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1 However , as experience in family planning programmes throughout the world has shown , a lack of academic knowledge was not the major problem in achieving their modest attainments , but the inability of governments to shift the major socio-economic variables which encourage the continuation of large families .
2 Furthermore , repeated wars have demonstrated the inability of outsiders to contain the virulence of the conflict once they felt this was desirable , except when the superpowers were both agreed on the necessity to rein in their clients .
3 The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now .
4 Peter Wagner has described the ineffectiveness of attempts to mobilise the whole Church by putting the entire membership in the front-line of evangelism ( Wagner 1971 : Chapter 7 ) .
5 See also the case Casey v Breachwood Motors Ltd ( Times Law Reports 29 July 1992 ) , where the court lifted the veil of incorporation to allow the plaintiff to proceed against the second company .
6 Basically , this is achieved by the provision of software to facilitate the updating of and access to such data .
7 From 1963 , with the publication of the command paper Health and Welfare : the Development of Community Care , local authorities have been encouraged to see as their principal responsibility the provision of services to enable the aged to live independently in the community .
8 One view of the provision of facilities to meet the needs of walkers would be that , despite some inadequacies in design and maintenance , there is much for the pedestrian to be thankful for .
9 Client will procure that appropriate arrangements are made for the provision of finance to meet the costs of acquiring shares pursuant to the Offer .
10 The change of strategy to ensure the firm 's survival has meant some hard decisions for managing partner Hugh Aldous .
11 In the end it will need the writer of Jonah to recall the great truth which his people found , and which the Church still finds so hard to grasp , namely that God does indeed throw his largesse to all and sundry .
12 This may be a reflection of the willingness of parents to accept the authority of the teacher where only limited sanctions are employed .
13 The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government .
14 But they have asked the board of directors to review the conditions of demotion and promotion from the eventual Second Division and Alliance League .
15 In favour of a person dealing with a company in good faith , the power of the board of directors to bind the company or to authorize others to do so is deemed to be free from any limitations under the company 's constitution ( i.e. memorandum of association ) .
16 In 1697 John Locke , commissioned by the Board of Trade to survey the problem , concluded that a labouring man and his wife could support just two dependent children on the common country wages : " The children of labouring people are an ordinary burden to the parish .
17 It is advisable in these circumstances , and in other such situations where light is particularly important , to fit your curtains outside the reveal and extend the track beyond the sides to allow for this stack back , and in the case of blinds to fit the batten above the reveal .
18 In the budget on 19 March 1991 the Chancellor announced that there would be extra Government grant to enable the community charge bills originally set by councils to be reduced by £140 for every individual ( or in the case of Wandsworth to reduce the bill to £0 ) .
19 A US delegation led by Senator John Kerry visited Vietnam on Nov. 16-21 for detailed talks on the progress of efforts to resolve the issue of US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam War .
20 The same household means test extended the liability of families to support the able-bodied unemployed .
21 At the end of an emergency session of Congress on 13 March the parliamentary speaker , Ruslan Khasbulatov , who is Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , ordered the preparation of legislation to put the media under parliamentary control .
22 Part of the trouble stemmed from a dislike of Sandys ' refusal to heed professional advice , and from his propensity for allowing the senior civil servants in the Ministry of Defence to usurp the powers that properly belonged to the Chiefs of Staff .
23 Mr. Malone referred to the work the government was doing with the Ministry of Defence to support the declining armaments industry .
24 For the past two years , a cross-party section of politicians , mountaineers , hillwalkers and fishermen has lobbied the Ministry of Defence to retain the unit at Leuchars , which since its inception in 1955 has carried out 2,731 rescues .
25 It seems to be a very sensible move by the Ministry of Defence to alter the structure of our forces in the way in which it is at present proceeding .
26 After the theft a number of the Tretyakov 's curators condemned the gallery 's exhibition policy , calling it ‘ unworthy of a prestige gallery ’ , leading the Ministry of Culture to audit the foreign exhibition activities of all Soviet museums .
27 The RSPCA has called in the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the living conditions of animals on a farm which was hit by an arson attack .
28 The guidelines , which are to be discussed by the union 's local associations , note the responsibility of staff to protect the interests of students , and that sexual or romantic relationships between staff and students may involve serious difficulties rooted in unequal power .
29 It is not the responsibility of governments to run the industry of the nation , but rather to provide a stable environment which will allow private capital to create jobs and wealth for the general good .
30 Minute one six O r below refers to the suggestion that some or all of the uncommitted savings might be used to finance the purchase of equipment to facilitate the early introduction of a speed enforcement camera trial site .
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