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1 I have pointed out elsewhere that the epoch of Western civilization to which Rado refers is dominated by a process of unconscious recapitulation of polytheism in Christianity .
2 The decision to proceed was taken by the Slovak authorities immediately after the breakdown of EC-sponsored talks ( earlier bilateral talks having ended without agreement on Oct. 13 ) .
3 A ‘ substantial ’ three-year grant has been given by the DoH to the National Association for the Protection from Sexual Abuse of Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities .
4 Another change in local government finance is that the rate support grant has been replaced by the revenue support grant .
5 Restructuring grant has been paid by the Government since 1987 .
6 An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State .
7 Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously .
8 NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 .
9 IBM Corp has been hit by the backwash of Amdahl Corp 's warning , and Moody 's Investors Service Inc has downgraded the long-term debt and related securities of IBM and its financially supported IBM Credit Corp , IBM International Finance NV and IBM Japan Ltd by two notched to single-A-1 from double-A-2 .
10 THE first Anglo-Scottish electronic trade payment link has been introduced by the Bank of Scotland .
11 A NEW audio-visual show highlighting the loss of the county 's woodland has been launched by the Council for the Protection of Rural Essex .
12 Michael Smith writes : Radical plans to privatise parts of the European railway system and help switch freight to rail has been proposed by the European Commission .
13 One of the most important finds of late Roman gold and silver coins and objects has been located by a local man , retired gardener Eric Lawes , with a metal detector in a field in Suffolk .
14 Exhibition space , stand design and trade support has been supplied by the county council to help smaller companies to trade in Europe .
15 Today ( i.e. from the end of the nineteenth century to today ) the competitive market base of nation states has been superseded by the concentration of capitalist markets and the internationalisation of large monopoly and oligopoly capitalists firms .
16 One corporate-centred bargaining strategy in the form of ‘ coalition ’ bargaining has been adopted by a number of US unions since the 1960s .
17 First , pay bargaining has been influenced by the state 's concern with public expenditure and with macroeconomic policies such as wage control .
18 Planning permission has been granted by the South Shropshire District Council and further details will be available by the time of the A.G.M. ( see below ) .
19 Permission has been requested by the Darlington council recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane .
20 Some of the rise has been prompted by the increased unemployment and rising pension and health demands of the growing army of the over-65s .
21 If the damage has been caused by an insured peril covered under Part B e.g. fire damage , then the damage to the freezer would be covered under Part B — Household Contents .
22 It will assess the extent to which dependency on international agencies has been established at the expense of indigenous agencies and whether emergency provision has been sustained by the exclusion of developmental aid in a protracted refugee situation .
23 The reduction in the scale of long term geriatric provision has been accompanied by an increase in the provision of residential care and nursing homes .
24 Much of the obscurity surrounding this provision has been removed by the House of Lords in DPP v Luft [ 1976 ] 1 A11 ER 569 , concerning the prosecution of members of an ‘ anti-fascist ’ committee for incurring expenditure on the publication and distribution of literature attacking National Front candidates .
25 Recent changes in legislation have made it easier for local authorities to promote traffic calming schemes and a significant programme for their provision has been approved by the Regional Council .
26 Since Warnock , some sense of national direction has been given by the work of a number of agencies , not least Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , which has played a very important role , instilling confidence in college staff and promoting good quality provision .
27 Mr Hunt told a news conference after meeting union leaders in Flint on October 23 : ‘ A moratorium has been placed on the closure of Point of Ayr and a direction has been given by the Government to British Coal that development work must continue at Point of Ayr . ’
28 — As Israel 's freedom has been purchased by the death of the firstborn of Egypt , the nation 's firstborn belong in a special sense to God and are to be " bought back " from him .
29 FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England .
30 SOCIAL worker David Jenkins has been appointed by the Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind to the new post of director .
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