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millstone
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A large round stone used for grinding grain.
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Perhaps more pertinently for Shell, however, is that your new partnership with Gazprom could well become a corporate millstone".
The boats' destruction becomes an economic millstone hung about individuals' necks; a debt that they cannot repay.
The jet engines and power plants have become a millstone around GE Capital's neck.This points to a simple conclusion: break up the company and set GE Capital free.
The result has been a steady decline in the amount of money set aside for road-building and maintenance (as well as for public transport and for the clean-up of leaks from fuel-storage tanks, both of which get small slices of the petrol-tax pie).In this section The nativist millstone Not so easy Just the ten extensions A jury of whose peers?
Let General Ramos, without the Marcos millstone, insist on having soldiers who can fight.
What makes televisions such a millstone for these firms is that none has the guts to exit the business completely; nor are they aggressively revamping it.
The memo continues: "Our biggest millstone has been his loose use of language and lack of judgment".
Ruined, vast its core could fit the whole of St Paul's Cathedral and protected from demolition by an English Heritage listing, it has been a millstone around the area's neck for four decades.
The city's college graduation rate is still a dismal 10%, though at least that is up from 8% a year ago.In this section The nativist millstone Not so easy Just the ten extensions A jury of whose peers?
Fewer people are turfed out of their homes, but the millstone of debt weighs for longer.America's private-sector debt reduction has also taken place against the backdrop of loose fiscal policy.
As for Mr Rossi's claim to reach out to Democrats, she retorts: "He has voted 96% of the time along party lines".In the end, what may sink Mr Rossi's bid for power is the millstone of Republican dogma in a state whose instincts are liberal.
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