"There are more logistic issues because it's a dual-purpose approach, but it can make very good business sense, " Tareta says.

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Mr Howard's support for a new preamble, but not a new head of state, could be decisive in a dual-purpose referendum.

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UN's Sanctions Committee, presumably because they are regarded as dual-purpose materials.

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And it's this dual - dual purpose, that has really plunged Lebanon into an existential crisis, because the state itself, the Lebanese state, must have a monopoly on the use of force.

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In a pre-scientific world, these allegorical tales served a dual purpose.

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Their purpose: to finalize an agreement that would drastically reduce the list of dual-use goods and technologies controlled by the West for national security purposes.

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