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The planned merger with Iberia, the Spanish airline, looked as if it would be a winning combination a year ago when it was first mooted.

He said mooted exemptions for foreign exchange trades from the OTC market reforms being considered by US Congress would not be adopted.

She read Browning aloud to him, and was often puzzled by the strange interpretations he gave to mooted passages.

A bid for Dimitar Berbatov, the Tottenham Hotspur forward, has been mooted, with Louis Saha likely to be sold or sent out on loan.

Bart Chilton, the commissioner most adamantly in favour of these limits, said the mooted rules "actually err on the high side" .

But it yesterday declined to say how much it intended to raise through the mooted issue.

It was also mooted that he might repeal a ban on the niqab (the veil that covers a woman's face) in universities.

The proposals mooted this week by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy gave little indication that they are ready to do so.

And whenever reform of the UN Security Council comes up, its name is always among those mooted for a possible new permanent seat.

Another potential disappointment is a lack of traction on the various reforms the G20 mooted over a year ago.

The London Stock Exchange, owner of a thriving retail-bond exchange in Italy, has mooted plans for a similar platform on its home soil.

The plans are yet to be fleshed out in detail, but three changes have been mooted.

He has previously dismissed climate science as "crap" and the mooted mitigation measures as just a "great big tax" .

Mr Summers did not offer any specific comment on the mooted "aggregator bank" .

None of the main ideas mooted in response to the crisis would address this critical divergence.

I've heard pieces of the arguments mooted in the back & forth before, but it looks like in this book they're all brought together.

That increase, first mooted in November 2008 and enlarged a year later, is due to take effect from April 2011.

If Chinese auto makers are truly poised to snap up struggling Western brands, the mooted maiden deal isn't much of a start.

He should propose a strong new stimulus, more ambitious than the measures mooted so far.

France is leaning in the right direction, with its mooted overhaul of the pension system.

The proposal was mooted by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) with the support of the health ministry, sources said.

Opel's works council has mooted a similar plan in the battle to help rescue the troubled European arm of General Motors.

When Thatcherites first mooted privatisation it was derided as an impractical dream.

The mooted liberalisation comes as China's demand for electronic goods is driving much of the recovery in Taiwan's technology industry.

As soon as the change was mooted, bloggers started blogging and tweeters began to tweet.

With Amauri set to join Juve, it was mooted that Almiron may move to Sicily as part of an exchange deal.

Playing a competitive fixture could be even more lucrative and it was this which arguably led to the idea being mooted in the first place.

Of course, more attacks like this one may kill off any mooted talks.

Some have been promised posts in a government of national unity that has previously been mooted.

It has been mooted for a number of years by FIFA at the World Cup that Great Britain has a team.

The prices that are being mooted would make supermarkets drinks more expensive, but leave many pub tipples unaffected.

An often-mooted solution to the food crisis is to breed plants that produce the ultimate high-yielding, low water-consuming crops.

Under the mooted law, doctors will be encouraged to help addicts kick the habit with treatments and education programmes.

The mooted changes come on top of a two-year freeze on public-sector pay for all but those on very low salaries.

Harry Redknapp has been mooted as a potential coach of a combined British team.

Compulsory pre-natal classes could be mooted - but he doubted they were realistic.

Neither man is widely mooted as a presidential candidate, at least not yet.

Mr Abbas mooted the possibility of an international committee to oversee the city's holiest sites.

Socialised medicine and bank nationalisation are two of the ideas mooted for adoption in The Occupied Wall Street Journal.

This confirms speculation first mooted in November when he was appointed deputy CEO.

More subtle reasons have been mooted for the dearth of women at the top.

However, it is increasingly being mooted as a solution for distributing physical objects without the need for shipping.

Ferrero had mooted submitting a competing offer with a mix of potential partners.

The second way in which the permanent bureaucracy could be emboldened is by a mooted clampdown on lobbyists.

A mooted financial aid programme for Greece has sidelined perceived default risks for now, but the bigger agenda will not go away.

