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1	The residual , that part of the earnings gap not explained by personal attributes , is conventionally taken as an indicator of discrimination .
2	If extended , this means that talk of a citizens charter is utter nonsense .
3	Another advantage of the gens system was that you could keep the fortune you had amassed in one incarnation and use it in the next .
4	pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges .
5	However , in general , new employees receive some elements of the expenses package given to existing staff .
6	This philosophy is also reflected by some provisions of the Children Act 1989 which give a child , of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , the right to refuse ‘ medical or psychiatric examination or other assessment ’ or ‘ psychiatric and medical treatment ’ in certain defined circumstances : see sections 38(6) , 43(8) , 44(7) and Schedule 3 , paragraphs 4(4) ( a ) and 5(5) ( a ) .
7	It also follows that , although offenders do forfeit some portion of the rights citizens should normally enjoy , they still retain the status of human beings and therefore retain important human rights ( Richardson , 1995 ) — a point on which we are closer to some retributivist thinkers than to classical utilitarianism .
8	As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found .
9	‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry .
10	Another concern of the Sports Council is the length of time and expense of training teachers — and this subject will be a matter of priority during our own Trainers ' Conference Weekend .
11	In some senses the short-term aims were realized by some members of the Humanities department .
12	Some critics of the trades unions have pretended that we oppose the modernization of the Party constitution .
13	It showed a few shots of the God-Kings residence , called the Divine Sanctum , which looked from the outside as big as some planetoids and not much lovelier .
14	I was very interested to see the old photographs in the Veterans News , and I wondered if you would care to see this photo of the darts team .
15	Another duty of the accounts department is that of recording the costs incurred in company activities such as manufacturing .
16	Another duty of the accounts department is that of recording the costs incurred in company activities such as manufacturing .
17	Some sections of the Trades Union Congress still felt that the central problem of the inter-war years was unemployment and that , in a way , a slow down in population would not be a bad thing .
18	Cork , where another member of the Ovens Action Group collected them ’
19	Another feature of the courts reorganization was that the Department was no longer located only in London .
20	Tickets for each session of the Blues Festival start at 5 , weekend passes for all sessions cost 25 , from the Jazz Festival Box Office or from the Caledonian Brewery .
21	These maxims of the politeness principle explain many of those frequent utterances in which no new information is communicated .
22	These features of the wages system were strengthened ( ‘ lifetime employment ’ , ‘ seniority wages ’ ) as the anti-union offensive gathered strength through the fifties .
23	For efficient management of a company , records should be maintained in at least three categories : Financial accounts Cost accounts Management accounts Each of these divisions of the accounts records are of course interrelated and will now be examined in detail .
24	Are these findings of the obstacles women face out of date ?
25	It 's a as I say , it 's all part of a times table .
26	There have been many investigations of the factors animals use to ensure that they mate with members of the same species .
27	The Mineral Intelligence Programme is largely funded by the Department of Trade and Industry to provide it with information and authoritative advice on economic minerals and many aspects of the minerals industry .
28	The accounts office has to deal with all aspects of the accounts system .
29	The guidance is part of a series issued by the Secretary of State for Social Services covering all aspects of the Children Act 1989 .
30	Many members of the Guards Commando were in a camp at Genefa on the Great Bitter Lake and that was where Stirling went in search of the bulk of his sixty other ranks .