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Urfan Sharif was jailed for a minimum term of 40 years, while Batool has to serve at least 33 years in custody.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Each card has a minimum monthly payment on the balance and requires a credit score that is good to very good in order to qualify.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
The government says the proposed centre would be used for a minimum of 10 years to house single adult male asylum seekers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Absolutely not. Servicemembers are all required to meet minimum standards for physical fitness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
He was still hell-bent on me working fast food for minimum wage, because he said saving tuition money was more important.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
The researchers are now planning a metagenomic study that extends the time series to cover periods of even more intense sea ice minima.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
"We found that even when bulk pyrite sulfur isotopes changed a lot between glacials and interglacials, the minima of our single grain pyrite distributions remained broadly constant," Bryant said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 2023
Our home star goes through periods called grand minima when there are few to no sunspots.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
She was able to get photos of the Perdita minima but not the hard-to-spot burrows she hoped to also find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
This would apparently mean that cyclonic storms would be much less numerous and less severe than during the present times of sunspot minima.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
The transfer came with broader changes to an existing credit agreement, including revising minimum liquidity requirements and removing certain financial metric minimums, according to the company’s latest quarterly filing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
However, loans from credit unions can be harder to qualify for as they might require higher credit-score minimums, bigger cash reserves or stricter debt-to-income limits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But they are based on 2025 stress capital buffers, or SCBs, which refer to the capital lenders must hold above required regulatory minimums.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The organisation said their documented figures should be seen as "absolute minimums", as getting information on deaths was severely limited by difficulty accessing sites, government-imposed internet blackouts and political repression.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
The weather report was routine—even boring—with details about air pressure, wind speeds, and temperature maximums and minimums.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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