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Citi's China chief executive Andrew Au said the bank's branch and staff expansion had pushed up expenses.

The doors and windows are closed, as they have been since Friday, and the dinner table is now pushed up against the front door.

That has pushed up production costs at a time when orders are unpredictable, said the company's chairman, Xiao Senlin.

For instance, I placed four fingers down on the Trackpad and pushed up to hide all opened programs and reveal my computer desktop.

General Patton, a specialist in tank warfare, got ashore on Normandy coast. The Normandy landing campaign was pushed up to its climax.

A rocket is made of metal. There is a hot gas inside it. When it rushes out of the end of the rocket, the rocket is pushed up into the air.

Therefore, when the piston is pushed up in the cylinder, the air in the cylinder is trapped above the piston and compressed.

Similarly, some analysts expect the total capital adequacy ratio to be pushed up to 12% in 2010.

The RBI also pushed up the requirement for banks to hold at least 25 per cent of their deposits in government securities from 24 per cent.

Third, in most countries the build-up of foreign-exchange reserves has not hugely pushed up the growth of money and inflation.

She added that delays had already pushed up the amount needed to support Greece, and further pain could be in store.

In many places such flows of magma have pushed up the surface rocks to form huge ridges.

The day was hot and clear in the morning, but by noon the clouds had pushed up out of the west rolling a little sultry air before them.

This will have pushed up UK carbon emissions, possibly by enough to move us back over the Kyoto target.

The rate cut is in part an admission that high rates have pushed up the currency and hurt exporters.

or prices of goods and services are pushed up to the level consistent with high asset prices, in which case there is inflation.

It has pushed up the divorce rate because migrant workers return home to find that they and their partners have grown apart.

This has pushed up the cost of living and has threatened to derail growth in many developing nations.

Like a feedback loop, rising stocks were a sign of growing demand for energy, pushing up oil, which pushed up stocks.

By itself, that pushed up the value of dotcom stocks and made the relative performance of value investors even worse.

the corner of the little lens which is pushed up is clamped by a clamping piece, and the little lens is picked up from the elastic membrane.

Severe snow storms have also disrupted transport and pushed up the prices of food, a key component of the consumer price index.

As warm moist air flows into a storm, it gets pushed up and twisted by upper level winds.

Concerns are mounting about a real-estate bubble in Hainan and other places where the rush to profit from real estate has pushed up prices.

But professionalisation has also pushed up the price of child care, defying even the economic slump (see chart).

When Rachel got to Chase, she pushed up against him and hugged his leg.

And investors in Shanghai have pushed up shares 24% so far this year, compared to a flat market in Mumbai.

Doris pushed up her large glasses with her index finger. "What's a girl like that got that we haven't got? "

Flows into Japan have pushed up the yen, squeezing profits on exports and making firms less likely to invest.

That policy shift, though welcomed by lovers of free markets (if not the public), has pushed up headline inflation.

Although this has pushed up unemployment, many workers have been absorbed into the rapidly expanding non-state sector.

Behavior for these entities would end up being pushed up to the service or the view layer.

In many areas of Death Valley it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed up violently by movement deep in the Earth.

The proliferation of wireless systems has pushed up the demand for spectrum and increased its value.

So far prices have not been pushed up by actual disruptions to supply.

Ultimately, China's financial system will only avoid these boom-bust cycles if interest rates can be reformed, and pushed up.

Every additional daily serving of potatoes pushed up the scale by more than a pound every four years.

But growth began to stall in 2007, when rapidly rising fuel prices pushed up fares and the economy slowed.

In spite of this, an irrepressible curiosity and anticipation, like water boiling on the stove, pushed up against the lid of the kettle.

Once market optimism pushed up the oil price, that choked consumers' nascent recovery.

We have predicted that new land will emerge with the Antarctic Plate is pushed up between the tip of S American and Africa.

They have pushed up retail sales in the city and filled hotels, creating a wealth effect for the rest of the economy.

The rise in oil and commodity prices has pushed up inflation in rich countries and acted like a tax on consumers.

Already, the rising cost of caring for the elderly has pushed up the government deficit and the national debt.

To the extent that food prices have been pushed up by one-off supplyfactors, they should flatten later this year, causing inflation to fall.

The surging number of older people, many living alone, has also increased demand for property and pushed up house prices.

Banks have recently had to raise reserves: that has created a hunger for deposits which has pushed up what they are willing to pay.

And if more competitive farming pushed up land prices, it would boost the collateral held by overextended banks.

Recovery is slow, fragile and sensitive to changes, like oil prices being pushed up by the revolution sweeping the Arab world.

Intermittent showers pushed up water levels to record highs in two dams in Leizhou yesterday.

The supers have not pushed up the savings rate, but nor have they increased unit labour costs.

These enormous increases pushed up consumer prices across the globe.

Consumers saw the cost of heating and fuel rocket though much of 2008 as the soaring cost of oil pushed up retail prices.

Recession, though mild, has pushed up unemployment, increasing fears of competition from immigrants.

