In about a quarter of the cases – 110 times – the health trusts stated "they had no plans to tender before the government instruction".
The project will be put out to tender before work can begin.
Yesterday two powerful and unpopular cabinet officials closely tied to Beijing -- Regina Ip, the security secretary, and Antony Leung, the financial secretary -- announced their departures, though Mrs. Ip claimed implausibly that her resignation had been tendered three weeks ago, before the protests.
Even if the Russian deal is approved, Mr Mittal can still scupper it, by buying 73% of Arcelor shares through his own tender offer before it expires in July.
About 7percentt of Normandy shares were tendered to AngloGold before the offer closed, the company said.
Seward tendered his resignation before he could even be sworn into office.
In a statement on Wednesday, West Yorkshire police authority said: "The chief constable's resignation was tendered this morning, before a meeting of the authority's special committee to consider matters arising out of the Hillsborough Independent Panel report".
The Southampton director of recruitment, who has tendered his resignation before his move to White Hart Lane, is one of those executives with the ambition and steel to drive matters forward on his terms.
But the gloomy Gus, Kaufman, was excluded from the firm's topmost management, as he had been before -- and he tendered his resignation in 1987, after the firm abandoned its commercial paper and municipal bond businesses in order to pursue high-yield lending (i.e., junk bonds).
In August of 2008 — in what now seems like a preternatural act of market timing; I had tendered my resignation months before — I finally left my job.
