The Financial Services Act of 1986 put an end to the pure self regulation regime. Financial interests opposed it vigorously at the time, viewing it as the thin end of a dangerous wedge, though they could not have guessed just how thick that wedge would eventually become.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

The Bush administration distinguished itself by driving a wedge between old Europe and new Europe. It is to be hoped that the Obama administration will adopt the opposite course.

And probably the best part of this piece is at dusk and dawn when the twilight wedge has fallen and the ground's dark, but there's still the light above, bright above.

He came up with this Bowden wedge heel that has to be made out of steel or titanium if you make it from some sort of cheaper material, it'll actually crack in two.

Third, domestic macroprudential and microprudential policies increase resilience. These policies should aim at reducing or eliminating the wedge between activities that are good for individuals, banks, and firms, and those that benefit society as a whole.

They stood with and for their judges, making it virtually impossible for judges willing to take Musharraf s oath of allegiance to operate. The lawyer s movement, it seems, drove a historic wedge between the judiciary and the executive.

The issue of whether or not the instrument should be legally binding should not be a wedge issue anymore, taking into account the fact that the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons is already criminalized in many jurisdictions.

On November 23, 2004, an article in the Shanghai Party Committee s orthodox Liberation Daily disagreed. It attacked the concept of public intellectuals, claiming that their independence drives a wedge between intellectuals and the Party and between intellectuals and the masses.

Neither side of the Atlantic is immune to the threat, despite the efforts of Osama bin Laden to drive a wedge between Europe and America. Transnational terrorism can only be confronted by close civilian cooperation such as intelligence sharing, police work across borders, and tracing financial flows.

Israel should play an active role in the fall of Assad as a way to undermine the region s Shia crescent and isolate its leader, Iran. Assad s defeat would break the axis of resistance, choke off Hezbollah s arms supplies, and drive a permanent wedge between Turkey and Iran.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

Renewables at the current levels of technological efficiency can make this much difference, and with what Vinod, and John Doerr, and others, many of you here a lot of people directly involved in this this wedge is going to grow much more rapidly than the current projection shows it.

In the end, it is the crippled financial system that is driving the wedge between China s large surplus of capital and formal financing for the country s SMEs. Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.

The most realistic scenario is now a three front war pitting Israel against Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah. But a Syrian Israeli peace would drive a wedge between Syria and Iran, thereby cutting off Hezbollah s lines of arms supply while allowing the vital task of stabilizing Lebanon to succeed.

When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.

When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.

Holes in the social safety net have led to high and rising levels of precautionary saving driving a wedge between increases in labor income and any impetus to discretionary purchasing power. Significantly, there were strong hints from senior Chinese leaders at the Forum that hukou reform is now under active consideration.

Xi seized the opportunity to drive a wedge between America s two main Asian allies, and built a memorial to Ahn. Japan responded by blasting China for glorifying a terrorist and propagating a one sided view of history a move that, Japan asserted, was not conducive to building peace and stability.

Leaders in the North may mistakenly believe that they can circumvent or outmaneuver the South the so called strategy of driving a wedge between the Republic of Korea and the US. But in the end, South Korea is the neighbor whom the North can truly trust and rely on the most.

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

In both cases financial stability and cyber security the risk of contagion creates a situation in which a wedge can form between private incentives and social risks. Admittedly, progress in the technology sector overall often produces huge social welfare gains, which arguably outstrip those produced by all other sectors in recent decades.

These trends reflect a combination of technological and global market forces that have been operating over the last two decades. On the technology side, labor saving innovations in network based information processing and transactions automation have helped to drive a wedge between growth and employment generation in both the tradable and non tradable sectors.

This alliance of Middle East moderates comes with a price that neither Israel nor the Bush administration seems ready to pay. The Israeli American strategy of driving a wedge between Gaza and the West Bank while shunning negotiations on a peace settlement that could give Abbas the ultimate tool to undermine Hamas is a policy at war with itself.

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

Finally, the war on terror drives a wedge between â œusâ and â œthem.â We are innocent victims they are perpetrators. While we seem not to notice that we also become perpetrators in the process, much of the rest of the world does notice â a gap in perception that has severely weakened Americaâ s international credibility and standing.

Finally, the war on terror drives a wedge between â œusâ and â œthem.â We are innocent victims they are perpetrators. While we seem not to notice that we also become perpetrators in the process, much of the rest of the world does notice â a gap in perception that has severely weakened Americaâ s international credibility and standing.

The reforms endorsed by the Third Plenum focus on this wedge between income and consumption, offering specific proposals aimed at altering the behavior of fear driven Chinese families. Especially important is the proposal to channel 30 of the profits of state owned enterprises (SOEs) currently running at close to 400 billion into the country s woefully under funded social safety net.

Finally, following Russia s annexation of Crimea in 2014, which drove a wedge between the Kremlin and the West, Turkey had carved out a strategically advantageous position between the two sides. But Turkey now finds itself increasingly isolated from both camps, owing to its downing of the Russian fighter and its staunch opposition to Assad, whom both American and European leaders increasingly believe will have to play some role in any political settlement.