Over the years we have done a lot of preparatory work.
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Except for some sandbags and straw bales, preparatory work was minimal.
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PREPARATORY WORK ON LIQUIDITY SCHEME ONGOING, NO DECISION IS IMMINENT -SOURCES
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That application has now been approved, allowing preparatory work to begin.
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Beijing had previously said that preparatory work for the meeting was underway.
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Godfrey has said it has started preparatory work to print new warnings.
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Meanwhile, Saudi officials have claimed preparatory work regarding the IPO has been completed.
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He said that the talks will resume on February 25 after further preparatory work.
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"The attackers appear to have done a significant amount of preparatory work," Symantec reported.
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Morgan Stanley and Goldman are also advising Luckin on the preparatory work for the IPO.
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Finally, most meetings don't happen without a lot of preparatory work done at lower levels.
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The sources said no decision on the scheme is imminent as preparatory work would take time.
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Much preparatory work has been done, such as making Aramco a joint-stock company and certifying reserves.
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One of the strange things about the planned Trump-Kim summit was the lack of preparatory work.
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"A huge amount of preparatory work has been done," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.
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"The preparatory work for land reform has quietly moved forward and is very well-advanced," Kahkonen said.
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The sources added that no decision on the scheme is imminent as preparatory work would take time.
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The preparatory work for a Grand Slam begins in the few pockets of time off from the circuit.
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It was there that she became hooked on preparatory work because it involved problem-solving, math, and measuring.
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The Commission said earlier this week that it had begun preparatory work on countermeasures in the Boeing case.
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Sources said there has been a lack of preparatory work for the meeting, due largely to the increasing acrimony.
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"Once all preparatory work has been finalised, we will issue a relevant statement," Peskov told a conference call with reporters.
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In December, the court clarified that nearly all preparatory work for the project is also blocked within the United States.
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It takes enormous amounts of preparatory work, as well as good will and a sense of trust in each other.
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"Everyone needs to do this preparatory work so that we can then have a concerted European vision," Mr. Véran said.
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Li, in comments posted on a government website, said that preparatory work for the long-awaited programme had been basically completed.
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"ESMA has already started engaging with UK CCPs (clearing houses) to carry out preparatory work," the EU watchdog said in a statement.
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This kind of preparatory work helps students who are more fearful about sharing their opinions feel more confident and ready to contribute.
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After the company erected razor wire fences around its terminal in late 2017 and initiated preparatory work, opponents organized more muscular defiance.
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"It is one of the four preliminary models, part of the preparatory work," Mr. Salomon said, and it was practical, not prurient.
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Preparatory work must still be finished by units to their rear, some say, but soon the battle for the city proper will begin.
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Citi and Morgan Stanley were asked in 2016 to do preparatory work for the IPO, almost a decade after Iceland's banking sector collapsed.
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During my first half hour, I do a lot of preparatory work, like setting up bags of corn and filling out expiration date labels.
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On Tuesday, Obama and Modi welcomed the start of preparatory work that could lead to the building of six Westinghouse nuclear reactors in India.
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Saudi Aramco is expected to decide by early next week on the appointment of international and local banks for preparatory work, the people said.
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Clinton would not be as remarkable as a win would be for Mr. Sanders, given her history in Nevada and months of hard preparatory work.
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It was unclear, however, if Wang and Duterte discussed China's decision to start preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal.
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Carlos passed the university&aposs entrance exam and has already done preparatory work at the university&aposs school of chemistry in its genetics sciences center.
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The preparatory work suggests that they will ultimately be the lead underwriters for the offering, The Financial Times reports, citing people briefed on the matter.
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Aramco is also expected to decide as early as next week on the appointment of local and international banks to perform preparatory work for the IPO.
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"HKEX is progressing with the preparatory work for Bond Connect under the guidance of the Mainland and Hong Kong authorities," a spokesman for the HKEX said.
