• And so Wilson Livingood, who is, by the way, the first professional law-enforcement officer to serve in the position of sergeant at arms, he is the one to be retained by the Democratic majority from the previous Republican majority.

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  • The dummy will then be used as a template to locate pieces of fabric in the appropriate position while robotic sewing arms buzz around stitching the pieces together, much like the spot-welding machines found in car factories.

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  • As a result, the Soviets who should be in the weaker negotiating position will probably be able to drive very advantageous bargains in each of the arms talks.

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  • And unless the inquiries eventually contradict the foreign secretary's carefully chosen central defence that ministers were never informed of and certainly never approved any violation of the arms embargo his position will still be safe.

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  • Labour MP Barry Gardiner - a long-time campaigner for greater regulation of the arms trade - said the government's position was "neither morally right nor politically astute".

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  • "It's Pam with her arms around the two girls, kind of in a kneeling position, " he says.

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