• Have you ever been a monderator or administrator of a more or less lively webforum?

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  • America's system, with a more or less directly elected president, is a good model.

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  • Good acquired Jumo, and Hughes will join the company on what he describes as a more or less full-time basis.

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  • In the meantime, Syria's ongoing real transformation, from a more or less functioning state into an impoverished wasteland, has been ignored.

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  • But a basic desire to obtain knowledge which Tengo assumed to be a more or less natural urge in people was lacking in the man.

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  • If a modicum of peace did break out, Somalia would still be a patchwork state but it might become a more or less functioning one.

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  • In the eighteenth century, battles typically were fought, in a more or less prudent and narrow-bore fashion, to take a town or make a point.

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  • Somaliland, where the Isak clan predominates under a more or less democratic mandate, has a strong lobby, especially in Britain, seeking to gain full independence.

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  • In addition, they want to tax their residents on their world-wide income (typically with a more or less limited credit for what they paid other states).

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  • If a more or less seamless network can be created from the web of European ventures, it should be possible to deter customers from straying on to other companies' systems.

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  • Bruce achieved some success as a more or less conventional comedian in the 1950s before he began extending the boundaries of what was considered acceptable material for night club comics.

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  • Trouble is, yields climbed, in a more or less uninterrupted fashion, until November 1994, by which time the ten-year Treasury note yielded three percentage points more than it had a year earlier.

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  • Rather, the system takes advantage of the fact that the earth underneath Fort Knox (like many places across the country) maintains a more or less constant temperature of 57 degrees year around.

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  • The country had been set up as a homeland for Indian Muslims, but it had been a more or less secular state, as envisaged by its founder, the clean-shaven, tweed-jacketed, and Anglicized Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

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  • This, coupled with his soft approach towards religion, helped him consolidate his support among the tribesmen, and put in place a more or less stable system of tribal governance, which continued for almost six years.

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  • Still, Ichiro is a more or less an average player even when he hits .250, because of his speed and defense, and Jeter is coming off a year in which he led the league in hits.

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  • The latest findings show that the rate of ice loss in Greenland has increased almost fivefold since the mid-1990s, while Antarctica overall has been losing relatively small amounts of ice at a more or less constant rate.

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  • But there is still a chance that peace bargains in Sadr City and Samarra could allow for a more or less respectable election, though it is hard to see any parties opposed to the rebels daring to campaign there.

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  • Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.

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  • Though she fulfills the rules of the genre, with a more or less chronological guided tour through the sites (in France and elsewhere) and the sights (her movies, photographs, and art projects) of her life, her main order of business is love.

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  • For the time being, the ways of dealing with ethnic rivalry extend along a spectrum with, at one end, a colour-blind, race-blind and religion-blind democracy and, at the other, a more or less despotic system in which one lot sits on the other.

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  • "If you are able to see a more or less stable situation in Afghanistan, if it becomes another relatively normal Central Asian state, China will be the natural beneficiary, " says Andrew Small, a China expert at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American research institute.

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  • The second question is whether the closure of the News of the World will be seen by the media regulator, Ofcom, as making News Corporation, parent company of News International, a more or less fit-and-proper owner of British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's biggest television business (it is Ofcom's statutory duty to adjudicate on that important issue).

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  • In the monolithic Welsh NHS, it doesn't bring a penny more or less in whether a patient is coded or not.

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  • Or a little more or less.

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  • Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be stolen or be involved in a crash and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.

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  • Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be crashed or stolen and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.

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  • What may look like a more (or less) attractive salary could be offset by less (or more) attractive fringe benefits.

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  • "I am not a doctor, nor am I a medical historian, but these injuries are very difficult to recover from after one surgery, and I'm not sure what the history is of recovery from a second more or less identical surgery, " general manager Sandy Alderson said on a conference call.

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  • The Traugots chose to decorate their home in a style more or less authentic to its Victorian origins, all frills and outsized furniture.

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