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"We are currently proposing … How we can support the preparatory work and necessary reforms in those countries wishing to join euro zone," Dombrovskis said on Wednesday.
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Preparatory work for the opening of other Chapters will continue at an accelerated pace without prejudice to Member States' positions in accordance with the existing rules.
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But every subsequent move comes at a cost, would take significant preparatory work and could even involve a broader review of where the bank is heading.
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As a result, the preparatory work for the summit meeting has been led by Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross, whose agency focuses more on corporate transactions.
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Mattarella may be unwilling to dissolve parliament ahead of preparatory work in September for the 2020 budget, which must then be presented to parliament the following month.
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After nearly two years of preparatory work by the companies involved, Wednesday's agreements and contract signing will pave the way for the program to begin in earnest.
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After nearly two years of preparatory work by the companies involved, Wednesday's agreements and contract signing will pave the way for the programme to begin in earnest.
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Its surviving participants have agreed to forge ahead without Washington with the goal of completing preparatory work for a treaty by November, as agreed upon in May.
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As such, the government is exploring how to potentially deepen its trade links with 11 partners: But this preparatory work may never see the light of day.
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"TAP is already doing the preparatory work, communicating with the market, presenting its results, which is not very common for privately owned companies," Filipa Franco told Reuters.
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The substantive problem that Trump — and America — is now facing is that you can't go back in time and do the preparatory work that should have been done.
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The JV will have to complete its preparatory work within a year, at which point it will be able to start operating in China if it receives approval.
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China's Vice Housing Minister Lu Kehua told reporters on Thursday that preparatory work was now being done for a nationwide property tax, but did not provide further details.
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A spokesman for Allseas said 22 km of the 21-km first line have been built since June 2 and preparatory work is underway for the second line.
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Putin noted the need to continue the preparatory work so the next Normandy meeting contributes to the implementation of existing agreements at the highest level, the Kremlin added.
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"North Korea has announced the dismantling of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, so we assess that they will do preparatory work according to the planned schedule," he said.
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They said no decision on the scheme is imminent as preparatory work would take time and the central bank considers government action should be the main line of defence.
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With lots of preparatory work and grid modernization at the national level, a global grid can potentially deliver the sun's rays from one country to the rest of the world.
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The bank was also undertaking preparatory work on less conventional monetary policy tools in the event that the policy rate is pushed down to its effective lower bound, he said.
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Mainland passengers in transit will not be allowed to leave the airport, it said, adding that the plan would be implemented after preparatory work between the two sides was completed.
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PLUG Projects is run by myself and four other working artists who handle everything from rent, budgeting, preparatory work, marketing, taxes, and most importantly, advocating for our local arts community.
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Tesla has been given permission to continue preparatory work for its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, which will be located at a 300-hectare site near Berlin, in the municipality of Grünheide.
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The company, which develops allergy therapies, said it would stop its registration study of a grass allergy treatment and preparatory work for a dose-ranging study of its ragweed allergy therapy.
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The industry bodies said in a letter to the IASB that preparatory work has confirmed that a number of important issues need to be resolved to make the new rule practical.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied reports that China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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Italy has so far spent 400 million euros on preparatory work, but could face large penalties from both Paris and Brussels if it backs out of the project at this point.
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Investors also pulled out from real estate stocks and construction-related sectors, with cement makers leading the decline, after news the government was undertaking preparatory work for a wider property tax.
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A huge amount of preparatory work is being done by a lean United States Embassy staff in Havana, kept small by congressional restrictions imposed by opponents of Mr. Obama's policy shift.
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Environmental campaigners opposed to the chopping down of trees had managed to get the higher administrative court of Berlin and Brandenburg to issue an injunction to temporarily halt the preparatory work.
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Sources familiar with the matter, including officials and diplomats in Washington and Beijing, say there has been a lack of preparatory work for the meeting, due largely to the increasing acrimony.
