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Although for the most part he has since cut costs enough to match the city's means, the state's failure to amend the pension system, in which Chicago participates , raises yet another threat to its finances.With the city, state and federal governments all strapped for cash, Mr Emmanuel has had to turn to other sources of revenue.
In Britain, where DuPont participates in a voluntary emissions-trading programme, the government has, in effect, paid companies to accept reduction targets, he says.Deciding how to participate is tricky.
"Hamas no longer participates with the mujahideen," says Abdullah Shami, a veteran of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a more militant rival faction, which increasingly presents itself as the genuine article; Iran, the PIJ's keenest backer, supports it as an insurance policy in case Hamas abandons the battle altogether.But Hamas has not yet given up.
The group released a set of standards, called OpenSocial, that allows software developers to write applications that work with any social network that participates.
See articleSquaring a circleGermany's constitutional court ruled that the European Union's Lisbon treaty is compatible with German law, but only if the German parliament passes a new law to make clear that it participates fully in EU legislation.
Instead, he makes every effort to show the degree to which music not only reflects life but participates in it.
Still, American officials insist, any unity government, no matter who participates in it, will remain a pariah unless it meets the three conditions of the international "Quartet" (America, the EU, the UN and Russia): recognise Israel, renounce violence and accept previous Israeli-PA agreements.
Both sides may be still hoping that the gradual but steady narrowing of bond spreads in recent weeks (see the charts in my earlier post here) will obviate the need to ask the restive Bundestag for more money.Though ostensibly "independent", the ECB president, Mario Draghi, participates in European summits and proved instrumental on setting out a clearer timetable.
The listener participates through expression, posture and movement, and the speaker interprets what he sees to determine what the listener does and does not understand.
This is an extremely unpleasant outcome since household wealth will have been harmed, local economic conditions (including, presumably, the job market in which the household participates ) will have declined, and households will be less able to move away to a better market.
To allay Republican suspicions, Miss Reno feels obliged to keep her distance from the rest of the administration: she participates reluctantly in cabinet meetings, and refuses to glad-hand fat cats at fund-raising events.
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The primary grammatical function of "participates" is that of a verb , specifically the third-person singular present indicative form. It describes an action performed by a singular subject. Ludwig examples show it used to indicate involvement in various activities, events, or processes.
Expression frequency: Very common
