Today, NBK, which is the largest financial institution in Kuwait with effective market dominance in the commercial banking market, boasts the largest presence in Kuwait with 67 branches, which together with its growing international representation adds up to 105 branches worldwide.

The National Bank of Kuwait ( NBK ) was incorporated in 1952 as the first local bank and the first shareholding company in Kuwait and the Gulf region.

• NBK ( International ) plc ( United Kingdom ) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank with two offices in London and one is Paris which provides retail, private and corporate banking, treasury and trade finance related services.

With offices in Kuwait, Dubai, Turkey, and Cairo, NBK Capital ’ s team of salesmen offer products and services to clients and investors.

• NBK Banque Privee ( Suisse ) S. A. ( Switzerland ) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank headquartered in Geneva.

• NBK ( Lebanon ) S. A. L.

• International Bank of Qatar ( IBQ ), the affiliate of NBK in Qatar, is owned 30 % owned by the Bank.

An Amiri decree was issued on May 19, 1952 to open the National Bank of Kuwait, and NBK started operations in a small bank that started operations on November 15, 1952 within a total space of three shops and a handful of employees relying on traditional and manual banking tools to one of one of the largest and most profitable banks in the region.

NBK reported net profits of USD 819 million ( KD 225. 6 million ) for the first nine months of 2011.

• NBK Investment Management Limited ( United Kingdom ) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank and provides asset management services to Kuwaiti government agencies and high net worth customers.

• NBK Capital Company ( Kuwait ) is 99. 9 % owned by the Bank and was established in July 2005 as a subsidiary of NBK.

NBK Capital focuses on four principal lines of business: Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Brokerage & Research and Investment Banking.

NBK was the first bank in the Middle East to establish an International Advisory Board, setting a precedent for banks and financial institutions in the region.

NBK Official website: http :// www. nbk. com /

Her education in the United States, not just in a classroom, but also in an American house with an American housekeeper, stands her in good stead.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

Alpha also stands for thermal expansion coefficient of a compound in physical chemistry.

Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

Because of this, many higher level kits are sold with little or even no hardware, to allow the drummer to choose the stands and also the bass drum pedal they prefer.

" James Berardinelli also gave the film three stars out of four, saying that " the intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by surprise " and that the film " stands above any other filmed Grisham adaptation ".

The Citadel of the Time Lords stands on the Continent of Wild Endeavour, in the Mountains of Solace and Solitude (" The Sound of Drums "), where the capital is also located.

Yet another episode of his female affairs that stands out was when he carried away the oxen of Geryones, he also visited the country of the Scythians.

The ballpark also contains quirks such as " Tal's Hill ", which is a hill in deep center field on which a flagpole stands, all in fair territory.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

Fairchild Semiconductor was also home of the first silicon gate IC technology with self-aligned gates, which stands as the basis of all modern CMOS computer chips.

The name " JPEG " stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the JPEG standard and also other still picture coding standards.

A memorial also stands in Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, next to the old motorcycle racing circuit.

In the famous photograph from 21 February 1948, described also in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Vladimír Clementis stands next to Klement Gottwald.

It is also long-lasting and stands up well to exposure.

In addition to name the food stand after the owners ’ last name or the food sold, these food stands were also often named after the owners ’ nicknames.

On becoming an MP for the first time, his father said " Remember Neil, MP stands not just for Member of Parliament, but also for Man of Principle ".

This meta-analysis was controversial and stands in stark contrast with two different reviews also performed in 2006 by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and a second JAMA review ; both indicated decreases in total mortality and cardiovascular incidents ( i. e., myocardial infarctions ) associated with the regular consumption of fish and fish oil supplements.

The smallest penguin species is the Little Blue Penguin ( Eudyptula minor ), also known as the Fairy Penguin, which stands around 40 cm tall ( 16 in ) and weighs 1 kg ( 2. 2 lb ).

To confirm means to “ make more sure ” and the ordinance of confirmation also stands as a witness of the individual becoming a member of the LDS church and community and not just an acceptance of Jesus.

It has been suggested that the " p " in " pH " stands for " power ", others refer to the German Potenz ( meaning " power "), others refer to French puissance ( also meaning " power ", based on the fact that the Carlsberg Laboratory was French-speaking ); others refer to " potential ".

Current usage in chemistry is that p stands for " decimal cologarithm of ", as also in the term pK, used for acid dissociation constants.

A simple yellow flag ( contagion ) | yellow flag ( also called the " Yellow Jack ") had historically been used to signal quarantine ( it stands for Q among signal flags ), but now indicates the opposite, as a signal of a ship free of disease that requests boarding and inspection.

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

His signal was for the other dogs to come running, but it was also the signal for Mama and the other maids to watch out.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Occupational choices are also useful -- and interesting -- in bringing out clearly that values do not constitute the only component in goals and aspirations.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

The fullest cooperation by and with Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of State, and other concerned agencies shall also be carried out in the interest of achieving the objectives of this Act.

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

We also worked out logistics for Sunday afternoon swimmers who arrive two hours early with their weekend guests while we are still enjoying an alfresco lunch en famille.

We pointed out that emotional excitement may lead to psychosomatic disorders and neurotic symptoms, particularly in certain types of personality, but it is also known that the reliving of a strong emotion ( `` abreaction '' ) may cure a battle neurosis.

The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

Fromm also cites a poll on attitudes toward work restriction conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation in 1945, in which 49 per cent of manual workers said a man ought to turn out as much as he could in a day's work, while 41 per cent said he should not do his best but should turn out only the average amount.

The measurement of topcoats on primers can also readily be carried out.

The conductor did recall having priests as passengers and this satisfied police, although the conductor also pointed out that in heavily Catholic Fall River there were priests riding on almost every trip the streetcar made, so Morse's statement really proved nothing.

these films and these sequences are also seeking out -- instinctively or by design -- the peculiarly cinematic elements of narrative.

It turned out that she also sold real estate, cosmetics, and hospital insurance.

You still have your paper hat and you're wearing it, but then, it is an extraordinary paper hat and, in addition to anything else you may be, you are also the sculptor who created that most peculiar dame out in the back yard.

There was also the one salient question to ask, and ask widely: Did you notice anything out of the way??

`` Wherefore also He ( God ) drove him ( man ) out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, ( and did not desire ) that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable.

It is borne out also by the absence of any developed theory about how sin passes from one generation to the next.

Next we freeze over the oceans and cover the whole earth with peas, then we go out among the neighboring stars, collect 250 planets each the size of the earth, and also cover each of these with peas four feet deep ; ;

We must also remember those who reacted against the dream as a kind of myth -- among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the elder, all of them out of a Christian background.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

This was a continuation of a good idea which was first tried out Saturday night when the Eddie Stack group, also local talent, went on first.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.