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1 NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter .
2 The explosion of smaller ‘ funky ’ labels sees a wealth of records in the clubs and record shops days after they 've been cut , not months .
3 The ordinary cinema goer sees a lot of glamour in directing and producing and God knows what else , but you you really postman
4 Both Kennedy and Khrushchev appeared to have been chastened by the experience , and the next 12 months saw a thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR .
5 The next few months saw a series of incidents — some petty , some serious — which kept relations tense .
6 I did get into a car the other day to drive to London to the Imperial War Museum to see an exhibition of work by Tony Carter and was excited by it , but my appreciation may have something to do with the fact that he was a student of mine so I have been familiar with his ideas over many years .
7 The approach of the thermo-nuclear era with all its startling political and military implications increased his anxiety to see a relaxation in East–West tensions .
8 The Guild sees a need for MAFF to be restructured so that food comes first .
9 In the next window Boy saw a wall of magazines and papers ( in eighteen different languages , including Turkish and black English ) , as carefully arranged as any display of flowers .
10 The subsequent decades saw a growth of internationalization and multilateralism within this system until the crossroads of the 1970s and 1980s where the United States ' hegemony over the international system was interrupted .
11 The next few decades saw a number of changes of ownership with such people as John Clarke and later , John Chalk running the mill .
12 Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence .
13 The return of peace saw a redirection of Thornton 's interests towards the recently opened markets in the East Indies .
14 In February state farm workers , teachers and transport workers staged strikes , and May saw a wave of strikes mainly in the transport and mining industries ( copper being one of Poland 's most profitable export sectors ) [ for Solidarity day of action see p. 38208 ] .
15 Like many other tourist attractions , the Talyllyn saw a drop in traffic during the difficult 1992 season ; but the railway is working hard to meet the challenge .
16 After a five-month hiatus in contacts between the two Korean states , July saw a plethora of proposals and counter-proposals from both countries .
17 The period from October to December saw a rash of mutinies among soldiers and sailors .
18 Day Six : An early start form Decin sees a day with landfalls at Hrensko and then Bad Schandau .
19 The desire for defence economies also increased his desire to see a relaxation in East–West tensions .
20 The two leaders reaffirmed their desire to see an improvement in relations between North and South Korea , including an early resumption of the suspended inter-Korean Premiers ' talks .
21 It is my belief that even without this tragic news , Lord Darlington would have set upon the course he took ; his desire to see an end to injustice and suffering was too deeply ingrained in his nature for him to have done otherwise .
22 Foreign correspondents who visited polling stations in Havana saw a number of ballot papers marked ‘ No ’ , spoiled in other ways or left blank , although these were not a majority .
23 The two years before the war saw a return of prosperity , yet in the year before July 1914 over 23 per cent of insured men claimed benefit .
24 But North Yorkshire saw an increase in unemployment .
25 Mrs Shephard said some conservationists saw a contradiction between MAFF 's support for farming and its policies for the environment and some farmers were suspicious of the emphasis placed on green issues .
26 After this Tindle saw a lot of Minton , either at Hamilton Terrace or Portobello Road where Minton did a drawing of the younger man in April 1952 , afterwards painting a half-length portrait of Tindle which now hangs in Pallant House , Chichester .
27 In the Soviet Union the early post-revolutionary years saw a flowering of creativity ; Le Corbusier had novel ideas on the construction of cities and from 1922 onwards in presentations , conferences and publications he attracted a world-wide following ; and in Germany the social housing programme of the Weimar Bauhaus , directed by Gropius , was architecturally distinctive , and in Frankfurt on Main the housing estates of Ernst May attracted great interest .
28 The mid-1980s saw an intensification of interest in community care , as witnessed by the publication since 1985 of four major reports on the topic .
29 According to Lesley Bell , director of the Joint Initiative for Community Care , funded by the ADSS and the Local Government Management Board , departments should encourage service managers to see a spell in care management as part of their career development , possibly towards a more senior post in service management .
30 He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras .
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