Lloyds has stopped short of a hostile bid, saying it would only proceed if it could win approval from Abbey's board and a green light from regulators.
President Obama also broached the subject of the $7bn , 1,700mile (2,700km) Keystone XL pipeline, meant to bring heavy crude from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to the refineries of Texas, saying it should only proceed if it was in the nation's interest.
But days before the agreement for a working capital loan was to close in December 1985, a skittish Fidelity Bank said it would only proceed if 3M agreed to a short-term guarantee, which it did.
This work is necessary – but it can only proceed with a more sophisticated analysis of how today's landscape of hyperrational power has coerced a new and increasingly potent irrationalism into existence.
One overwhelming weakness of the UNFCCC process is that it can only proceed if every party agrees; meaning one country or a group of countries can dig the heels in until they get what they want.
It would be good to achieve a smaller House of Lords with an "elected element", he told MPs, though arousing suspicions that his heart is not in the reform he set the bar for success high, declaring that it could only proceed if the different political parties agreed to work together.
However, this still leaves open the question of how radical such a critique can be, i.e., whether it can only proceed in a context-dependent and peace-meal way or whether the very logic of recognition provides us with more abstract criteria of progress, such as egalitarian inclusion and the recognition of ever more aspects of individuals that fosters their autonomy (Honneth 2003, 184 185).
Im Gebiete des Rhythmus und der Zeit überhaupt gibt es keine Symmetrie" [" …, then it becomes clear why physiological time is irreversible like physical time, and only proceeds in one direction.
It is noteworthy that although [Ca2+]i remains elevated for a considerable period after a membrane depolarization, exocytosis only proceeds during the depolarization, echoing the activity of the Ca2+-channels [59].
The system is 100% selective in terms of dechlorination and phenol hydrogenation only proceeds once complete dechlorination has been attained.
