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1 After long talks with WBC president Jose Sulaiman , Maloney is confident that approval will be given for Lewis to fight the Hammersmith-born Jamaican Alex Stewart in the first defence of his title .
2 Closely allied to these are the opportunities given for pupils to appreciate the actual sound that music makes and to appraise its character , its dynamics , its associations and its wider emotional significance .
3 Because of their dimensions ( 5 mm ) , the majority of the embryos described in Chapter 3 , and the tissues isolated from them , are best treated as solids to conserve the small specimen .
4 The new constitution is expected to provide for elections to replace the non-party NRC elected in February 1989 .
5 Meanwhile , International Paint representative based in Southampton in the UK , also headed for Hobart to check the 10 race yachts , all of which have been painted and anti-fouled with International products .
6 From Catania , where they played a vital role in their country 's successful bid for a place in next year 's World Sevens finals , the two Taiwanese stars , flanker Jon Teng Sing and winger Chyan Shuonn Mae , headed for Paris to join the multi-national FIRA selection which made a four-match , two-test tour to Namibia .
7 Held against a background of unexpectedly firm oil prices in the period since the organization 's Feb. 15 quota decision [ see p. 38794 ] , the meeting was brief and reportedly uncontroversial , ending with agreement to maintain the overall output quota of 22,982,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) .
8 OVERLEAF : Marc Cory 's distress rocket , which he intended to launch into orbit to warn the solar system of the Daleks ’ threat .
9 Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within .
10 The new Minister , Idris Wakil , who had only recently come from Zanzibar to join the new Cabinet after the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar , explained the reason for the new Ministry. :
11 ‘ Is there anything I should know in order to ask the right questions ? ’
12 This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ?
13 Otherwise a reasonable differential will be expected in order to justify the enhanced engine rating of the larger model .
14 The late idol 's skirt was reduced to a simple cylinder , crudely painted with a black on white slip , and the raised hands exaggerated in size to emphasize the hieratic gesture .
15 The headhunter may well feel that there is a need to bring a more general consulting focus to bear in order to solve the organisational issues before an executive search is undertaken .
16 The best answer to these requests is to ask , in turn , which less important project(s) will be dropped in order to release the required resources .
17 How should teachers behave in order to stimulate the desired learning processes ?
18 In practice this is not complete , since two additional times need to be considered in order to obtain the true picture .
19 Thus the common law must still be considered in order to gain the broader perspective of the law as it currently stands .
20 He was laughed to scorn for returning with tales of people who actually ate the nests of birds , which they boiled over fires of burning black stones — seven centuries before the same black stones were discovered and harnessed in Europe to fuel the Industrial Revolution .
21 When she saw Hannah in the sequence where she played the tiny organ at Low Birk Hatt , she tried to arrange for her to come to Lartington to try the unique Aeolian pipe organ in the chapel .
22 Cadets from military schools and a force of 1000 cossacks from outside the capital tried without success to overthrow the new government .
23 At a later date I bought the place and built on wings to make the necessary accommodation .
24 By early evening the company second in command had exchanged his helicopter for a Land-Rover , and was out visiting the platoons in their trenches again , before returning to barracks to brief the part-time soldiers who were taking over the mobile patrolling tasks for the night .
25 ( First Edition ) IRELAND 's Sean Kelly , who finished seventh in the Paris-Tours race on Saturday to win the inaugural World Cup , has criticised the system by which points are allocated in the series .
26 IRELAND 's Sean Kelly , who finished seventh in the Paris-Tours race on Saturday to win the inaugural World Cup , has criticised the system by which points are allocated in the series .
27 The child could not decide whever he wanted a chocolate bar or a scoop of ice cream : it occurred to Nelson to combine the two .
28 Some , including Field Marshal Lord Roberts , at one time Commander-in-Chief of the British Army , were for landing at Antwerp to sustain the Belgian Army and pose an inhibiting threat to the German right wing .
29 But it also varies , as we shall see in the case studies in later chapters , according to the resources that the government has at hand to defuse the political consequences of disruption .
30 Right : A rectangular concrete pool designed by Buckingham to make the most of a walled garden .
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