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Left to its own devices, however, it has shown little leadership, vision or sense of imperial responsibility in its vaunted "zone" .

If there was one time for the benefits of Citi's vaunted diversification to show through, this would have been it.

The regional block failed to dispatch its own vaunted force, the only step likely to end the conflict in the short run.

The company claims its plug-in hybrid, the much-vaunted F3DM, went on sale a year ago.

players have found a new lease of life under Kenny Dalglish and has likened the Scot's approach to the much-vaunted Dutch model.

Companies in search of the much-vaunted fortune at the bottom of the pyramid have to start not with consumers but with non-consumers.

If the much vaunted systems do not work, then the central banks will have to step in (as the Federal Reserve did with LTCM).

For Australia's early political leaders, the much vaunted doctrine of equality did not extend to racial equality.

Even some community banks, vaunted for their little-guy orientation, no longer seem to mind if you take your money somewhere else.

The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.

Chinese policy walls are trying to maintain the country's vaunted 95% self-sufficiency in grains.

Even the much vaunted "government credit" rests on the assumption that its loans will ultimately he repaid out of the proceeds of taxes.

The list of once-vaunted brand names that have had to recall or fix faulty products stretches on.

He had been recruited by Jordan's vaunted intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, yet he lacked formal training as a spy.

The PLA is a fighting force at least equal to, and most likely superior to, the vaunted U. S. army.

Lady Vashj: You've come far enough, little warden. Your vaunted night elf justice has no jurisdiction here.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So much for the vaunted Federal Reserve consensus.

The much-vaunted benefits of intra-regional trade have proved unable to sustain economic growth.

The numbers alone look impressive, as befits the world's much-vaunted determination to help end Africa's bloodiest conflicts.

California's much-vaunted high-speed rail project is, to put it bluntly, a train wreck.

The Wall Street firm also used its vaunted network of financial advisers to pitch the risky investment pools to Main Street.

Between men it is inexcusable, between man and woman it may be practised since nature and society approve, but never discussed nor vaunted.

his much vaunted car was old and of a rather common kind.

In retrospect, the much-vaunted Lisbon agenda marked the summit of ambitions coinciding with the bursting of the dotcom bubble.

Throughout most of his vaunted "period of stability" , disposable income and retail-trade volumes have grown twice as fast as GDP.

This week Martin Winterkorn, the boss of VW, pointed out that his company had been applying its vaunted platform strategy since 1992.

As a true reading of the Gospels -- the director's much-vaunted aim -- the film falls abruptly short.

The much-vaunted "Texas miracle" cannot be easily replicated.

The Fed is losing its vaunted status as an institution that somehow is above politics and public scrutiny.

How does that lens compare to the idea much vaunted in the U. S. of journalistic objectivity?

The vaunted new wireless technology promises to combine the speed of broadband internet access with the ubiquity of mobile phones.

But so long as China's most vaunted e-commerce company remains a foreign possession, it's a safe bet that the war isn't over.

According to his results, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the much-vaunted joys of grandmotherhood are no certain thing.

But Mr Ahmadinejad says that his country's vaunted superpower status rests on its human and cultural qualities.

But trading outfits can lose many times that amount in the blink of an eye, even with vaunted leadership.

Kids need a range of authentic role models--as opposed to members of their clique, pop stars and vaunted athletes.

GOING global, that vaunted activity, is not necessarily the most profitable.

And these works on the skeleton pirates flag, one-eyed pirates image, is a the vaunted by fashionable element.

Toyota let its much-vaunted quality slip by using more standardised parts across many models to make production leaner.

Then I used my vaunted writing skills to pen a short and sweet "Shadow Copy Advisory" memo and emailed it to every user.

And why did the vaunted Japanese educational system play an insignificant role in stemming the country's recession?

What happens when the much-vaunted democracy of the internet meets the much-derided elitism of the style set?

Putin became Medvedev's prime minister and their much vaunted leadership in tandem has been under scrutiny ever since.

Its vaunted invention of gunpowder had spluttered into firecrackers.

Some folks may lament the vaunted Information Superhighway being used to transport banalities such as what someone is eating.

Not exactly the formula for America's vaunted entrepreneurial wealth machine.

More basically, Britain's vaunted liberalised-market model is looking ragged.

Here, modern art's vaunted reductivism is stopped just short of an essentialist zero-degree; rather, it takes shape as stylization.

As for the vaunted BlackBerry keyboard, I made more typing mistakes than on the i Phone.

None whatsoever, say critics of Mr Davutoglu's much-vaunted "zero problems with the neighbours" policy.

Germany's much vaunted `Westwall' and coastal defenses fared no better.

Beyond the sporting legacy, there is the much-vaunted economic regeneration of east London.

The tension between the government's vaunted localism and the realities of planning reform is a sore point.

their much vaunted leadership in tandem has been under scrutiny ever since.

So the light's vaunted justice has finally arrived. Shall I lay down Frostmourne and throw myself at your mercy, Fordring?

Even the much-vaunted state sector is feeling the pinch.

We live in the much vaunted Age of Information.

The much-vaunted CityCenter complex is far bigger.

The vaunted Obama economic stimulus, at $862 billion, has failed.

HSBC, for all its vaunted globalism, has a similar share in the US and Europe.

As a result, it's losing its vaunted ability to cultivate entrepreneurs in uniform.

These are diminished days for China's once-vaunted planners.

the bank ' s much - vaunted security system failed completely

Problems for a much-vaunted modernization

Throughout most of his vaunted "period of stability" ,

The vaunted liar, however, says he is too busy to tell a lie;

A much-vaunted new material may change telecommunications

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