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1 Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children .
2 The participants also adopted a statement addressed to the politicians and citizens of Europe in which they demanded protection for Romanies against attacks from racist groups .
3 There was opportunity for maladministration in terms of both efficiency and peculation .
4 Built round a consortium approach the MBA facilitates the opportunity for interaction between managers from the I.T function and from elsewhere in the organisation as well as with their counterparts in other organisations .
5 The School runs a multi-disciplinary seminar series for postgraduates , and provides the opportunity for contact among students from all of the Faculty 's departments .
6 The Conservative party believes in choice and opportunity for people in terms of how they spend their money and their time .
7 Hence there is a case for intervention in terms of regulating prices and conditions of supply .
8 A provision for division of profits after the firm 's annual accounts have been approved ( see below ) but with provision for appropriate amounts on account of anticipated liability to income tax to be withheld out of the undrawn balance of each partner 's share at the year 's end ( Clause 10.02 ) and for repayment of excessive drawings ( Clause 10.03 ) .
9 In general , businesses prefer to avoid the courts , litigation ( and even lawyers ) so far as possible , and the terms may therefore make provision for settlement of disputes by arbitration , or by one of the other systems of alternative dispute resolution , such as conciliation , which are now available .
10 Educational provision for children with statements of special educational needs ( see Chapter 3 , 1978 Warnock ; Chapter 4 , 1981 Education Act ) is varied , and changing over time ( see Chapter 5 , Figures 5.14–5.16 ) .
11 The group operating profit of £92m is increased by net profit on sale or termination of discontinued operations of £2.2m , less provision for loss on operations to be discontinued of £1.9m , to produce profit on onrdinary activities of £92.3m before interest and other income .
12 There is special provision for injury to trespassers by dangerous animals .
13 Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general .
14 Nursery owner Paul Hutchinson has been able to keep track of Wally 's progress through reports to police from startled motorists who spotted him hopping along roads in the area .
15 She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society .
16 He wants to extend the government 's support for research into areas beyond disciplines related to computers .
17 There were also indications that branches of physical geography were acknowledging the necessity for studies of processes in view of the way in which processes were featuring more prominently in related disciplines .
18 The political embarrassment that such admissions created for the Bolsheviks were smoothed over by presenting the necessity for NEP in terms of an analogy with the Brest Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in 1918 , that is , as being a breathing space .
19 Figure 5.2(a) illustrates a modern servo-hydraulic test machine of commercial manufacture ( Dartec ) , while Figure 5.2(b) shows the low-frequency device used at Bristol University for studies on polymers at low temperatures in vacuum .
20 He is well qualified for the task , as he lectures on the subject at Leith 's School of Food and Wine in London and has practical experience as managers of restaurants in Britain , the Caribbean and America .
21 then entrance requirements for SCE candidates and GCE candidates separately : these include the normal minimum grades required for admission in terms of SCE Highers or GCE A-levels , and any specific subject qualifications required ( such as Higher or A-level Physics for entry to degrees in Engineering ) .
22 The rhetorical use of anthropology inevitably involved Marx and Engels in a search of the anthropological literature for examples of opposites to the institutions of capitalism .
23 The chapter has focused on one group of women in poverty , scanning the research literature for information on mothers in low-income households .
24 In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time .
25 Prior to the passing of the SGSA , s 7(4) of the UCTA prevented exclusion of liability for breach of warranties of title and quiet possession " arising by implication of law " ( see s 7(1) ) , in business contracts ( other than for the sale and hire purchase of goods ) under which possession or ownership of goods was transferred , unless such exclusion passed the test of reasonableness .
26 The House of Lords applied the but for test to restrict the defendant 's liability for loss of earnings to the period before the onset of the disease .
27 he gave the plaintiff judgement for 75% of damages to be assessed and directed that the seat belt issue should be tried separately from quantum .
28 The filling of the posts as they become vacant is decided by the General Board after consideration of recommendations from the faculty board .
29 As each group of mandarins finished their performance of the ritual they backed slowly to the edge of the courtyard to be replaced by others , and wave after wave of courtiers in silks of all hues flowed across the gray flagstones under the yellow glare of the early sun .
30 For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope .
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