Others believe they were on a par with male deacons.
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" She added: "They were on a par with each other.
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That is on a par with the giddy heights of 2007.
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The city is currently on a par with Beijing, experts said.
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NANCY PELOSI, D—CALIFORNIA: They were on a par with each other.
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That would put it on a par with Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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Speeds are expected to be on a par with fiber optic networks.
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The painter meticulously crafted her own image on a par with Cleopatra.
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A majority said impact investments yielded returns on a par with traditional investments.
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For me, on a par with Tolkien's Middle-Earth, is [James] Joyce's Dublin.
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That would be on a par with the figures before the financial crisis.
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Private prisons are on a par with public prisons, safety and quality-wise.
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The party was on a par with the Greens, also on 19.6 percent.
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But safety needs to at least be on a par with economic development.
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It's hollow and lacking bass, right on a par with the Echo Dot.
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In a way, they are on a par with art dolls marketed to adults.
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GDP per person in the province is about $1,700, on a par with Congo.
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This puts Australia on a par with Canada, say, but behind America and Britain.
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GDP growth is on a par with peers, but has slowed in recent years.
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She "should be considered on a par with other covert Russian agents," prosecutors said.
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McLaren has long said that its chassis is on a par with Red Bull.
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And soon I found it was on a par with official debut Section.80.
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Finally, battery life seemed to be right on a par with last year's model.
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Workers at the facilities would be paid on a par with public school teachers.
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That challenge is on a par with the rich opportunities the Chinese market holds out.
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He argues none are on a par with what Dasha is being designed to do.
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This places its drinks more or less on a par with much of the competition.
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SHOULD the ultimate goal be to put drugs on a par with tobacco and alcohol?
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Eight in ten Indians cite inequality as a big problem, on a par with corruption.
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In 2008 crony wealth reached 18% of GDP, putting it on a par with Russia.
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Is he or she being paid on a par with peers who make similar contributions?
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His concerns about its bloated inefficiency were on a par with previous U.S. presidential addresses.
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Which isn't to say all the above jobs were failures on a par with that one.
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It is one of the top five gas users in Europe, on a par with France.
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Now we're seeing deals that are on a par with or even shorter than U.S. timeframes.
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HiSilicon's "Kirin" series of smartphone chips is on a par with anything Western companies can design.
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Such achievements counted, for him, as moral achievements, almost on a par with the Christian virtues.
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Lukoil pumps nearly 1.8 million bpd, on a par with OPEC member Nigeria, mainly in Russia.
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His presidency now seems to be on a par with football games, sitcoms and quiz shows.
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That's on a par with the biggest declines in modern history among the world's top four currencies.
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The remaining half-billion or so are on a par with the most destitute bits of Africa.
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The municipality's special political status may have helped: it ranks on a par with Beijing and Shanghai.
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It's on a par with what I get from my Sonos One and Apple's more expensive HomePod.
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S&P rates the company B-, a level on a par with the new Moody's B3 rating.
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The government expects GDP to expand by 1.7 percent this year, on a par with last year.
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Materials are on a par with the class, but Hyundai's infotainment system rises above most of it.
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The wait time was on a par with the United States, but the cost was considerably different.
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She "should be considered on a par with other covert Russian agents," prosecutors said in a memo.
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Despite their higher cost, BMW plug-in models are already priced broadly on a par with diesels.
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This would put Mexico on a par with Bolivia or Chile, whose mines have large known deposits.
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Happily, there is no evidence of a speculative bubble on a par with that in housing back then.
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"Music functions on a par with art—it evokes similar feelings and understanding of the world," he says.
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A law passed in 1912 made Islam an official religion and put it on a par with Christianity.
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In material terms, he was on a par with many of the poorest people around the world today.
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The rise was on a par with that seen the day after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008.
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While, this summer, WebKit announced a new tracking prevention policy that put privacy on a par with security.
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That puts them on a par with long-established lobbying powerhouses like the defense, automobile and banking industries.
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He mentions computer-generated haiku, as though they were on a par with those generated by Japanese poets.
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This additional training time helps ensure that seamanship skills are emphasized on a par with combat readiness training.
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That's on a par with predicting the little black dress will be a chic wardrobe staple this fall.
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The government has vowed radical change to put its sector on a par with Botswana and South Africa.
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The president's approval ratings are stuck at around 24%—on a par with those of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's president.
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They were on a par with other less-well paid businesses, such as health care, with a 3.76 rating.
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The report notes the year as effectively on a par with 22016's record level of European* startup investment.
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Credit ratings agencies have classified Lebanon as sub-investment grade - or junk - on a par with Egypt or Angola.
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This she regards as a necessary vice, on a par with tequila, and one that exacts a similar hangover.
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It was an ultimate high, better than acid, certainly, and on a par with the birth of my kids.
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It is on a par with the likelihood that a DNA match at a crime scene is purely coincidental.
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For the balance of 2017, it looks like U.S. gasoline demand will be on a par with 2016 levels.
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Both Aston and Jaguar say their electric cars offer handling and performance that's on a par with the originals.
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Finland's industry confidence is still among the weakest in the European Union, however, on a par with Greece and Estonia.
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As a national symbol, the Moka Express ranks on a par with the Fiat 500, the Vespa scooter and Nutella.
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That puts super wood on a par with some of the lightweight titanium alloys used in high-strength aerospace components.
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The group's return on equity hovers at 22012-2360%—poor by its standards but on a par with JPMorgan Chase.
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Feri's rating for Italy is on a par with DBRS at A-, which again would have provided an additional buffer.
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And office rents are in the range of $80 per square foot annually, which is on a par with Midtown.
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That's four bucks more than the version with ads and on a par with similar services from Hulu and Netflix.
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At 238%, the proportion of debt owed to private lenders is almost on a par with multilateral institutions at 244%.
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At 238%, the proportion of debt owed to private lenders is almost on a par with multilateral institutions at 244%.
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Her work is also on a par with the early and excellent Cubist-inflected efforts of Chagall, Miró and Malevich.
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She would like them to be considered as cultural institutions, on a par with theaters and concert halls, she said.
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Overall, European earnings have seen decent growth in the first quarter, though not on a par with the United States.
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The term refers to those whose memory and attention are on a par with those of healthy 25-year-olds.
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The EIU said "the cost of living in Seoul is now on a par with that of Copenhagen and Los Angeles."
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Pre-Soviet Russia lagged the major world powers in industrial might, but was considered on a par with Brazil and Mexico.
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Regular pictures looked nice and on a par with what I get from an iPhone XS Max or a Galaxy S10+.
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That's almost on a par with Germany, but GNI per capita in that country had risen steadily, unlike Iceland's spectacular crash.
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The largest Chinese fintech company, Ant Financial, has been valued at about $20093bn, on a par with UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank.
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If the term chosen is "Xi Jinping Theory", that would place him on a par with Deng Xiaoping—not bad either.
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Should the revised charter refer to "Xi Jinping Thought", then Mr Xi will become an ideologue on a par with Mao.
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This month's win by Malaysia's Pakatan Harapan coalition appears, for now at least, to be on a par with those moments.
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"Biobutanol is on a par with petrol, it's energy equivalent virtually to petrol," Mark Simmers, Celtic Renewables' CEO, previously told CNBC.
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Its market capitalization reached nearly $10 billion, putting it on a par with the likes of Wynn Resorts of Las Vegas.
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In my view, protecting this unique inheritance is a national priority, on a par with passing tax reform and infrastructure legislation.
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As a result, full-year pretax profit is expected to moderately fall, rather than remain on a par with last year.
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Tulsi Gabbard and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were put formally on a par with heavy hitters like Sens.
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And it's amplified by the fact that influencers can become millionaires with a following on a par with any movie star's.
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In 1975, its recycling rate was about on a par with America's today, and it stood at 51 percent last year.
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The speakers are good for such a small device and seemed to be on a par with my iPad Pro 210.
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Some security researchers said the improved abilities of the Chinese hackers had put them on a par with elite Russian cyberunits.
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Moody's agency last week raised the country's credit rating to Aa3, putting it on a par with nations such as Belgium.
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Most pictures came out on a par with what I expect from my iPhone 21 Pro Max or Galaxy Note 2380+.
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Its 12.6 percent operating margin in 2016, the most recent numbers available, are on a par with those of competitor Wagamama.
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After testing Firefox for the last three months, I found it to be on a par with Chrome in most categories.
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Above all, Kim may also believe that it is time to prove himself a world leader on a par with Trump.
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By causing health care expenditures to skyrocket, it could prompt economic damage on a par with the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
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Others believe women deacons in the early Church were fully ordained and on a par with the male deacons at the time.
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Berlin expects domestic demand to drive overall growth of 1.7 percent this year which would be on a par with last year.
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Their formal ambition is on a par with Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical "My Struggle" series, or Krzysztof Kieslowski's impressionistic "Three Colours" films.
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The implicit loss of human life is on a par with some Marvel movies, but without the superheroes to soften the blow.
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Meanwhile, the U.K. rated as "low risk" for business disruption, on a par with Germany, but marginally better than Switzerland and Finland.
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The government expects domestic demand to drive an overall economic expansion of 1.7 percent in 2016, on a par with last year.
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The system has lead to a resource that the journal Nature puts on a par with the Encyclopaedia Britannica for scientific accuracy.
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I think most folks will find it right on a par with what you'll get from a modern Samsung or Apple smartphone.
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Snap has improved advertisers' ability to improve their reach, targeting, and measurement, putting it on a par with larger, more established rivals.
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The company, which plans to conduct a post-approval observational study, plans to price Imvexxy on a par with currently available treatments.
