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Elsewhere, the international organization Eurocontrol is refusing to release crucial flight data to investigators, while the British government dismisses the embarrassingly well-documented records of their dalliances with Colonel Gadaffi's Libya as "allegations" and ring-fences their torture inquiry with a remit designed to prevent it from finding anything out.

Crofton Black: Romania's CIA Prison Illuminates Failure of European Accountability Crofton Black 2011

Standard Chartered's comments come after bank bosses including Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester and Barclays PLC CEO Bob Diamond told U.K. lawmakers last month that the potentially damaging economic effects of ring-fences must be considered, and that the safeguards could have unintended consequences, such as increasing perceptions the government would always step in to bail out a retail bank.

Ring Fencing 'Increases Taxpayer Exposure' Margot Patrick 2011

And already the government has removed the ring-fences from more than £2 billion worth of local spending, and rolled 18 separately earmarked grants into the main formula grant.

Nick Clegg: Hugo Young lecture 2010 Nick Clegg 2010

But (referring still to Fig. 1) the legitimacy of contrapositing O. is equally clear; for if _Some ruminants are not hollow-horned_, _Some animals that are not hollow-horned are ruminants_, namely, all the animals between the two ring-fences.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

The final critique is that adopting ring-fences and piling on more capital will drive up banks' costs and may make credit more expensive in the wider British economy.

The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

Mr Osborne promised legislation by 2015 to put the changes into law, with a requirement for banks to erect ring-fences "as soon as practically possible" after this date and to implement the changes relating to loss-absorbency by the end of 2019.

WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

Mr Osborne promised legislation by 2015 to put the changes into law, with a requirement for banks to erect ring-fences "as soon as practically possible" after this date and to implement the changes relating to loss-absorbency by the end of 2019.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) believes the severity of the impact on most public services depends in part on whether the Executive ring-fences health spending.

Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

Dubai government ring-fences key assets, shares tumble photo: Creative Commons/Bjoertvedt

WN.com - Articles related to Gulf bourses rise on Dubai debt hope 2009

⇒ Dubai govt ring-fences key assets, shares tumble

The Economic Times 2009