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It was at this point that we at Supreme Head quarters began to lose heart, though in the field things still looked rosy.

The next few quarters will be a race to see if banks can earn enough to offset loan losses.

Wal-Mart has struggled with five straight quarters of declines in revenue at stores open at least a year.

Revenue at Wal-Mart stores open at least a year, a key measurement of any retailer's health, has fallen for six straight quarters.

At least three-quarters of a cup a day. I did not notice any blood.

Less than an hour after the Bank of England's decision, the ECB reduced its main rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, to 2. 5%.

But the Russian supply lines were intact and they were able to enjoy quarters which, though spartan, were not hemmed in by the enemy.

SDDS requires that annual IIP statistics are to be disseminated as from the reference year of 2001, with a time lag of two quarters.

A 17th-century French naval commander was shocked to see a Dutch captain sweeping out his own quarters.

Before the pool was built, the area had been used at times as an ice house, a laundry and servants' quarters.

Analysts also noted there was an improved quality of the earnings in the first quarter, which had fewer one-offs than in previous quarters.

Surveys suggest, he said, that about three-quarters of mainland China's fund managers had spent less than three years in the profession.

She howled and hobbled about for a few moments while her mother apologized over the promising sound of sprinkling quarters.

Last night I met a penguin. It was an emperor penguin and looked as though it was waiting for the admiral to come and inspect his quarters.

Lorraine: You know, ever since I was little, I've been able to pick up quarters with my toes.

Older quarters continued to be upgraded under a programme to refurbish some 4500 married quarters for Junior Police Officers.

But I pretended not to know nothing, do not ask him, do not you call him, not to his quarters to find him, no time really is a good thing!

Men did not fare much better, with three-quarters admitting to having had such a friendship.

However, they warn that if it does arrive, 'it will not do so soon enough to improve materially the GDP outlook for the next two quarters.

I envied that female students with the quarters, ah, the class has a birthday song for her to sing it!

And, then, that the GU group of eight quarters strict management standards, farmers seem to do not need aware of these.

said the Water Rat severely. 'You know it isn't time to be thinking of winter quarters yet, by a long way! '

Three-quarters of smokers think they're too high, as you might have expected.

The main graduation lines shall extend at least three quarters of the way around the graduate and shall be numbered.

The economy should slow over the coming quarters, but will not go into a recession given the strength of the employment market.

Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads.

BP will also pay no dividend, as some American politicians have been demanding, for at least the next three quarters.

Before going to bed every night, and the city's residential quarters Friends of the next day chat This is our daily habits.

More than three-quarters were migrants returning from, or trying to get into, the United States.

U-shaped one would be feebler and flatter. And in a W-shape, growth would return for a few quarters, only to peter out once more.

A decline in the long-term growth rate of real GDP over two or more quarters.

In Tokyo, one of the world's most densely populated cities, the concept of having roommates or sharing quarters has never been popular.

The men fired again and again, and, when the animals got to close quarters, lashed out with their sticks and their heavy boots.

Premier Anna Bligh said the area about three quarters of a disaster area, the equivalent land area of South Africa.

They found the Chancellor bound to a chair in the spacious observation deck of the General's quarters.

This quarter was one of the few quarters in the past three years when it did not increase operating profits faster than sales, he added.

cramped quarters; trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments.

The animal fled the scene and police found a blood trail leading to its living quarters inside the house, where he died.

Encouragingly, more than three-quarters of those surveyed did not expect the world to slip back into a "double-dip" recession.

Three-quarters of men now say it is no longer important for them to be the one who earns the most, new research reveals.

Even a few percentage points matter, because fuel accounts for around three-quarters of the lifetime cost of a turbine.

The company is getting ready to move to larger quarters, and is in the process of hiring additional receptionists .

Nasdaq might have more choices if it can wait for a few quarters.

The standard newspaper definition of a recession is a decline in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two or more consecutive quarters.

In a country with fewer than two million people, campaigning is often at close quarters.

Relatively few users actually pay at all, but they are enough to account for three-quarters of the company's revenue.

About three-quarters of the companies that have reported so far have done better than analysts expected.

Later, at Columbia, his mother confessed herself worried by the barrenness of his quarters: she told him he was living like a "monk" .

The Libya campaign has already cost three-quarters of a billion dollars, and yet Obama hasn't had to ask Congress for a dime.

It was painted white, had doors and windows framed in sandstone, and could have been a barn or a shed or servants` living quarters.

While it has fluctuated quite a bit in recent quarters, its main trend since the recession began has been markedly downwards.