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Hydrocracking units refine vacuum gas oil, a heavy oil product with a price on a par with Urals, Russia's top export blend.
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In 1982, the homicide rate in Rio de Janeiro was on a par with New York City's, at 23 per 2783,000 inhabitants.
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The system performs on a par with trained ophthalmologists, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Lukoil is also Russia's second biggest oil producer, pumping nearly 1.8 million bpd, which is on a par with OPEC member Nigeria.
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Lukoil is also Russia's second biggest oil producer, pumping nearly 1.8 million bpd, which is on a par with OPEC member Nigeria.
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About 68 percent of rape cases end in convictions, on a par with burglary cases, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Analysts said the deal valued NxStage at around 15 times expected core profit, roughly on a par with comparable medical technology deals.
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It built a threat analysis group on a par with those at the top intelligence agencies and designed a new security infrastructure.
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AI will become self-aware and experience an "intelligence explosion" that comparatively puts humans on a par with other primates, if not ants.
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BMW had also previously forecast profits to be on a par with last year, but now expects a "moderate decrease," the company said.
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If the Taliban were to overthrow the Afghan government after an American withdrawal, it would be a humiliation on a par with Vietnam.
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The government expects buoyant domestic demand to drive an overall economic expansion of 1.7 percent in 2016, on a par with last year.
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No one suggested that what Franken was accused of was on a par with the dozens of assault and harassment allegations against Weinstein.
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In a couple of years Audi, Jaguar and other premium-car makers plan electric vehicles on a par with Tesla's two priciest cars.
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Cohn's knowledge and practical experience would seem to be roughly on a par with past Fed chairs, most of whom were not academics.
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Economists had expected fourth-quarter performance to be roughly on a par with the third quarter, when the economy expanded by 0.3 percent.
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Gun control is on a par with the economy as a top issue that will motivate U.S. voters in November, the poll found.
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Through five episodes, its ratings are on a par with the CBS hit "Young Sheldon," good enough for seventh place among entertainment programs.
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Even better, the solution improves the speaker quality dramatically, making the Echo Dot on a par with the far more expensive Amazon Echo.
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This makes it the most 'overbought' country in the euro zone on a par with France, according to Reuters calculations that exclude Greece.
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For Ms. Saviola, such services and facilities were a civil right on a par with those fought for by black people and women.
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The March figure was on a par with the Reuters consensus forecast and followed an upwardly revised rise of 3.5 percent in February.
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For 2530-21623, we forecast real GDP to grow in line with potential, at around 244%, on a par with the 'A' category median.
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People used to avoid talking about politics on dates, but political preferences have become a romantic deal-breaker on a par with smoking habits.
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Still, the fact that Christianity now accepts the idea of a spiritually inspired translation, on a par with the original, makes things more complicated.
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A $10 billion valuation puts Bigfoot on a par with Xerox, Discovery Communications and Gap — well-known companies with massive assets and popular products.
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A new round of mergers could take that total down to just single digits, putting the country on a par with Britain and France.
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For him, general relativity is on a par with such masterpieces of human genius as Mozart's Requiem, Shakespeare's "King Lear" and the Sistine Chapel.
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He also suggests requiring independent audits of party accounts, and making payment for news coverage a disqualifying offence, on a par with vote-rigging.
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We estimate the city's wealth indicators are on a par with the national average, as Kielce is the strongest area in the sub-region.
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Credit Suisse shareholders are voting the board's proposal to raise around 4 billion francs to get its financial strength on a par with rivals.
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And he needlessly burned bridges with liberals, Egyptian and Western, by treating them as political enemies nearly on a par with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Sotheby's overall auction sales in 2016 were on a par with Christie's, reaching $4.1 billion, a drop of 31 percent from the previous year.
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Obamacare changed all that and mandated that psychiatric disorders be treated on a par with non-psychiatric medical illnesses like cancer and heart disease.
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Last year, there were a record 470,000 visitors over 15 days, almost on a par with Wimbledon, where there were 473,000 spread over 13 days.
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Chen credits Tencent's "open" culture and the co-founders' ability to "express an open mind" for putting it on a par with U.S. tech rivals.
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Assuming Jędrzejczyk hasn't spent her entire camp training fencing with the foil, her straight line movement is unlikely to be on a par with Namajunas's.
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But he wants to do something great also, and I think that he wants to do something that would be on a par (with Vietnam).
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Another $2.63 million may come from active managers, assuming their Pakistan allocations are on a par with its expected 22.6 percent weight in the index.
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The small southeastern European country, an EU member state, had charted a budget surplus of 0.8% of GDP this year, on a par with 2019.
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The proposed law would not only put the United States on a par with these other nations but would also do so on its terms.
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Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen called on Moscow to respect religious freedom and criticized it for classifying Jehovah's Witnesses on a par with terrorist groups.
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And today, the smartest military men count the global insecurity and chaos of climate change as an existential threat on a par with nuclear disaster.
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In some areas of advanced technology, it is now on a par with the United States, and its weaponry is increasingly state of the art.
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On the supply side, U.S. oil production is expected to hit 10 million bpd soon, putting it on a par with top exporter Saudi Arabia.
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Apartments in those towers, which offer lavish amenities like indoor pools, rooftop picnic areas and outdoor movie theaters, are on a par with Williamsburg properties.
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The most modest was on a par with a Coleman thermos, while the king-size one was as long and thick as a wrestler's forearm.
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The new female fighter pilots told reporters they were excited about the opportunity, adding that they expected to treated on a par with their male counterparts.
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Mozambique isn&apost a coffee producer on a par with African industry giants such as Ethiopia and Uganda, and production goals at Gorongosa are relatively modest.
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Turkey refines slightly less than 272 million bpd of oil, making it one of the top seven consumers in Europe, on a par with the Netherlands.
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China brought in 923,053 tonnes of pork in the first nine months of the year, on a par with last year's levels, according to the data.
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That said, the attractiveness of the UK remains higher than other European countries, and on a par with the US, even while the US remains ahead.
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Trump can't become president unless he comes to be seen as on a par with Clinton, and that can't happen without the assent of the media.
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They put the total at $162 billion-367 billion in 2015, the equivalent of 0.9-2% of GDP, on a par with both diabetes and strokes.
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In 2017, Russia's per-capita GDP was under $11,000, less than one-fifth of U.S. per-capita GDP and on a par with Turkey and Romania.
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That's below the long-term average spot LNG price of around $10.5 per mmBtu since 2010, but only on a par with its 5-year average.
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N) - a deal that would bulk up Deutsche Telekom's group revenues to put it almost on a par with the U.S. market No.2 Verizon (VZ.
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China has enjoyed a long-running technology boom that has put it on a par with Silicon Valley in terms of money raised and fortunes made.
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The State Department could also designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, on a par with Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
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But for larger models, the company's more robust systems offer up to 100 kilowatt-hours, the latter on a par with the market's longest-range electrics.
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But a more rigorous safety review has reached a different conclusion: that the Tesla S is not on a par with several of its luxury rivals.
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In his ninth Holmes prescribes an immodest pride in biography, an English gift to the world on a par with cricket and the full-cooked breakfast.
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They represent more than 20203 percent of eligible voters, about on a par with baby boomers, but have the lowest voter turnout of any age group.
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She was also, noted Virginia Woolf, a genius on a par with Jane Austen, writing without fear of what the male-dominated literary world might think.
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That means the survival rate in the Dhaka Hospital is today almost on a par with that of children treated in rich-world facilities, using conventional ventilators.
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How did a country with an economy the size of Spain, corruption on a par with Papua New Guinea and life expectancy below Libya achieve all this?
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And when it comes to safety, Ethiopian Airlines, Africa's largest and most profitable airline, is reputed to be on a par with carriers in America and Europe.
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Only a few years ago, corporate cyber-security might have been limited to installing the latest software patch—an activity on a par with, say, facilities management.
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NSE president Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede said this demutualisation "will bring the Nigerian capital market on a par with other international jurisdictions, result in enhanced governance (and) transparency".
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Although not on a par with Ryan, both McCarthy and Scalise are strong campaign fundraisers, a crucial talent in any contest for congressional leadership in both parties.
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Total's market value of around 115 billion euros ($140.7 billion) puts it roughly on a par with BP, but below Exxon, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.
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The update eliminates one of the biggest flaws with the headset and brings it on a par with competing and more expensive options — like the Oculus Rift.
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Danske's market value is now on a par with several of the region's big lenders including Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered, and above Italy's largest lender UniCredit.
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The magnitude of the losses may not be on a par with the dotcom collapse or 23, but the frequency is "dramatic" and should ring alarm bells.
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Over the years, Afghanistan has received one of the highest amounts of foreign assistance per capita, on a par with the West Bank and Gaza and Liberia.
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And that's just scratching the surface, as to be expected from a band whose intellectual and cerebral vision is on a par with its primal, untamed energy.
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Audi said that 9113 revenue may now be on a par with last year's 2911 billion euros ($21 billion), whereas it had previously forecast a moderate increase.
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President Trump made tokens of his minority guests, which underscored the point that he doesn't quite consider nonwhite people to be on a par with white Americans.
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"This spurious concoction is basically on a par with the most humdrum pulp fiction," Howard Thompson, reviewing the film for The New York Times, wrote in 1950.
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"More than half of our members say they would increase investment in China if markets were to open on a par with the US," the report said.
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Newspapers in those days routinely put Mr. Gregory on a par with two white performers, Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, anointing them a troika of modern satire.
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The comments are more upbeat than guidance published at the end of April when VW predicted full-year deliveries to be on a par with 2015 levels.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES An upgrade is not probable in the near future because the rating is already on a par with that of the Chinese sovereign (A+/Stable).
