The problem for Turnbull is that his majority is wafer thin.
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Quarterly, I got that crawly feeling in my wafer-thin stomach.
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This allowed the more motivated oppositionto snatch a wafer-thin victory.
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It was just a wafer-thin slab of machined purple-pink aluminum.
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And Ireland's low-tax regime leavens the industry's otherwise wafer-thin margins.
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The Canada side prevailed, but by a wafer-thin margin of 50.58%.
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We explore the wafer-thin constructions of Japanese computer scientist Jun Mitani.
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Digital creativity, as conducted on wafer-thin laptops, has become increasingly disembodied.
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If the center is dry, start shaving wafer-thin sections of the wood.
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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz commands a wafer-thin majority in parliament.
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Given the government's wafer-thin majority, this small band has undue clout (see article).
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"The model's flying membrane is wafer-thin and ultralight whilst also robust," says Festo.
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To be clear, I testified that this record was comparatively not actually wafer thin.
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Her wafer-thin victories suggest that Parliament is close to an impasse over Britain's withdrawal.
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But in France, Maastricht passed in a referendum by a wafer-thin margin (50.8 percent).
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THERE ARE 22013 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX.
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Now, they are suspending operations as a surge in smuggled bullion wipes out wafer thin margins.
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Those states, by a wafer-thin margin, ultimately helped put Trump over the top in 2016.
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Deposit rates are wafer-thin; banks are unlikely to charge retail customers for parking their funds.
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Wafer thin lending margins under the Bank of Japan's negative rates policy has also squeezed profitability.
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"Xiaomi has wafer thin margins in all its markets," said Peter Richardson, director at Counterpoint Research.
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"The walnut veneers on the door are wafer thin," he said, pointing to the clock case.
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Over 1,500 of the bank's 2,425 branches are in Germany, where banking margins are wafer thin.
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Any prolonged absences from Washington by the Arizona senator will further reduce McConnell's already wafer-thin majority.
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The wafer-thin margin suggested that Parliament is close to an impasse over Britain's withdrawal, or Brexit.
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That exodus has left the government with only a wafer-thin majority in the upper house Senate.
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Its fees are wafer-thin: it makes 270 cents of revenue a year for every dollar it manages.
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That might result in a government with a wafer-thin hold on power, or another election within months.
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By the time you'd touched the first wafer-thin turtleneck, you knew: This is a too-expensive shop.
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His face is printed on wafer-thin edible paper and placed upon a layer of buttercream frosting. Yum!!!
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Analysts have told CNBC that the eventual winner is only likely to win by a wafer-thin margin.
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But these carmakers, already operating with wafer-thin profit margins, must still invest heavily in anticipation of that moment.
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For smaller companies operating on wafer thin margins, hiring accountants and technical staff could substantially dent their bottom line.
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After all, we'd already cycled through such wafer-thin small-screen flotsam as Charlie's Angels, The A-Team, and CHiPs.
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In 2003, while in Munich on a business fellowship, he first tasted the wafer-thin slices of a Perigord truffle.
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The decision will anger sports fans and clean athletes, whose trust in the global antidoping authority is already wafer thin.
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At the same time margins are wafer-thin, as carriers offer one of the world's cheapest data and voice prices.
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The bankruptcy is a sign of mounting pressure on small and regional grocers in an industry with wafer-thin margins.
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The best case for the Tories today is a wafer-thin majority under a prime minister whose authority may never recover.
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This instant accessibility drives the session volumes that enable F2P to work on the wafer-thin margins that characterize the model.
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That would give May enough votes to pass her legislative agenda through parliament and govern, albeit with a wafer-thin majority.
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VIENNA — Austrians rejected a right-wing populist to represent them as head of state by a wafer-thin margin last year.
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His desk doesn't feature a wafer-thin laptop or, indeed, a computing device of any description; he prefers the handwritten word.
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A wafer-thin majority -- 32 of 63 economists -- now predict the deposit rate, currently at -0.4 percent, won't rise until next year.
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But he believed that power is still firmly in the hands of the brands, not suppliers already operating on wafer-thin margins.
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But why would you settle for wafer thin pages and weak spines when there's a world of top notch notebooks to scribble in?
