Household spending, business investment, housing and (in particular) the labour market were all showing sufficient strength to warrant a quarter-point rise.

However, the champions have sufficient strength in depth and are riding high enough to stomach some loss of personnel.

Still, they are back in the first division and look to have sufficient strength in depth to remain in it come the end of the season.

Eventually, however, he was able to show that, theoretically, cables of sufficient purity, using fused silica glass, could transmit a signal with sufficient strength to be practical over any distance.

And she insisted that the board regularly reviewed the demerger issue and 'at some point the businesses will be big enough and have sufficient strength to stand alone'.