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1 Neither was there any liability for loss of profit on the sale of the lobsters .
2 Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause .
3 The RAF 's case for the Canberra 's replacement was also reinforced by the need to preserve the viability of the British aircraft industry , which was threatened with collapse after cancellation of work on the supersonic bomber and ending fighter development .
4 One account describes the impalement of scores of men on wooden stakes , where they were left to die along the side of the roads leading to Belgrade .
5 Although there was only fragmentary discussion of the matter at the Tenth Session , the United Kingdom view prevailed ; an example perhaps of the effect of shortage of time on the content of international conventions .
6 There have been a number of studies attempting to look at the vexed question of the effect of healing of oesophagitis on oesophageal function .
7 The strength of the effect of type of job on absenteeism would not change by controlling for sex in this case .
8 The effect of Odo of Cluny on robbers is comparable to that of Gauzlin of Fleury or of the statue of St Faith at Conques on unscrupulous knights .
9 During the 1970s , knowledge of stratospheric chemistry improved considerably and this led to some radical rethinking of the effect of oxides of nitrogen on the ozone layer , as illustrated by the World Health Organization statements concerning the potential effect of aircraft emissions .
10 Separating the effect of age from the effect of time of birth on the strength of the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is thus difficult .
11 It is no less illogical , however , to ask a jury to consider the effect of taunts of impotence on a reasonable person who is not impotent , and the Bedder approach was overruled by the House of Lords in DPP v.
12 He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie .
13 Knocker shrugged his massive shoulders with look of resignation on his face .
14 Detailed indexes of subjects and names refer readers to sources of information on a specific topic or person , and the text is illustrated by 130 photographs .
15 In reply to accusations of self-interest on the eve of the Human Rights Now Tour Sting exploded : ’ I 'm the sort of person who really needs publicity , ha ha .
16 This may be manipulated by subtracting the riskless rate from both sides and dividing the result by the standard deviation of the portfolio 's returns to obtain , This may be interpreted as saying that , in equilibrium , the ex-post risk premiums per unit of risk on well-diversified portfolios should be the same as the risk premium per unit of risk for the market portfolio .
17 There were persistent allegations on UNITA 's radio service in the early part of June of attacks on UNITA officials and supporters .
18 The correlations for subtests of groups of items on a particular topic were mostly between 0.6 and 0.8 , although two were 0.4 and 0.5 respectively .
19 Freedom of Access of Information on the Environment
20 Government : Freedom of Access of Information on the Environment
21 In the case of disclosure of information on defence , international relations , crime , information resulting from unauthorised disclosures or entrusted in confidence by a crown servant , sections 2–6 make disclosure an offence if made without lawful authority and causing damage to the public interest .
22 Starts at 10am at Alnham , six miles due west of Bridge of Aln on the A697 .
23 The English bishops were conscientious in the provision of manuals of instruction on how to hear confession and on how to teach the laity the rudiments of the faith .
24 The British Cabinet committee , meeting on 14 November , turned down the US idea , proposing instead a 50–50 division of frequency of traffic on the North Atlantic ; but the following day it decided that the fifth freedom should be accepted , subject to safeguards .
25 In 1980 it implemented the proposals of the Taylor Committee for representation of parents on governing bodies of schools , and under the 1986 Act , which became operative in September 1988 , parent representation on governing bodies was extended .
26 For another , statistically significant associations between standards of work on the one hand and resource levels and the strength of a head teacher 's influence on the other , which are even stronger than those involving subject match , are not developed through discussion or connected to policy suggestions .
27 I gather that this is regarded as a controversial procedure in certain circles , but any criticism on the lines of wastage of resources on a dying man would have me to contend with .
28 In short , the critical balance lay between efficient exploitation of economies of scale on the one hand , and frequent product change across a range of models on the other .
29 The multidivisional enterprise : The tendency of the argument here is the following : if the exploitation of economies of scale on the part of capitalist enterprises primarily involved the development of ever larger units of production , in the technical sense , concentrating progressively larger numbers of workers into massive factories , then there could indeed be a conflict between the wish to retain the benefits of economies of scale on the one hand and the requirements of ‘ manageable ’ enterprise democracy on the other .
30 This story was taken from the experiences of members of organisations on Age Concern 's governing body .
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