In acting thus, the assembly ignored demands by, among others, a European Union observer mission which called for the council to be clearly independent.

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Mistletoe is thus acting as what ecologists refer to as a keystone species: it supports an entire ecosystem, and removing it has drastic effects for the whole.

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Judge Gardephe noted that the commercial activity of Anglo Irish took place before nationalisation, and thus did not reflect a state acting in a commercial capacity.

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In arguing thus, Benn, like Livni and their colleagues on the Left are acting on their memories of their glory days with the Clinton administration.

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Thus the Honda labor dispute reflects the recent trend of the newly-assertive ACFTU acting like, well, a union.

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Just to prove that his atoms really were acting as single waves, Dr Ketterle made two condensates at the same time, and allowed them to merge, thus creating ripple-like interference patterns of the sort that might be seen if two stones were thrown simultaneously into the same pond.

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