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The protest in May was the climax of a series of demonstrations in the nation's capital.
Writing an e-mail message in all capital letters is considered a breach of netiquette because it looks like you are shouting.
The protests are increasing, creating a volatile situation in the capital.
Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven.
After suffering heavy losses, the Austrians briefly occupied the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
Living in the country's capital had deepened her knowledge of politics.
Social capital helps children engage with different age groups that share a common goal.
Such factors include capital accumulation, technological change and labour force growth.
Increased trade in goods, services and capital between countries is a major effect of contemporary globalization.
Ricardo saw an inherent conflict between landowners on the one hand and labour and capital on the other.
He posited that the growth of population and capital, pressing against a fixed supply of land, pushes up rents and holds down wages and profits.
There is some research that suggests that immigration adversely affects social capital.
Research finds that emigration and low migration barriers has net positive effects on human capital formation in the sending countries.
Lahore is Pakistan's political stronghold and education capital and so it is also the heart of Pakistan.
Pending resolution of the dispute, it was declared as a separate Union Territory which would serve as the capital of both the states.
His cross appears in many buildings and local flags, including the one of the Catalan capital, Barcelona.
I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man.
However, all running costs are paid by the ELBs and all capital costs by the Department of Education.
In 2004, it was reported that Silicon Fen was the second largest venture capital market in the world, after Silicon Valley.
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The Earl retreated, allowing the King control of the capital, and the Tower experienced peace for the rest of Henry's reign.
When the Order began to build a new capital Valletta in 1566, a new Grandmaster's Palace and a series of new auberges were built.
The capital city of Ottawa, Ontario is full of Gothic Revival architecture.
Adolf Hitler intended to turn Berlin into the capital of Europe, more grand than Rome or Paris.
Peshawari karahi from the provincial capital of Peshawar is a popular curry all over the country.
A Norman capital can be heavy because the Norman column is thick, and the whole thing expresses an elephantine massiveness and repose.
The payments continued until 1835, when they were replaced by a capital settlement.
Mill regarded economic development as a function of land, labour and capital.
It is productive labour that is productive of wealth and capital accumulation.
Wages generally exceed the minimum subsistence level, and are paid out of capital.
Thus, wage per worker can be derived by dividing the total circulating capital by the size of the working population.
Wages can increase by an increase in the capital used in paying wages, or by decrease in the number of workers.
When profits rise or wages fall, the rate of profits increases, which in turn increases the rate of capital accumulation.
Similarly, it is the desire to save which tends to increase the rate of capital accumulation.
The scene rapidly expanded to the Summer Of Love in Ibiza, which became the European capital of house and trance.
De' Medici, who had a keen interest in opera, was trying to make Florence Italy's musical capital by attracting the leading talents of his day.
Thereafter, certain political decisions, such as the decision to move the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, were announced at the durbar.
This is a political film, not with a capital P, but it's about teen rebellion and the abuse of power.
The British capital London holds the distinction of hosting three Olympic Games, all Summer, more than any other city.
The Champ de Mars is situated on a prestigious avenue in Port Louis, the capital city and is the oldest racecourse in the southern hemisphere.
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Also in the United States, the Union Flag of 1606 is incorporated into the flag of Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana.
It was planned that the capital city would be changed to the more centrally located Ramciel in the future before civil war broke out.
It is planned that the capital city will be changed to the more centrally located Ramciel in the future.
The government and national parliament are seated in Copenhagen, the nation's capital, largest city and main commercial centre.
During the 17th century, many impressive buildings were built in the Baroque style, both in the capital and the provinces.
Tahiti, which is located within the Society Islands, is the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the collectivity, Pape'ete.
Located in the Holyrood area of the capital city, Edinburgh, it is frequently referred to by the metonym Holyrood.
However, there are still limitations on the movement of capital and services.
The oldest horse tram transport in the world is located on the sea front in the capital, Douglas.
The decline of a dynasty or culture could also mean the extinction of its capital city, as occurred at Babylon and Cahokia.
In Canada, there is a federal capital, while the ten provinces and three territories all have capital cities.
Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates overall.
Each of the States of Austria and Cantons of Switzerland also have their own capital cities.
Vienna, the national capital of Austria is also one of the states, while Bern is the capital of both Switzerland and the Canton of Bern.
Governing entities sometimes plan capital cities to house the seat of government of a polity or of a subdivision.
Changes in a nation's political regime sometimes result in the designation of a new capital.
