• Mr Conroy was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the terms of reference were under discussion with the Greens, a key partner in Julia Gillard's minority coalition government.

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  • People like Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and became the third president of the United States, had to rely on Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a reference for the life and leadership of the Persian king.

    BBC: Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson

  • They are believed to use the position of the sun as a reference point and can compensate for its movement across the sky when calculating the route they need to return home.

    BBC: Bee brains help to make robots smarter

  • The woman, later identified as Amanda Berry, apparently was making reference to the owner of the house, whom police have identified as Ariel Castro, and who has been charged in the case.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The term "foreigners" was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled reference to the chairman of Premier League side Mathare United, Bob Munro, who is a Canadian national.

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  • The press quotes a little know lab, Alab-Berlin, as the source of the evidence but there is no reference to the report this morning on the alab-berlin.de website.

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  • As a point of reference, the average gain seen from the bull markets since 1900 has been something on the order of 81%.

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  • They also said the move would go against the advice of Betsi Cadwaladr's own clinical reference group, as well as the British Medical Association, Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Midwifery.

    BBC: Flint protesters

  • The President made reference to the Humboldt National Park as an example of the Government's policy to give priority to the protection of the environment.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • As a point of reference the US has about 250 retail stores while China has 11.

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  • This paradigm shift in thinking is quite empowering as it shifts the frame of reference from the self to how we can help others.

    FORBES: Passion, Hobby, or Purpose?

  • So MPs turned up for work today looking forward to hearing the terms of reference and membership of what is known in some circles as ap Calman after the Scottish version.

    BBC: A good day to bury dull news? The world's media wait

  • Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- When I think of the story of African women, I immediately think of my mother and I want to use her story as a frame of reference in how African leaders can improve the lives of women.

    CNN: Opinion: 'African women need a hand-up not a hand-out'

  • In an 81-page ruling, published online by the news site Torrentfreak, the judge noted that much of the evidence against founder Kim Dotcom and his associates was "contained on their computer equipment which was seized as a result of the activities of January 2012" - a reference to evidence gathered from search warrants executed in nine countries that month.

    BBC: US ordered to release Megaupload evidence to defence

  • Now, officials at the Swiss National Bank are considering what currency or basket of currencies would replace the euro as its reference point for the currency ceiling, according to a person familiar with the situation.

    WSJ: Banks Prep for Life After Euro

  • "We did not touch upon the military aspect, but we touched upon aspects related to promoting coordination, consultation and exchange of information, as well as focusing on the importance of regional arrangements, with particular reference to the establishment of the regional maritime center in Yemen, " said Ali al-Ayashi, Yemeni deputy foreign minister.

    CNN: Red Sea nations condemn pirates, vow action

  • Addressing MPs on 28 June 2012, the chancellor described the Libor and the European Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) as "the benchmark reference rates which are fundamental to the workings of the UK, European and international financial markets".

    BBC: Osborne: Bank's misconduct risked UK's reputation

  • The show has Nye's enthusiastic character reference for Stern, as well as the German-language diary of 8-year-old Lore Moser, whose mother was a cousin of Stern's.

    WSJ: A Tortuous Road to Refuge | Against the Odds | Museum of Jewish Heritage | By Julia M. Klein

  • "I am as much of a victim as the investors, " one defendant has already claimed, in reference to the tens of thousands of investors who lost out because of Parmalat's downfall.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr Mitchell's proposed terms of reference for new talks would have both sides accepting the 1967 border as the basis of a final accord, with land swaps enabling Israel to annex the largest settlements closest to the old border, while the Palestinians would add equivalent tracts to their own state.

    ECONOMIST: Peace talks between Israel and Palestine

  • Several videos purporting to be from Gangster Disciple members in several states -- including Georgia, North Carolina and Florida -- appeared on YouTube late last year demanding that Ross pay a fee to them for his use of the Star of David, which they claim as a gang symbol, and a reference to one of their founders in his music and marketing.

    CNN: Gunfire triggers rapper Rick Ross crash, police say

  • Private-equity executive David Rubenstein gave the first known map of the U.S. made after the Revolution to the Library of Congress and not the National Archives, as was incorrectly implied in one reference in a U.S. News article on Monday about Mr. Rubenstein's purchases of historical papers.

    WSJ: Corrections & Amplifications

  • The website will be in the framework of the Water and Cultural Diversity project and will offer a platform of cooperation and information dissemination, acting as a reference tool for promoting loans of collections and objects between museums on the one hand, and an exchange forum of museum professionals and education staff on the other.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • The requirement, drawn up after Robert Maxwell robbed his companies' pensions funds in the early 1990s, attempts to assess the present value of pension funds' future liabilities, taking the yield curve on gilts as its reference point.

    ECONOMIST: Institutional investors in Britain: Throwing the book at them | The

  • The history of past activities, information about the concept of citizen security, as well as about the participant territories, and reference documents are all available at website, which will be launched on the 21 September 2012 as part of the celebrations for the Internacional Day of Peace.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

  • For programmers, the perfect book is a source of reference, that provides examples and acts as a stepping-stone that raises you to the next level.

    FORBES: Dummy books are for dummies

  • As part of a co-operation agreement with Nokia, Microsoft is using the Finnish company as its hardware-maker of reference.

    ECONOMIST: The battle in the mobile industry takes an unexpected turn

  • As effective as filing was to the retrieval of any emails for reference purposes, it was even faster to just use a simple search in Gmail.

    FORBES: Are You A Filer Or Piler?

  • With its programmatic approach, based on a listing system and the use of revisable operational guidelines for its implementation, the 1972 Convention strengthened heritage conservation policies, and became the standard reference for including conservation policies as a means of development, largely through tourism.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

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