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The yuan gained more than 0.5 percent by midday, a sizable leap for a currency that normally trades in a wafer-thin range.
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It then projected a steady, if slow, improvement to A$10 billion by mid-2020 and a wafer-thin surplus the year after.
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The bloc held a wafer-thin lead over the center-right Alliance with less than 50 of 6,004 districts still to be counted.
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If Johnson followed through with this threat, it would eradicate his wafer-thin parliamentary majority and make his ability to govern very difficult.
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Fashioned from a wafer-thin slice of polished Arizona turquoise, its numerals and bezel are studded with more than 100 brilliant-cut diamonds.
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He declared the evidence against the president to be "wafer-thin" and he colorfully compared the Democratic case for impeachment to be lacking.
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Johnson has a wafer-thin majority — it would only take about 10 rebel MPs to vote against Johnson's government for him to lose.
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In this procedure, a wafer-thin piece of porcelain is bonded to the front of the teeth, instantly altering the shape, size, and color.
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Johnson's Conservatives need the support of 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland's Brexit-backing Democratic Unionist Party for even a wafer-thin majority in parliament.
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Party discipline will be of critical importance in the coming months, with the Conservative government's majority wafer-thin and set to get even smaller.
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Carillion's problems echo those of Balfour Beatty, which went head-to-head with competitors to take on projects at wafer-thin margins during the recession.
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The requirement of a supermajority was designed to prevent acrimony should the vote end in a wafer-thin margin for one side or the other.
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"Maybe in a few years the floods will cover this island," Mr Tepenea says of Tarawa, one of Kiribati's 33 wafer-thin islands and atolls.
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The wafer thin discs then have to rest for a couple of hours so the gluten can start to work and make the pancake elastic.
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"50p may not sound much but airlines operate on wafer thin margins," Tim Alderslade, its chief executive, said, adding that voluntary rescue fares worked well.
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Johnson will have to see how the government's wafer-thin majority — only provided by a staunchly pro-Brexit party in Northern Ireland — lasts under his leadership.
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Both it and BNEF say that the battery manufacturers are either losing money or making only wafer-thin profits on every electric-vehicle battery they produce.
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Losing Davies also reduces the wafer-thin working majority of Britain's Conservative-led government, which already relies on the support of a small Northern Irish party.
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Ayub, 16 and wafer-thin, recalled how he left his home in the restive Oromia region of Ethiopia one night after taking part in antigovernment protests.
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Lucky's struggles are a symptom of growing pressure on smaller grocery chains in an industry with wafer-thin margins, rising competition and consolidation from big chains.
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"Obviously it's not wafer-thin," Karlan said, adding "the strength of the record is not just in the July 25 call" with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky.
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Once Johnson has assembled his team and spoken to key world leaders, the tricky business of governing the UK with a wafer-thin parliamentary majority will begin.
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Analysts believe the conservative Liberal National coalition will limp back into office, securing a wafer-thin majority of 76 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives.
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Outsourcer Interserve this week become the latest company to move to shore up its balance sheet, underlining the frailties of a sector where margins can be wafer-thin.
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The onshore yuan has risen just over 21 percent against the dollar in August, a sizable gain for a currency that typically trades in a wafer-thin range.
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Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, flagged concerns about the pub sector as a whole, citing its wafer-thin margins that are vulnerable to cost inflation.
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The onshore yuan has gained 2.2 percent against the dollar so far this month, a sizable gain for a currency that typically trades in a wafer-thin range.
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The outcome was a wafer-thin victory for Kennedy, who garnered 49.7 percent of the vote and 303 electoral votes, versus 49.5 percent and 219 votes for Nixon.
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Both onshore and offshore yuan strengthened more than half a percent in morning trade, a dramatic move for a currency that usually wavers in a wafer-thin range.
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Representative Sheila Jackson Lee quoted me as saying that the record is "wafer thin" and held up two binders to prove there is an extensive record for impeachment.
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Magdalena Stoklosa of Morgan Stanley says that resolution regulation is obliging banks to finance themselves by fairly expensive means when deposits cost them nothing and margins are wafer-thin.