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In the propaganda, Hong Kong's quest for genuine self-rule is being portrayed as on a par with "splittists" elsewhere on China's fringes, in Tibet or Xinjiang.
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While we can't permit him to put Russian interests on a par with American ones, we must allow him to put Russian dressing on whatever he wants.
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The Velar spans the same length as the Mercedes GLE, but the front leg room is on a par with smaller SUVs such as the BMW X2800.
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In the new film, the highly respected Anderson describes Byrne's talent as on a par with Michael Schumacher's, having worked with both men in their early twenties.
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VW Financial Services said it is targeting 2018 operating profit on a par with last year's record result of 2.46 billion euros, its finance chief said on Monday.
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Saudi Arabia has resumed issuing visas to migrant workers from Bangladesh, who send home $3bn a year in remittances, almost on a par with Bangladesh's total foreign aid.
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That puts Pepper on a par with fintechs and free-standing neobanks, and way ahead of mobile banking from high-street names, including Leumi, which run on mainframes.
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To become material to Shell, the electricity business would need to grow to $50bn-100bn, on a par with the size of its current gas business, he says.
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These remarkable contrasts do not mean that the US is headed for civil war or on a par with the violence we see today in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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I took a quick one and it looked on a par with what I get from an iPhone XS, but I'll reserve final judgement for a full review.
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The amount of venture capital invested in govtech projects in Britain is on a par with that in the rest of Europe combined, according to PwC, a consultancy.
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Chen Siqing, who heads China's fourth-largest bank, also said at a press conference that BoC will maintain performance in 2016 on a par with that of 2015.
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"We see the move as an important strategic step in positioning Nordea on a par with its European peers," Finnish CEO Casper von Koskull said in a statement.
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The US had an average connection speed of 26.8 Mbps for the first quarter of 214, lower than Turkey, Kenya, and Paraguay, and on a par with Thailand.
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A survey of recruiters by GMAC this year found that 80% of technology companies planned to hire MBAs, on a par with consultancies (82%) and financial firms (77%).
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It has speakers, though they're not as large as those found in the Echo or Echo Plus, so expect audio that's on a par with the Echo Dot.
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Snoop says in the introduction that the dish has to be on a par with Roscoe's in LA and at Rita's, we were heavily influenced by Roscoe's too.
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A third priority is combining the two census questions on race and ethnicity into one, thereby elevating the hispanic group to a category on a par with races.
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His life in Australia, where distance swimmers can become celebrities on a par with N.F.L. quarterbacks in the United States, started careening out of control several years ago.
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As part of Yooji's capital raising effort totaling 4 million euros ($4.70 million), Danone bought a stake that puts it on a par with other longstanding Yooji shareholders.
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Also, the keyboard seemed a little cramped during my brief hands-on with the Surface Go, though on a par with what I've used with an iPad Pro.
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On the supply side, U.S. oil production was expected to soon hit 10 million barrels per day (bpd), putting it on a par with top exporter Saudi Arabia.
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It felt like a mini movie theater in my hand, on a par with the Galaxy Note 10+, which is also great for watching movies on the go.
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While this small Welsh coastal town isn't quite on a par with the tropical Caribbean island, the sun is in fact blazing out of a clear blue sky.
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They lack a motivator on a par with the fear (of socialism, fascism or communism) or the trauma of failure (the Depression, the world wars) that drove past reinventions.
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For 2016 as a whole, the government expects rising private consumption and higher state spending to drive an overall growth of 1.7 percent, on a par with last year.
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One miner in Kosovo said he had been able to earn $500 a month in 2017, on a par with an average wage, but that this had now halved.
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It is one of top five gas users in Europe on a par with France, a large grains importer and is one of the top 10 biggest gold markets.
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Microsoft only introduced a handful of services, however, which means Cortana still has a really long way to go before it's on a par with Alexa or Google Assistant.
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Fortunately, this year's inaugural MIM suggests that countries will begin to prioritize innovation in a broad range of clean energy technologies on a par with deployment of existing solutions.
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His government improved the living conditions of the very poor, achieved health and literacy levels on a par with rich countries and rid Cuba of a powerful Mafia presence.
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The fourth-quarter expansion was on a par with that of the United States quarter-on-quarter and above the U.S. year-on-year growth rate of 2.5 percent.
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In fact, a new Oxford University analysis of the best and latest scientific evidence concludes that believing in LGM is on a par with believing in the Tooth Fairy.
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We must decisively choose India as our nation's most favored ally in the world, on a par with the special relationships we have with Israel and the United Kingdom.
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The value of this year's acquisitions of American drugmakers hit $256 billion, according to the data provider Dealogic, which is on a par with the record for annual totals.
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A high-quality burr grinder and a simple pour-over coffee maker can put you on a par with your local barista while significantly cutting down on your spending.
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And in the estimation of Virginia Woolf, she was a genius on a par with Jane Austen, writing without fear of what the male-dominated literary world might think.
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The number of virus deaths in Iran hit 213 on March 5, putting it on a par with Italy as the country with the highest death toll outside China.
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The Islamic republic has reported 194 deaths from the virus on Sunday, putting it on a par with Italy as the country with the highest death toll outside China.
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While that was just a 2000 percent increase from 21 — roughly on a par with the annual inflation rate — it followed several years of larger increases, the report said.
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Maxim Grishanin, Transneft's first vice president, also told reporters that the company expects its dividend payout this year to be on a par with what it paid last year.
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BlueBay Asset Management's co-head of emerging debt, Polina Kurdyavko, reckons corporate issuance can easily reach $300 billion in 2016, on a par with the levels of past years.
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And for years, judges and policymakers treated the law as essentially on a par with prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation and other categories.
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She put fashion on a par with the movies by hosting a Fashion Education workshop at the White House, just as she had held a Careers in Film Symposium.
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The number of virus deaths in Iran hit 213 on March 5, putting it on a par with Italy as the country with the highest death toll outside China.
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Psychological functioning improved steadily over the treatment period, and by the end, metrics of happiness and quality of life were on a par with those of the general population.
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"The morality of the tale is on a par with that of Tom Sheridan, who, when advised by his father to take a wife, asked, 'Whose wife he should take.'"
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The country has gone further than any other, becoming the first to require employers to submit to external audits to prove they are paying women on a par with men.
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According to a report from TechCrunch, the company claims this $999 after-market kit will allow buyers to give their cars semi-autonomous abilities on a par with Tesla's Autopilot.
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However, this is not the systemic risk for the world economy on a par with the 2008 financial crisis or even the exit of a country from the euro zone.
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Nearly two-thirds of America's states have legalised pot sales for certain uses, but the federal government still classifies marijuana as a "Schedule 1" drug, on a par with heroin.
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After these countries adopted the euro, however, international investors loaded up on these bonds as if they were on a par with French and German bonds, even as yields fell.
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Da Silva said the company is aiming for a full-year EBITDA margin on a par with 2015, Da Silva said, implying that it will not drop below 4.9 percent.
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The Mr. Sadr of today, his aides say, is remarkably different from the one President George W. Bush called America's greatest enemy in Iraq, on a par with Al Qaeda.
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Uzbekistan, already the world's seventh-biggest producer of cotton, wants to become a force in the garment industry, too, on a par with the likes of Bangladesh, China and Vietnam.
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In similar job positions in the same location, women on average are paid 99 percent of what men are paid, on a par with last year's results, the bank added.
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Yang is drawing around 1 percent support among voters in national polls, on a par with experienced politicians like U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Washington Governor Jay Inslee.
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In 1999 77% of prime-age American women were part of the labour force, according to the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries—on a par with Germany and Britain.
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Home prices have bucked repeated cooling measures, including a hefty new sales tax in November, to rise ever higher, putting prices on a par with those in New York and London.
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In the past two decades care for mental distress in such emergencies, whether wrought by conflict or natural calamity, has become an immediate priority—on a par with shelter and food.
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The company's CEO, Sundar Pichai, called AI "a seminal moment in computing" on a par with the personal computer, the web and the smartphone going mainstream, at roughly 10-year intervals.
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It said only Jews had the right of self-determination in the "historic homeland of the Jewish people" and downgrades Arabic as an official state language on a par with Hebrew.
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Answering questions for an hour with her impassioned, quick-fire delivery, Isinbayeva said she did not deny Russia had a doping problem but only on a par with any other country.
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The same basic fallacy most likely explains why Trump gave Bannon a seat of immense power within his administration, on a par with his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and Kushner.
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The company's CEO, Sundar Pichai, called AI "a seminal moment in computing" on a par with the personal computer, the web, and the smartphone going mainstream, at roughly 10-year intervals.
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That's more than three times the size of U.S. annual soymeal output, and on a par with Brent crude oil futures turnover, arguably the highest-profile futures contract in the world.
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It can take a year to put up a single telecommunications tower, of which the Philippines needs about 50,000 more to be on a par with countries like Thailand and Vietnam.
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The reduction from roughly 10 percent to around 8.8 percent is significant because it means HNA is no longer on a par with the Qatari royal family, now Deutsche's biggest shareholder.
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But they've never taken a shot so public, vocal, and direct as what Donald Trump tweeted today — basically calling Freedom Caucus members electoral enemies on a par with the Democratic Party.
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The ban is the first imposed on a Chinese sports figure as influential as Sun, who is a national hero on a par with the country's former basketball star Yao Ming.
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For more, click on Novartis on Wednesday touted new data from its T-cell therapy CTL019, saying it is on a par with results of experimental molecules from Kite Pharma KITE.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters the effective corporate tax rate would be lowered to around 21.45% from 23.3%, which she said would put it on a par with Asian peers.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES An upgrade of Nippon Life's ratings is unlikely in the near future as the Insurer Financial Strength rating is currently on a par with Japan's Long-Term Local-Currency IDR.
