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It claimed the measures were needed to prevent employers lowering their wage bill by firing workers.

Despite this, Tata said more drastic measures were needed to address its spiralling pension liabilities.

Lawmakers argued that harsh measures were needed to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The economy also suffered from the upheaval; austerity measures were needed to stabilize things once more.

Mr. Tsang said the measures were needed to keep the potential economic risk from spreading.

New measures were needed to prevent the onshore pipelines from damaging the 1,000-odd 1,000-odd they cross.

But Alexander was not unaware that other measures were needed to ensure his control of these vast territories.

Federal regulators and some industry groups realized long before the blackout that sweeping measures were needed to improve the reliability of power supplies.

It's particularly scathing about European Commissioner Olli Rehn, saying "Olli's folly" was to believe that tough austerity measures were needed to drive down public spending.

Ofgem said supplies of electricity for this winter would be unaffected, but that measures were needed to ensure supplies next year.

An accompanying editorial said that Rwanda's population "is already big enough" and that "drastic measures" were needed to keep it from growing.