• The results from Hounslow were based on the first 3, 000 responses to a questionnaire sent to every household, but it said the final percentages were likely to alter by 1-2%.

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  • He added that the proposed fund would not alter plans by BRICS nations--Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa--to set up their own development bank.

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  • The only thing the plan accomplishes is to alter the means by which government spending is financed.

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  • But research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could drastically alter those assumptions by bringing another no-less-ominous factor to the table: biology.

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  • You can alter your life by altering your mind.

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  • Later in the day, during a second meeting, Boehner offered his members a stark choice: alter the bill by adding spending cuts to it, and send it back to the Senate, or pass it unamended.

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  • At a time when the international book bazaar is flooded with offerings from India by eager, first-time novelists on a mission to alter the impressions left by Kipling and Naipaul, Seth here makes no attempt to flaunt his Indian-ness.

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  • Gas taxes or carbon prices intended to alter behavior only work by causing financial pain to force the demand response.

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  • The state controls the larger property developers and can alter supply and demand by releasing land when and how it wants.

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  • To the extent that the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev really accepts this reality and is willing to effect a fundamental transformation of its political, economic, and military structures, there is the possibility of genuine reform in the Soviet Union that can substantially alter the threat posed by that nation and its allies to the West.

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  • Saleem was also found guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by getting her hair cut short to alter her appearance on the day of the fire, and by leaving the UK in September 2001 and living abroad until April 2011.

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  • But any gains by the party are unlikely to alter the election result, with opinion polls pointing to a crushing victory by the conservative opposition.

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  • He is now considered a liberal on the court, and Mr Obama will not therefore alter the court's balance by picking a liberal to replace him.

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  • The debate could be -- again, the network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour if it so decided -- or the sponsor of the debate.

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  • Exploitative fishing can alter the genetics of local stocks by selecting out big ones - in the North Sea, for example, cod are reaching maturity earlier and at smaller size as a result.

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  • However, the Spanish company would not be able to alter charges directly as these are regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority.

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  • Right now, the new techniques, which change skin cells into stem cells by using a virus to alter four genes, still need to be proven.

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  • Indeed there are a variety of things the Americans - with or without key allies - might do, but all involve varying degrees of risk and are by no means certain to alter the situation in Syria for the better.

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  • Politicians since at least the Johnson administration have engaged in the technique, and while its etymological origins may be in dispute, the term has since entered wide use, referring to a form of moral suasion, usually by government officials attempting to alter behavior or influence markets.

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  • Entire episodes pass by in which relationships may subtly alter and themes of identity, alienation and social change be explored, but very little actually happens.

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  • Nobody, I know from experience, there's nothing the United States Congress can do by a piece of legislation to alter the conduct of a war that the President decides to pursue.

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  • There was no mention of Holley Mangold, 2012 U.S. Olympic team weight lifter and sister of NFL Center Nick Mangold of the New York Jets, who played high school football on an all-boys team for Archbishop Alter High School, a Catholic school overseen by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

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  • More direct evidence from studies of experiments with animals and humans, however, suggests that we may have to alter the very concept of what we mean by hearing loss, and that current tests - particularly pure-tone audiometry which measures our ability to perform "pin-drop" hearing - may not be sufficient to pick up the early signs of a decline in hearing function.

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  • The panel's analysis of the evidence found that substantive amendments were made by South Yorkshire Police to remove and alter comments unfavorable to their organization.

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  • The participants discussed at some length proposals that have been surfaced recently (notably by Congressman Les Aspin) that would alter this agreed position in the START Treaty.

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  • The grassroots organization challenges Ballmer to bring it on: if Microsoft forks over the evidence by May 1st, Linux developers will alter their code accordingly to maintain freeware status.

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  • The groups set an ambitious target: 50% representation for women in government, and to try to alter the dynamics of local councils and opposition bodies by demanding and working for more female representation.

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  • However, the committee did note that charity Changing Faces, which helps people affected by conditions, marks or scars that alter their appearance, had drawn attention to the programme and asked their supporters to contact the BBC.

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  • Democrats advanced a substitute bill that would have attempted to alter the language of Graham's base legislation by creating a new legal status for harm against a pregnant woman, rather than applying two standards to one violent crime.

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  • Cranes will rise in Barcelona, New York, Jerusalem, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Paris and other world centers to construct glass sails, wavy monoliths, bristly multiheaded towers and other alter-the-skyline-forever structures designed by a spectacled, white-haired 78-year-old working out of a bullpen with cardboard furniture in West Los Angeles.

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