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31 Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse .
32 A bumper issue for composer recordings also contained Walton 's Argo recording of his Façade , with the London Sinfonietta and speakers Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Schofield .
33 The legs also gave scope for embellishment ; they were turned into columns or bent into distinctive arch shapes with ball feet .
34 Several speakers also repeated Craig 's claims about links between NICRA and both republicanism and Communism .
35 Other more ambitious walks also took place that winter .
36 Randall and Sayers both became professors and Randall was knighted .
37 He looked worried , almost weary , and his eyes instantly found Maggie .
38 Three of eight subjects also had HAPCs during fasting .
39 Not only , therefore , did sleep mechanisms rebel against the regime by more and more attempts to initiate REM sleep during the period of deprivation , and " make up " for the amount lost to some extent when allowed to , but the subjects also showed signs of psychological distress when it was prevented .
40 The inspectors also said teaching of religion in non-church primary schools was generally poor , and ‘ usually lacked rigour , clear purpose and explicit religious content . ’
41 Montenegro trebled its area at Turkey 's expense by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 , but the treaty was never ratified , and the Congress of Berlin a few months later forced Montenegro to surrender some of its gains .
42 Ultrasonography four months later showed improvement , with resolution of hydronephrosis on the left and minimal hydronephrosis on the right .
43 The German offensive on Russia only two months later shocked Japan , and many Japanese argued for the breaking of the non-aggression pact .
44 Wrides also had examples of turning swords into ploughshares for bayonets had been hinged into notched steel bases for sale as very effective firewood splitters .
45 Several of the mare impacts have been dated from the radiometric ages of the welding of the surrounding brecchias to which these impacts probably gave rise .
46 Another leading Forum activist said that last night 's talks , in which the Communists were lead by the politburo member , Mr Vasil Mohorita , and in which the small political parties also took part , could produce a quick agreement .
47 Although , apart from lapis lazuli , supplies of all these were available in Egypt and Sinai , Egyptian craftsmen often had recourse to coloured glass to infill cloisonné cells .
48 Clients often discovered disasters affecting share prices of stocks too late .
49 Since the gentry had tended to buy and sell land without reference to the administrative cohesion of the parcels they exchanged , two or more communes often existed side by side in a single centre of rural population .
50 Eight months ago coloured Erica Adams blamed de Klerk when she broke off her engagement to his son Willem .
51 LORD Hanson , the crafty deal-maker who three months ago clinched Britain 's biggest takeover bid by paying £3.3billion for Consolidated Gold Fields , yesterday confounded the City with the £420million sale of a US offshoot .
52 Like the horse , she was shivering with reaction and her legs simply gave way beneath her .
53 Indeed , some pacifists even drew comfort from the idea that modern weapons had become so destructive that no one was likely to contemplate actually using them ; others were reassured by the apparent improvement in Anglo-German relations after the upheavals of the Balkan Wars of 1912 .
54 Nor was it clear that Balfour 's departure was universally desired : at the National Union Conference a few days later , Leo Maxse was booed off the platform , and constituency parties everywhere passed resolutions regretting Balfour 's decision .
55 The cars then travelled south on the A1 before turning off for Ripon .
56 At the sound of his enraged voice Jenna 's legs almost gave way beneath her .
57 It also explains erm his view why the Jews then murdered Moses rebelled against them , he was n't one of them anyway .
58 She listened carefully to the details of the Palestinian woman 's story , of how Jewish gangs had murdered a truckload of Arab villagers shortly before Um Al-Farajh was surrounded and of how the Jews then destroyed Mrs Zamzam 's home , the village and even the little Muslim cemetery beside it .
59 Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury .
60 But in circumstances where rulers failed to provide the peace thought essential to a Christian society , ecclesiastics sometimes took matters into their own hands .
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