• The outcome of wage negotiations over the next few months will thus determine what happens to inflation.

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  • The researchers were thus able to determine the precise chemical profiles of the smells of soya-based and beef-based hamburgers.

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  • Thus, the key to my proposal is to determine when more oversight is due and when it should be relaxed again.

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  • Two key factors will determine Labour's faithfulness, and thus the life of the coalition: the continuing rupture between Israeli peaceniks and the Palestinians, and the prominence given to Shimon Peres, Labour's senior minister in the government and the grand old man of Israeli politics.

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  • As well as using the rover's X-ray spectrometer on Whitewater Lake and Kirkwood to determine the chemical elements present, and thus get a better idea of their mineralogical composition, the team needs to work out the order and position of the rock layers to tell them something of their relative ages.

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  • Either way, the outcome would permanently determine the political status of East Timor, thus bringing to an end a conflict which has festered since 1975.

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  • Thus far it appears that there has been no serious effort to determine critical details of this attack.

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  • In the constitutional negotiations that took place in the summer of 2005, two issues were critical to us: first, that the Kurdistan Region has the right to develop the oil on its territory, and second, that there be a fair process to determine the administrative borders of Iraq's Kurdistan Region -- thus resolving once and for all the issue of "disputed" territories.

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  • Critics said the ruling will make it harder for lenders, to cite one example, to determine whether a property fits the definition of vessel or fixed structure and thus the terms of a loan.

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  • Through this process, the carpenter can determine all the components before they are built, however complex they are, and thus be sure that all the assemblies will fit together perfectly when the timber frame is built.

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  • In the so-called "two-finger test, " doctors probe the vagina to determine if a hymen is present and to try to determine if the vagina is lax, which is taken as evidence the woman routinely has sex and thus consented to intercourse.

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