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  • Hudson City Bancorp CEO Ron Hermance said that weak housing and unemployment account for "substan tial headwinds" in the mortgage market that should pressure earnings in 2011.

    Commercial and Trust Banks Diverge Dan Fitzpatrick 2011

  • This Budget is a tough budget - it demands substan - tially more austerity from government than many of its forerunners have - yet it does not sacrifice the fundamental objective of transformation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The business plan is based on a strategy designed to substan - tially reduce government subsidies and to transform BBC into a revenue generating resource for the provincial government, albeit in private hands.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The opening up of trading arrangements via GATT will have a substan - tial effect on our markets.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Boethius is found in In Isagogen Por - phyrii Commenta, Corpus Scriptorem Ecclesiasticorum Lati - norum, Vol. XLVIII (Vienna, 1906), 135-69; also Quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint cum non sint substan - tialia bona (London, 1928), pp. 44-45; and in De Trinitate

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

  • Hence those who have con - tended that a commitment to unrestricted determinism in human affairs would entail sweeping revisions of the vocabulary and categories the historian normally brings to the interpretation of his material have been substan - tially right.

    CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968

  • This is its “repre - sentational” side (Das ist denn für die Vorstellung), but it has another side, “it has the divine for its content, divine doing, divine, timeless happening, absolutely divine action, and this is what is internal, true, substan - tial in this story and is the very thing that is the object of reason.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas H. B. ACTON 1968

  • In this way, however, the stage was gradually set for more substan - tial advances in optics by Witelo and Dietrich von

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

  • In France before the Revolution, though the law was largely Romanized, its administration differed substan - tially from the patterns of Italy and Germany.

    LEGAL PRECEDENT T. B. SMITH 1968

  • Soviets, in which the Bolsheviks finally won a substan - tial majority.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BORIS SOUVARINE 1968

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