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The vote came after three days of debate and was a test for the 16-party coalition government that has a wafer-thin majority in the 500-member house.
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The defining features of St. Louis-style pizza are a wafer-thin bottom and the use of Provel cheese, a slick-tasting processed mixture of Cheddar, swiss and provolone.
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Today, the veneer of proxies separating Russian and American forces is wafer thin -- so too between Turkish troops and America's Syrian allies -- as Iran's entrenchment collides with Israel's interests.
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In the region's largest economy, Germany, banks are struggling with wafer-thin margins and some lenders are even looking at the previously unthinkable possibility of charging customers for holding deposits.
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Morgan Sindall's results contrast with that of sector peers, who have been hit over the past year after they took on work at wafer-thin margins during the financial downturn.
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Anil Mittal, who runs a container logistics company and is a member of Bombay Goods Transport Association, said his firm was "already operating at wafer-thin margins" before prices rose.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras shrugged off the resignation of a lawmaker from his fragile governing coalition on Tuesday that left the government with a wafer-thin majority.
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Mr. López Obrador lost the 2006 presidential race by a wafer-thin and controversial margin, lost again in 2012 and still continued his democratic pursuit of the highest elected office.
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One person is still rocking a plucky little Vindicator, cutting it down to wafer-thin armor but kitting it out with an even greater arsenal of jump gets and sniper weapons.
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Given that this body is packed with the party's sympathisers, Mr Leung's wafer-thin majority was a sign that not even the party itself was convinced he was the right person.
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Even then, the majority is wafer-thin - and some lawmakers have threatened to bring down the government, a step that would probably deepen Britain's political crisis and lead to an election.
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But Edina Hong, one half of the dynamic duo at the Emmanuel Stroobant Group, said that by staying lean in a sector with wafer-thin margins, it was possible to succeed.
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To make the shawarma, they slice celeriac into hundreds of wafer-thin layers which are then built around a black currant branch that has been trimmed to act as a spear.
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A group of scientists in the U.K. created a membrane 'sieve' capable of removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable by using graphene, a wafer-thin sheet of carbon atoms.
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Atop each of the shellfish, including a funkily flavored pipi and and a red-rimmed strawberry clam, is a wafer-thin sheet that melts on the tongue as you eat it.
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He says we have to work at unlearning the experience of rudeness and spectatorship and the wafer-thin approach to public life and social connection that is dominating American life today.
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Bose's AR kit is a "wafer-thin" acoustics package that the company hopes can be added to headphones, eyewear, helmets and other wearables to give a new spin on reality "augmentation".
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The issue with this claim, and I have to believe Kennedy is smart enough to know this, is the thread he is hanging the Ukraine meddling story on is wafer thin.
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The restaurant chain, known for its crisp, wafer-thin, rice flour pancakes or "dosas" and fragrant, spice-filled vegetable stew, is now run by his two sons, according to the hotel's website.
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Last week was the yuan's best week since February 2016, as it gained 0.65 percent against the dollar - a sizable leap for a currency that normally trades in a wafer-thin range.
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People like me, who live in small apartments with wafer-thin walls and can't crank up the sound because the police would be at my door in a hot minute if I did.
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Bennett appears principled, while Netanyahu appears pliable, a man with a wafer-thin Knesset majority who can be dragged against his better judgment and his own long-held policy positions into Bennett-land.
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Undercutting the competition on price at least looks set to sustain Xiaomi as a significant player in fitness wearables, where looks are less important — provided its strategy of wafer-thin profits is sustainable.
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Those savings, including welfare reforms, had artificially reduced the red ink in the budget after they were blocked by opposition lawmakers in a hostile Senate where the government has a wafer-thin majority.
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Johnson's government already relies on the support of a small Northern Irish party for its wafer-thin majority, with just a handful of rebels in his own Conservatives needed to lose key votes.
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When you are a mega-celebrity, the partition that separates real life from performance becomes wafer-thin—especially if you're the kind of celeb who stages their own life on Instagram, like an autopaparazzo.
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If Democrats win control of Congress, even by a wafer-thin margin, Mueller will suddenly gain a small army of powerful new supporters with the ability to launch their own parallel investigations, experts said.
