Example sentences of "decided at " in BNC.

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1 TESTING for HIV as a condition of employment should be banned except where the absence of Aids or HIV infection is a bona fide requirement of the job , the Council of the International Bar Association decided at the opening of its ninth biennial conference in Strasbourg yesterday .
2 Coups are plotted in small groups huddled around a faction leader and strategies decided at fringe meetings .
3 Officials say it is because the two sides have different versions of what was decided at the previous negotiations that the ceasefire has broken down .
4 The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence .
5 It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models .
6 Mr Davies yesterday offered to re-run the contest under the party 's 1985 rules when the matter was decided at the party 's general management committee by delegates elected by wards and the trade unions .
7 The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) and the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) if there were just a single offence of non-fatal harm and a single offence of sexual assault : this would often leave little to be decided at the trial and would transfer the effective decision to the sentencing stage .
8 But Koch 's vacillating views on his own afterguard line-up , seemingly decided at the last minute with minimal consultation among his senior crew , is bemusing observers .
9 They would prefer the leadership to be decided at the annual autumn conference .
10 The outcome would be decided at Labour 's autumn conference , by an electoral college of MPs , trades unions and constituency parties .
11 Again according to Heseltine , it was decided at EA that the ad hoc group should meet again on Friday 13 December , after the Stock Exchange had closed .
12 These targets were decided at each location by a management team drawn from right across the site .
13 Performance indicators ( increasingly referred to in the current climate as ‘ success criteria ’ ) were to be decided at school level , according to what each school felt to be useful areas to monitor .
14 According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system .
15 Such an allowance was decided at the 1980–81 IWC annual meetings , when Japan was allowed to catch 890 sperm whales per year off the Japanese coast where stocks are still high despite the 1981 IWC ban on catching sperm whales .
16 It must be shared , and its final use must be decided at an early planning stage .
17 There was still a chance to earn a place on the Olympic team ; the final place would be decided at the AAA Championships at Crystal Palace .
18 Erceldoun immediately rushed into his story , how the King decided at the banquet to return to Kinghorn and summoned both Seton and himself to ride with him .
19 The new rules include a way in which national policy , currently decided at conference , can be overturned if a certain number of university unions oppose it .
20 When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt .
21 ‘ Real local feeling ’ is in their favour and such issues should not be decided at emotionally charged public meetings , they say ’ .
22 Basic skin water levels are decided at birth .
23 The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities .
24 Like many issues which determine the course of history , the challenges of keeping pace in strategic competition , holding down grain imports , maintaining energy production and earning a hard currency income may be decided at the margin .
25 Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway .
26 The different perspectives of EP and parents were reflected in the confusion over what had been decided at that meeting .
27 In events decided at the weekend , Kerns was a totally different player in the handicap singles .
28 To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote .
29 If the court decided at this stage that the case did not in fact involve the performance of a public function , the case should normally be allowed to continue as a non-Ord. 53 case if the applicant wished .
30 For it was as we have seen , in September 1833 , that the delegate conference of the Builders ' Union decided at Owen 's prompting to constitute the union as an organisation to run the building industry .
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