I had such a taste of gentle living at the lady's house that I was not so easy in my old quarters as I used to be.

Getting through a business lunch in which no one pulls out a phone to check their messages now counts as a minor miracle in many quarters.

One day, James and I were working on a close-quarters sticking exercise, and he noticed this subconscious habit to his great amusement.

Thus three-quarters of all the foreign currency reserves accumulated since the beginning of time have been piled up in this decade.

Mr Budanov ordered his soldiers to wrap her in a blanket, put her in his armoured personal carrier and take her to his quarters.

By the time this temporary phase of nationalisation is over, governments will have had an intensive course in banking at close quarters.

Back in the late 1970s it was the other way round: the British economy was only three-quarters the size of the French one.

Violence is also causing anger in quarters where the regime used to have at least some support.

He said consumers could be asked to shoulder two-thirds to three-quarters of the cost of the additional duties.

"So as you look out over the next few quarters, it's a potentially very dire situation for the overall industry. "

if it proves hazardous , engineers may have to cancel out the field within the living quarters using an opposing electromagnet.

Three- quarters of Japan's nuclear generating capacity continued to operate during the earthquake, while most of the hydro-plants failed.

Becky Anne Wingfield: The candidate uses quarters in the little folds at the bottom of her drapes, a kind of anchor to keep them straight.

Despite reporting its first net loss for seven quarters, LG Electronics says it has no plans to reduce pay, reshuffle managers or cut jobs.

She participated in UNICEF Young Leader Program and was one of the delegates to visit UN quarters.

I put in two quarters for a coke, but nothing came out of the machine.

I am baking of the major secular trends, not a few quarters or even a year or two.

Many people are not even equal to three-quarters could not say by how much.

Against the Japanese yen, the euro fell to a four-year low and is now only three-quarters of its value in July.

Just friends quarters, found a beautiful cover of the book - "the orange Shibumi shadow. "

Stella was here of course but she was in her quarters watching her afternoon stories.

If it lasts six quarters, as Prof Roubini warns, offsetting policy action in the rest of the world would be too little, too late.

It was a street in one of the poorer quarters, where there was an open market which was generally crowded and noisy.

Soon, no doubt, there will be a toaster which butters the toast, cuts it in quarters, and puts it on a plate.

Two-thirds of men and women had cheated online, while three-quarters admitted having an affair having had an affair in real life.

The extended romp of 2006 to 2007 was an anomaly; historically, festivities have lasted two or three quarters at best.

Not far from the market where Veronica sells her produce, a group of girls dance and sing in their club quarters.

The administration warned from the beginning that it would be several quarters before the plan had any major positive effects.

Three-quarters of a century later, politically inspired protectionism was a worldwide response to the Great Depression.

In the last five quarters, it has made $15bn in new investments, while also returning the same amount of money to its investors.

Those quarters and halves can add up to a small fortune for a moderately active trader.

The living quarters, where up to eight workers share rooms about the size of a two-car garage, are "like college dorms. "

A period when there is no change in the rate of growth of real GDP for at least two quarters.

And as you can see, that's three-quarters of the food that we're eating for the most part, processed foods and fast foods.

The X6 M's rear-three quarters view is perhaps its best At speed, the car seems to shrink around you, contrary to its large street presence.

After being pressed, the new quarters come out of the press, and flow into a machine that eventually bags them.

This new convent was not strict like the Carmelite Convent. There she had living quarters that resembled apartments.

To keep astronauts in the equivalent of an equatorial region, the living quarters of the spacecraft would have to be doughnut-shaped .

On the import side, industrial products have accounted for roughly three-quarters of the total so far this year.

Angel entered, and went through the silent passages of the house to the back quarters, where he listened for a moment.

Now, three-quarters of the mothers of school-age children work, but the calendar is written as if they were home waiting for the school bus.

The firm expects more stable production over the coming quarters, with growth returning around the end of the year.

It was nearly time for the midnight prayers when Shamil, after waiting in vain, went back to his own quarters.

This delighted me, for in a quarter of a century studying wolves in the wild, I had only rarely seen them at close quarters from the ground.

Minmei was gone by the time Lang and the others returned to the scientist's quarters, and Wolff seemed sullen, just as Lang had anticipated.

This was called the General's Chair, just as this apartment atop the flagship's conning spire was called the General's Quarters.

We are looking at a few quarters of stagnation, no doubt, but not a recession.

Both temporary government programs might have spurred third-quarter car and home sales by 'stealing' growth from future quarters.

A recession is popularly defined as two or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, or declining output.

