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1 You can do this on Midland machines simply by pressing the appropriate button , And in some of our branches there are machines where you can use your card to see details of the last few account transactions or print out a short-form statement .
2 Labour leaders were strongly criticised for embracing an ‘ unprincipled ’ U-turn away from unilateralism in an attempt to win votes at the next election .
3 In East Berlin yesterday officials turned away many would-be visitors from the West and gave warnings to opposition leaders in an attempt to avert demonstrations during the 40th anniversary celebrations today and tomorrow .
4 The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy .
5 The COPEI and the MAS on Feb. 24 declined Pérez 's request to the secretaries-general of all main opposition parties to join a " political cabinet " of ministers without portfolio to draft policies for the next two years of government .
6 In addition to providing tax incentives to investors , the package required banks and insurance companies to purchase stocks over the next six months , and encouraged pension funds to do likewise .
7 BLUNDERING birdwatchers may be to blame for the failure of England 's only breeding pair of Golden Eagles to produce chicks for the first time in four years .
8 On Nov. 7 the delegation was received by Vice-President Khaddam and later met with President Hafez al-Assad and Foreign Minister Shar'a to co-ordinate plans for the next stage of the talks .
9 Correct positioning of water jets will ensure that the utensils are thoroughly cleaned first time round , thus removing the tiresome need to put pots through a second time .
10 Despite field reports that this initial DCE release lacks robustness , USL expects its OEMs to ship product to end users in the first half of 1993 based on it .
11 All members of the Planning Group to offer suggestions for a second speaker .
12 Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ?
13 Negotiations by Tyne Tees to broadcast highlights of the first leg of the tie on Wednesday night broke down , leaving thousands of fans disappointed .
14 The latter has limited powers to make judgments in the first instance , subject to the right of appeal to the the Court of Justice .
15 John Fairley , chairman of Grampian Property Partners , said : ‘ The plans to build homes for the first time is a significant move for housing co-operatives in the area and underlines our commitment to help meet the housing needs of people in Grampian . ’
16 Alternative pathways at one level of description can be filtered hierarchically through attempts to build pathways at the next higher level .
17 But what finally convinced me that the emission was real was that the spectrum of the emitted particles was exactly that which would be emitted by a hot body , and that the black hole was emitting particles at exactly the correct rate to prevent violations of the second law .
18 Some records were made by both the research team and by teachers of the methods used by pupils to obtain answers to the first two questions above .
19 The University has noted the intention of the HEFCE to make grants over the next two years towards the costs of the highest priority work .
20 But the fact that the legislature refrained from creating a jurisdiction to make orders against a third party under section 6(3) and ( 4 ) does not justify a cutting down of the ordinary meaning of section 6(2) .
21 Who is taking positive measures to prevent mothers in the third world feeding formula made with contaminated water to their babies ?
22 Britain has worked out measures to cut costs by a fifth , by producing a lighter aircraft with fewer hi-tech flight systems .
23 The current Indian election was spread over three days to enable security forces to move from one area to another ; but even so the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are reported to have used musclemen to capture booths in the first round of the election .
24 He argues that the depression marks the exhaustion of firms ' ability to obtain profits from the last generation of innovations and their low profit rates force them to take radical steps .
25 But even though Johan Cruyff had diluted his attacking creed by fielding an extra defender , Benfica stressed Barcelona 's defensive vulnerability when a simple pass through the middle allowed Cesar Brito to reduce arrears in the 28th minute .
26 The Leasing and Factoring Conventions , with a view to expansion of their scope , follow the model of the Vienna Sales Convention but in acknowledgment of the concerns expressed by various States all three Conventions confer a power on Contracting States to make reservations excluding the second form of connecting factor .
27 The oil crisis in all East European member states of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) , sparked off in July by the unilateral Soviet decision to cut deliveries in the third quarter of 1990 , worsened considerably in October as it became obvious that the Soviet Union would fail to make promised fourth quarter deliveries in full .
28 It is , of course , a matter for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House to make recommendations in the first place .
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