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1 The Joint Transport Operation ( with Oxfam ) which was formerly located in Desse , capital of the region of Walo in the north of the country , was relocated in Addis Ababba during the latter stages of the civil war .
2 Smith , comprise English Place Name Elements which appeared in 1970 , and Cornish Place Name Elements by O.J. Padel in the same series , published in 1985 .
3 Yesterday hundreds of demonstrators marched on Downing Street following the same route as those in the Peasant 's Revolt which forced England 's leaders to drop plans for a similar tax .
4 Most ambitious play was deemed to be Bardic 's ‘ The theatre went to Gregory Lavery in the same play .
5 President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani on the same day dismissed the reports as " mendacious propaganda and blackmail " , saying : " We must make America understand that today one can not use the deceitful weapon of disarmament to threaten other countries and to interfere in their affairs . "
6 Fig 77 Robby Naish in the latter stages of a duck gybe .
7 As president of the LDP Miyazawa on the same day made changes in the party leadership .
8 ‘ Was Miss Morgan about the same age as the rest of your partners ? ’
9 Michael freed the children from the evil hand of Dr Adams at the same time as reuniting the children and himself with their true families .
10 Comparing chloride concentration with rainfall at St Louis and water flow in the Senegal River over the same period has displayed the signature of droughts ( in the 1970s , 1940s and 1910s ) and of intervening periods of higher rainfall and river flow .
11 So it was a happy coincidence that the Rev Alan Mackenzie at the same Congress was able to announce that he had recently attended a meeting between Sir Keith Joseph , then Secretary of State for Social Services , and representatives of other national voluntary organisations concerned with the deaf and the hard of hearing , where the Minister 's intention of setting up a permanent committee to help and advise him had been discussed .
12 Adam Goodley has star quality as the young innocent abroad , but even he has to bow to age and experience : Frank Lazarus as the seen-it-all piano player ( with a heart of gold , natch ! ) is wonderfully witty and quietly steals this entertaining and pleasing show .
13 He was pictured in the Sun kissing his girlfriend Karen Levy on the same day that the club held a third anniversary memorial service for 95 fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster .
14 ‘ Also , anyone near the Vernon public house , Dale Street , near the magistrates ’ court , or the Texaco garage on Vauxhall Road at the same time , should do the same . ’
15 IN 1982 , a naval task force was despatched to the Falkland Islands under the same authority .
16 This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al .
17 Only a week ago , she had stood in their butcher 's shop and-completely demolished the reputation of young Carrie Davidson for the same thing : having to get married .
18 Stein will also have seen grand pianos with an action design very like that of Cristofori made by Johann Heinrich in the same workshop .
19 Jim Courier dismissed Amos Mansdorf by the same score but Michael Chang dropped a set before overwhelming Todd Woodbridge in the final set to win 6–4 , 1–6 , 6–0 .
20 Thus Mrs Ramsay at her dinner table , thinking her thoughts , ‘ dissociated from the moment ’ , plotting a match between Lily Briscoe and William Bankes , while Lily Briscoe at the same table is thinking wistfully of quite another man .
21 The ANS joined the KPNLF on Oct. 21 in attacking Phnom Sroc in Banteay Meanchey province , and on Nov. 26 the KPNLF claimed to control " 70 per cent " of the junction town of Svay Chek in the same province .
22 Merseyside police launched a nationwide manhunt for Mr Ashworth on the same day former girlfriend Denise Johnston was found strangled at the Lion Tavern , Liverpool .
23 In 1763 Samuel Johnson in the same manner combined a judgement against the poems of James Woodhouse with condescension toward his trade :
24 The USA 's answer , the Lockheed and Boeing SSTs — the latter cancelled by President Nixon in the same way Concorde was threatened with cancellation by the Wilson Labour Government — are also equally well documented .
25 Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which
26 ‘ Of course , he could not frighten Sir Henry in the same way as Sir Charles .
27 The risk with other-name information is obvious : a lender knowing that Mr Brown and Mr Robinson have dreadful debt records but that apparently Mr Smith at the same address does not , might suspect that all three are aliases for the same person , or at best members of the same disreputable household , and so may refuse Mr Smith credit — even if in real life all three are quite unconnected .
28 It was , however , the work of William Farr in the latter part of the nineteenth century that added statistical precision to estimates of the importance of the health services to human capital .
29 In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) .
30 Inheriting a fortune on the sudden death of his father , and to the acute distress of the family trustees , Samuel Junior devoted much of his money to sustaining It and funding the activities of Michael X. It moved , first to Fitzroy Square , then to Betterton Street in Covent Garden , and later , in 1968 , to Endell Street in the same neighbourhood .
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