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The proposals by the commission to defer bankers' bonuses over 10 years were met with some scepticism by City watchers.

His measures on tax avoidance and non-domiciles – they will have to pay a £50,000 charge if they have lived in the UK for 12 years – were met with disappointment, however.

Claims that the chancellor's latest crackdown on tax avoidance would bring in a record-breaking £9bn over five years were met with scepticism yesterday by tax campaigners and industry professionals quick to point out that existing efforts were already failing to deliver.

When I interviewed Steve Ballmer last month, my repeated suggestions that Microsoft had struggled to innovate in recent years were met with some impatience.

For all three vaccine groups and all three strains, all US regulatory acceptance criteria (for subjects < 65 years including pediatric subjects) and all European criteria (for adults aged 18 to 60 years) were met except for the seroprotection rate (SPR) for the A/Brisbane (H1N1) strain in the Flu-25 group (68.7% with a 95% CI lower limit of 65.7%).

The news this week that it would not make the Fortune 500 list for the first time in years was met with resignation.

The suggestion that sprouts may be the cause of the outbreak, one of the most catastrophic food-borne illnesses in years, was met with caution by public health experts.

The video for Allen's comeback track "Hard Out Here", her first in four years, was met with allegations of racism for its use of twerking black back-up dancers.

The passing of legislation that could allow Japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time in 70 years was met with huge demonstrations outside Japan's parliament in Tokyo.

Christmas is about the birth of the Christ child, that one to whom "The hopes and fears of all the years are met," as we sing in our Christmas carol.

"The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight," went his lyric--a message that he yearned for a similar peace in his homeland.