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  • Ms. Sabira Soltongeldieva, a UNESCO consultant for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the ICH, stated that the training was aimed at improving the understanding and use of practical mechanisms for implementing the Convention at the national level.

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  • And earlier in the year Apple was lambasted for its use of Foxconn, a supplier under fire from labour activists for failings such as excessive working hours at its Chinese facilities.

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  • And when advertising budgets shrank during the last few years, and media prices went up, even Google is expensive nowadays, opportunity came knocking for new kinds of ideas and thinking, the way was clear for the social media and innovative use of digital and film.

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  • It was dropped a couple of times by my son (not while it was in use thankfully), and lived for a couple of weeks in a bag without any data loss.

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  • But, when Joel Tomkins was sent off for use of the elbow on 68 minutes, Wigan were staring at a first defeat of the season until the young winger from Chorley struck again.

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  • On the same day, Castleford Tigers full-back Ryan McGoldrick was cautioned for use of his forearm in his side's 19-18 win at Hull FC, while team-mate Mitchell Sargent and Huddersfield Giants hooker Scott Moore were told they will receive warning letters for making dangerous throws.

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  • Among the recent examples cited by Boyd was the case of Saudi student Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari who was convicted and sentenced to life in 2012 for attempted use of a WMD.

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  • Lohan's life and career ran off the rails starting in her disastrous year of 2007 when she was twice convicted of drunken driving, once for cocaine use, made three trips to rehab and served an 84-minute jail stay.

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  • DNA-fingerprinting technique was unsuitable for use in criminal cases, for a number of reasons.

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  • Sir John told the BBC that the concern was that some of this meat was being sold or passed on for wider use, particularly in rural areas.

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  • China still lags behind the U.S in terms of how long, and how accurately, it can monitor any part of the globe from space: GPS, which was launched for civilian use in 1995, now consists of 30 satellites and can be accurate to within less than 10 meters, or 33 feet, although the U.S. military has access to more precise readings.

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  • Baker borrowed the key and stole a television which was for the use of all residents.

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  • In China, group buying is called tuangou, and was an early popular use of the Internet for organizing.

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  • Selig did not like the fact that McCourt was planning to use some of the money for his personal debts.

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  • The Univac was also remarkable for its use of cutting-edge computer techniques, according to the Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia.

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  • Tina Newman (OHO 2008011719501, March 30, 2011), in which registered person Newman was Barred for improper use of her corporate credit card.

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  • An east London resident wants to take legal action after his apartment complex was earmarked for the use of surface-to-air missiles during the Olympics.

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  • Back when oil cost three- and four-dollars-per-barrel, the increased use of ethanol was blamed for high food prices, food riots and starvation of the poor.

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  • The regime was brutal, the people suffering and our attorney general belatedly, but very firmly, said there was legal authority for the use of force.

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  • During the debate the Health Minister Edwina said that she was committed to banning the use of sunbeds for under 18s as well as banning unregulated salons.

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  • MPs' expenses have been scrutinised since Tory MP Derek Conway was reprimanded for his use of allowances to pay his son, who was a full-time university student at the time.

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  • Molecular biology in action was evident during the use of qPCR tests for this microbe at a site in Southern California, where remediation professionals verified that MTBE degradation was taking place.

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  • The case was noteworthy for its use of wiretaps that captured incriminating conversations between Rajaratnam and his co-conspirators, and his lawyers attacked the validity of those wiretaps both at trial and on appeal.

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  • At issue was whether the Authorization for Use of Military Force -- passed by Congress after the September 11, 2001, attacks -- gave the president the power to order the indefinite military detention of an accused terrorist seized on domestic soil.

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  • Dutch midfielder Van der Vaart got Spurs off to a flying start when he finished off a stunning counter-attack before his team were reduced to 10 when Defoe was sent off for the use of a leading arm when jumping with Collins.

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  • Funding for the mostly secular democracy activists was bolstered by the training provided for them in use of social media in mobilizing people.

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  • The judge said on Friday said The Warhol Foundation's agreement not to sue for copyright infringement over The Velvet Underground's use of the image meant there was no copyright dispute for her to resolve.

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  • Its purpose was to create a beam of neutrons to use for scanning and testing other materials.

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