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Its current levels put the total value of all bitcoins in circulation - the so-called "market cap" - close to $25 billion, putting its worth on a par with a large-cap company.
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I'd argue that he produced work on a par with Buzzcocks in their purple patch, and that he was extraordinarily unlucky not to have similar success with his esteemable 21984s electro output.
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But an IPO that valued the upmarket Swedish carmaker on a par with Audi—which makes nearly 20163m cars a year, three times as many as Volvo produces—always looked a stretch.
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But the achievements of these ladies appears on a par with local fondness for delicacies like kriek (cherry beer) and speculoos (gingerbread biscuits), which will also give their name to new streets.
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It starts at $699, which is on a par with flagship-level prices, though Rubin doesn't currently have any carriers offering subsidies to help consumers pay the phone down month by month.
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The Envy x264 is light and thin — thinner than a Microsoft Surface and on a par with some of the Windows 22 tablets we've seen, such as the Samsung Galaxy Book 22.
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Today, I run a digital media company that is all about elevating the voices of everyday people to put them on a par with the influencers: politicians, experts, academics and, yes, journalists.
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The group operates in the so-called "affordable luxury" segment with dresses sold at around the 400 euro ($443.00) mark, putting it on a par with the likes of Britain's Ted Baker .
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On average, around one in three companies globally now combines the two roles, down from a little over 50 percent in 2002, when France was on a par with the global average.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate-heating emissions from Australia's devastating bushfires are now nearly on a par with those caused by fires in the Amazon rainforest last year, scientists have calculated.
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Research published by HSBC bank in January said that Yandex's autonomous driving software put it on a par with global leaders in the technology and that it was catching up with Google's Waymo.
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What Schjerfbeck and her contemporaries did is on a par with what the sublime, haunting composer Jean Sibelius did for Finland, which is helped give it a national identity by making modern art.
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Crude's drop since October is on a par with the 2008 price crash and steeper than that of 2014-2015, both of which prompted OPEC to agree output curbs to support the market.
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In the first half of 2016 subscription streaming in America reached a retail value of $1 billion, up by over $4.23m in just one year, putting it on a par with digital downloads.
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Often wrapped in betel leaves, or paan, and chewed like a large fibrous chewing-gum, the betel nut gives a buzz on a par with several shots of espresso or, some say, amphetamine.
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Cloudera and Hortonworks' upcoming merger could put the combined company on a par with — or even a step above — legacy software-and-cloud provider Oracle, Cloudera CEO Thomas Reilly told CNBC on Friday.
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The triumph also makes Chen a five-time Olympic gold medallist, and puts her on a par with compatriot Wu Minxia for the title of most Olympic diving gold medals in a career.
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That would put the port of Yangon ahead of ports such as Bangkok and Jakarta's Tanjong Priok and on a par with Ho Chi Minh City in terms of ability to handle vessels.
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The capital hike was announced after it ditched plans to raise money by listing part of its Swiss business and is aimed at getting its financial strength back on a par with rivals.
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And an increasing number of high-profile women who could easily get their hands on quality diamonds — not to mention rubies on a par with those Ms. Taylor flaunted — refrain from doing so.
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The government expects domestic demand to drive economic growth of 1.7 percent this year, which would be on a par with 2015 when the economy grew by its fastest rate in four years.
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Splitting from Denmark would relegate Greenland to the lowly status as one of the poorest European nations, with its $2.2 billion gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015 on a par with San Marino.
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Cape May is already producing some wines on a par with those from the East Coast's best-known regions, like Virginia and the North Fork, said John Mahoney, chancellor of the Dionysian Society.
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Rosneft produces over a third of Russia's total output of 10.7 million barrels per day - a figure making Russia the world's biggest producer on a par with Saudi Arabia and the United States.
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Every pinched bit of pulp is a clear record of Ms. Soucek's fingers, which puts process on a par with product, and gives equal time to accident, to intention and to the materials.
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" Set in the "Star Wars" universe and created by Jon Favreau, the show cost an estimated $100 million for 22023 episodes, on a par with earlier seasons of HBO's extravagant "Game of Thrones.
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Keith Willett, a director at NHS England, said the service was not on a par with a humanitarian crisis but said demand was at its higher level ever and staff were under pressure.
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The deal, which will have to be renewed after three years, puts the Cuban federation on a par with the terms that the MLB has with other professional baseball leagues around the world.
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It was not immediately clear if the state levies will also be abolished to bring local sales on a par with transactions taking place outside India, where the seller has no Indian tax liability.
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In 2017, SMB expects to export more than 15 million tonnes of bauxite, putting it on a par with number one producer Guinea Bauxite Company (CBG), majority owned by Alcoa, Rio Tinto and Dadco.
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In Moscow's top locations, an hour of parking costs as much as 380 roubles ($5.80), on a par with the New York, adding to the growing attractiveness of taxi and car sharing services. Mail.
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Mr. Xi, who has sought a historical standing on a par with Mao, has borrowed from his playbook to restore the party's place at the center of everyday life in China, including higher education.
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It would put annual growth in EV sales on a par with Ford's Model T—at a time when the car industry is also in a potentially epoch-making transition to self-driving vehicles.
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In the early part of 22003, the market capitalisation of all 21 listed public-sector banks was on a par with that of a single private rival, HDFC Bank, set up back in 1995.
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Although the Huskies enter Saturday's game against their former Big East rival Georgetown with talent on a par with UConn's past championship teams, they have struggled to find cohesion during a 13-5 start.
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Other women speakers included Zuzanna Radzik, a Catholic theologian from Poland, who described the struggle to make priests and bishops in her homeland take her seriously as an intellectual on a par with men.
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On the face of it, digging the country deeper into debt feels like a dangerous idea—an irresponsible choice on a par with running up your personal credit card to take that Bahamas cruise.
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AC Milan which reported a loss of 93.5 million euros last year and needs cash to put it on a par with the top European clubs, many now bankrolled by Gulf and Asian owners.
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Bonus: It offered at least two days of battery life in my tests, which isn't as good as the Fitbit but is on a par with the Apple Watch and good enough for me.
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Should the merger go ahead, the combined entity would have assets worth upwards of 120 billion riyals ($33 billion), according to Reuters calculations, putting it on a par with Commercial Bank of Qatar (COMB.
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The Stockholm-based company forecast 2019 sales growth would be on a par with its 5 percent long-term financial target, and also said it expected its adjusted operating margin would improve this year.
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Trump's deferential, admiring tone with China's leader Xi Jinping, gave Beijing exactly what it wants, an apparent acceptance by the US that China has a claim to global leadership on a par with Washington.
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Gross domestic product (GDP) in the euro zone expanded by 0.3 percent in the third quarter, on a par with April-June, the EU's statistics office said on Tuesday, confirming an earlier flash estimate.
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Continental, a German auto-components supplier, has developed technology that makes parts of the car's interior vibrate to create high-fidelity audio on a par with any premium sound system on the road now.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE—the technique of using data and algorithms to make decisions as well as (or better) than humans—is on track to become a mainstream technology, on a par with electricity or computing.
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Hosting the World Cup would put soccer's fan base here on a par with the rest of the world — bringing us into a global community from which we have until now been conspicuously absent.
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Indeed, the Czech's run had appeared on a par with her starting position until halfway down the course but she simply carved up the bottom of the run to clock one minute 21.11 seconds.
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"The mission of the Long Museum is to educate the Chinese public, and to present quality work that is on a par with other state-of-the-art museums around the world," he said.
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The film argues that fighting climate change is a just, moral battle, on a par with social movements such as the civil rights movement in the United States or the fight for gay rights.
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Investor sentiment has been boosted by recent regulatory developments in the region, with governments in both Japan and Korea introducing frameworks paving the way for bitcoin to be used on a par with national currencies.
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Most analysts expect U.S. output to break through 10 million bpd soon, which would be a new record and take it to levels on a par with the world's largest producers Saudi Arabia and Russia.
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Critics of Amazon accuse it of a bait-and-switch; cities were promised a true headquarters on a par with Seattle, but if the split of HQ2 is confirmed, it will create much smaller offices.
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Red Bull are fourth in the championship after two races, behind Renault-powered rivals McLaren, despite having a car that looked in testing to be on a par with Ferrari — winners in Australia and Bahrain.
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The £18 billion ($25 billion) project, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, would be a huge engineering work, bigger than the London Olympic Park and on a par with Crossrail, a railway running under central London.
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That would put the merged company's market capitalisation on a par with that of Magyar Telekom, the fourth-biggest blue chip on the Budapest Stock Exchange, whose current market capitalisation is worth 412 billion forints.
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Erdogan has long described Hizmet as a terrorist grouping, but the formal designation by cabinet puts it on a par with Kurdish militants confronting the Turkish army and Islamic State fighters operating in the country.
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This is on a par with head lice and letters from the I.R.S. Some think that his candidacy could erode even the small foothold that conservatives do have with these groups, such as Cuban-Americans.
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It was early September in Phenix City, a small east Alabama borough where the percentage of African-Americans has risen over the decades, to the point that they are nearly on a par with whites.
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The quality of the virtual world was on a par with a nineteen-nineties video game, and when I leaned into the mirror to make eye contact with myself my face was planar and cartoonish.
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Incorporation of commercial state-of-the-art machine learning technology is a major milestone in the military use of AI, on a par with the first use of heat-seeking missiles nearly 60 years ago.
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Verizon's pricing is likely to be on a par with existing options, Bloomberg said, which means consumers should expect to pay around $35 to $40 per month for an entry-level tier of bundled channels.