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A wafer-thin margin seemed likely, thanks to opposition expected from every Democrat and more than a dozen Republicans, plus lobbying against the bill by the AARP seniors organization, doctors, hospitals, and patients' groups.
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Nevertheless, the findings published on Saturday will likely lead to more calls for Johnson to call an early election, in order to increase the Conservative government's wafer-thin majority in the House of Commons.
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However, the poll by daily Reforma showed Delfina Gomez of Lopez Obrador's party, the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), holding a wafer-thin lead over PRI rival Alfredo del Mazo, a cousin of Pena Nieto.
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The show begins and ends with several of Mr. Alaïa's final works, including a collared chain mail evening gown with wafer-thin black chiffon pleats that was finished by his studio after his death.
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The centerpiece of the studio is a black drafting desk by Ben Storms, a contemporary Belgian designer, made from a wafer-thin slice of foam topped with a 4-millimeter layer of inky marble.
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"Watermelon and Knife" of 1839 is an exquisitely beautiful yet enigmatic depiction of a simple ritual, the fruit sitting under a translucent sheet of paper, wafer thin twirls of just-cut flesh hanging above.
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"It would be very hard to overcome that level of additional cost, given that plants operate on wafer-thin margins," Hawes said, adding that carmakers generally make only a 2-4 percent return on investment.
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Holding a wafer thin parliamentary majority of just one seat, Turnbull opted to call a non-binding ballot as it was politically the least risky way of putting a highly emotive issue on the agenda.
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Researchers say they have developed a new way to monitor preterm babies using cordless, wafer-thin integrated technology and soft mechanics with little to no adhesive, according to a study published in Science on Thursday.
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The Democrat & Chronicle reports: Decorating the specialty treats involves printing an image of 79-year-old Fauci on wafer-thin edible paper and placing the paper on top of a thick layer of buttercream frosting.
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When the politicians are mad — so mad that they have shut down all policymaking to impeach the President of the United States on what constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called "wafer thin" evidence —Trump is winning.
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And as is often the case in Florida, a swing state legendary for its wafer-thin voting margins, some of the vote counts were so close that people were still watching them on Wednesday morning.
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However, if your living situation's like mine â€" a post-war apartment complex with wafer-thin walls, floors, and ceilings â€" you won't be able to get much out of the Home Max's maximum volume setting.
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The broader AR market is made up of a lot of hype and excitement, but fundamentally it's all based around the promise that waveguide displays can continue to stay wafer-thin while getting better and cheaper.
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He lost the popular vote by millions and only pulled his inside straight in the electoral college by a wafer-thin 78,000 or so votes out of nearly 14 million cast across Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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Read more:Boris Johnson's plan to force through Brexit could be ruled illegalRead more: Tory MP Charlie Elphicke charged with three counts of sexual assaultPerhaps Johnson's biggest problem is the wafer-thin parliamentary majority he will inherit.
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That year, Europe hinted at what was to come over the next three decades by chasing the Americans hard before going down by the wafer-thin margin of 14-1/2 points to 13-1/2.
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In recent years, the company has hemorrhaged money into advertising and improving its inventory selection, investments that have failed to improve the company's "already wafer-thin margins," Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail, said previously.
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Voters turned out in force for nativist fringe parties, which have a bigger presence in Queensland than elsewhere, transforming coalition seats around the Galilee Basin that had previously been held by wafer-thin majorities into conservative strongholds.
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The opening nominating clashes in the snows of winter set the tone, from her wafer-thin victory in the Iowa caucuses to her humiliating defeat in the New Hampshire primary, for a tight, increasingly bitter nominating race.
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The small town near my late grandmother's house decided, back in the early noughties, that it was the "home of gingerbread," based on wafer-thin evidence and a desperate need to attract tourists to the Shropshire countryside.
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Asked if Prime Minister Theresa May would secure the backing of her own parliament for the deal, given that she holds a wafer-thin majority with the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, Hunt was positive.
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I always considered my father the toughest man I knew, but never more than when I saw him — razor blade in one hand, one Parkinson's pill in another — as he sliced the pill into wafer-thin segments.
