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1 The British attitude was that American troops should remain pending the completion of the UN task in supervising elections ; the change of policy away from the Moscow agreement , which Britain had so far supported , would be justified in the UN debate on the grounds that the assumptions on future developments at Moscow had proved erroneous and the only course of action now was to appoint a UN temporary commission .
2 The reorganisation of DTI away from sectors has proved to be successful .
3 There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored .
4 It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard .
5 For Pooh does n't infer the presence of honey directly from what Rabbit says : he infers it indirectly , via what ( he believes ) Rabbit believes .
6 Encourage the puppy to allow you to have the toy on occasions right from the outset so that it does not become unduly possessive in later life , as this can lead to aggressive behaviour .
7 She pushed the sketches of Kenilworth away from her with an abrupt movement .
8 After the ultimate collapse of the last-minute French initiative [ see below ] , he made a statement at the request of the Security Council on Jan. 15 , saying : " As … the world stands poised between peace and war , I most sincerely appeal to President Saddam Hussein to turn the course of events away from catastrophe and toward a new era of justice and harmony …
9 At Stage I VUPP had only 1.5 quotas but with the aid of transfers mainly from Armstrong ( Un ) and Maginnis ( UPNI ) as well as non-transfers from Republican Clubs the two VUPP candidates were elected .
10 Such a configuration would tend to make a plate slide under the force of gravity downwards from a mid-oceanic ridge towards a subduction zone ( Fig. 2.17(E) ) .
11 Unlike the demands for time off from the farm , which is normally at short notice , the request for release for training courses could be made well in advance .
12 The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture .
13 It is thought that the separation of children from poor parents , the keeping of children apart from parents and the removal of parental rights are undertaken too readily by these agencies .
14 With rapid and sustained economic growth more capital becomes available to finance investment in labour saving machinery , and higher labour rewards in the advanced sector of industry are thought to encourage the mobility of labour away from the small firm sector .
15 The " p-varying " form of these will require a knowledge of the type of material either from experimental data , from the assumption that it can be represented by the differential equation or from the assumption of the spectrum of relaxation times outlined on p. 73 .
16 EVERYONE remembers those school trip tragedies which have claimed the lives of youngsters far from home .
17 The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out .
18 However , in recent years the methodological changes outlined in Chapter I have not only reduced the relative amount of work in this field , but also transferred the focus of interest away from the fairly limited concept of land use towards not only the more abstract concept of landscape , but increasingly to behavioural studies of how we value land and landscapes .
19 The move of bushi away from the land into the ‘ castle town ’ of each domain meant substantial concentrations of population .
20 A major reason for this has been the move by customers away from cash transactions to cheque and credit card transactions .
21 The seats inside face away from the path and I thought it would be safer like that .
22 In one sense , the shift of population away from the original urban cores is by no means a new development ; suburban expansion was already underway before the end of the nineteenth century and accelerated dramatically in the interwar period .
23 The shift in stance away from cultural exile towards critical engagement , for him marks a shift away from the élitism of the moderns towards postmodernism .
24 Some butterflies and moths have evolved false heads at the rear ends of their bodies , deflecting the attacks of birds away from their vital organs .
25 Perhaps we could first take the right to slipper away from the prefects . ’
26 This is achieved by gently lowering the slide at an angle , into the water , when the surface tension will pull the discs of plastic away from the slide .
27 Meanwhile Mr Lamont came under attack for spending the whole of August away from his desk .
28 The year began with the capture by the EPLF of the Eritrean port of Massawa in February [ see pp. 37401-02 ] , which left the EPLF in effective control of the whole of Eritrea apart from the capital , Asmara .
29 The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played .
30 In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown .
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