Naypyidaw was founded in Burma's interior as the former capital, Rangoon, was claimed to be too overcrowded.
A number of cases exist where states have multiple capitals, and there are also several states that have no capital.
The Edinburgh Capitals are the latest of a succession of ice hockey clubs in the Scottish capital.
The city was proclaimed capital city of Wales on 20 December 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George.
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As the capital city of Wales, Cardiff is the main engine of growth in the Welsh economy.
It is not required to implement EU Directives on such matters as movement of capital, company law or money laundering.
It is also known as Alt Clut, a Brittonic term for Dumbarton Castle, the medieval capital of the region.
The capital of the Damnonii is believed to have been at Carman, near Dumbarton, but around 5 miles inland from the River Clyde.
The Napoleonic Wars were therefore ones that Britain invested large amounts of capital and resources to win.
However, instead of assisting Burgoyne, Howe took his army on a separate campaign against the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia.
In 1976, that Court ruled that, under appropriate circumstances, capital punishment may constitutionally be imposed.
Each company was guaranteed a 5 per cent return on its capital outlay and, in addition, a share of half the profits.
Socialists frequently oppose free trade on the ground that it allows maximum exploitation of workers by capital.
The banker's capital was at risk as Parliament could have refused to ratify the transaction.
When the bulk of a bank's assets can be traded, relying on historical acquisition costs distorts reality and leads to capital misallocation.
Most of the money went to developing nations such as Russia that lacked the capital or technical knowledge to industrialize on their own.
On 28 June 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
Osman's son, Orhan, captured the northwestern Anatolian city of Bursa in 1326, and made it the new capital of the Ottoman state.
The Old Town of Poland's capital, Warsaw, was reconstructed after its wartime destruction.
Instead, German naval strategy relied on commerce raiding using capital ships, armed merchant cruisers, submarines and aircraft.
Each European capital had an ECA envoy, generally a prominent American businessman, who would advise on the process.
Established in 1947, it takes place in Scotland's capital during three weeks every August alongside several other arts and cultural festivals.
The goal was to attract private capital and new business activity that would bring jobs and progress to declining areas.
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She supported the retention of capital punishment and voted against the relaxation of divorce laws.
If the capital markets are insufficiently developed, however, it would be difficult to find enough buyers.
In late 1994, Rabbani's defense minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud, defeated Hekmatyr in Kabul and ended ongoing bombardment of the capital.
The Basel III capital and liquidity standards were adopted by countries around the world.
And, financial institutions are shrinking assets to bolster capital and improve their chances of weathering the current storm.
IndyMac was taking new measures to preserve capital, such as deferring interest payments on some preferred securities.
The company still had not secured a significant capital infusion nor found a ready buyer.
The longest river entirely within England is the River Thames which flows through the English and British capital, London.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, although Edinburgh is the capital and political centre of the country.
Of Scotland's 25 largest cities, only Inverness, the unofficial capital of the Highlands, has a larger percentage of Gaelic speakers.
Cardiff is the capital city and had a population of around 346,000 at the 2011 census.
The Welsh national media is based in Cardiff, with the BBC, ITV and S4C all having their main studios and offices in the capital.
Imagine that Tennessee is having an election on the location of its capital.
However, winter temperatures between Hamilton and Madeira's capital Funchal are nearly identical.
The islands have never levied income tax, capital gains tax, or any wealth tax, making them a popular tax haven.
The capital of the Cayman Islands is George Town, on the southwest coast of Grand Cayman.
There are no taxes on corporate profits, capital gains, or personal income.
Totegegie Airport in Mangareva can be reached by air from the French Polynesian capital Papeete.
Both chambers are in The Hague which is the seat of parliament but not the official capital of the Netherlands, which is Amsterdam.
Speaker William Hay ordered the change and the capital D was dropped from Hansard references.
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The city boundaries were extended slightly to include Stormont within the capital city.
British trade and capital have been important components of the American economy since its colonial inception.
The 3rd Division were deployed in Kabul to assist in the liberation of the capital and defeat Taliban forces in the mountains.
In short order, the Prussian army drove the Swedes back, occupied most of Swedish Pomerania, and blockaded its capital Stralsund.
Popularisation of events elsewhere overshadowed the significance of this theatre, which was close to Saint Petersburg, the Russian capital.
Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, had been subjected to heavy firefights and segregation according to OSCE reports.