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But Kuczynski — who was elected to be president in June by a wafer thin 0.2 percentage point lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of imprisoned strongman Alberto Fujimori — is not as dry as his international image suggests.
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But Kuczynski — who was elected to be president in June by a wafer thin 20073 percentage point lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of imprisoned strongman Alberto Fujimori — is not as dry as his international image suggests.
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Roberto D'Alimonte, a politics professor at Rome's Luiss University, calculated it would need 40 percent of the proportional vote and 70 percent of first-past-the-post seats to get a wafer-thin majority in the lower house.
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The benchmark emerging market stocks index edged up 0.1 percent in wafer-thin trading, but was on course to end the week down 1.2 percent and in the red for the first time since the start of July.
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Because of China's tightly managed currency policy, the yuan usually swings in a wafer-thin range, but implied volatility has fallen to the lowest levels in 20 months as cautious traders watch the trade talks enter their endgame.
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The film might have been an attempt to create a good old-fashioned love triangle, but the events leading up to it feel unnecessarily contrived, and the plot (by Nitesh Tiwari and Shreyas Jain) wafer-thin and stretched.
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As he defends a wafer-thin majority in Britain's June 8 election, he wants to focus on issues directly affecting his farming constituency bordering England, with its struggling economy that may suffer further when Britain leaves the European Union.
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A series of boxy paneled leather looks opened the show, followed by luxe quilted suits, wafer-thin second-skin cutout looks inspired by Mexican lanterns, and finally signature uniform staples with photo prints reminiscent of a male anatomical sketch.
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Traders expect the yuan to remain in a wafer-thin range ahead of the G20 leaders' summit in Japan later this month, in line with China's past practices of keeping the currency steady during major domestic and global political events.
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Facebook's response to devastating criticism from the UN looks like wafer-thin crisis PR to paper over the ethical cracks in its ad business, given the same sorts of alarm bells are being sounded again, just over a year later.
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The former foreign secretary will also be under pressure to address pressing questions about who will be in his Cabinet, how he will resolve the Brexit crisis, and how he might govern with a wafer-thin House of Commons majority.
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Johnson's government already relies on the support of a small Northern Irish party for its wafer-thin majority, with just a handful of rebels in his own Conservatives needed to lose key votes - as his predecessor Theresa May repeatedly found.
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The final result of the March 31 local elections gave a wafer-thin majority to the secularist opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) in Turkey's commercial hub, ending 25 years of control by the AK Party (AKP) and its Islamist predecessors.
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Born in 1970, I grew up influenced by some ideals of feminism, but these had to compete with the images of wafer-thin models in magazines and the message that the world would ultimately judge us on how we looked.
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Don't get the ex-NBA coach wrong ... he likes Melo and thinks he can still shoot it -- but, he tells TMZ Sports, the market for the 10-time All-Star after he moves on from Houston will be wafer-thin.
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After losing the 2006 election by a wafer-thin margin (0.58 percent), he declared the election fraudulent and led his followers in occupying the Paseo de la Reforma, the central artery of Mexico City, an action rejected by the public.
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Turnbull's Liberal Party, the senior partner in the ruling coalition with the Nationals, has a wafer-thin majority in parliament and has trailed the Labor Party in opinion polls on a two-party preferred basis for more than two years.
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Like many people born in Europe between the mid-1920s and the mid-1930s, he learned at far too tender an age that the difference between being OK and not OK, between safety and death, between peace and war, is mostly wafer thin.
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Cate had swum a blistering split time of 51.00 in the 4x100m freestyle relay to help set the world record and with Canada's strong opening with Kylie Masse and Kierra Smith, the sprint between Bronte and Ruck was expected to be wafer thin.
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The opposition center-left Democratic Party (PD) said it was calling for a parliamentary motion of no-confidence in Salvini, hoping to persuade some 5-Star dissidents to vote against him in the upper house, where the government has a wafer-thin majority.
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But he has a wafer thin majority in parliament - his predecessor May failed three times to win the backing of lawmakers for her agreed deal - and that and a flurry of spending pledges have sparked talk of an election later this year.