The team found that as the oceans warm and expand, more water will be pushed up and onto the Earth's shallower ocean shelves.

That pushed up the imputed cost of housing.

I see, too, some laborer pushed up against you as you came along.

Dearer oil has pushed up consumer prices, but expectations of future price increases have remained remarkably stable.

But concerns that the floods could tighten corn supplies this year have pushed up both corn and ethanol prices.

Starting from point O a ball is pushed up the successively higher ramps.

This has pushed up valuations of listed exchanges, making executives cautious about securing strategic deals while they are growing so fast.

Demand from Asian countries has certainly pushed up prices; non-oil commodities have trebled over the past decade.

The increased volumes have pushed up rates per container shipped, boosting the profitability of lines.

Prices have been pushed up by rising fuel costs as well as by scarcity.

The Anhui villagers became famous and the new "household-responsibility system" pushed up yields and incomes.

Surging commodity prices have pushed up Brazil's real by even more (see left-hand chart). It hit a 12-year high against the dollar in July.

Rises in the price of natural gas and electricity have also pushed up costs for tortilla manufacturers.

Another said: "Everything toppled over in the house. It's a complete mess. Even the floor got pushed up by the water. "

Pillow lavas form when molten rock is pushed up onto the seafloor at a very slow rate.

"Rogue traders" twice pushed up the price.

U. S. economic growth has faltered amid falling home prices, which also pushed up unemployment.

Finance may even have hindered recent progress, if speculators truly pushed up food prices.

The subsequent rally pushed up prices and dropped yields, which move in the opposite direction.

The influx of new buyers pushed up house prices, which made lenders even more eager.

But the apparent drop-off in inflation was likely caused by the Lunar New Year holiday in February, which pushed up food prices that month.

The interruption ofmining has pushed up the prices of gold and platinum.

Oil-market analysts question the idea that speculative investments have pushed up prices.

which extend from DC, and the quantization noise is pushed up into the higher frequencies.

Already the country is chafing under interest rates that were pushed up by six percentage points to 18% during talks with the fund.

This deflation pushed up the real burden of households' debts.

Nevertheless, Asia is starting to tighten policy; China pushed up rates last month.

It does not look like QE2, or strong data, have pushed up inflation expectations.

Most windows nowadays are made so they can be pushed up and out. This is for convenience and I imagine easy cleaning.

Recent events had savaged my net worth by 60 per cent and pushed up my cost of living by more than 20 per cent.

Some watch manufacturers have already pushed up prices by about 10 per cent, allowing them to offset the currency swings.

Inflation in those countries is being pushed up by higher energy prices.

In Beijing the city's biggest snowfall in more than 50 years this week pushed up vegetable prices.

Inflation, meanwhile, has been pushed up by rising commodity prices.

This has pushed up rates in the interbank market as they clamor for funding from their rivals.

The rise in commodity prices pushed up the corporate goods price index 3. 4 per cent year-on-year in July, according to Bank of Japan data.

As in the US in the 1870s, the frantic pace of China's infrastructure boom has pushed up construction costs.

The sprouts have pushed up the earth.

Corn prices are also pushed up by growing demand for biofuels.

Greens were built from native soil that was pushed up and shaped.

Ivan's menacing presence pushed up world oil prices, which rose by more than 50 cents a barrel .

As Japan moved into higher-value exports, rising productivity pushed up wages, making old industries, such as textiles, uncompetitive.

Inflation has also been fuelled by over-rapid growth in some economies, which pushed up wages.

Gold prices were pushed up to an all-time high of $1, 409. 80 a troy ounce on Nov.

But total demand remained strong and pushed up prices.

The same shortage of coal that is driving up imports has also pushed up the price.

It's not a flood, it was pushed up there.

'Competition between banks for good people has pushed up costs a lot.

That pushed up costs, putting Horizon $29 million over budget for 2010, the largest deficit in BP's Gulf fleet.

There is now a shortage of some herbs, which has pushed up prices.

Even the floor got pushed up by the water.

Phil Verleger, economist at the University of Calgary, says one-off factors have pushed up demand.

Weather has also pushed up prices.

As they have grown older, this has pushed up employment rates for those aged 55-64.

How long can a property market pushed up by bank loans and hot money, and not tangible demand, sustain itself?

This year, labor shortages in China's booming coastal factory towns have pushed up factory wages.

That pushed up prices by 11. 4% in June alone, an annualised rate of 265%.

Most networks deployed between 2004 and 2006 used between 20% and 100% more nodes than expected, which pushed up costs.

This pulled in yet more capital and pushed up the exchange rate.

At one point, the World Bank said higher commodity costs had pushed up food prices 83% in three years.

Investors pushed up Newcrest's stock 26% in the 10 days after it announced the plan.

Then in February, anticipation for strong Hong Kong dollar demand from several Initial Public Offerings pushed up the three-month rate.

A mini- baby boom last year has pushed up the number of pandas bred in captivity in China to 217 .

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Research on stability and inner force under windless condition when the big span steel pipe concrete is pushed up grouting

pushed up by cabbage's new status as the Ferrari of vegetables