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1 The apparent settlement had followed the intervention of the Governor-General , who had threatened , when the negotiations were at an impasse on March 15 , that he would use his powers to appoint a Prime Minister and to call another election .
2 Mr Rees felt that the current impasse on distribution methods stemmed from a degree of confusion between voluntary systems and Administration Orders .
3 BLACK 5 No 44871 ‘ Sovereign ’ which has been hauling the ‘ Northern Belle ’ for Grampian Railtours between Aberdeen and Elgin on Sundays , August 2 to September 6 was due to return with the SRPS railtour stock to Bo'ness on Monday , September 7 .
4 All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography .
5 Other paintings include ‘ Napoleon on horseback ’ by Horace Vernet ( est. $500,000–600,000 ; £257,700–309,300 ) and a view up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe by Louis Marie de Schryver ( est. $150,000–200,000 ; £77,300–103,100 ) .
6 The dinner service , too , was bought when the Berkeleys first married and is still miraculously intact ; it is Wedgwood 's ‘ Napoleon Ivy ’ , reproduced from the ivy-leaf pattern used by Napoleon on St Helena .
7 His most famous commission was to supply all the furniture and furnishings for the house constructed for Napoleon on St Helena .
8 Like Napoleon on St Helena .
9 Yendle and Westwood also made important tackles on Webbe and Gareth Thomas respectively .
10 Montenegro decided nevertheless to hold a referendum on its future on March 1 .
11 Underlying it all , however , is one obvious fact : that the gathering and analysis of geographically distributed environmental data form the necessary starting-point for ensuring the success of our future on earth .
12 a reduction in men 's pensionable age is ruled out for the foreseeable future on grounds of cost … on the other hand , the government believes that raising the pensionable age for women would be unfair to women who have contributed over the years in the expectation of a pension at 60 .
13 The right-wing daily Nowy Swiat on April 9 claimed that contingency plans to introduce martial law in Poland in the case of a threat to security had been elaborated by the President 's staff .
14 St. Albans average two-and-a-half goals a game away from Clarence Park and ex-Dragons Steve Clark and Jimmy King are having excellent seasons , but they did lose 2–1 at home to Harrow Borough on Saturday and let Chesham go nine clear at the top .
15 Whatever the reason , repeated tests have shown that the inclusion of sufficient dietary fibre in meals prevents the excessive output of insulin which so often leads to hunger and snack-eating on diets in which the carbohydrates are processed and refined .
16 JEDBURGH On hilltop above the town , Castle Gaol , a nineteenth-century model prison in the shape of a turreted castle , has been converted into a museum of prison life and local social history .
17 Anti-racists are failing to challenge the iron grip of religion on minority cultures , says Julie Bard
18 MINORITIES The priests have it Anti-racists are failing to change the iron grip of religion on minority cultures , says Julia Bard
19 In this there was an indirect effect of religion on science .
20 Reformation and Counter-Reformation : Indirect Effects of Religion on Science
21 It is important not to underestimate these indirect effects of religion on science .
22 The etymology of the word Devil and the influence of pagan religion on Christianity , though perhaps interesting in themselves , are of no great theological significance .
23 I remember seeing Gary Speed on Football Focus before the Chelsea game saying that Strachan should be back from injury ‘ soon ’ .
24 Leeds took an early 2 goal lead with Wallace and Speed on target from Strachans precise crosses ( I am lead to believe ) .
25 Improvements in performance with increasing arousal at low levels are taken to be a function of the increasing speed on information transfer .
26 Stags And Hens , produced by Charles Nowosielski , opens at the Arts on September 29 .
27 Beck already has sites in Paris at the hotel des Arts on rue Berryer and in London in the south block mezzanine and lower ground floors of Somerset House overlooking the Thames embankment .
28 There is also a diagram of the joint degrees in the Faculty of Arts on page 61 .
29 However , in spite of that , the range of decorative arts on display gives an insight into the intense creativity of Bohemian craftsmen and the workshops of Prague .
30 But given our track record there are risks on timing ’ he said .
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