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Some western observers see a geopolitical strategy on a par with China's Belt and Road Initiative, a grand design that seeks to boost Chinese-led infrastructure investment in more than 80 countries around the world.
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What has become of the Republican Party, which I once served on Capitol Hill and which I now consider a dangerous extremist movement on a par with the ruling Fidesz party in neo-fascist Hungary?
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In its financial reporting, IBM also includes all the hardware, software and services it sells to companies to build private clouds in its total cloud revenue, which would put it on a par with Amazon.
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He considered it "one of the greatest art exhibitions I saw in New York in the '70s" — on a par with Vito Acconci, the transgressive pioneer of performance art, who likewise stepped away from art.
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It seemed as if the crisis of 2008-09 was on a par with the inflationary problems of the 1970s (that ended Bretton Woods) and the depression of the 1930s (which finished off the gold standard).
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For 2016 as a whole, the government expects gross domestic product (GDP) to expand by 1.7 percent, on a par with last year, when growth was driven mainly by strong private consumption and higher state spending.
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WebKit's new anti-tracking policy puts privacy on a par with security Apple, which doesn't have any vested interest in the advertising business, has already made this more drastic move with the latest release of Safari.
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In its scale and scope, the exercise will be on a par with the Mirrlees Review, a gargantuan assessment of the tax system undertaken by the same think-tank, which issued its final report in 2011.
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Most of the employment these zones have created appears to be due to firms from elsewhere moving in, which may explain why surrounding neighbourhoods typically experienced employment falls roughly on a par with the zones' gains.
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Thompson is fascinating in his examination of the sad and lovely fable of impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, who in his time was considered to be on a par with Monet and is now almost entirely forgotten.
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But heading east from Riverhead on the North Fork, he found uncongested roads, restaurants he described as "on a par with Manhattan" and swaths of open land protected by the Peconic Land Trust, a nonprofit group.
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Mildenhall wouldn't say what he charges, but said he wouldn't follow the low-margin agency model and that his rates were on a par with the likes of blue-chip companies McKinsey & Co. and Wieden + Kennedy.
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Gore's new documentary, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," argues that fighting climate change is a moral battle, on a par with the civil rights movement in the United States or the fight for gay rights.
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LONDON — Okay, so this one isn't quite on a par with that time Variety accidentally published an obituary for the very-much-still-alive Terry Gilliam, but in terms of awkward corrections it's definitely up there.
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TUI said it now expected underlying earnings before interest, tax and amortization (EBITA) to fall by 17 percent, having previously expected the figure to be on a par with the 1.18 billion euros generated in 2018.
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Since the early 1990s, Phoenix's violent crime rate has declined along with the rest of the nation's, despite ticking up in the past few years, and is on a par with that of other large cities.
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With economies around the world disrupted by widespread travel restrictions and economic activity near a standstill, foreshadowing a deep recession at least on a par with the 21 global financial crisis, bonds have not been spared.
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With economies around the world disrupted by widespread travel restrictions and economic activity near a standstill, foreshadowing a deep recession at least on a par with the 2008 global financial crisis, bonds have not been spared.
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Still, that would mean the virus is roughly 20 times deadlier than the typical flu, on a par with the 1918-20193 Spanish flu pandemic that by some estimates killed more people than either World War.
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For 2016 as a whole, the government expects gross domestic product (GDP) to expand by 1.7 percent, on a par with last year, when growth was driven mainly by soaring household expenditure and higher state spending.
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And on our battery rundown test, its time of 9 hours and 44 minutes was more than 3 hours better than the Razer Stealth (6:08), and on a par with last year's XPS 13 (9:47).
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The law, which downgrades Arabic from an official language on a par with Hebrew and deems only Jewish settlement as a national priority, has prompted announcements by several Druze that they would no longer serve in uniform.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis on Wednesday touted new data from its T-cell therapy CTL019, saying it is on a par with results of experimental molecules from Kite Pharma and Juno Therapeutics that also target aggressive blood cancers.
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The "K word", as it is known in South Africa, is apartheid-era slang for a black person and is regarded as a deeply offensive slur on a par with the "N word" in the United States.
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S) shareholders on Thursday approved the Swiss bank's plan to sell around 4 billion Swiss francs ($4.1 billion) in new shares to raise funds for a revamp and get its financial strength on a par with rivals.
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Hungary's ranking has gradually deteriorated in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index in the past years, dropping to 50th in a 2015 survey from 47th a year earlier, on a par with central European peers Slovakia and Croatia.
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Some are also preparing legal challenges to the Privacy Shield deal, saying that it failed to uphold Europe's tough privacy rules, which are viewed as being on a par with other fundamental rights, like freedom of expression.
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Stability in Uzbekistan rests on a foundation that combines deep-seated, rampant corruption with such an extraordinary use of forced labor, torture, and repression that human rights organizations put its government on a par with North Korea's.
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Let's run through the rest of the basics: the camera, the battery, phone calls and durability: The Z Flip's camera is satisfactory and took shots that were on a par with last year's Samsung Galaxy S10 camera.
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The two claimed that advertisers would "be able to target a potential audience over time of more than 30 million viewers, putting it on a par with leading social networks," in an online release in June 2017.
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If his career arc did not ultimately match theirs — none of his later work came close to the success of "Gemini" — his wit and dark humor in those early days were on a par with Mr. Durang's.
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Aston Martin has lost more than £20213 billion ($3.9 billion) in value since listing in October 2018, a stinging indictment of its once lofty ambition to seek a valuation on a par with Italian carmaker Ferrari (RACE).
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Reuters/Ipsos Election Day polling showed 22012 percent of America's Hispanic voters cast ballots for Trump, compared to 260 percent for Clinton, putting him on a par with Republican Mitt Romney's performance with the group in 2012.
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Indeed, beyond the first step of providing a societal framework which enables more women to work, many global initiatives now focus on ensuring that women are able to make career progress on a par with their male counterparts.
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However, aviation is being given something of a free ride – a proposed third runway at Heathrow, which would emit another 9 million tonnes or so of CO2 per year (emissions on a par with the whole of Kenya).
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Equinor shares were trading down 2.8 percent at 0941 GMT, the worst performing stock of the European oil and gas index , partly due to market disappointment that the 2019 output will be on a par with 2018 output.
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The southern state has never been an SPD stronghold, but the projected 13 percent for the party would be a nightmare even by Bavarian standards, putting it on a par with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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Media reports indicated he was faster than Renault's Russian test driver Sergey Sirotkin while his simulator times were on a par with German race driver Nico Hulkenberg, who has scored all the team's points so far this season.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Soccer's embattled world governing body must make human rights one of its primary goals, on a par with promoting the sport and making money, according to recommendations by a former top U.N. official released on Thursday.
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Since the Can-Am League tour began, he has been scouring Cuban blogs, trying to figure out why the federation agreed to compete in a league that is considered on a par with high-level Class A ball.
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That would put Morrisons, the fourth-largest supermarket group, on a par with market leader Tesco, which is expected to post a small rise, and ahead of second-biggest player Sainsbury which is set to post another fall.
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Greg Guidry, head of the Anglo-Dutch group's unconventionals business, told Reuters a drive to slash costs and streamline decision-making had put his division largely on a par with leading rivals in terms of productivity and efficiency.
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Embiid, whose social media game is on a par with his basketball skills, posted a photo on Instagram after Wednesday's game that showed him sending the struggling Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball tumbling as he drove to the basket.
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Given how our smartphones have taken over what were once functions of our brains – remembering dates, phone numbers, addresses – perhaps the data they contain should be treated on a par with the information we hold in our heads.
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The drug falls into the Class B category in Britain, below the status of crack cocaine and heroin but on a par with amphetamines and barbiturates, with those found in possession facing up to five years in jail.
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This African crisis is on a par with those in Yemen and Syria but gets much less attention than either -- perhaps because CAR, a landlocked country of abject poverty, has never seemed as geopolitically significant as those other cases.
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Ricciardo had wanted a two-year deal to keep his options open and on a par with top drivers, including four-times world champions Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who also have contracts up to 2020.
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Mwangi said the bank had increased its holdings in government securities, mostly Kenyan, by 81 percent to 113 billion shillings in the quarter, because their yields were on a par with customer rates, which are capped at 14 percent.
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Starbucks says it has big plans for India but has opened about one new coffee shop a month over the past two years, bringing its total to around 1003—on a par with Utah or the United Arab Emirates.
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Crude's drop since October is on a par with the 2008 price crash and steeper than that of 2014-2015, both of which prompted the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to agree output curbs to support the market.
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In fact, those two sets of LCD2 models make a compelling case for never having to spend four figures on headphones again: both offer sonic clarity, detail, and precision on a par with headphones that cost multiple times more.
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In Australia as a whole prices have quadrupled in nominal terms over the past 20 years, and risen by two-and-a-half times after accounting for inflation—on a par with Britain, and far more than in America.
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The good news is that more and more cities are deciding to wrest control of their streets back from the tyranny of the automobile — and to put people, and other modes of transportation, on a par with the auto.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday U.S. crude oil production could hit a record 10 million bpd next year, up from 9.3 million bpd now, putting it nearly on a par with top exporter Saudi Arabia.
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But Solmssen and Petraeus are strong pitchmen, and they say their software will be available beginning in the first quarter of next year for $4 per employee per month, which is on a par with other e-learning programs.
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The desserts are made in-house by the pastry chef Glauciene Miscoll, who worked at the popular restaurant Il Buco Alimentari y Vineria in Manhattan, but they are not yet on a par with the rest of the food.
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S) has ditched plans to raise money by listing part of its Swiss business and will instead sell new shares worth about 4 billion Swiss francs ($143 billion) to get its financial strength back on a par with rivals.
