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1 It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families .
2 However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances .
3 Allegations have been made that successful convictions in a number of key murder trials have been dependent upon confession evidence which has been improperly obtained during police interrogation .
4 The discussion about the service policeman 's job prospects might have been more sanguine had it been known that civil servants in Whitehall were reading a provocative paper on full employment policy .
5 In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance .
6 In primitive societies with small , self-sufficient units there was no differentiation between centre and periphery , and it could be argued that many peasants in Russia remained at this level of perception during NEP .
7 While disputing the definition of an underclass composed of recalcitrant or wayward pathological individuals , it should be noted that current developments in public policy , especially the poll tax registration and payment procedures , are encouraging the formation of an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense of a section of society which does not participate even formally in society , let alone participate fully as citizens .
8 It should , however , be noted that seasonal jobs in retailing , like regular jobs in the sector , are predominantly part-time jobs .
9 Indeed it might almost be conjectured that those families in which political nous was widely distributed were just those that found the principle of primogeniture unpalatable .
10 Jacobite candidates did well in the elections to Anne 's last two Parliaments , although it must be remembered that Tory candidates in general did well , so that the absolute rise in the number of Jacobite MPs did not necessarily reflect a relative rise in the strength of Jacobitism within the Tory party as a whole .
11 In addition , it should not be assumed that long-term trends in income distribution continue forever : there is evidence that recent years have seen significant changes in these trends in Britain .
12 It is to be hoped that later publications in this new series will be fuller , with more detailed commentary .
13 It must be emphasised that many factors in the child 's motivation and experience affect both development and learning .
14 It could not be suggested that these justices in the instant case did not take time to consider the matter and it is not suggested , nor could it be , that they did not take a great deal of care in carrying out their duties .
15 It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies .
16 He is saddened that many firms in this position are unwilling to accept an equity stake from outside institutions , on the grounds that this will reduce the firm 's control over the venture .
17 So it is hoped that ALL PARISHES in the Middlesbrough area will try to send a representative to the meeting on 9th December .
18 But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) .
19 During the Christmas revolution , it was claimed that Arab guerrillas in training camps formed the core of the last defenders of Ceauşescu 's regime .
20 By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited .
21 In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market .
22 GREYHOUND RACING : The sport was reeling from scandal after it was revealed that five dogs in a race had been doped .
23 In particular , in a report upon collective discrimination it was shown that restrictive practices in the form of agreements between firms were widespread throughout industry , and generally tended to operate against the public interest .
24 For example , it was found that seven-year-old children in the sample from non-manual homes had a reading age 16 months ahead of children from manual and unskilled homes .
25 When each of the three subject areas ( Art , Social Sciences and Science ) were examined it was found that mature students in arts and social sciences gained better degrees than the younger students however the opposite was found for science subjects .
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