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1 Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent .
2 An hour or so later , Roger honoured his cafe-culture principles and I compromised mine by patronising the plastic vulgarity of the deserted skiers ' day lodge .
3 The government had reportedly also accepted a three-point plan presented by the mediator at the talks , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Zacapa and president of the Guatemalan Bishops ' Conference , which called for a commission to document , but not punish , perpetrators of past atrocities and for the government to guarantee the rights of captured rebels and of those who had disarmed .
4 The advice came from the president of the National Farmers ' Union , Mr Simon Gourlay , who discussed the matter with ministers .
5 The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk .
6 The two were speaking as Mrs Mary Whitehouse , president of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association , called for a clamp-down on screen violence .
7 In 1984 he became President of the British Bankers ' Association .
8 The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association .
9 Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association .
10 Being president of the Old Scholars ' Association was , he said , one of the great honours of his life , following , as it did , the equivalent presidency of another Quaker School , Polam Hall , Darlington , by his sister , Mrs Trixie Lyburn , in 1986/7 .
11 The authorities said that the shooting began with an attack on military and administrative buildings in the town centre by 1,500 fighters of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
12 Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike .
13 Where the bearings of timbers are inaccessible , it may be necessary to drill deep holes for saturation of the buried beams ' ends by injection .
14 The remaining five seats , allocated for election by minority communities such as Chinese , Europeans and other Pacific islanders , were all filled by candidates of the General Voters ' Party ( until 1990 the General Electors ' Association ) .
15 That was a time when a foreign passport offered little defence against arbitrary injustice from the authorities , and the very mention of the Avant-garde artists ' names incurred the risk of repression .
16 I was encouraged in this by the good result of the experimental members ' evening in the 1990-1 programme , when half a dozen members gave excellent short talks .
17 One direct result of the nuclear authorities ' assumptions on the remote possibility of catastrophic accidents , however , was that its plans for dealing with an emergency were consequently limited .
18 But a recent study of the Capetian kings ' household has traced a growing reliance on knights of lowly birth and clerks whose claim to prominence sprang solely from their usefulness .
19 In a bold demonstration of the federal authorities ' resolve to thwart any concrete Slovene actions which might lead to secession , late on Oct. 4 JNA military police occupied the Slovene territorial defence force headquarters in Ljubljana ( Slovenia 's capital ) .
20 The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation .
21 Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live .
22 With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations .
23 FIG. 1 Pre-operative magnetic resonance images of the two infants ' brains ( T2-weighted axial images ) .
24 Thus it is ironic that he more than once offers a cold-hearted appraisal of the junior hobbits ' utility .
25 This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes .
26 At a conference of the Foreign Ministers of the EEC states in Rome the following month Carrington made a general proposal for the conclusion of an international treaty guaranteeing Afghanistan 's status as a ‘ neutral ’ state , which in his view would provide the Soviet Union the possibility of withdrawing its troops on a legal basis in light of the United Nations ' resolution on this issue .
27 But it 's the riot squads that follow up to make the arrests and today , on the fields of battle around Orgreave , the police were involved in some of the most vicious hand-to-hand fighting of the entire miners ' dispute .
28 Dynastic concord and family harmony were , however , bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes ' subjects .
29 Jim Smith 's Second Division outfit are the first non-Division One winners of the Professional Footballers ' Association Fair Play Award .
30 The photograph shows , from left to right : Samuel Cantley , Rev Martin Smyth MP , Fred Owens and Colin Baxter during the presentation of the £500.00 in the aid of the Romanian Orphans ' Fund .
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