He pointed out that the region had outperformed global markets more in the past two quarters than it had over the previous seven years.

On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of the poorest quarters of Jerusalem.

However Wenger suggested that Grant would need time, especially as his appointment had not been met with enthusiasm in some quarters.

Despite this, almost three quarters admitted at least one of the diets failed.

In a W shape or double-dip downturn, the economy returns to growth for a few quarters before worsening again, followed by eventual recovery.

With McGrady struggling for three-plus quarters to locate his shot, the Rockets proved that they're more than just a one-man team.

Three-quarters of squabbles occur in cases of divorce or inheritance when a spouse or other heirs challenge a seller's right to sell.

This rises to nearly three-quarters of those parents below the poverty line, the online poll of 854 parents for Save the Children indicated.

Teacher, Fatimata Camara, said the tight quarters make it difficult for students to concentrate.

I tried this speech out on them last night and am happy to report that none of them fell asleep until I was three quarters done.

I noticed the way his hind quarters shifted over to the right, never in line with the front, yet always in perfect rhythm.

They fought their way from 13 down in the first half to a two-point lead after three quarters. Then it was McGrady's time.

It takes the planet only 88 days to whirl around the sun, though, so a Mercurian day lasts about three-quarters of the Mercurian year.

The U. S. study found three quarters of all baby boomers considered themselves to be middle-aged or younger, even if they were in their 60s.

He said U. S. lawmakers are losing patience with covering three-quarters of defense spending for the coalition.

He Force-pushed Obi-Wan with terrible strength, tossing the Jedi Master like a ragdoll against the wall of the quarters.

The Fed said in minutes published this week that it expected a moderate pick-up in growth in coming quarters.

A recent survey showed that nearly three quarters of us are prepared to be organ donors.

Eventually, these activities developed into larger businesses, and today at least three-quarters of North Korean market vendors are women.

In his years as United's super sub, he was in a position to observe at the closest of quarters precisely how the master motivator operated.

About three-quarters of the world's fossil-fuel reserves must be left unused if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, scientists warn.

Companies ran down inventories at a slower pace, a contributor to growth that should continue for at least two more quarters.

Worse quarters than Defarge 's wine-shop could easily have been found in Paris for a provincial slave of that degree.

Overall earnings are on track to rise 28% from a year ago, the fourth gain in a row after nine prior quarters of decline.

Murray has never been past the quarters at Roland Garros. We say that streak stays alive this year.

Go three-quarters of the distance, he said there is no laughter, most people feel tired.

With today's model, it is no longer necessary to sit in cramped quarters for a specific time.

"In the coming one or two quarters, it's going to be a seesaw game, " Strategy Analytics director Thomas Kang said Thursday.

A year ago, in a group of 24 large developing nations, three-quarters were either meeting or besting their inflation targets.

At one time Wisconsin was known as the "Mother of Circuses, " and was the home or winter quarters for more than 100 traveling tent shows.

The answer is both. The world economy will no doubt bounce in the next few quarters.

After resting on the ocean floor, split asunder and rusting for about three quarters of a century, a great ship seemed to come alive again.

He estimated the damage would be felt for two quarters, but it was not likely to knock the economy back into recession.

Their numbers represented more than three quarters of the total number of applicants and approvals.

THREE-QUARTERS of Britons want an annual limit on the number of immigrants allowed to come and stay, according to a YouGov poll in April.

A downturn in economic growth lasting several quarters or more is usually called a recession.

Old mister abernathy has locked himself in his quarters again, and you've been ordered to git him out.

Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the most distant and most "disinterested" quarters.

Some people suffer from a variety of respiratory diseases in that the factories around the residential quarters constantly emit toxic gas.

'But the pattern of broadly stable growth over the past couple of quarters is the same, ' he said.

However the growth pace is likely to slow gradually in the next few quarters as a result of tightening measures.

The Nasdaq Composite fell about three quarters from its peak, and, of course, many technology stocks were wiped out altogether.

The rest of the class was in the same predicament; and there we sat for three quarters of an hour with blank paper and equally blank minds.

More than three quarters of men and 81 per cent of women did less than one 30-minute session of moderate or vigorous exercise per week.

The downturn would last two to three quarters and be "relatively mild by historical standards" , he said.

Each program brings together different subjects and extends in length over two or three quarters.

But the demand, in some quarters, for a more radical prospectus rests on a misunderstanding of his Conservatism.

Quarters of expert management to ensure students learn and can be in a safe and orderly environment for the rest.

