The growth rate will be lower if earnings are used to buy back shares.

On a more a serious note, Mohamed ElGohary wondered whether the Egyptian government is using the case as a vehicle for blackmailing Vodafone Egypt

This naturally prompts questions about whether Iran is using the current round of negotiations as a façade for an ongoing effort to develop nuclear weapons.

The police used heavy vehicles.

For almost a decade, people have wondered how China would use its gargantuan foreign exchange reserves, particularly whether it would challenge the supremacy of the dollar.

The question is whether Asia s infrastructure investments, particularly those by China, will be used to create Asian satellites of the Middle Kingdom, or become tools to be used among equals.

Most of the states that currently use or have used the electric chair lie east of the Mississippi River.

Bagua concepts were also used to jinx the opposing team.

In some cultures, astronomical data was used for astrological prognostication.

The rank of sanjak bey, which was standard in the Empire, was not used in Egypt.

Examples As an example, if the exact value is 50 and the approximation is 49.9, then the absolute error is 0.1 and the relative error is 0.1 50 0.002 0.2 .

There has been much discussion about rich countries commitments to increase funds, and whether governments in the developing world have used resources effectively.

The crucial point is not the German economy s renewed strength, but whether Germany will use this strength in Europe s interest or its own.

If these charges are true, the bank executives involved may fear that civil lawsuits would uncover evidence that could be used in criminal prosecutions.

Three ships were used to transport the expedition, all diesel electric.

Three diesel electric ships were used to transport the expedition.

The station was then used as a summer only station by the Chileans.

That signal was used to disable the i486SX when the i487 was installed.

If you use Apple's Keynote, it's got an even better version in Keynote.

And as more of the pattern comes into view using new machines like the Large Hadron Collider, we may be able to see whether nature uses this E8 pattern or a different one.

The overwhelming standard for supplying official development assistance should therefore be whether official assistance actually promotes economic development.

The silver based treatment was used until the first antibiotics came into use in the 1940s.

Mr. Gzlall (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) asked whether the new Human Rights Council would employ other tools besides the peer review mechanism and whether that mechanism was to be used in addition to the treaty bodies.

This was because Church Slavonic was used directly in liturgy instead.

But during the cold war they were also used for position taking in negotiating processes.

They acknowledged early on that they were using imperfect and untested tools.

Under Khrushchev, however, Solzhenitsyn s work was used to liberate the country from the grip of Stalinism.

Election symbols are used in many countries, whether it is Liberia, Sudan or India, and George Iype wrote in Rediff why those symbols are used in India One of the biggest problems for many voters in India, where a large part of the population is still illiterate, is how to identify their chosen candidates on the ballots. The Election Commission, thus, has the laborious task of allocating separate election symbols for each party and the innumerable independent candidates.

It is an Islamic legal system that had been used long before the colonial administration.

In 1921 and 1925, postmodernism had been used to describe new forms of art and music.

In the past, the law has been used to curb parties of both the extreme left and the extreme right.

Only during the period when Burundi used the Belgian Congo franc were centime coins issued.

A supply of frogs was usually on hand, as they were used in the frog galvanoscope.

According to one speaker, however, at times it seemed as if thematic debates were used for domestic purposes as much as for those of the Council.

It was not clear to her whether that committee or the Ministry for the Family, the Protection of Children and the Advancement of Women was responsible for the legal reforms and what mechanisms would be employed to that end.

For some years, most PC sound cards have had multiple FM synthesis voices (typically 9 or 16) which were usually used for MIDI music.

During the past decade, Italy has used a majority electoral system corrected by a proportional quota.

Historically, Egypt has used its intelligence services, supplemented by the police and the CSF, to fight Islamist militants.

If Greece still had its own currency, everything would be easier.

Arbitrary arrests and torture by his secret police, SAVAK, were used to crush all forms of political opposition.

Clothing was made from a variety of animal hides that were also used for shelter construction.

Some regions in Japan, including Shibuya and Harajuku were used as the shooting location.

Further, local authorities have also used official prisons as their own private prisons.

In 2002, only 16 per cent of family planning users used the condom.

She asked whether that information was correct and, if so, whether the Israeli Government was taking any measures to protect those women.