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Sales of these gizmos and Xiaomi's low-cost but high-specification handsets accounted for 2138% of its $2700bn in revenues last year, yet they made only wafer-thin gross profits of 20143%, a small fraction of the 22014% that Apple makes on its iPhones.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ursula von der Leyen had to dangle a range of promises on migration, taxes, climate change and the rule of law to secure even a wafer-thin margin of support in the European Parliament to become the EU's first female chief executive.
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It seeks to avoid the disastrous full mergers that have beset the car industry in past decades, but goes further than the limited co-operation deals that fail to address the industry's shortcomings: wafer-thin profitability and the hefty cost of rolling out new models.
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Mr. Sturgess ("Across the Universe") works valiantly to give some weight to his wafer-thin character, and the young Mr. Jacob is touching as T.J. But in the early episodes, at least, there's not much Mr. Schwimmer can do with Tommy, the victim's victim.
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The u-turn in long-held market expectations has seen the yuan gain about 22015 percent in the three trading days since last Wednesday, a sizable leap for a currency that normally trades in a wafer-thin range and shed 6.5 percent last year.
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At least it's memorable, which is more than can be said for the $25 jumble of smoked wild mushrooms held together by a wafer-thin one-egg "omelet," or the $38 chicken "à la Queen," which is like chicken cacciatore that's been fancied up.
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Most outsourcers have been forced to cut costs and shrink operations after they grew through the economic downturn by securing contracts at wafer-thin margins, leading to sprawling groups that were unable to counter the slowdown sparked by Britain's decision to leave the European Union.
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But, a wafer-thin parliamentary majority for the ruling Conservative Party — with less than 100 days until the world's fifth-largest economy is due to leave the European Union — has led some external observers to believe an election could be called before the October 31 Brexit deadline.
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But Italy's next government could well have a wafer-thin majority and ex-Christian Democrats—natural centrists and often ideologically flexible—are renowned for the ease with which they shift their allegiances and the skill with which they exploit their position, close to the fulcrum of Italian politics.
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While the DUP objects to any arrangement that would treat Northern Ireland differently, its voice in the matter has diminished since Johnson has lost his wafer-thin parliamentary majority in the spiralling political turmoil in the UK and so would be short of votes with or without the party.
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On the beach, $22 allowed rental of an antiquated small umbrella ... The internet did not work on the beach and only by the pool if close to the main hotel … The rooms are tired, with wafer-thin walls and very noisy air conditioning units and was noisy outside.
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The process of trying to overturn those defeats in the lower house of parliament is expected to test May's authority over her divided party, and her ability to get the legislation passed with the wafer-thin working majority she has courtesy of a deal with a small Northern Irish party.
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The idea of building a complete compendium of human knowledge has existed for centuries, and there was always talk of finding some better substrate than paper: H. G. Wells thought microfilm might be the key to building what he called the "World Brain"; Thomas Edison bet on wafer-thin slices of nickel.
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The latest maneuver in parliament serve to thwart the new prime minister, who also lost his wafer thin majority in parliament this week after the defection of one of his MPs and the deselection of a number of "rebel" Tory MPs that voted to stop a no-deal Brexit, that is, voted against the government.
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There are, as should be expected, accounts — very interesting accounts — of a heavily reinforced glass ceiling and its occasional, wafer-thin cracks in "The Glass Universe" (did Dava Sobel intend this pun?), the title a reference to the tens of thousands of fragile photographic glass plates used to capture the stars that migrated across the mound of sky above the observatory.
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Matt Kenseth had looked poised to add his name to the short list of three-time Daytona 500 winners when he led inside the final half-lap, but instead it was his Joe Gibbs Racing team mate who passed Truex only a few feet from the finish line to claim victory by a wafer-thin 1/100th of a second, the smallest margin in the 58-year history of the race.
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While known for meat dishes, including their wafer-thin "Kung Fu" roast beef, cured in a soy marinade, or their sweet and sour "Asia" pork ribs, there is plenty of fish (the almost-raw tuna, crusted in sesame and served in an avocado-mango-lime vinaigrette, is a favorite) and vegetarian options, including asparagus with hollandaise sauce and parsley potatoes or creamy burrata served with caramelized melon and pesto.
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