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1 From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity .
2 She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man .
3 In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions .
4 This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation .
5 Analysis of political power in terms of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , with distinctions between ‘ institutional ’ and ‘ systemic ’ agendas , derives largely from the non-decision-making approach and is the nearest neo-elitism has come to producing general models of the kind favoured by the traditional elitists .
6 There are , of course , problems with measuring and interpreting trade union membership since in the United States , for example , some professional bodies may not call themselves trade unions although they engage in bargaining activities and in France the only source of such statistics is from the unions themselves ( or , indirectly , via the support given to the various unions in elections for enterprise committees ) .
7 But Mr Fallon has replied , saying he was ‘ puzzled ’ at her request that the Government matched the funding given by the Two Castles Housing Association .
8 That Parliament relied on the Ministerial statements is shown by the fact that the matter was never raised again after the discussions in Committee , that amendments were consequentially withdrawn and that no relevant amendment was made which could affect the correctness of the minister 's statement .
9 The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers .
10 Red-headed England 's Glory spilled across the bare boards of the floor .
11 It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists .
12 A split developed in the Independent Smallholders ' Party on Dec. 29 , 1989 , with the founding session of the National Smallholders and Bourgeois Party , attended by 150 members from Smallholders ' Party branches .
13 The long hours worked by preregistration house officers , the high service commitment , and the low rating given to the educational aspects of the job have led to numerous criticisms of this part of medical education .
14 The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations .
15 Although cholecystitis stopped in the three months follow up in that case , we did not consider this technique for our patient because of her history of fistulas .
16 If the aspect ratio is very low , so that the stacks are wide and thin , the stress may again be quasi-uniform but the constraint placed by the stiff layers on the less-stiff increases the overall longitudinal modulus very greatly , particularly if the less-stiff material has the Poisson ratio of a rubber .
17 The unity witnessed over the two days had been greater than he could ever have hoped for , and the remaining morning 's session of ‘ rounding up ’ would , he trusted , be rich in commitments on the part of participants concerning action each would be taking before the important international conference in Switzerland .
18 The three breeders with the highest total scores after the final show will receive national prizes to the value of £500 , £300 and £200 , in addition to any prize money won in the regional contests .
19 In this case the presence of oxygen and hydrogen mixed in the optimum proportions , could well have compounded the effect .
20 The remainder come from the following categories :
21 The Accounting Standards Board responded to the increasing demands for improvement in the way in which financial performance is reported and in April 1991 published a discussion draft putting forward its proposals .
22 This was money voted by the Arab states in Baghdad in 1978 to confront the implications of Camp David and assist the inhabitants of the territories to stay put and be ‘ steadfast ’ .
23 The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured .
24 Santa Clara , California start-up Nimbus Technologies Inc will next week come out with the first chipset targeted at the compatible builders which is tailored for use with the superscalar Sparcs — Viking and HyperSparc — both expected to hit the market in the second half of the year , see front page .
25 THE foreign ministers of 19 West European countries yesterday laid the foundations for what they hope will emerge as a pan-European association joined by the reforming countries of Eastern Europe .
26 Military and economic historians continue to argue about the quantities and quality of aid received by the two sides , and the financial and economic costs thereof .
27 2.5 The second , and more important , cause of action that English law now allows on death is the independent cause of action given to the near relatives of the deceased who have been deprived of his or her support or services .
28 ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school .
29 Dot guessed by the papery men lurking inside the walls that she must be ill .
30 The Commission has welcomed the guidance given by the co-ordinated efforts of the various actuarial bodies in Europe .
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