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After losing precious time in supposedly tough negotiation for internal consumption, the government has ... asked for an extension of the loan agreement that is identical to the memorandum and the bailout programme. – Evangelos Venizelos	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am working together with Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem to achieve an extension of the existing program, in order to bridge the time until summer. – Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a problem of wording, although the legal tool cannot be anything else than an extension of the (bailout) program. – French Finance Minister Michel Sapin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The general feeling in the Eurogroup is still that the best way forward would be for the Greek authorities to seek an extension of the programme. – Jeroen Dijsselbloem	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's not known yet whether it will be an extension of the existing deal or an agreement on a new deal. – Yuri Ushakov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are actively discussing the maintenance of and the extension of the sanctions regime with the Germans, of course they (the Germans) want to explore the opportunity that tomorrow's meeting, if it goes ahead, may offer. – British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are proposing to substitute the other tranches, to the IMF and other countries, with new bonds at market interest, which is very low at the moment, with a clause: we will start the entire repayment once solid growth starts in Greece, i don't see why they should not accept an extension like they always do in these situations, at least until the end of the year. – Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't see why they should not accept an extension like they always do in these situations, at least until the end of the year. – Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If oil prices remain at current levels, Iran will lose an additional $11 billion in oil revenue from what it was expecting to take in during this most recent seven-month extension of the JPOA. – David Cohen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This (extension) is absolutely necessary, there is no such (refugee) pressure where such facilities exist. – Boiko Borisov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
After an analysis (of the evidence), decisions will be taken regarding further proceedings, including a possible extension of charges already pressed or pressing charges against further people, whose actions are being investigated. – Anna Zimolag	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I find there is an unacceptable risk that cannot be properly mitigated by a further extension of bail. – Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The subsidies scheme extension is estimated to be worth $8.7 billion and will be the largest subsidy for the civil aerospace industry in U.S. history. – The EU	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I cannot hire new Secret Service agents until I get an appropriations bill passed by this Congress, not another CR (short-term extension) for a couple of months, i cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention facility in Texas. – Peter King	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There will be no severance or extension of benefits for Darren Wilson following his resignation. – Mayor James Knowles	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's sort of an extension of the selfie stick really, it's an unlocking of the third dimension for camera positioning. – Eric Cheng	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. – Gerald G. Jampolsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
games are an extension of our imagination – Hannes Cailkiez	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. – George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic andor military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. – Joseph Goebbels	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body. – Mildred & Victor Goertzel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago

After losing precious time in supposedly tough negotiation for internal consumption, the government has ... asked for an extension of the loan agreement that is identical to the memorandum and the bailout programme.

– Evangelos Venizelos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am working together with Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem to achieve an extension of the existing program, in order to bridge the time until summer.

– Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's a problem of wording, although the legal tool cannot be anything else than an extension of the (bailout) program.

– French Finance Minister Michel Sapin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The general feeling in the Eurogroup is still that the best way forward would be for the Greek authorities to seek an extension of the programme.

– Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's not known yet whether it will be an extension of the existing deal or an agreement on a new deal.

– Yuri Ushakov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are actively discussing the maintenance of and the extension of the sanctions regime with the Germans, of course they (the Germans) want to explore the opportunity that tomorrow's meeting, if it goes ahead, may offer.

– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are proposing to substitute the other tranches, to the IMF and other countries, with new bonds at market interest, which is very low at the moment, with a clause: we will start the entire repayment once solid growth starts in Greece, i don't see why they should not accept an extension like they always do in these situations, at least until the end of the year.

– Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don't see why they should not accept an extension like they always do in these situations, at least until the end of the year.

– Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If oil prices remain at current levels, Iran will lose an additional $11 billion in oil revenue from what it was expecting to take in during this most recent seven-month extension of the JPOA.

– David Cohen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This (extension) is absolutely necessary, there is no such (refugee) pressure where such facilities exist.

– Boiko Borisov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

After an analysis (of the evidence), decisions will be taken regarding further proceedings, including a possible extension of charges already pressed or pressing charges against further people, whose actions are being investigated.

– Anna Zimolag

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I find there is an unacceptable risk that cannot be properly mitigated by a further extension of bail.

– Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The subsidies scheme extension is estimated to be worth $8.7 billion and will be the largest subsidy for the civil aerospace industry in U.S. history.

– The EU

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I cannot hire new Secret Service agents until I get an appropriations bill passed by this Congress, not another CR (short-term extension) for a couple of months, i cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention facility in Texas.

– Peter King

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There will be no severance or extension of benefits for Darren Wilson following his resignation.

– Mayor James Knowles

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's sort of an extension of the selfie stick really, it's an unlocking of the third dimension for camera positioning.

– Eric Cheng

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

– Gerald G. Jampolsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

– Noam Chomsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

games are an extension of our imagination

– Hannes Cailkiez

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

– George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic andor military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

– Joseph Goebbels

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

– Mildred & Victor Goertzel

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

– George Santayana

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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