Japan should actively assist other countries to meet their challenges, marshalling its experience and technological prowess.

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Tourism boards in Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales and Canada also actively promote, document and assist people on the hunt for their ancestors, with links and resources for the ancestrally curious on their websites.

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In response, the company has taken a number of steps to assist their customers, including actively cooperating with law enforcement to determine who and how their computers were intruded upon.

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Meanwhile, there's some code in the stability-control system dubbed Agile Handling Assist, through which the car, actively braking one of more wheels, helps drivers hold their line with smaller steering inputs.

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While most people would welcome measures that assist motorists to make wiser decisions, systems that actively intervene in the driving process cause more controversy.

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His supervisors at FILP assist him in job hunting, writing resumes and making sure he is actively looking for a job.

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