With a tilted gnomon, a single set of lines can mark the hours throughout the year.
But for all that, the book remains rooted in its time and in a single set of ideas.
The exchanges plan to develop a single set of futures and options contracts in preparation for the euro.
This may make it easier for companies to list on any stockmarket with a single set of accounts.
These they unified into a single set of rules for 160 countries.
There are several thorny issues outstanding, such as how to develop a single set of stock indices and to merge trade-processing systems.
Franca and Silva hadn't lost a single set in the London Olympics.
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First, they create legal certainty by replacing the current patchwork of laws in Europe with a single set of rules for all 27 European Union countries.
Even in East Asia, talking of a single set of values involves blending many of the world's intellectual traditions Confucianism, Buddhism and Islam, to name but three.
Well, in one way that sounds like an OK idea, a single set of rules for a certain type of finance: a level playing field and all that.
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Every Catholic parish should have a designated child protection representative, with the Church adopting a single set of policies based on Home Office procedures for preventing child abuse.
The SEO benefit of the responsive Web design approach is that it provides the flexibility to maintain and build search equity to a single set of core HTML pages.
It is a single set of rules that companies operating within the EU could use to calculate their taxable profits, rather than different rules in each member state in which they operate.
The sixth-seeded American -- who had not won a Masters title on the ATP Tour for four years -- fired 13 ace and did not face a single set point in a 7-5 6-4 win.
" His original plan was to tell both stories between a single set of covers, "but when I was writing 'Monuments Men' and it got to 500, 600, 700 pages it was clear that something had to go.
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At present, in order to switch water supplier, a firm or organisation must use more than five million litres of water a year at a single set of premises - in Wales that threshold is much higher, currently 50 million litres.
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
The Bachus bill appeals to states because, although it would not require a single tax rate in jurisdictions within a state, it would authorize states themselves to set a single rate, Frieden said.
To start with, they had to rely on a high-resolution camera mounted on a frame, and a series of filters attached to a rotating wheel, to create a set of single-frequency images from the same perspective, in order that they could be merged as desired.
The system has provided a single consistent map set for the entire world and made it easily accessible via computer or phone.
Instead, they will set a single tax rate of 12.5% for all companies.
Alongside a single-player campaign set in an open-world Mount Olympus, multi-player features are also in development including both team play and PvP.
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And, for the customer, the benefits of having a single contract with one set of wording and terms should not be underestimated.
Featuring a simple, single cord set-up, the new space-saving Inspiron all-in-one computers make life easy and deliver powerful entertainment for the whole family.
The IIPC has set a single format, making it more likely that future historians will be able to find a machine to read the data.
Sorenstam has eight LPGA Tour titles this year, meaning she would have to win each of the remaining six events to set a single-season record.
In the semi-finals, Brazil squeezed past an inspired Swedish team thanks to a single Romario goal to set up a final against fellow three-time winners Italy.
Because a structural spine runs under the middle of the roadbed, the designers could attach the cable fans to the spine in a single row, rather than securing a double set of cables to beams at either edge of the road.
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