Because of their superb starting pitching, because of the late-inning pit bull named Mariano Rivera, because of a chunk of offense from Bernie Williams, Hideki Matsui and Jason Giambi and, as usual, because of Jeter's cool, confident play, the Yankees rushed to three straight victories and buried the Twins.
But E.U. officials acknowledge that sanctions also remained a dead letter because impounding a chunk of a heavily indebted struggling country's G.D.P. would make no economic sense — an objection that appears equally valid for the new proposals.
So I'm here, pretending to be your dad, because for a chunk of the population – the same chunk that have a leather flip-case for their iPhones and an unexplained bit of blue rope in the boot of their cars – the absence of Clarkson is a huge deal.
And as ThinkProgress has already pointed out, the numbers are misleading because only a chunk of the total settlement has to be paid in actual cash; the rest can come in the form of breaks to consumers that will ultimately benefit the bankers.
But the country continued to spend less than it earned because exporters squirrelled a chunk of their profits away.A combination of factors kept domestic demand below par.
Interestingly, Molitor does not consider himself a lock to make it on the first ballot because he got a chunk of his hits as a designated hitter.
But Liddiard's reasoning is more prosaic: "It references that Taman Shud thing because it's a chunk of Australian history that people don't know, and a bunch of people who don't know their own history probably shouldn't be saying what is or isn't Australian".
It engineered the removal of Roger Agnelli as boss of Vale, a privatised mining giant in which the national development bank, the BNDES, still owns a chunk, because it did not like his emphasis on exporting iron ore to China instead of building steel mills at home.
More recently, he began indirect talks, through Turkish middlemen, with Syria.In any event, a deal with Mr Abbas may look half-baked, because the Gaza Strip, a chunk of the Palestinians' would-be state, is in the hands of Hamas, the Islamist enemy of Mr Abbas, whose authority is anyway uncertain in much of the West Bank (see article).