The mooted aid, like China's much-discussed supposed help for the troubled periphery, is unlikely to solve the eurozone's problems.

European Union supervision of national budget deficits, recently mooted, aims to counter domestic politics.

it has mooted the idea of ten days' paid leave for workers to arrange nursing for sick parents.

The attendees may also not have noticed the 'challenging' nature of Makana's lyrics because the music was so mellow, it was mooted on CNN.

A pipeline across the Caspian (skirting Russia) has been mooted but is years from being built.

German-led initiative set hopes flickering when mooted early this year, but reforms finally agreed in March proved a damp squib.

In the next few years a rail tunnel will open under the Bosporus, 150 years after it was first mooted.

The mooted shutdown has attracted outside protests, including one from the OECD, a Paris-based club of rich countries.

More promising may be mooted government support for credit insurance.

They mooted Australia as an alternative should South Africa's organisers fail to get their act together.

Some have been mooted in previous crises without any big changes to the status quo.

Given this deadlock, other options, such as a provisional extension of the Kyoto protocol, have been mooted.

Dropping some costly sports coverage is also being mooted, as well as having more repeats on Radio 4, its most influential radio channel.

Bankers see significant change and uncertainty around mooted reforms.

Moves such as the forced break-up of a top firm have previously been mooted only by radical politicians and academics.

Other examples offered by insiders include a European food bank for the poor, mooted at one summit.

The quesion of changing the membership rules was mooted at the last meeting.

Given the critical lack of hospital beds, home-based care has been mooted as one option for treating XDR-TB patients.

Of the desultory crew of candidates being mooted, the three most likely share a salient characteristic: they are dependably "pro-Beijing" .

Occasionally, even the government's worst nightmare is mooted as a possibility: stagflation.

It's not the first time that virtual currencies have been mooted as the future of online payments.

A regrouping of social democrats on Kadima 's left flank, with Meretz and Labour to the fore, is also being mooted.

Most hurtful of all, though, will be the mooted exit of Nasri, Arsenal's star man for much of last season.

Google's mooted departure sends a chilling message to companies that remain.

A site on the Champs-Elysees selling more upmarket fashion has been mooted, although the retailer has refused to confirm this.

It is double the mooted valuation of the group four years ago when it last considered listing.

More intriguingly, on Friday came confirmation that China had mooted a plan to construct a high-speed network spanning 17 countries.

Assume the toughest legislation mooted becomes law.

The mooted prisoner exchange is controversial in Israel.

Yi mooted the urgency of abolishing the policy online to Premier Wen Jiabao in 2008, but received no reply.

One long-mooted bill, the Global Online Freedom Act, would make the government keep a list of internet-restricting states.

VIABLE nuclear fusion has been only 30 years away since the idea was first mooted in the 1950s.

When the idea of invading Iraq was first mooted, he opposed it.

A number of mooted deals have collapsed in the past week.

An election next year is being mooted.

"The Chinese don't tend to do the small projects, " Mr Cheshire said on the mooted change of strategy.

The question was first mooted many years ago.

But the one mooted this week could yield no useful answer.

A worldwide bank levy is being mooted by the G20.

Frankfurt and even Paris were mooted as possible usurpers of London's crown.

An interest-rate cap is mooted.

Mr Netanyahu, it is hopefully mooted, may free many of the 6, 000-plus Palestinian militants in Israeli prisons.

SJM envisaged a $2bn offering when the idea was first mooted three years ago.

A tie up between Scania, MAN and Volkwagen is also often mooted.

To get tough on honour killing, the government in Delhi has mooted a new law.

Many of the SEZs mooted may simply be property deals.

A sale of another 10% of VTB is mooted for this year or next, along with 7. 6% of Sberbank by 2014.

One concept being mooted , for example, is that the FDIC should help troubled banks securities a swathe of assets .

IT HAS been mooted since 1932, but Hong Kong has never had a minimum wage.