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1 Another fast-growing religion in Britain at the moment is a non-Christian movement .
2 All the pop songs in vogue at the time were sung communally — songs such as those from the award-winning film , Hong Gaoliang ( Red Sorghum ) and the virtual national anthem of youth during 1988 , ‘ Yi Wu Suo You ’ , ‘ The One Who Has Nothing ’ .
3 After winning an amateur talent contest in Chicago at the age of 15 , the woman who came to be known as the Queen Of The Blues spent the next few years singing in low-life nightclubs , occasionally supplementing her meagre income by cleaning lavatories .
4 The new president in office at the EC Social Affairs Council , Tristan Garel-Jones , told the European Parliament in July that he was ready to place a great deal of importance on social problems and to work for the improvement of social conditions for all European citizens .
5 On 22 March Sotheby 's held its first auction in Taiwan at the Shin Kong Museum of Art in Taipei .
6 For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him .
7 The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false .
8 ‘ I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend ’ explained McManus , who contested a European League game in Augsburg , where more than eight inches of snow fell in 48 hours .
9 ‘ I do n't like making excuses but I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend and have n't been able to shake it off , ’ explained world No13 McManus .
10 There were in fact a small number of such Chetniks in Austria at the time , the 400 Montenegrins at Viktring , although there is no evidence that Gen Robertson was aware of their existence .
11 FOLLOWING the eighteen months of German victory and triumph in Poland , Scandinavia , the west and south-east of Europe between September 1939 and April 1941 , the next eighteen months from the beginning of the Russian campaign on 22 June 1941 to the German defeat in Stalingrad at the end of January 1943 brought the decisive change in the course of the war and the downturn of Germany 's military fortune .
12 But it does largely bear out what David Murray likes to remind Graeme Souness Rangers are the most powerful club in Britain at the moment and can play quality football .
13 That 's what brought him to the Sleek Physique club in Didcot at the weekend — together with a legion of fans .
14 Meanwhile , Jegsy , who appears with comic John Hegley at the Everyman next Thursday has been up to his neck in work at the seaside .
15 IAN RUTHERFORD Taking steps : marchers take part in the demonstration in Dundee at the weekend showing their support for the 340 strikers sacked by Timex
16 Riot police broke up a demonstration in protest at the government 's response but most teachers returned to work when the schools reopened on March 5 .
17 The organisers had already begun to promise a strong local bill topped by the two biggest attractions in Manchester at the time , The Chameleons and , of course , The Smiths .
18 ‘ She 's a shy little girl who needs friends to bring her out of herself ! ’ their elders had protested , shaking their heads in exasperation at the thoughtlessness of the younger generation .
19 Most people I meet wag their heads in agreement at the proposition that Libya is a cornerstone in Bush 's re-election bid .
20 Scientists at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at the University of Reading have found that only part of the nitrogen , phosphorus and potassium in slurry is in a form that plants can immediately take up .
21 Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work .
22 Branson will unveil his own range of personal computers in September at the Business Computer Show .
23 BBC TV issued an apology to Saracens lock Mark Langley after wrongly linking him with an incident that put Gloucester 's Marcus Hannaford in hospital at the weekend .
24 Suddenly my eye leaps to four words in brackets at the bottom of the column : ‘ ( See also Strategy Unit ) ’ .
25 any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced .
26 He seems not to have received a post until 964/1557 , but was then given the Kasim Pasa medrese in Istanbul at the level , thus bypassing the 20- , 30- and 40-akce grades : he would not normally , of course , receive a medrese the salary of which was less than his pension had been .
27 The Darulhadis would thus , arguably , have been the ranking medrese in Edirne at the time .
28 He says : ‘ While the number of homes in possession at the end of 1991 was the highest ever at 160 , the previous highest figure was 116 in June 1988 , when the mortgage rate of 9.75pc was the lowest for the past 13 years .
29 Two Gentlemen in Veroni at the Barbican .
30 He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street .
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