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Speaking in Turkey's southern province of Antalya on Tuesday, Cavusoglu said that joint preparatory work on the roadmap would begin in 10 days and implementation would be carried out within six months.
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Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are also advising Luckin, one of the quickest firms to reach 'unicorn' status in China, on preparatory work for the initial public offering (IPO), said the people.
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Even with the recent talks, Liu He opted to visit Germany rather than the United States this week — an indication that the preparatory work was not sufficient to get near a deal.
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We can handle the preparatory work for our eagerly awaited getaways, but no amount of planning, packing, and smooth vacation sailing is enough to brace us for dealing with the eventual paradise lost.
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Which is why it is more important than ever to fight for change and do the preparatory work needed to unstick the corroded gears of government and make rapid progress on climate action.
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Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the discussion, reported Wednesday that the bank is looking at a number of options and that there's no immediate plan of action, given the necessary preparatory work.
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Signaling their serious intent, an American-Israeli team charged with the preparatory work of mapping the exact areas to be annexed convened for the first time this week in the settlement of Ariel.
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While he was not a member of the panel, as the head of its secretariat Kobsak was responsible for preparatory work for meetings, collecting and collating background information and gathering views from interested parties.
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This week, Xiao Jie, the mayor of what China calls Sansha City, said China planned to begin preparatory work this year to build environmental monitoring stations on a number of islands, including Scarborough Shoal.
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Meituan-Dianping, an online platform for ordering food and booking movies and restaurants, has recently started preparatory work, aided by the three Wall Street banks, for the initial public offering (IPO), the people told Reuters.
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The Philippines plans to file a strong protest against China after it announced preparatory work for an environmental monitoring station on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
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The Nord Stream 2 consortium, an initiative of five European companies and Russian energy giant Gazprom, started starting preparatory work in the Greifswald bay off Germany's Baltic coast on a new twin pipeline last month.
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The audit has so far confirmed the reserves figures earlier given by Saudi Arabia, the sources said, an important part of the state oil company's preparatory work for its planned initial public offering next year.
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Earlier this month, Xiao Jie, the mayor of what China calls Sansha City, said China planned to begin preparatory work this year to build environmental monitoring stations on a number of islands, including Scarborough Shoal.
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The mayor in charge of administration of disputed South China Sea islands and reefs China controls last week said preparatory work was being planned this year to build monitoring stations on a number of islands.
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The government has been embroiled in a long-running argument with lawmakers - including from the ruling Conservative Party - over what preparatory work the government has undertaken, and how much of it should be made public.
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Former Port Authority vice-chairman Scott Rechler said in a recent interview that big projects sometimes do not do all the preparatory work necessary if they do not know where all their money will come from.
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Days before Mr. de Blasio announced his decision this month, he and John Tory, the conservative mayor of Toronto, spoke by phone for about 30 minutes, mostly about doing the "preparatory work" to ensure public support.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines plans to file a strong protest against China after it announced preparatory work for an environmental monitoring station on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
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Citi and Morgan Stanley were asked in 2016 to do initial preparatory work for the IPO, which could mark a step towards Iceland's rehabilitation in the global financial system almost a decade after its banking sector collapsed.
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The sources said that while the ECB has done preparatory work for such a scheme in the past, plans would need to be scrutinized and discussed by the policy-setting Governing Council before they can be implemented.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Preparatory work for a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump has begun, China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after a weekend visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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"On this visit to China by Secretary of State Tillerson, both sides had a deep discussion on arranging a meeting soon between the two heads of state and began relevant preparatory work," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.
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The publishing of the draft rules for public consultation means the launch of connect program is imminent, and preparatory work for the scheme is in full gear, the Shanghai Stock Exchange said in a statement on its website.
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We should conclude the scoping exercise, so the preparatory work for a negotiating mandate, before the end of the year and at the start of the next year, give a strong and clear negotiating mandate to the Commission.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Germany's central bank plans to hold some of its reserves in Chinese currency but no investment has been made and any transaction will be preceded by further preparatory work, a Bundesbank spokeswoman told Reuters.
