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Merkel made clear that any direct bank recapitalization, if and when it is allowed, would not be retroactive and could only be applied for future contingencies.

Mr Hoon also claimed that the Human Rights Act - which incorporated the European convention into UK law - could only be applied in UK territory.

Under such a structure, the incentive fee could only be applied after the performance of this benchmark had been subtracted out".

"This change could only be applied through the issue of a general amnesty to all political prisoners, to promote democracy inside the country and to achieve a national political reconciliation.

Most notably, the British government would be permitted to limit benefits for migrant workers during their first four years in Britain, though this "emergency brake" could only be applied for seven years.

Pellegrini is entitled to say he has taken the club forward – although such an analysis could only be applied to City's Champions League record, not two seasons of treading water on the domestic front – but he has not taken the club very far forward.

In this study, we estimated the cytotoxicity and efficiency in PDT, examined the effectiveness of antitumor activity in K562 cells, and investigated the antitumor mechanism of the nanocomposites, suggesting that TiO2 Ws could not only be applied as the drug delivery system to carry GA into cancer cells but could also improve the antitumor effects for synergistic PDT.

Besides beekeeping, the use of this system could not only be applied in beekeeping land suitability evaluations, but may be successfully extended to other types of land suitability evaluations.

Networks of functional units proved to be cost-efficient and powerful address generators, but lacked in flexibility and could therefore only be applied for a small set of address sequences.

But these days, he said, minority members would be welcome if they could only be persuaded to apply.

According to Human Rights Watch, the Pentagon is spending about $6bn a year on research and development of unmanned systems, though in a directive adopted last November it said that fully autonomous weapons could only be used "to apply non-lethal, non-kinetic force, such as some forms of electronic attack".