These cooperative firms would compete with each other in a market for both capital goods and for selling consumer goods.
Their flows go into the capital account item of the balance of payments, thus balancing the deficit in the current account.
The increase in capital flows has given rise to the asset market model effectively.
With the accumulation of private capital in the Renaissance, states developed methods of financing deficits without debasing their coin.
The development of capital markets meant that a government could borrow money to finance war or expansion while causing less economic hardship.
International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.
In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York the national capital shortly after the war.
New York City has been ranked first among cities across the globe in attracting capital, business, and tourists.
Edo became the de facto capital of Japan even while the emperor lived in Kyoto, the imperial capital.
The second part will consist of the state government increasing the capital market within the banks.
In triple bottom line analysis, this can be seen as degrading capital on which the nation's economy ultimately depends.
Moody was forced to sell his business, due to a shortage of capital, when the 1907 financial crisis fueled several changes in the markets.
Two economic trends of the 1980s and 90s that brought significant expansion for the global capital market were.
These functions may increase the supply of available risk capital in the market and promote economic growth.
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National governments may solicit credit ratings to generate investor interest and improve access to the international capital markets.
Neoclassical economics views inequalities in the distribution of income as arising from differences in value added by labor, capital and land.
Marxian economics attributes rising inequality to job automation and capital deepening within capitalism.
In two studies Robert Putnam established links between social capital and economic inequality.
Social capital and economic inequality moved in tandem through most of the twentieth century.
Conversely, the last third of the twentieth century was a time of growing inequality and eroding social capital.
The main reason for this shift is the increasing importance of human capital in development.
But now that human capital is scarcer than machines, widespread education has become the secret to growth.
In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor.
Major cartels saw growth due to a prominent set culture of Mexican society that created the means for drug capital.
If assets are later transferred back to an individual, then capital gains taxes would apply on all profits.
Such capital flight from the developing world is estimated at ten times the size of aid it receives and twice the debt service it pays.
Chinese companies may incorporate offshore in order to raise foreign capital, normally against the law in China.
But Mauritius does not have a capital gains tax, so by moving there Heritage reduced its capital gains tax to zero.
Needing more capital to expand, Arkwright partnered with Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need, wealthy hosiery manufacturers, who were nonconformists.
Livermore and Linc Energy claim that UCG capital and operating costs are lower than in traditional mining.
A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.
Petroleum is the most productive and capital-intensive industry while apparel is the least productive and least capital intensive.
The more the economy relies on casinolike capital markets, the less the availability of patient capital.
Corporate taxes were levied on capital or net income, subject to an annual minimum.
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By Friday, protesters were already gathering in Kiev, the capital, as were counterprotesters loyal to Mr. Yanukovich.
The death of Dobbin of old age had put an end to his master's eggling, for he had no capital with which to buy another horse.
A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
Mergers, acquisitions and IPOs are no longer a reliable exit strategy with capital markets tanking and buyers wary.
The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.
We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.
My geographically challenged uncle stated that France is the capital of Paris.
The Bengal Presidency was established in 1765, with Calcutta as its capital.
All experience proves that capital invariably secures the lion's share of the products and profits of hardhanded industry.
The capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, was UNESCO's first worldwide City of Literature.
Although Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the largest city is Glasgow, which has just over 584,000 inhabitants.
London is the capital of England and the whole of the United Kingdom, and is therefore the seat of the United Kingdom's government.
Its position was formed through constitutional convention, making its status as de facto capital a part of the UK's unwritten constitution.
A 2014 PricewaterhouseCoopers report termed London as the global capital of higher education.
Free movement of capital is intended to permit movement of investments such as property purchases and buying of shares between countries.
Until the drive towards economic and monetary union the development of the capital provisions had been slow.
Months of fierce debate in both capital cities and throughout both kingdoms followed.
The Napoleonic Wars were therefore ones in which the British invested large amounts of capital and resources.
Within several decades, Heraclius completed a holy war against the Persians by taking their capital and having a Sassanid monarch assassinated.
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The population of the imperial capital fluctuated between 300,000 and 400,000 as the emperors undertook measures to restrain its growth.
The Lombards, who first entered Italy in 568 under Alboin, carved out a state in the north, with its capital at Pavia.
The Abbasids built their capital in Baghdad after replacing the Umayyad caliphs from all but the Iberian peninsula.
The Gulf of Riga lies between the Latvian capital city of Riga and the Estonian island of Saaremaa.
