stake down

In fact, the circus left town before anyone could even stake down the tent.

It has said it intends to sell the stake down gradually to fund a share repurchase program.

Mac Cord attended meetings on Tuesday with Economy Minister Paulo Guedes and the new Energy Minister Adolfo Sachsida to discuss the deal, which involves floating shares to dilute the government's majority stake down to 45% or less.

Though the government and the Bank of Spain have no power to enforce cuts on fixed salaries of banks' executives, the matter has become sensitive for Caixabank, where the state holds a 16% stake, down from around 60% in Bankia.

Late one morning, as Dicey stood in a blazing sunlight where the tent had been the night before coiling up the long ropes so that Samson could stack them evenly on the truck and find them when he needed to stake down the sides of the tent that evening in Berlin, James and Maybeth and Sammy approached her.