Are directions for evacuation in the case of fire or other emergencies posted in all sleeping quarters in the native language?

But as big a worry for the Vatican as a hostile greeting from some quarters must be an indifferent one from mainstream Britain.

The overseer's quarters loomed some hundred feet overhead , carved out of the solid stone that rose in a sheer wall from the water .

A company may need to beat profits forecasts for two or three quarters before the market is willing to give the stock a premium valuation.

Unfortunately, it will take at least three other quarters before improvement in conditions will translate in a rebound for the job market.

Cairo with its complex system of streets and lanes, its quarters and markets is like a labyrinth invented by ancient storytellers.

Looking over the bare, unheated room with its hard cot, he wondered what he was doing in such spartan quarters.

The most common periods of time are months, quarters, and years, although you can produce a P& L report for any period.

Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had everything about him.

Japan and its allies must win the support of three-quarters of the IWC's members to overturn the moratorium on whaling adopted back in 1982.

These spread and soon the fire was in "the four quarters and the eight sides, " and fanned by a strong wind.

The bank also says it believes it can raise $7 billion in capital simply from its earnings in the next two quarters.

And three-quarters are self-conscious enough to try to avoid appearing in snaps altogether.

Inefficient state farms occupy three-quarters of the best land but leave much of it idle.

Reznak, see that the prince and his companions are given quarters suitable to their high birth, and that their wants are attended to.

Banks are going to go on filing bills instead of paying them for a couple of quarters more.

He switched off the light , called for the first slide , and talked for three quarters of an hour in Stygian tenebrosity .

The market is going to give her another two to three quarters to see what she is capable of.

The US government is taking control of three-quarters of the US mortgage industry as measured by the flow of new home loans.

Mr Elston says he has no idea what will happen in the next few quarters.

In the last two quarters, the order is expected to be acquired, Mr Yam alive at a relatively low level.

PC sales have suffered from decreased spending on technology, and have continued to decline in recent quarters.

Perfection for me is to sit in my servant's quarters and wait for you to ring the bell.

It has hooked three-quarters of its customers on digital video recorders, which let them pause live television and record programmes easily.

He had only three-quarters of an hour left before the time appointed by his Clara would elapse.

Yet the company's problems run much deeper than a few disappointing quarters.

Many of the trends that helped stocks rebound 'will carry forward at least through the first and second quarters, ' he says.

At GFT in Ada, Mich. , a large online currency-trading platform, volume for the first two quarters was up 78% from a year earlier.

Visitors to Skandia Cowes Week enjoy a unique opportunity to see the yachts at close quarters on the Solent, both from boats and on shore.

More than three-quarters of the company's production is sold to China, one reason it keeps factories there.

For an hour now he had been lying in his quarters, tired, hungry and unable to sleep.

Despite fears from some quarters of a possible police crackdown, the government has suggested it would not enforce the ban.

Quarters repeatedly without response. No one has seen him in days and I don't know what to.

Adopted father only one year sober and honey winter quarters, as it spent more than two quarters of less rainfall, the best honey!

Either of two bugle calls in the British Army, sounded in the evening as a signal to retire to quarters.

Staying together in the guest quarters of the Kremlin and seeing Moscow in the dead of winter would be a good distraction for all of us.

A recent opinion poll found that about three-quarters of Japanese still fear the group, believing it is capable of a similar attack.

With a smaller knife, the long quarters of the fish are cut into sections.

Federal anti-lottery legislation in the 1890s closed the door on them for three quarters of a century.

Most private forecasters expect U. S. growth to be stronger in the quarters ahead than during the first half of this year.

Colonel Gillis and several others wanted me to rent them bachelor quarters, and that's the way it all came about.

The year before he had owed his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters of his rent.

A lone shepherd with his dogs was in the vanguard, leading his flock out of summer pasture into the lowlands and winter quarters.

This kind of drive comes from difference, competitiveness, tolerance and expansibility among the quarters.

The Fort Laramie treaty called for at least three-quarters of the tribe to sign away land .

About three-quarters of problem gamblers suffer from depression, and quite a few attempt suicide.

More than 80% of the company's revenue comes from clients that have worked with Lionbridge for 8 consecutive quarters or longer.

In some quarters at least, the intervention is being embraced as a fresh approach to stubborn problems.

Three-quarters of Jamaican nurses are fed up with their working conditions, says a survey quoted by the bank.

Three-quarters of a million tourists flock to the pristine, white beaches every year - but this booming industry has come at a price.

The committee maintains a chronology of the beginning and ending dates (months and quarters) of U. S. recessions.