The headword of each entry was no longer capitalized, allowing the user to readily see those words that actually require a capital letter.
The sprawling blue lake in B.C.'s North Okanagan region is the houseboating capital of Canada.
Unable to defeat Hannibal on Italian soil, the Romans boldly sent an army to Africa under Scipio Africanus to threaten the Carthaginian capital.
One consequence was that it was considered a capital offense to harm a tribune, to disregard his veto, or to interfere with a tribune.
The architectural style of the capital city was emulated by other urban centers under Roman control and influence.
However, in individual cases, Claudius punished false assumption of citizenship harshly, making it a capital offense.
Claudius embarked on many public works throughout his reign, both in the capital and in the provinces.
The Romans established their new capital at Camulodunum and Claudius returned to Rome to celebrate his victory.
Colchester was probably the earliest capital of Roman Britain, but it was soon eclipsed by London with its strong mercantile connections.
The Parthian capital Ctesiphon was sacked by the legions and the northern half of Mesopotamia was annexed to the Empire.
In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital.
This mark of Imperial favour was probably a recognition of Eboracum as the largest town in the north and the capital of Britannia Inferior.
In 296 Britannia Inferior was divided into two provinces of equal status with Eboracum becoming the provincial capital of Britannia Secunda.
As a busy port and a provincial capital Eboracum was a cosmopolitan city with residents from throughout the Roman Empire.
We were accompanied by our two guides, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, of Chamounix, two capital icemen, and worthy fellows.
He succeeded in marching to the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, but lacked adequate supplies for an assault.
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The capital of the Kingdom of Sussex was at Chichester, the seat of the kingdom's bishopric was at Selsey.
The Kingdom of Denmark's parliament, with its 179 members, is located in the capital, Copenhagen.
After Norway's union with Denmark was dissolved in 1814, Oslo became the capital.
He promptly awarded their elected leader, William Iron Arm, with the title of count in his capital of Melfi.
Simultaneously Northumberland, whose northern territory was the most distant from the capital, had gathered his men and ridden to Leicester.
Venice was Europe's gateway to trade with the East, and a producer of fine glass, while Florence was a capital of textiles.
There may be a section of entablature between the capital and the springing of the arch.
The Washington and London Naval Treaties imposed the scrapping of some capital ships and limitations on new construction.
On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate States of America, which chose Richmond as its capital.
After the capture of Richmond in April 1865, the state capital was briefly moved to Lynchburg, while the Confederate leadership fled to Danville.
Since the resumption of capital punishment in Virginia in 1982, 107 people have been executed, the second highest number in the nation.
Virginia does not allow state appropriated funds to be used for either operational or capital expenses for intercollegiate athletics.
In the former Dutch capital of Cape Town, nearly nothing from the VOC era have survived except the Castle of Good Hope.
Examples on Java include the capital Jakarta and Bandung, outside Java examples include Ambon and Menado city.
On 21 September 1860 it defeated the army of the Chinese emperor at the Battle of Palikao and seized the capital Beijing.
After Champlain's founding of Quebec City in 1608, it became the capital of New France.
Another financial issue attracting growing attention is whether capital gains on investments are Islamically acceptable.
Parliament quickly seized London, and Charles fled the capital for Hampton Court Palace on 10 January, moving two days later to Windsor Castle.
At this time, the English regiments of the army were encamped at Hounslow, near the capital.
The capital is often, but not necessarily, the largest city of its constituent.
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Votes relating to issues of conscience such as abortion and capital punishment are typically free votes.
Nassau, the capital of The Bahamas, is named after Fort Nassau, which was renamed in 1695 in his honour.
These made capital available for business, and the improvement of roads and trade.
The Napoleonic Wars were therefore ones in which Britain invested large amounts of capital and resources to win.
The undertakings were starved of capital largely owing to inadequate provision for it in the duke's will.
Between 1857 and 1872 the Trustees provided more capital for improvements from their own resources than at any previous time.
It remains the tallest building outside London and has been described as the United Kingdom's only true skyscraper outside the capital.
It acquired its nickname after being sung in Paris by volunteers from Marseille marching on the capital.
After clearing the last Spanish force guarding the capital at Somosierra, Napoleon entered Madrid on 4 December with 80,000 troops.
When Napoleon proposed the army march on the capital, his senior officers and marshals mutinied.
British and Canadian troops arrived in Belgium in September 1944 and the capital, Brussels, was liberated on 6 September.