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The $9.99 monthly price is on a par with other services, but most folks should just sign up for the $13.99 YouTube Premium experience, which includes YouTube Music and eliminates ads from every video you ever watch on YouTube.
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Salaries ranging from $20,000 to $35,000 would be on a par with other second-tier professional sports vying for sunlight in the shadow of the N.F.L. Through Facebook, he could reach rugby fans with a precision never before possible.
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According to an update of the MSCI proposal published in February, Saudi Arabia would have a market capitalization of $23 billion in MSCI's Emerging Markets Index, giving it an index weight of 2.3 percent, on a par with Thailand.
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They are also well off: Their median net worth is nearly $2 million — adjusted for inflation, that is on a par with the worth of Obama appointees, and about a half-million dollars more than that of Bush appointees.
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President Trump's practice of putting personal opinions on a par with scientific expertise creates an environment in which rumors and conspiracy theories can flourish — and some will resonate with many Americans, particularly those already distrustful of expert government institutions.
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Everywhere they go, Mr. Lemma and his entourage receive a hero's welcome, on a par with that received by the just-released opposition leaders — itself a significant change for a party whose support is often either bought or coerced.
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The phone booth, the body guards, the $3.5 million on security during Pruitt's first year in the job and his move to acquire specially armored vehicles: Don't they bespeak a paranoia and imperiousness on a par with the president's?
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Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit group in Washington, however, warned that this look-alike marketing was a hidden, manipulative practice — on a par with subliminal advertising — and said it should be prohibited.
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Outotec's 2019 sales are now expected to be on a par with last year after the units earmarked for disposal are removed from its results, having previously forecast sales growth, the company said, also citing delays in expected orders.
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"Beyond the economic and social context, it's not that shocking that the leader of a company like Air France-KLM should command a salary on a par with our main competitors," said one union official involved in the talks.
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In March, U.S. banking giant JP Morgan won regulatory approval from China to take majority control of its securities joint venture, putting it on a par with Swiss rival UBS and London-headquartered HSBC, who already have that right.
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The move puts Bannon on a par with Cabinet secretaries, generals and above the Director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Staff, who will now only attend when the committee considers issues in their areas of responsibility.
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While six generations is on a par with its neighbor Germany, the French have a deep attachment to the idea that state institutions, from schools to courts to government, are supposed to offer the same chance of success to all.
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Last year minority communities were dismayed by Israel's approval of a "nation-state" law, which declares that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country and downgrades Arabic as an official language on a par with Hebrew.
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As of writing, The Last Jedi has a 93% fresh rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes – not quite as high as we predicted, but solid nonetheless, and on a par with its the last chapter in this story, The Force Awakens.
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That would further boost capacity by 6,000 to about 60,000, putting them on a par with London clubs West Ham United, who have just moved into the 2012 Olympic Games stadium, and Arsenal but still way below Manchester United (9053,000).
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As a result, Mediobanca shares currently trade at 0.8 times its book value, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S forecasts, above an average of 0.6 for Italian lenders and on a par with best-in-class peer Intesa Sanpaolo.
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The move prompted shock and excitement in the film industry (and some ecstatic lead-up and aftermath tweets from prominent filmmaker Ava DuVernay), because the release strategy was so unconventional, on a par with Beyoncé's surprise release of Lemonade in 2016.
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Black people in the US that frequent the cinema do so at a rate that is on a par with their proportion in the general population, according to the Theatrical Market Statistics study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Airbus Helicopters has suffered from a slowdown in orders in recent years due to a downturn in the oil and gas sector, one of its main customers, and expects deliveries in 2018 to be roughly on a par with last year.
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When May stunned political opponents and financial markets by calling the snap election, her poll ratings indicated she could be on course to win a landslide majority on a par with the 1983 majority of 144 won by Margaret Thatcher.
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The club, which reported a loss of 13 million euros last year, needs an injection of capital to fund its business and put it on a par with the top European clubs, many now bankrolled by Gulf and Asian owners.
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That's on a par with the 13 percent fall over 10 trading days between 63 October and 13 November, 1998, in the aftermath of the Russian crisis and the bank bailout of U.S. hedge management fund Long-Term Capital Management.
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This Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress, who played Mary in London in 2000, has the tools to create a definitive portrait of the character, on a par with more idiosyncratic interpretations by Vanessa Redgrave (on Broadway) and Laurie Metcalf (in London).
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Much of the wrangling over the Privacy Shield has focused on data protection safeguards in Europe — where privacy is viewed as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of expression — that are not fully replicated in the United States.
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Putin would greatly appreciate a retired senior intelligence officer, with the experience and gravitas of Clapper, elevating the Kremlin's throw weight to the point where Russia was able to compete on a par with its "Main Enemy," the United States.
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The bigger concern for the U.S. lies with their men, who failed to medal at an Olympics for the first time in 20 years and could be facing the departure of key veterans on a par with the loss of Vonn.
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LISBON, July 285 (Reuters) - Portugal's Novo Banco, controlled by U.S. private equity fund Lone Star, expects to halve its non-performing loan ratio to 80% this year or next, putting it on a par with domestic rivals, its chairman told Reuters.
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And the latest report by Lazard, the financial advisory and management firm, found that the cost of power from utility-scale solar farms was now on a par with natural-gas generation — and that wind farms were less expensive still.
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A coalition breakdown could trigger a snap federal election before 2021, an unappealing option for the SPD given that national polls have put Merkel's conservatives first, with the Greens close behind and the SPD trailing on a par with the AfD.
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Why it matters: The action to freeze assets places Venezuela on a par with North Korea, Iran, Syria and Cuba, the only other countries now under such stringent U.S. sanctions, notes the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news.
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The cheaper iPhones have the same computing processor as the iPhone X, so they are just as fast, and their 83-megapixel rear cameras are on a par with the rear camera on the iPhone X. So what's the difference?
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What we are learning every day about Ukraine — on a par with what we hear President Trump say on the White House lawn about China policy — is a radical break from bipartisan support for how we deal with other nations.
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"I would think that people would put betting on horses and playing bingo on a par with a right to a healthful environment," said Peter M. Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, a nonprofit lobbying group based here.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Deputy Finance Minister Ilya Trunin said on Friday his ministry will go ahead with plans to raise export duties on fuel oil in 2017 so that it is on a par with the corresponding tax on crude oil.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Debt of Italian state agency Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) is taking a hammering on a par with that suffered by Italy's government bonds on fears the incoming government will use it as a vehicle to fund a borrowing binge.
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The size of the investment puts it on a par with the few world renowned tech startups to come out of Europe in recent years, including Skype and Spotify, and will help the company to invest in the platform and recruit more staff.
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"The U.S. and China are competing for economic dominance; meanwhile, Russia is asserting its role on the geopolitical stage, where it wants to compete on a par with the U.S.," Agathe Demarais, global forecasting director at The Economist Intelligence Unit, told CNBC.
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BoE Governor Mark Carney has said the Bank will consult next year on providing an "appropriate" level of access to its 500 billion pound balance sheet to new payment providers, putting them more on a par with the big banks that dominate payments.
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Mr Corbyn did go to a small private school for his primary education, but it would be an error to suggest that his private education was on a par with Boris Johnson and David Cameron, both of whom were educated at Eton.
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His daring escape from prison last July, in view of the video camera in his cell, cast a lurid spotlight on the incompetence and corruption that has long dogged the Mexican state, driving many to view the government on a par with criminals.
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However, a more important ingredient of the robust economic expansion is that businesses and families have relocated from the suburbs to the city, drawn in by a more reasonable tax environment and city services on a par with those in neighboring communities.
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Critics – including a majority of economists polled by Reuters – believe that raising rates from a record low of 0.25 percent would be an error on a par with that made by the European Central Bank when it raised rates during the financial crisis.
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The highest court said operational creditors could not be treated on a par with financial creditors of a bankrupt company, in a ruling that provides relief to lenders and sets a precedent that could speed-up the resolution of other insolvency cases.
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The highest court said operational creditors could not be treated on a par with financial creditors of a bankrupt company, in a ruling that provides relief to lenders and sets a precedent that could speed-up the resolution of other insolvency cases.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse has ditched plans to raise money by listing part of its Swiss business and will instead sell new shares worth about 4 billion Swiss francs ($4 billion) to get its financial strength back on a par with rivals.
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This African crisis is on a par with those in Yemen and Syria but gets much less attention than either -- perhaps because CAR, a landlocked country of abject poverty and endemic violence, has never seemed as geopolitically significant as those other cases.
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The new Samsung device's 503-inch screen is on a par with the 6.5-inch screen on Apple's iPhone XS Max and the 6.3-inch display on Google's Pixel 3 XL. All produce sharp, rich images with accurate colors and excellent shadow detail.
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The movie sequel follows Gore around the globe as he makes the case that tackling climate change is a just, moral battle on a par with social movements such as the civil rights movement in the United States or the fight for gay rights.
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It's worth noting here that while they formally support neither party in the case, a group of cake artists did file an amicus brief arguing that cake designing is an art, requiring skill and creativity on a par with other forms of artistic expression.
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For $100 in actual greenbacks, buyers get $120 in bright green "bond notes"—a Zimbabwean currency introduced in 2016 that is meant to be pegged to the dollar—or $140 in mobile money, which is also meant to be on a par with real dollars.
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Benefiting from costs cuts and growing sales of higher-margin SUVs, Ford may increase profit in Europe to around $1 billion this year, on a par with its nine-month gain in the region and up from $259 million last year, a spokesman said.
