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1 IAN MORLEY has withdrawn from the Merseyside Competition side to meet the Liverpool Competition in the President 's Trophy at Northern tomorrow .
2 THE Liverpool Competition cruised to a ten wicket win over the Merseyside Competition in the first round of the President 's Trophy at Northern yesterday .
3 However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award .
4 This follows widespread criticism of the Bush Administration 's scepticism at international conferences so far .
5 That was clearly demonstrated by the Ciba-Geigy trial run on David Lennox 's Billet 's Farm at Great Wigborough .
6 Sometimes , as in the case of Governor Eyre 's atrocity at Morant Bay , it was not even particularly systematic .
7 This will take place at the Midlands Arts Centre at 5pm on Thursday 3 October , and the discussion will be led by Terry Staples , who programmes the childrens films for the London Film Festival , and Lewis Rudd , Controller Young Peoples ' Programmes at Central Television , with other invited educationalists and childrens ' programme makers .
8 At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses .
9 Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation .
10 9.8 Electronic Distance Measurement device in use at the British Museum 's excavation at Torbryan Caves in Devon .
11 The first was held at the conference hotel in Northampton on Saturday , May 30th , when members considered the voting rights of the Institute 's Officers at National Council meetings .
12 Second favourite , ridden by Steve Cauthen , was the Aga Khan 's Baynoun , winner that year of the Queen 's Vase at Royal Ascot and the Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury .
13 ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) .
14 Many of Mr Robey 's colleagues at big supermarket chains would like to see just the top two or three brands in a product line left on the shelf — plus , of course , their own labels .
15 Gail 's delight at Euro invite
16 While commentators have dismissed her as a serious contender , those who worked intimately with the Prince and watched Mountbatten 's machinations at first-hand were convinced that marriage between Prince Charles and Amanda Knatchbull was a virtual certainty .
17 The UN 's International Comparison Program ( ICP ) is the most ambitious effort to revalue developing countries ' output at international prices .
18 AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally .
19 AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally .
20 Philip C. Jessup , Truman 's ambassador at large , visited Seoul in January 1950 and held wide-ranging discussions coveting political , financial and strategic matters .
21 Tristan Garel-Jones and Alan Howarth were on the Chairman 's staff at Central Office .
22 And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team .
23 Although Her Majesty 's Railway Inspectorate has expressed concern over driver 's behaviour at automatic barriers , it believes they offer the best blend of safety and cost efficiency .
24 The uncustomary heat did n't help matters either , nor did the taxi driver 's attempt at jovial small talk , most of which Alyssia either ignored or answered in monosyllables .
25 There are many reminiscences of the two men together at Carlyle Mansions — Hayward talkative and Eliot silent , Hayward persuading Eliot to quote from memory long passages from the Sherlock Holmes stories ( there was an element of putting his famous companion " on show " in such circumstances , although his disease allowed him a certain immunity from conventional social niceties ) , Eliot on occasions reciting his poetry with " an actor 's pleasure " I Eliot standing behind Hayward 's wheelchair at literary parties — almost at attention , as one observer noticed .
26 Atkinson , Ferguson 's predecessor at Old Trafford returns to the place where his United side were usually thereabouts — but never there .
27 What does the map tell you about the strength or power of the town 's attraction at different distances within its sphere of influence ?
28 THE organiser of a big karate competition in Whitby says he has no intention of giving it the chop after casualties kept the town 's hospital at full stretch .
29 We th to rehearse a little bit of the debate we had last time on speed cameras , th there was erm discussion about who should fund the camera themselves because being a , the Department of Transport and Home Office recommendation , that they should be funded by the police , but because of Mr 's question at full Council and the wish of this committee to spend some of this additional money if you like , or in ninety three four for safety related measures , it was thought wise to combine the two and actually try and fund a trial er package of speed cameras cos it 's , it 's about six sites and one camera , from the ninety three four budget that we 've actually found .
30 What a teacher knows , or does not know , will then be related to the teacher 's effectiveness at different stages of the teaching .
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