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But Google makes sure to complete all its sales in Dublin — no matter how much preparatory work is done within the UK, and irrespective of the ads' localization — so its British operations generate negligible accounting profit, if any.
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The United States has conducted virtually no preparatory work for this effort; in fact, the administration's top North Korean expert resigned in February, "reportedly in frustration at being kept out of key policy meetings," according to NBC News.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government wants the European Commission to suspend preparatory work on negotiations with Turkey about modernizing the EU-Turkey Customs Union because it would send the "wrong signal", a draft paper obtained by Reuters showed.
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Depending on the app, you might need to do some preparatory work, but if a developer is making the source code available then you'll usually find basic instructions included to get it into a form that Xcode can recognize.
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A consortium of western companies and Russia's Gazprom that is due to build the controversial subsea Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany said on Tuesday it was starting preparatory work in the Greifswald bay off Germany's Baltic coast.
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Alexei Simanovsky, a first deputy governor of the central bank, said that all preparatory work may not be finished by the end of the month as discussions are ongoing and the rule may now come into force on May 1.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday she would start preparatory work on splitting Scotland from the rest of Britain in order to keep the option of independence available following the June 23 vote to leave the European Union.
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Only President Sergio Mattarella has the power to dissolve parliament and he may be unwilling to do so ahead of preparatory work in September for the 2020 budget, which must be presented to parliament and the European Commission the following month.
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They said the state aims to fine-tune the process by the end of this year and proceed with preparatory work in the first quarter of next year so that sales can take place in the second quarter of 2020.
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President Sergio Mattarella is the only person with the power to dissolve parliament, and may be unwilling to do so ahead of preparatory work in September for the 2020 budget, which must then be presented to parliament the following month.
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China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, an official said, as two U.S. senators introduced a bill to impose sanctions on its activities in the disputed waterway.
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The sources said that while the ECB has done preparatory work for such a scheme in the past, it has yet to be discussed by the rate-setting Governing Council and so would still face considerable scrutiny before any implementation.
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FRANKFURT, May 15 (Reuters) - A consortium of western companies and Russia's Gazprom that is due to build the controversial subsea Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany said on Tuesday it was starting preparatory work in the Greifswald bay off Germany's Baltic coast.
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"Our preparatory work includes adjusting existing systems so that they could continue to work in exactly the same way as now – but with the UK Government and the CAA fulfilling regulatory functions independently of the EU," the CAA said on its website.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, an official said, as two U.S. senators introduced a bill to impose sanctions on its activities in the disputed waterway.
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It includes the remastered album on three vinyl records, along with some drawings, a book of lyrics, some of Thom Yorke's "scrawled notes," a sketchbook of "preparatory work," and, of course, that C90 cassette tape with that lovely little Spectrum ZX computer program on it.
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"Very serious preparatory work is going on in the Kremlin, including a paper — seven pages — describing a psychological portrait of Trump, especially based on this last two to three months, and the last weeks," added Fedorov, who said he has known Trump since 2000.
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This week, Xiao Jie, the mayor of what Beijing calls Sansha City, an administrative base for disputed South China Sea islands and reefs it controls, said China planned preparatory work this year to build environmental monitoring stations on a number of islands, including Scarborough Shoal.
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Jack Ewing UTILITIES After years of preparatory work, the French utility Électricité de France — better known as EDF — says it will make a decision on Thursday on whether to go ahead with the first nuclear power station to be built in Britain since the 1990s.
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BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, an official said, as two U.S. senators introduced a bill to impose sanctions on its activities in the disputed waterway.
