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1 Comparison with and without adjustment for smoking gave similarly negative results .
2 Once again the trade unions working individually and through the trade unions for Labour pulled out all the stops to try and secure a Labour victory .
3 The aim of RE according to the phenomenologists is promoting respect for , and understanding of , religion and its significance for behaviour in such a way as to leave intact pupils ' integrity — it is not educating into religion in any way , but educating about religion understood as more than information because involving a positive and creative approach to pluralism .
4 The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused .
5 Extension of the grounds for divorce took even longer to enact and was not achieved until 1937 .
6 When the Party conference began at Brighton in October 1935 , opinion in the Party had hardened against Lansbury and Cripps.Lansbury 's support for pacifism received only 102,000 votes and he resigned from the parliamentary leadership .
7 This division of support had potentially serious consequences as it was commonly accepted that all four constituent groups had to be united behind a single candidate if the Democrats were to regain of the White House .
8 Volatility increased , and the extent as well as the direction of change became less predictable .
9 Meanwhile , on 20 January 1920 , the dwindling sales of Champagne suffered yet another downward spiral , when the American Prohibition Bill was passed ( although ‘ bootleggers ’ still managed to smuggle in substantial consignments ) .
10 The conversion of the former arable fields to small enclosed fields of pasture had therefore two visible effects on the landscape .
11 Curiously , the reason why some species of dinosaur became very large is seldom addressed in either the popular or academic literature , and yet as an anatomical fact it can hardly be side-stepped .
12 In the United States of America , the fear of Communism became clearly evident during 1947 , and on 22nd .
13 The well known excess of leukaemia began around 1979 , at the same time as the increases found by this study in rural areas far removed from any nuclear installation — but all affected by population mixing associated with the oil industry .
14 The original version of Illustrator picked up several awards but neither was nor is a mainstream graphics tool in the same way as MacDraw has become .
15 On the other hand , this poses problems both in the definition of a measure of inequality defined over full income and in its implementation .
16 The babble of discontent grew more insistent , to the point where even the warders could n't quell it .
17 In theory , parties were free to frame their own transactions , which could then be carried out without legal impediment ; in the event that a bargain fell through , or if one party balked or proved unable to perform , the law of contract made freely available the regular judicial processes of the court system , in which economic damages would be awarded to the party aggrieved .
18 Sometimes this form of contract appeared less appropriate .
19 The Hague Rules ‘ boundaries ’ of liability encouraged less costly schemes of risk assumption .
20 In practice classical elite theorists ' determinist belief in the inevitability of oligarchy became as total as Marx 's faith in the dialectical development of history towards communism .
21 For couples with children the threshold income was 151 per cent of income support payments , and for single parents severe deprivation occurred when levels of income fell below 168 per cent of the amounts available from income support .
22 By 1811 , with the addition of a modest number of new subscription-based schools designed for the poor , things had improved although the geography of provision remained very uneven .
23 They also observed that for some of those youngsters subsequently the change of direction brought only short-lived renaissance of interest and motivation before the same boredom and lack of achievement returned .
24 This bit of park had just enough hint of wilderness to be readily transformed in imagination into prairie , canyon , rain forest , river delta , open sea .
25 But by now , the whole Lockerbie investigation was dogged by a sense of futility felt nowhere more keenly than at the Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry which , just before Christmas 1990 , recessed for a month after hearing 150 witnesses in 46 days .
26 Outside was sunshine and jubilant birdsong ; inside the dining room , the smell of bacon and rattle of cutlery seemed comfortingly prosaic .
27 The rediscovery of mind had relatively little impact on the psychobiology of the time .
28 Drawing on the re-evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English-speaking world and elsewhere .
29 Between 1950 and 51 , however , the ‘ political exhaustion ’ of Labour became more apparent .
30 However , there seems no doubt that slavery as a mode of exploitation was on the decline in Latin America , even before it was abolished , and that the economic case against this form of labour appeared increasingly strong after 1850 .
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