The goal is that the movement of capital, labour, goods, and services between the members is as easy as within them.
A common market allows for the free movement of capital and services but large amounts of trade barriers remain.
The Scottish Parliament is the national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital Edinburgh.
The Federal District, originally integrated by Mexico City and other municipalities, was created in 1824 to be the capital of the federation.
After the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror made permanent the recent removal of the capital from Winchester to London.
In January 2015, Cameron travelled to the Saudi capital Riyadh to pay his respects following the death of the nation's King Abdullah.
In Wales the party enjoyed good successes, regaining control of most Welsh Councils lost in 2008, including the capital city, Cardiff.
According to the Times Picayune, Louisiana is the prison capital of the world.
NewcastleGateshead was voted in 2006 as the arts capital of the UK in a survey conducted by the Artsworld TV channel.
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London, capital of Roman Britain, was established on two hills, now known as Cornhill and Ludgate Hill.
It was felt that such a grant would undermine the status of the two existing cities in the capital.
The Treasury rejected proposals for a stiff capital levy, which the Labour Party wanted to use to weaken the capitalists.
Poor countries have more labor relative to capital, so marginal productivity of labor is greater in rich countries than in poor countries.
As stocks grew, with new companies joining to raise capital, the royal court also raised some monies.
Issuer services help companies from around the world to join the London equity market in order to gain access to capital.
A stock exchange provides companies with the facility to raise capital for expansion through selling shares to the investing public.
Capital intensive companies, particularly high tech companies, always need to raise high volumes of capital in their early stages.
A third usual source of capital for startup companies has been venture capital.
Unprofitable and troubled businesses may result in capital losses for shareholders.
Economic growth can be enhanced by investment in capital, such as more or better machinery.
A low interest rate implies that firms can borrow money to invest in their capital stock and pay less interest for it.
The amount of lendability is fixed with regard to the bank's capital and surplus.
In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.
His view of human capital was restricted to minimising the time period for recovery of training costs.
Most capital ships of the major navies were propelled by steam turbines burning bunker fuel in both World Wars.
With capital accumulated from his two marriages and his inheritance from his father, Boulton sought a larger site to expand his business.
The spinning frames required significant capital but required little skill.
It connects London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, with Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
Sir Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 proposed a series of five roads encircling the capital.
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This too did not proceed and in November 2009 National Express announced it would raise the necessary capital through a share issue.
A proposal for Concourse D featured in Heathrow's most recent capital investment plan.
In that same year, he captured Seleucia and the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.
Reaching Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, he ordered plundering and his army slew and captured many people.
In the capital city of Rome, there were imperial residences on the elegant Palatine Hill, from which the word palace derives.
The Islamabad has its own police component, the Capital Police, to maintain law and order in the capital.
Dhaka is its capital and largest city, followed by Chittagong which has the country's largest port.
In 1962, Dacca was designated as the legislative capital of Pakistan in an appeasement of growing Bengali political nationalism.
First, it was traditionally subject to loose-handed regulation, which opened the possibility of returns above the cost of capital to offset.
You can count on your fingers the number of capital cities I know.
For example, in the banking industry, Basel III and future capital adequacy needs are likely to make even smaller banks adopt internal risk models.
In practice, of course, the Big Mac is not a perfectly tradable good and there may also be capital flows that sustain relative demand for the Canadian dollar.
From the coaching inns on the outskirts of the city to the lower reaches of the Thames, all aspects of the capital are described over the course of his body of work.
The Basel III accord, a global bank capital standardization effort, relies on credit ratings to calculate minimum capital standards and minimum liquidity ratios.
The Russians under General Saltykov and Austrians under General Lacy briefly occupied his capital, Berlin, in October, but could not hold it for long.
A wide range of businesses including early stage, venture capital backed as well as more established companies join AIM seeking access to growth capital.
During the summer of 1741, The 3rd Duke of Devonshire invited Handel to Dublin, capital of the Kingdom of Ireland, to give concerts for the benefit of local hospitals.
The Raj did not provide capital, but, aware of Britain's declining position against the US and Germany in the steel industry, it wanted steel mills in India.
For this reason, the public market provided by the stock exchanges has been one of the most important funding sources for many capital intensive startups.
The multimodal, transcontinental megacarriers of the future will probably coalesce around the capital assets represented by today's major railroad rights-of-way.