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - An audit of Saudi Aramco's oil reserves - an essential part of the preparatory work for its planned initial public offering - has found the state oil giant to have higher reserves than it previously reported, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - South African miner Gold Fields Ltd will complete preparatory work in 2019 at its Salares Norte project in northern Chile and is eyeing potential output of around 345,000 ounces of gold a year at the site by the early 2020s, a company executive said.
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Three people with knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Friday that much of the preparatory work has focused on a six-month extension at a steady pace of 80bn a month, while two other people were expecting an extension at lower volumes of 60bn a month.
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DUBAI/LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - An audit of Saudi Aramco's oil reserves - an essential part of the preparatory work for its planned initial public offering - has found the state oil giant to have higher reserves than it previously reported, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed the start of preparatory work for six nuclear reactors in India, a key step in closing the first deal stemming from a US-India civil nuclear accord struck more than a decade ago.
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"WE MUST GO AFTER THESE TERRORISTS," KERRY SAYS If the truce holds from Monday, Russia and the United States will begin seven days of preparatory work to set up a "joint implementation center", where they will share information to delineate territory controlled by Nusra and opposition groups.
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Given that Mr. Johnson's election victory was in part thanks to the defection of many northern districts from the opposition Labour Party, the rail project would have been hard to cut, particularly given the costs already sunk in the project, which started preparatory work eight years ago.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French state-owned nuclear fuel group Orano has agreed with China's CNNC to do preparatory work for the sale of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to the Chinese company, in the latest attempt to seal a deal that has been 10 years in the making.
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Mr. Thiam also said that the bank remained on track with its preparatory work for a partial initial public offering of its Swiss unit in the second half of this year but said that the bank would examine other potential options in light of the regulatory environment.
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Levy said it would take about three years, possibly a bit more, of study and work with sub-contractors before EDF will begin building the first definitive structures on the Hinkley Point C site, though the company will do terracing and other preparatory work between now and then.
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Spending jumped 40.5 percent to 475 million euros, with the money used for a longer-than-expected overhaul of its blast furnace in Linz, northern Austria; preparatory work for a new special steel plant Kapfenberg, central Austria; and the launch of a high-tech forging press for aerospace materials.
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"With the resumption of work now approved, the project company will commence with preparatory work as soon as feasible to ensure that the project can be completed in the expected time frame," CHEC Port City Colombo (Pvt) Ltd, which handles the project for CCCC, said in a statement.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed the start of preparatory work for six nuclear reactors in India, a key step in closing the first deal stemming from a U.S.-India civil nuclear accord struck more than a decade ago.
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Bromancing a US ally such as Japan is important, but the President's perceived dislike for any preparatory work -- and his desire to focus more on feting himself than on difficult policy discussions -- means that his four days in Japan may largely be a waste of Air Force One jet fuel.
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Padmanathan said on Monday that the IPO was postponed as the company had a lot of preparatory work to do and its balance sheet had to be "positioned in the right way," but added that the company is still committed to a listing, and the banks that were mandated have retained their role.
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There are two ways one can get a momentous result out of a leaders summit: The issues at hand could be very simple; or when issues are not simple, the summit can succeed only if there has been sufficient preparatory work to boil the issues down to a small number of well-defined questions.
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Preparatory work has already been completed in the last two years: The first two rows of seats in the loge section inside the Chatrier Court were ripped up after last year's tournament so a concrete wall measuring 25 meters long and 20193 meters deep could be put in place to support the future construction.
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Realizing they would need more help, Reinhard and Lipka recruited two even unlikelier coconspirators: Charles "Chas" Allen II, a straight-laced jock and already successful entrepreneur, and Eric Borsuk, who had dreams of joining the F.B.I.. After their preparatory work, they decided the best way to rob the library would be to pose as visitors and steal the books in broad daylight.
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Preparatory work on WFIRST has been ongoing for a few years, but it was only this week that NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center announced that the mission is officially a go, complete with $90 million in funding for the year 2016 thanks to the omnibus spending bill passed in December—way more than the $14 million requested for the mission by NASA.
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