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Officials welcomed Emirates Team New Zealand's stunning win against the U.S. holders in Bermuda, a feel-good boost in an election year, with the economic benefits expected to be on a par with those from hosting the filming of the Lord of the Rings series.
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We therefore think it is unlikely that any of Italy's 15 'ordinary status' regions will achieve a level of fiscal autonomy on a par with the five 'special status' regions (Valle d'Aosta, Friuli, Provinces of Trento and Bolzano, Sardinia, Sicily) in the medium term.
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Today's combination of stagnant pay and falling labour-force participation is serious, but it is not on a par with, say, the Depression or the world wars that bracketed it, which drove the expansion of the state's role in the economy (see chart 4).
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It's unquestionable that this year's Kincade fire grew with such disastrous rapidity because of the climate: When the fires started, our air was so devoid of moisture it was on a par with Antarctica's, and parts of the Bay Area have experienced hurricane-force winds.
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Domestic demand has replaced foreign trade as the main support of Europe's largest economy, and the government predicts gross domestic product will grow by 1.7 percent, on a par with last year, despite concerns about an economic slowdown in China and other emerging markets.
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This methodology also benefits veterans by acknowledging a lack of quality biomonitoring data for most cases, thus indicating to the V.A. that personnel may have received doses on a par with the 26 people understood to represent the highest exposure levels among American personnel.
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The best screenwriter in Hollywood was contemptuous of movies as an art form ("an outhouse on the Parnassus," Hecht declared), and had little trust in the wisdom of studio bosses and producers ("nitwits on a par with the lower run of politicians I had known").
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In July, the Trump administration extended MPP to Matamoros, one of two receiver cities in Tamaulipas, an eastern state so riven by drug cartels that the U.S. State Department ranks it as a "level 4" danger zone on a par with Afghanistan or Somalia.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pro soccer in the United States has come far, but more needs to be done at the youth level to develop a "culture" that brings the sport on a par with Europe, said Andrea Pirlo, the former stand out Italy mid fielder.
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Against the Google Goliath, Klein touts factors such as relative repairability and attention to computing performance for the Kano PC (which he claims is "on a par with the Surface Go"), in addition to having now thrown its lot in with rival giant, Microsoft.
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In its scale and scope, the exercise will be on a par with the Mirrlees Review, a gargantuan assessment of the tax system undertaken by the same think-tank, which issued its final report in 2011 and has been a reference point for researchers ever since.
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Leahy, meanwhile, aims to complete a preliminary 430-jet deal with Indigo Partners announced in Dubai, battling to end a 23-year stint as sales boss on a par with Boeing after a year in which Boeing has held a firm lead, especially on large jets.
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Zhou has been steering broad financial and currency reforms, loosened controls on interest rates and moved away from what had effectively been a yuan peg to the U.S. dollar - a step along the path to turning it into a global currency on a par with the greenback.
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The stunning win was also welcomed by officials in New Zealand who termed it as a feel-good boost in an election year, with the economic benefits expected to be on a par with those from hosting the filming of the Lord of the Rings series.
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Bonds rated on a par with GE's in the so-called triple-B range now account for roughly half of the $6 trillion investment-grade sector, and GE alone would account for 10 percent of the junk bond market should it ever lose its investment-grade rating.
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Gross profit and margins in oil fell despite total volumes in oil trading rising by 25 percent from the period a year earlier to an average of 4.995 million barrels per day, broadly on a par with Glencore and only behind the world's top oil trader Vitol.
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Even with successes in the fight against corruption, Indonesians have to contend with high levels of graft in many areas of their lives and the country placed 96th among 180 countries in Transparency International's annual corruption perceptions index last year, on a par with Colombia and Thailand.
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Litasco traded 3.2 million barrels per day of oil and products in 2016, its chief executive told Reuters this year, putting it on a par with rival trading houses such as Mercuria and Gunvor and behind only the world's top three trading houses — Vitol, Glencore and Trafigura.
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Between 2012 and 2015, the total amount confiscated in these showy anti-extortion raids was $34,664.75 — an absurdly tiny sum considering that the United States has designated MS-13 as a global criminal organization on a par with the Zetas of Mexico, or the Yakuza of Japan.
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Although local officials and residents said the violence in Nuevo Laredo had lessened recently, the State Department earlier this year placed five Mexican states, including Tamaulipas, where Nuevo Laredo is, on its do-not-travel list, on a par with countries such as Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
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With the length of the film being a potential issue for home viewers, Nielsen reported that 18 percent of audiences watched the movie in its entirety on the first day of streaming, on a par with the premiere of the Sandra Bullock thriller "Bird Box" last December.
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Though hardly global threats on a par with the Axis powers before World War II, they pose challenges on three main fronts, with China pushing into the South China Sea, Russia testing Europe's borders and Iran's proxies spreading across the "Shiite crescent" in the Middle East.
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Dr. Karim, a renowned AIDS researcher who was working on the disease in South Africa in the 1990s, said a laboratory alone would have required millions of dollars and an infrastructure on a par with what the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta had at the time.
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It has replaced Russian with Kazakh as the main language of education and government, put English on a par with Russian in foreign language teaching and produced a torrent of Kazakh-language films and television programs that celebrate the country's culture and long-vanished nomadic traditions.
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Bonds rated on a par with GE's in the so-called triple-B range now account for roughly half of the $93 trillion investment-grade sector, and GE alone would account for 10 percent of the junk bond market should it ever lose its investment-grade rating.
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Every ten years it puts little Münster on a very big cultural map, temporarily on a par with Venice and New York, London and Berlin, while throngs of viewers, both from the city and elsewhere, delight in seeking out widely dispersed works, which are accessible free of charge.
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Following are airlines that have warned of the potential cost of the grounding: March 29: TUI expects underlying earnings before interest, tax and amortization (EBITA) to fall by 17 percent, having previously expected the figure to be on a par with the 1.18 billion euros generated in 2018.
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And potentially, as advanced automated vehicle technologies adapt and mature, this could conceivably be pushed as low as one in 10,000, or even lower - putting the chances of being killed in a car crash on a par with dying as a result of exposure to excessive natural heat.
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Dismissive claims by famous physicists that philosophy is either a useless intellectual exercise, or not on a par with physics because of being incapable of progress, seem to start from the false assumption that philosophy has to be of use for scientists or is of no use at all.
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A recent study by the China Association of Marriage and Family, an official body, found that nearly 60% of those born after 1985 moved in with their partner before tying the knot, which would put the cohabitation rate for young people on a par with that of America.
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As the youngest of the Donald/Ivana kids, Eric expressed the greatest devotion to his father and seemed most committed to the practice of denial that allowed him to tell me, with a straight face, that his father was on a par with Winston Churchill and President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Following are airlines that have warned of the potential cost of the grounding: TUI March 29: TUI expects underlying earnings before interest, tax and amortisation (EBITA) to fall by 17 percent, having previously expected the figure to be on a par with the 1.18 billion euros generated in 2018.
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Obama's embrace of Sunstein's ideas is on a par with his enthusiastic adoption of tech fixes, highlighted by his founding White House start-ups for upgrading government technology, his talk of a post-presidential career in venture capitalism, and his recent guest-editing gig for Wired magazine's November issue.
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"In a way it is quite a frustrating moment because we have been through 10 years of re-architecturing, reinforcing the system ... and we currently have on a global basis growth pretty much on a par with what we had before the crisis," Lagarde told a conference in Dublin.
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Even if treating service members on a par with other federal and state criminal defendants led to a small increase in the number of appeals the Supreme Court receives, it is hard to imagine that would have any measurable impact on the total number of cases the court hears.
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Consider Rocco Iannone's debut show for Pal Zileri, a respectable midrange Italian label acquired some years back by Mayhoola for Investments with the intention of making it a player on a par with the other companies (Balmain, Valentino) run by an investment arm of the royal family of Qatar.
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Now he's making his case that for all the drama at the lender in recent years — and there's been plenty — there's no better moment to make Barclays a global force in investment banking on a par with Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley, and his former company, JPMorgan Chase.
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Bringing a majority of creditors together in one group and securing a judge's assent would also put these international creditors on a par with Saudi banks, which have so far refused to negotiate with AHAB and are trying to enforce separate court judgements against the company, Charlton said.
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The country churned out 30.37 million tonnes of crude in the first two months of the year, according to data from he National Bureau of Statistics, equivalent to 3.76 million barrels per day (bpd) and on a par with the weakest level in data stretching back to June, 2011.
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However, around the exact same time (summer of 234), the English artist and chaos magician Austin Osman Spare — a late-decadent, perversely ornamental graphic dandy in the manner of Felicien Rops and Aubrey Beardsley — produced a sketchbook of "automatic drawings" featuring disembodied fabula on a par with Masson's.
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Describing a lack of effective antibiotics for humans as "a security threat" on a par with "a sudden and deadly disease outbreak", WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "strong and sustained action across all sectors" was vital to turn back the tide of resistance and "keep the world safe".
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Though hardly on a par with the Russian Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin's designs for the tilted, open-worked spiral tower of his "Monument to the Third International" (1920), "Light Prop" exudes a similar optimism for a world not only bettered by technical know-how but set on a whole new footing.
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That also put the pace of price rises on a par with the full-year forecast outlined by the ECB, where a debate is in full swing on how and when to end the 2.55 trillion euro purchase scheme it launched in 2015 to fight off the threat of deflation.
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Her books frequently appeared on the best-seller list of the Poetry Foundation, which uses data from Nielsen BookScan, a service that tracks book sales, putting her on a par with Billy Collins, the former poet laureate of the United States, as one of the best-selling poets in the country.
