

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  • His call is not without its own measure of cynicism.

    ECONOMIST: Middle East peacemaking reawakens

  • And, because the economic value is high, markets want more and consequently drive energy demand in large measure without regard to primary fuel cost--the cost of energy fades in to the twilight.

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  • The Kurds are unlikely to feel contented in any of these countries, even if their governments became models of moderation, without a generous measure of autonomy in the regions in which they predominate.

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  • But on the House side, the majority leadership appears committed to seeing a clean bill enacted, in spite of the fact that a previous vote on the measure failed without Republican support.

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  • But we can't properly take the measure of Veronese without a trip to Europe.

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  • Typically, when believers talk about previous secular bear markets, they measure using the Dow (a faulty, price-weighted index which makes returns fairly arbitrary and not reflective of economic reality), or they measure the Dow without dividends reinvested (which is really stretching reality).

    FORBES: The Most Hated Bull Market Ever

  • But without adjusting for risk, this measure of the finance sector's economic worth is meaningless.

    ECONOMIST: The banks' contribution to the economy has been overstated

  • Without those transfers, the target measure of borrowing would be 4.3% of GDP in 2012-13 - or just 10% lower than in 2010, despite two years of austerity.

    BBC: An economic mid-term review

  • He added that his body wishes to close parts of a stadium where "episodes of racism take place" before taking the more drastic measure of playing matches without fans should incidents persist.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • For some, that is another reason to take this first estimate with an extra dose of salt: service sector output is especially hard to measure accurately, even without all these special factors being thrown into the mix.

    BBC: A special recovery

  • "What the rules prevent is the same measure being reconsidered by general Synod without a special procedure, " he explained.

    BBC: Women bishops vote: Church of England 'resembles sect'

  • Such taxation without representation would end in California if this measure is passed.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • By contrast, conventional monitoring technologies like supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) measure every two to four seconds without precise time synchronization.

    FORBES: Can GridEye Save America's Power Grid?

  • But Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the measure would not be enough to help without the Government also changing course on its austerity plans.

    BBC: Bank shares jump on new business support plans

  • This absurd result occurs since a relative poverty measure is used, rather than an absolute measure (although these measures are not without their own problems).

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • Since OS X Lion, Macs have shipped without Java installed, and as an added security measure OS X automatically disables Java if it has been unused for 35 days.

    FORBES: Apple Hit By Hackers; No Data Lost; Macs At Risk From Java

  • For good measure, Delaware threw in that even without such contact, an account could be deemed active if the IRS Form 1099 mailed to the investor wasn't returned by the post office.

    WSJ: State Governments Eye 'Inactive' Broker Accounts

  • Obama's budget is already weeks overdue and Press Secretary Jay Carney deflected questions about it Monday, other than to promise that it would "for a period of time" bring deficits below 3 percent of gross domestic product, a measure that many analysts say is sustainable without damaging the economy.

    NPR: Senate Democrats Prepare Government Funding Bill

  • The professor began winning so much cash that the pit bosses eventually took to the old-school counter-measure of hastily escorting him from the premises without so much as a thank you.

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  • While he estimates it will be five years until such a product is on the market, Patwari says a network of wireless transceivers around a bed can measure breathing rates and alert someone if breathing stops without any tubes or wires connected to the patient.

    ENGADGET: Researchers use wireless network to monitor breathing, could save lives

  • President Barack Obama included a provision recognizing gay partnerships in his own immigration bill, but he has made it clear in recent comments that the Senate measure meets his criteria for an immigration overhaul, even without the provision.

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  • The Scripps Research Institute can measure the volume of coral reefs underwater for the first time without disturbing the reef.

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  • "We are able to measure activities that originate deeper in the brain from the surface without penetrating the brain, " said materials engineer George Malliaras at the Microelectronics Center of Provence in France, who led the research team.

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  • The ennobling measure of the man is that he has chosen the work that is done without public notice.

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  • It beams the ear's geometry into a computer, without the mess of a traditional mold or the radiation if CT scans were used to measure ear anatomy.

    WSJ: Scientists use 3-D printing to help grow an ear

  • He added that it would take 11 years for the measure to pay off, and that it would be difficult to put legislation through without other areas of the UK demanding similar measures.

    BBC: Northern Ireland Assembly

  • John McCallister of the UUP said that the measure would strip 10, 000 parents of the benefit, and had been decided on without regard to Northern Ireland.

    BBC: Childcare vouchers continued

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