So far, too many banks have drip-fed losses, and then capital raises, out over a number of quarters.

Larry Witt, a Morningstar Inc. analyst, said the level of expenses for both quarters puts a damper on things.

Perhaps players have been unlucky and will gain their shooting touch in the last three quarters of the tournament .

China produces about three-quarters of the world's garlic. Argentina and Spain are the next largest exporters.

On the last morning I spend at his retreat, Dejian shows me his private quarters, a tiny stone cupola perched on the tip of a sheer cliff.

How many times had Dinin levitated up to that balcony, entering the private quarters of the nobles of his house, House Do' Urden?

Kelly has witnessed from close quarters the changes instigated by Dalglish and Fenway Sports Group over the last eight months.

Nearly three-quarters of women also feel sending flirtatious emails is cheating, as opposed to 53 percent of men.

She had made several attempts to help them find other rental quarters, without success.

Three-quarters of our planet is covered by water. Mrs. Brown is pleased by her son, because he had an "A" for both French and German.

The press party had been divided by sex, then housed four to a room in the visitors' quarters which were plain but adequate.

Three-quarters of the company's operating profit came from East Asia in the six months through September.

Globally, funds of funds have had net inflows of capital in only two of the last nine quarters, according to HFR.

Three-quarters of US repondents to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center said college was now too expensive for most Americans.

They would be an isolated group, living in close quarters, in a potentially deadly environment.

The company has won plaudits from various quarters for sacrificing its business interests on the altar of free speech.

In America, three-quarters of students on a four-year university course will have toiled as an intern at least once before graduation.

After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times.

The amount an agent gets for a new policy has fallen by up to three-quarters.

To increment weekdays, quarters, or other series, select the first item and then drag the fill handle at the corner.

Only in the last three weeks, three-quarters of a billion dollars worth of drugs - found and destroyed.

if you are wearing flats or covers at least three-quarters of your heel.

Two or three quarters of all the increase in exports of more than 20%, growth rate compared with the same period in 2008 more than 10%.

Existing government sexual behavior may be enough to lay concern about living in close quarters.

The great American railroads responded, immediately employing non-union workers to replace three quarters of the empty positions.

In the 1990s, NASA returned to the concept of inflatables for use as living quarters on a mission to Mars.

Personal spending has grown at a faster pace in each of the last three quarters. Things could certainly be worse.

Luxury retailers and credit-card companies in the U. S. have recently reported bearish projections for the coming quarters.

White, gray, and bleak, hazy ambiguity can not be refined, and seems to close quarters deemed to be Wandering away.

They were very accurate, and their job was to simply sit and receive incoming information from other Quarters.

The strategy has helped Lenovo grow faster than any other PC vendor for five consecutive quarters.

This year has been a tough one in most quarters and 2011 promises to be hard going.

Globally, close to three quarters of people receiving antiretroviral drugs are in Africa, where the epidemic is disproportionately severe.

It doesn't take much of a reaction to wipe out a margin of only three quarters of a point.

He was given quarters in the chart room, one deck above Capt. FitzRoy's quarters, at the stern of the ship.

So probably we would suffer one, two or three quarters of negative growth.

Three-quarters of the tuition at public universities is covered by US taxpayers whether or not you are a citizen.

The White Palace or Potrang Karpo once served as the office building of Tibet local government makes up the living quarters of Dalai Lama.

The company has posted profits for the past 15 consecutive quarters, earning Mr Marchionne a reputation as a force within the industry.

The two foreign players can only play a combined five quarters per game, leading to bizarre substitution patterns.

More than three quarters of the total herbicide load of the effluent of the rural waste water treatment plant consists of isoproturon.

The Serbian army, living in quarters nearby, sustained some of its heaviest losses in the air raids .

That said, the quarters will not power off my things.

According to Ipsos MORI, a pollster, three-quarters of people plan to spend at least as much on their garden this year as last.

Expect transaction activity to pick up in the third and fourth quarters as distressed assets come to market at deep discounts.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that , in some quarters at least , exporters are starting to balk and seeking to raise their own prices .

After logging three-quarters of each year on the road, Peter realized he had no real friends to confide in.

But Mr Mittal already has in-house ore supplies to cover half his needs and expects this to grow to three-quarters in a few years.

His quarters were crammed with tools and droid parts. Pieces of a probe droid were scattered over his sleep-couch.

It is going to be slow tough incremental growth probably for another two to three quarters.

Fill a mug with 300ml of milk. Pour about 3 quarters into a pan, and keep the rest back in the mug.