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1 Just as in their trade policy the Federalists are prepared to sacrifice the Member States ' economic prosperity for the political goal of a United Europe , so does the establishment of a Common Foreign and Security policy sacrifice their military and strategic needs to that same political end .
2 In 1974 , UDA ‘ muscle ’ brought thousands on to the streets to enforce the Ulster Workers ' strike which toppled the power-sharing executive .
3 Er I 'm quite happy to include the case loads erm of special needs C Os .
4 Why is it that so many young bands want to write The Stone Roses ' second album ?
5 But as the value and importance of the trade became clear , some companies moved to meet the milk importers ' requirements .
6 The aim is not to increase the community nurses ' workload but rather to decrease time spent chasing the social work team .
7 Once the landing points had been selected , the navies had to escort the assault troops ' ships to their dropping zones , sweeping mine-free passages for both LSIs and assault craft .
8 To apply that principle here : suppose the corporation proposed to reduce the number of taxicabs from 300 to 200 , it would be their duty to hear the taxicab owners ' association : because their members would be greatly affected .
9 This was not the way in which the Iranians came to perceive the Gulf states ' role .
10 Sarah Bentley beat Siobhan Nicholson from Ireland 6-2 , 6-3 to win the Namibia women 's tournament in Windhoek .
11 Only last week Davis scored a course record 65 at Knebworth ( unoffical because he enjoyed preferred lies ) to win the Hertfordshire boys ' title at the expense of Hamilton , who also lost out to Davis in 1991 .
12 City of Edinburgh overcame Royal High Dunedin 80-53 to win the Lothian Women 's Cup at Wester Hailes Education Centre .
13 The greatest distinction achieved by The Wedding Present , though , was to win the NME readers ' poll for best band of the year , ahead of REM , The Fall and U2 .
14 He intends to raise the top rate of tax from 31% to 36% and wants to apply a 10% millionaires ' surtax , leading to a top rate of approximately 40% .
15 THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August .
16 The EC responded to some of these concerns by offering to increase the proportion of grants to loans ( in order to ease the ACP countries ' debt commitments ) , to allocate funds to short-term structural adjustment rather than to long-term aid projects ( to help ACP countries overcome acute balance-of-payments and other problems ) , and to relax the regulations on the rules of origin for manufactured products ( with the aim of encouraging industrialization in ACP countries ) .
17 There have been equally difficult negotiations to satisfy the partner nations ' demanding requirements .
18 It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers .
19 The Charter calls on governments to recognize the forest peoples ' rights to self-determination and ownership of their homeland .
20 Wembley yesterday landed a second successive European final when the stadium was chosen to host the Cup Winners ' Cup climax on 12 May .
21 Hun Sen , the prime minister of Cambodia , has withdrawn an earlier promise to allow the Khmers Rouges ' leaders to stand in any election .
22 The Local Council , in nineteen hundred and four , had the courtesy to call a rate payers ' meeting to discuss the proposed acquisition of the estate and , with the approval of the meeting , proceeded with their purchase .
23 Rick 's method of dealing with these conflicting images was to hold an evening parents ' workshop in which he outlined the rationale and aims of the new mathematics curriculum for the intake year .
24 One possible explanation for the interest in reforming the commercial sector may be the Thatcher Government 's desire to break the trade unions ' ‘ hold ’ on the industry .
25 On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their No 1 decision-maker .
26 On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their number one decision maker .
27 Certainly , it was the effects of such rising social tensions and widespread industrial conflict which motivated the giant Siemens company in the electrical engineering industry to join the metalworking employers ' association ( Homburg , 1983 ) .
28 It was made famous by the then Labour education chairman who said , and I quote , I am a spendthrift , I love to spend the rate payers ' money .
29 In this instance the directors are presumably the same as the shareholders , and the intention was , undoubtedly , to effect the motor vehicles ' transfer and payment of the dividend on exactly the same date to avoid a loan account debit and a s 419 assessment .
30 When the first attempts had been made to adapt the Wright Brothers ' invention as a lethal instrument , pilots went aloft with steel darts and took pot shots at one another with service revolvers .
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