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1 If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany .
2 Professor Hoskins perceived the compulsion under which labourers might enter the world of the money wage and the cash purchase when he assessed the impact of " agricultural improvement " on the village of Wigston in Leicestershire .
3 TECs are regarded both as regulators of the local training market in the transition between education , training and employment and as the channel through which employers can influence the vocational education and training system .
4 If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ?
5 For which Marcus must take the blame — or praise — depending on one 's point of view , she accorded without bitterness .
6 The Cray Communications Ltd arm of Cray Electronics Holdings Plc , and its Cray Communications Inc arm in Annapolis , Maryland have signed a $10m three-year OEM agreement with Coral Network Corp , Westborough , Massachusetts under which Cray will resell the Coral Backbone Xpress 1000 and 2000 fault-tolerant internetworking systems for collapsed , campus and corporate backbone applications through its worldwide distribution channels under Cray 's own brand name starting on June 1 ; privately-held Coral and Cray will also conduct joint development on the BX architecture to provide additional functionality , such as the addition of wide area network interfaces and support for speech ; the Backbone Xpress Series supports Ethernet , Token Ring , FDDI , T1 , E1 and V35 network interfaces ; and TCP/IP , Novell Inc IPX , AppleTalk II , DECnet IV , RIP , OSPF , EGP , BGP , Frame Relay and PPP protocols , and is also designed to support future high-bandwidth network interfaces , such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode .
7 They had strong enclosing walls , round corner towers with firing slits from which defenders could command the outer walls .
8 The knack is actually predicting which products will make the Transatlantic transition .
9 If I decide on the toss of a coin which investment will provide the greatest yield , and fortunately turn out to be right , we suppose that my choice is vindicated by the outcome perhaps , but not justified by it ; I had no real justification for making the choice I did .
10 This project will also consider the extent to which GIS can support the special needs of spatial data analysis .
11 In the USA , legislation at both the State and Federal level often similarly defines the parameters within which schools can consider the curriculum .
12 The authors now propose a checklist against which readers might evaluate the introduction of a management information system in their own institutions .
13 The Prime Minister is expected to chair a cabinet sub-committee to settle which department should pay the bill .
14 It looks as if contextual factors can neither determine which candidates can enter the cohort , nor which candidates must leave it . ’
15 The accelerators wo n't go on to Sun 's price lists and there is no money changing hands in the relationship apart from some joint marketing and advertising of which Sun will bear the brunt .
16 The prospective parliamentary candidate against whom such action is taken shall have the right of appeal to the National Executive Committee , which committee shall have the power to confirm , vary , or reverse the action taken by the General Committee .
17 They have also suggested ways in which parents can reduce the risk of food sensitivity in their children , as explained on pp 241–7 .
18 As well as providing cash , these customers will perform one other key service for the company — they will provide a litmus test by which IBM can gauge the plants ' true competitiveness .
19 Specifically , by considering the themes of adaptability , accountability and technological coherence I believe we have principles and processes by which business might prompt the education service to question and change its own practices .
20 Within the community the question is which site will win the first , and both inside and outside there is the question of ‘ How much of my money will be sacrificed to support the CIT ? ’ — areas of science that have no immediate connection to fusion nevertheless get funded from the same sources , such as the Department of Energy .
21 If doctors could know for certain which individuals would develop the disease , they could treat potential diabetics before the process takes hold .
22 A WELL-trained workforce is one of the key ways in which Courtaulds can gain the edge over its competitors .
23 Which spouse should make the Gift Aid payment ?
24 There are two other ways in which expectations can influence the demand for money , and make it more unstable .
25 There are those concerning the nature of the state and the extent to which governments can conserve the environment .
26 In common with most of his contemporaries , he comprehended few methods by which governments could affect the total of demand .
27 Nevertheless , if there is any sense in which capitalism can develop the Third World , and there is evidence that this is happening in some countries or in some sectors , then the theoretical elaboration of the idea of dependency reversal may be useful .
28 However , there was a significant difference about the extent to which loyalists should break the law to exercise their right to march if the RUC decided to ban or change the route of a march .
29 The analysis will help the management organiser to determine which managers should make the decisions , and who else should be informed .
30 By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’
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