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Prussia had retaken all of Silesia from the Austrians, and after Frederick's 1762 victory at the Battle of Burkersdorf he held most of Saxony but not its capital, Dresden.
A capital grant in kind necessarily concerns the change of ownership of a product previously recorded as a nonfinancial asset in the accounts of the donor government.
Detail of an Ionic capital on a pilaster in the Great Court.
For the sake of convenience the title is generally shortened to Hanse, but the initial capital is retained, not least to prevent confusion with other hanses.
Themistius set about a bold program to create an imperial public library that would be the centerpiece of the new intellectual capital of Constantinople.
All banks are required to hold a certain percentage of their assets as capital, a rate which may be established by the central bank or the banking supervisor.
In some countries, central banks may have other tools that work indirectly to limit lending practices and otherwise restrict or regulate capital markets.
Ireland currently play all their home matches in the Republic's capital of Dublin at Aviva Stadium, built on the site of Irish rugby's historic home of Lansdowne Road.
Cars Limited finding new capital by issuing shares to the public.
Since late July, the Taliban have seized new territory across Helmand, defying a series of about 30 US airstrikes, and raising concern of an attack on the capital.
Corporal or capital punishment for free men does not figure in the Germanic law codes, and banishment appears to be the most severe penalty issued officially.
About the same time, Russian prince Yaroslav of Vladimir, and subsequently his sons Alexander Nevsky and Andrey II of Vladimir, travelled to the Mongolian capital.
The remains of the khan's army retreated to the steppes, and thus Yermak captured the Siberia Khanate, including its capital Qashliq near modern Tobolsk.
A change in marrying patterns to getting married later made people able to accumulate more human capital during their youth, thereby encouraging economic development.
People moved in so rapidly that there was not enough capital to build adequate housing for everyone, so low income newcomers squeezed into increasingly overcrowded slums.
This ensured it was highly profitable to invest heavily in capital and machinery in Britain, while it was not in France, who suffered no such demographic constraints.
Apart from a devastating Danish raid in 853 it remained the capital until the 13th century, when improvements to the English navy made the location indefensible.
Amphibians are common in the capital, including smooth newts living by the Tate Modern, and common frogs, common toads, palmate newts and great crested newts.
The All England Club, through its subsidiary The All England Lawn Tennis Ground plc, issues Debentures to tennis fans every five years to raise funds for capital expenditure.
When physical capital mattered most, savings and investments were key.
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The promoters of the line Mr William Stenson and Mr John Ellis, had difficulties in raising the necessary capital as the majority of local wealth had been invested in canals.
At that period the Republic of Genoa also controlled one quarter of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, and Trebizond, capital of the Empire of Trebizond.
The Scottish monarchy in the Middle Ages was a largely itinerant institution, before Edinburgh developed as a capital city in the second half of the 15th century.
The silver business proved not to be profitable due to the opportunity cost of keeping a large amount of capital tied up in the inventory of silver.
Much capital was spent in pursuing a patent on Watt's invention.
For this example, suppose that the entire electorate lives in these four cities and that everyone wants to live as near to the capital as possible.
While the capital cost of electrifying track is high, electric trains and locomotives are capable of higher performance and lower operational costs than steam or diesel power.
State officials therefore share the same interests as owners of capital and are linked to them through a wide array of social, economic, and political ties.
Its current capital is Juba, which is also its largest city.
Anguilla has become a popular tax haven, having no capital gains, estate, profit or other forms of direct taxation on either individuals or corporations.
The High King was drawn from the ranks of the provincial kings and ruled also the royal kingdom of Meath, with a ceremonial capital at the Hill of Tara.
New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world by the diplomatic consulates of Iceland and Latvia and by New York's Baruch College.
On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.
The ships were scuttled there in the 11th century to block a navigation channel and thus protect Roskilde, then the Danish capital, from seaborne assault.
Germany has a social market economy with a highly skilled labour force, a large capital stock, a low level of corruption, and a high level of innovation.
Berlin developed a thriving, cosmopolitan hub for startup companies and became a leading location for venture capital funded firms in the European Union.
George's was settled that year and designated as Bermuda's first capital.
The German School London serves German families in the UK's capital city.
Larger and more specialised medical complexes tend only to be found in larger cities, with some even more specialised units located only in the capital, Warsaw.
Pakistan's cultural capital, Lahore, contains many examples of Mughal architecture such as Badshahi Masjid, Shalimar Gardens, Tomb of Jahangir and the Lahore Fort.

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