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"Here is a condensed Haydn opera with fabulous arias on a par with Mozart's" and "orchestration superior to Mozart's," Mr. Crawford says of "L'Isola Disabitata" ("The Desert Island"), the 1779 chamber opera that he and his American Classical Orchestra performed in a semi-staged production at Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday evening.
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I'd say it's on a par with the Pixel 3 XL, though not quite in the same category as Huawei's eternal Mate 20 Pro, which has the same size screen, but can last much longer because of Huawei's more efficient 7nm processor, an even larger battery cell, and some ultra-aggressive power optimizations.
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And we have good growth potential in import substitution here in Russia, including private medical care -- because people who used to take dollars and euros abroad (for medical care), now it's twice as expensive and here we have the facilities which are on a par with any of the ones in the West.
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As the World Bank's energy pointman in the country for 15 years, I witnessed a big contradiction in Mr Nazarbayev's policies: bold reform orientation in the economy (Kazakhstan's GDP per person is now on a par with Russia's) coupled with soft political dictatorship (earning a "not free" status in democracy from Freedom House).
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Earlier this week, an in-depth voter poll carried out by The Irish Times and IPSOS MRBI showed that party support for Prime Minister Enda Kenny's center-right Fine Gael party stands at 28 percent, on a par with the level of support for independents and smaller fringe parties at the same level.
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The shake-out this year is also seen as the start of more far-reaching industry consolidation that is expected to whittle the number of European airlines down to numbers more on a par with North America - putting the survivors in a position to boost profitability to levels seen across the Atlantic.
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He has excelled at every stop — with Frisk Asker in the Norwegian league; with Modo in the top league in Sweden, where he was the most valuable player in 2010; and for the past eight seasons with the Rangers, where he is a fan favorite on a par with goalie Henrik Lundqvist.
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Last month the open source WebKit browser engine (which underpins Apple's Safari browser) announced a new tracking prevention policy that takes the strictest line yet on background and cross-site tracking, saying it would treat attempts to circumvent the policy as akin to hacking — essentially putting privacy protection on a par with security.
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Whole milk seems like an indulgence on a par with Double Stuf Oreos these days, but the difference between whole and reduced fat isn't that great; a cup of 2 percent milk has five grams of fat, while a cup of whole milk has eight, and makes for much better French toast.
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And some dismissed the music as second-tier Rodgers, not on a par with "South Pacific" or "The King and I." The criticism did not bother Mr. Lee, as he said in an interview published in 2004 for the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
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Apparently mindful of how the Soviet Union spent itself into oblivion by trying to match each advance in military technology and hardware by Washington, Mr. Putin has long struggled to balance domestic political calculations with his costly ambitions to re-establish Russia as a great power on a par with the United States.
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Compared to the big hitters — the Tate, the National Gallery, and the British Museum — the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square is way down the list of must-see destinations, which is a shame as it contains world artifacts of concentrated quality and breadth on a par with the British Museum over in Bloomsbury.
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As the U.S. is negotiating TTIP with the European Union, a sophisticated, advanced economy on a par with the U.S., the agreement is likely to enshrine high-standard norms and principles in areas like environmental and consumer protection, labor rights, restrictions on the activities of state-owned enterprises, an open Internet, and intellectual property rights.
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The US has lacked a clear plan to keep pace with foreign rivals despite predictions that AI "has the potential to be a transformative national security technology, on a par with nuclear weapons, aircraft, computers, and biotech," according to a recent study by Greg Allen of Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International studies.
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For Facebook, whose business model is based on selling advertisements targeted at users based on information in their posts, the company's use of people's digital data is increasingly putting it at odds with Europe's tough data protection rules, which view individuals' privacy rights on a par with rights such as the freedom of expression.
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The seven most dangerous countries account for around a third of the world's homicides, with violence in some cities on a par with war zones, according to a report by "Instinct for Life", which includes the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Organization of American States, alongside local non-profit and civil society groups.
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The escalating trade war between the United States and China, with the Trump administration considering $100 billion in punitive tariffs in response to China's $50 billion in retaliatory tariffs, obscures a more important source of conflict: China's desire to someday establish the yuan as a global reserve currency, on a par with the dollar.
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"To say that NATO is obsolete, openly support the disintegration of the E.U. and then denigrate Merkel and put her on a par with Putin is a fundamental break with 70 years of American policy and strategic thought supported by Republicans from Eisenhower to now," said Mr. Burns, who has served presidents of both parties.
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That includes a 2.8-second catapult to 60 miles an hour, on a par with a $7603,000 Ferrari 488 GTB; a sharply improved, jet-fighter-inspired cockpit; and a GPS-based video data system that records street or track drives, overlays them with animated telemetry readouts and lets drivers analyze their performance with racing software.
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Instead, Zebra claims to be price competitive with inner city gas stations — offering fuel at prices on a par with or cheaper than central London — because it sources fuel from the same wholesale suppliers as the leading petrol stations and doesn't have to soak up the high costs of rent for each premium gas station location.
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An overlapping data set from JKCSS, which does not include those that died in Pakistan's portion of the region - mainly in cross-border shelling between the two nations after the February bombing - puts the death toll in the first half of 2019 at 271, on a par with last year, which it says was the deadliest in a decade.
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The Fed announced the meeting in a morning press release, and Trump on Twitter called the session "good & cordial," a contrast with prior statements that have included calling U.S. central bankers "boneheads" for not cutting interest rates and labeling Powell personally as an enemy of the United States on a par with China leader Xi Jinping.
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Mr. Ropac said that first day sales were on a par with recent years — he sold the large 1984 Robert Rauschenberg acrylic and silk-screen "Bumper" to an Austrian collector for 1 million euros —but he counted only five American collectors on this booth, rather than the 100-plus he has seen at previous FIAC previews.
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SUBORDINATED DEBT AND OTHER HYBRID SECURITIES The rating actions on the subordinated debt and hybrid securities of CTBC Bank and CTBC Holding are consistent with the rating actions on the issuers because they are notched from the companies' Long-Term Foreign-Currency IDRs, which are on a par with their Viability Ratings and National Long-Term Ratings.
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While the increase in prize money will be welcomed by bowlers, the PBA has a long way to go before it is on a par with the PGA Tour, which is offering a $7.5 million purse this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, or tennis where the singles champions at the Australian Open will earn $2.85 million.
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"There have been a couple of comparisons that social isolation has a risk of mortality that's about the same as the other major risk factors that we think about, so smoking, for instance, is on a par with that," said Lisa Berkman, professor of public policy, epidemiology and global and population health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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The project is therefore experimenting with hand-held infrared spectrometers that need only be held up to the cut surface of a cassava root in order to measure its levels of chemicals such as beta carotene (a precursor of vitamin A). The prize for all this effort would be to put cassava on a par with the improved crops of the rich world.
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He was the man who, in one fell swoop back in 2014, put Toure's public image on a par with that of Charlie Sheen or Richard Keys when he complained of Manchester City's failure to present his client with a birthday cake (a timelessly magnificent story made even better by the fact that the club had in fact done exactly that).
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Despite bring fuel to you, Zebra claimed to be price competitive with inner city gas stations — offering fuel at prices on a par with or cheaper than central London — because it sources fuel from the same wholesale suppliers as the leading petrol stations and doesn't have to soak up the high costs of rent for each premium gas station location.
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In April, Xi offered "full approval" of the Guangdong government's work since the last party congress in 2012, according to state media - in what was interpreted as an indirect endorsement of Hu. In May, Hu pledged repeated loyalty to Xi in a speech, affirming Xi as the Party's "core" leader - a designation that puts Xi on a par with other paramount leaders of the past, including Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
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In actual practice, the center was also equal parts hiring hall; Schwab's Pharmacy, where young hopefuls awaited discovery; matchbox recital space for organized performances and impromptu jam sessions; nerve center for gossip on a par with any small-town barbershop; and forum for continuing, crackling debate on the all-consuming subject of folk music, which thanks in no small part to Mr. Young was enjoying wide, renewed attention.
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For this reason, until (and if) we develop AI that can perform on a par with human intelligence, it is in the interests of the companies themselves to be transparent about their use of AI. At the end of the day, part of the fear of voice assistants like Duplex is caused by the fact that they&aposre new, and we&aposre still getting used to encountering them in new settings and use cases.
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That is the version of Atticus still beloved by many of the book's readers: not a noble lawyer on a par with actual civil-rights heroes such as Pauli Murray , Thurgood Marshall, or Morris Dees (a founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and one of the many lawyers who say they owe their choice of profession to Atticus) but a compassionate, courageous single dad raising his children as best he can.
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The arts funding organization's second annual audit of the more than 680 cultural groups to which it gives annual funding — ranging from large institutions like the Museum of London to the small groups like the public art pranksters at the Bureau of Silly Ideas — shows that many have achieved a level of gender and minority diversity among their workers on a par with national percentages, but that diversity does not extend to the directors, executives, and board chairs of those organizations.
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Given its ability to prevent the scourge of VAD, Golden Rice could make contributions to human health on a par with the Salk polio vaccine but irrational, self-interested, relentless opposition to the testing and widespread availability of Golden Rice has been high on the agenda of activists like Greenpeace, which makes millions per year behemoth with offices in more than 40 countries, whose PR machine is focused on denying millions of children in the poorest nations the essential food nutrients they need to stave off blindness and death.
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At 2.4 million euros, figure was roughly on a par with same quarter of 2015 (2.5 million euros) * Planned investments in products and services referred to above will have a positive impact on consolidated revenue and thus on holidaycheck group's EBITDA in medium to long term * Believes that revenue of holidaycheck group could rise in financial 2016 by a percentage figure in middle single digits * Expands share of package holiday market in third quarter of 2016 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: ($1 = 0.9055 euros) (Gdynia Newsroom)
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