The conditions include things like ensuring that bank recapitalizations — adding financial cushions — would comply with European rules covering state aid.
That might simply sound like ensuring a level playing field, but for some market-minded Tories it signals a retreat.Much depends on how such opaque wording is interpreted.
Some cash transfers are "conditional": the recipient has to meet certain conditions to receive the dosh, like ensuring their children go to school or visit a doctor regularly.
We lowered premiums while providing critical patient protections, like ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions have access to affordable coverage.
There would still remain many difficult steps, like ensuring that cells that are generated to repair the patient's tissue are correctly programmed, well behaved and noncancerous.
That money wasn't available to invest in other areas of environmental protection, like ensuring indoor air quality in schools, that might have done much more good.
He also pays attention to the most picayune cosmetic details, like ensuring that the colors of Google's logo were exactly right on early versions of the iPhone.
The greening process is often more about optimizing existing elements, like ensuring that cross-ventilation isn't inadvertently blocked, than about radical retrofits.
And it means that a number of sensitive ethical concerns, like ensuring that kidneys are allocated according to universally accepted priorities, could go unsettled for years.
Does that sound like "ensuring energy bills for hardworking families and businesses are kept as low as possible" or "taking action against climate change today"?
Later on, you find missions like ensuring two drivers come first and second in a cross-city race, by flipping between the two cars.
