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The State Bankers Association, to which many unit banks belonged, condemned the provisions designed to facilitate state-wide branching.
That insight arguably provides the best explanation of why Argentina excels at tango – and why it is failing to remain in the First World, where it once belonged.
In other words, both the language and the agenda that originally belonged to extreme-right parties have been appropriated by the political mainstream.
Transylvania, where the country's ethnic Hungarians are overwhelmingly concentrated, is also Romania's cultural bridge to the West, because this part of Romania belonged for centuries to the Hapsburg Empire.
They belonged, he thought, to an era of scarcity that the revolution would bring to an end.
In 1995, Kobe citizens extricated from the rubble were looked after if they belonged to corporations or religious groups.
This tendency would not be dangerous if its followers belonged only to the elder generation.
In the end, Chancellor Schroder was given a fig leaf to hide his embarrassment in the form of the present managing director, Horst Kohler, whose main qualification for the job is being German, unlike his two predecessors De Larosiere and Camdessus, who were distinguished French inspecteusr de finances, i.e. they belonged to the cream of cream in the bureaucratic elite of France.
Lucy belonged to a species called Australopithecus afarensis, which lived in East Africa between 3-4 million years ago and is thought to have been the immediate ancestor of our genus, Homo.
This date is too early for that creature to have belonged to a species of Homo, so it must have been an ancestor.
According to the Spanish indictment, Cavallo belonged to the operations unit of a group actively involved in kidnapping and torturing people whom the military regime perceived as leftist.
One bomb hit the home of the Hamoodi family, a respected, educated family, none of whose members belonged to the ruling Baath Party.
Adding to the drama, the misers’ bloc to which Britain belonged has fractured, with Germany indicating a willingness to be generous, while the Netherlands and Sweden are adamant they will not contribute a penny more.
Preserving domestic financial stability required limiting taxation of large deposits, because a substantial proportion belonged to foreign account-holders.
Indians have long been resigned to defeat for their national side (though this is changing), but they have always managed to produce individual record-breakers – outstanding cricketers like the batsmen Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar, or the all-rounders Vinoo Mankad and Kapil Dev, who were considered to be among the world’s best players, even if the Indian teams to which they belonged lost more often than they won.
In fact, a few days after killing Heywood, Gu donned a major general’s uniform (which could have belonged to her father, General Gu Jingsheng), convened police officers in Chongqing, and falsely claimed that she had received a secret order from the Ministry of Public Security to protect Wang’s personal safety.
The curtain call truly belonged to Beethoven, Kant, and Merkel.
I have an old fountain pen that belonged to my grandmother; it’s a nice memento of her, but I wouldn’t dream of using it to write this column.
To be sure, US criminal investigators have not officially identified the motives of the Kuwaiti-born Abdulazeez, who does not seem to have belonged to a terror network.
One carried a handwritten sign stating that it belonged to unit 325 of the North Korean army.
But the most eye-catching estate belonged to a modest officer from the tax services.
In October, that honor belonged to Wales.
A founding myth that so visibly harms those whom it claims to defend will return to the political fringe, where it has belonged all along.
The future, it seemed, belonged to global governance.
Before Homo sapiens became farmers, we belonged to forager communities that satisfied many of the social needs that go unmet today.
The saber in question belonged to El Hajj Omar Tall, founder of the Toucouleur Empire, which once extended from present-day Senegal into Mali and Guinea.
This was the case with Ulyukayev and Belykh, who belonged to the group of in-system liberals, and Abyzov, who was considered to be a Medvedev man.
Of course, neither background checks nor a red-flag law would have prevented the slaughter at Sandy Hook (the guns, after all, belonged to the shooter’s mother, whom he killed first).
From about the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, people in most parts of the world belonged either to an empire or, increasingly, to an independent country.
Nearly everything said and written about the issue reflects the outcome of the June 1967 Six-Day War, which left Israel in control of territories that had previously belonged to Jordan (East Jerusalem and the West Bank), Egypt (the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza) and Syria (the Golan Heights).
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