Moreover, holding the poll on the same day as next year's elections to the Stormont Assembly might have a beneficial knock-on effect for Mr Trimble, whose centre-ground supporters have appeared increasingly reluctant to come out to vote.

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The witnesses setting forth this improbable sequence of cause and effect were outclassed in every respect by the impressive assembly of true experts in their respective fields who testified on behalf of respondent.

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The orders will give effect to the historic vote at Stormont earlier this month when Northern Ireland Assembly members voted in favour of the transfer.

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Mr Woodward said they would give effect to the historic vote at Stormont earlier this month when Northern Ireland Assembly members voted in favour of the transfer.

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In effect, though, the government, formed from a majority in the assembly, calls the shots, playing one chamber off against another to block anything introduced by backbenchers it does not like.

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This has a humanizing effect on the notion of how businesses have operated for over a century: replacing the assembly-line, a cog-in-the-machine view of the industrialized world, with one with a greater focus on people.

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Gujarat's state assembly voted unanimously on Wednesday to ban Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India with immediate effect, even though it has not yet been released in India and few people will have read it.

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