• Until the election most of Lula's energies are likely to be taken up with crisis-management.

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  • If the Union grows to 25, entire council meetings could be taken up with a simple tour de table.

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  • Fears that the rivers Towy, Usk and Wye could be polluted by the burial of carcasses could be taken up with the European Union, he added.

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  • But the likelihood is that much of the time between now and June is going to be taken up with the parties fighting each other - rather than trying to agree with each other.

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  • On Ms. Merkel's insistence, much of this week's summit will be taken up with discussions of proposals by the presidents of the European Council, European Commission, ECB and Eurogroup for banking, fiscal and political union.

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  • So, as public funding for big capital projects takes a hit from the decade of austerity now under way, and with scarce capital taken up more often with major transport priorities, what do you think should be put in the pipeline for the next grand projects that will define modern Scotland?

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  • Much of Mr Schwartz's time is taken up with working out how Coke should be organised for innovation.

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  • Will most of them see Wal-Mart as a forced pit stop or might they be taken by surprise with the company's efforts to clean up stores, arrange merchandise in a more shopper-friendly way and put out better brands at lower prices than the competition?

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  • "I could have taken that and been gone and be sitting with my feet up in Brighton and maybe this weekend fly off to Vegas to my brother-in-law's for a couple of weeks and wonder how Aberdeen were getting on back home, " he said.

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  • To allow weaker pupils to catch up, the exam might be taken beyond the age of 16 - with the new exams coming alongside the raising of the leaving age to 18.

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  • The new estimates are expected to take at least a year to draw up so MPs do not expect any decision to be taken until 2014 with the work not likely to begin until 2018 at the earliest.

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  • Now, as a compromise, there will be a 35, 000 seat capacity for soccer and rugby games - while the stadium will be re-configured for GAA with 5, 000 seats taken out and up to 12, 000 fans being allowed to stand as is the case at Croke Park.

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  • The striker went up with Boyce and appeared to be just shaken but was soon taken off wearing a neck brace.

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  • But it turns out they may be brother and sister: in wartime, her mother had taken in (and taken up with) his father, a Jewish refugee and musician, while for self-protection conducting an affair with a Nazi.

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  • But if it is, and if it is taken up by other judges, it may be a step towards solving some of the problems with expert witnesses.

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  • In trying to lure new customers, EarthLink has taken a unique approach with the pop-up blocker, one that just may be enough to get users to switch.

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  • Consequently, all other things being equal, if any bills dealing with immigration issues are actually taken up next year, they will likely be about "legalizing" aliens who have come here without permission.

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  • And they may pioneer new ideas which can later be taken up multilaterally: the Australia-New Zealand free-trade agreement, for example, deals with competition policy, which the World Trade Organisation has not yet touched.

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  • It has been almost 70 years since Congress has taken up these issues, so it stands to reason that we are going to be living with the ramifications of their current actions for decades to come.

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  • Indeed, it is likely to flare up every time a decision on Turkey has to be taken in Brussels, particularly if it coincides with one of the endless number of electoral campaigns in Germany.

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  • He has taken a big gamble with the tour: after such a build-up, it would be hard for him go back to Chiapas empty-handed.

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  • The BTM8 is begging to be taken on your next picnic thanks to its carrying handle, while the BTM5 is palmable orb with one up-firing speaker for when you need a speakerphone in a pinch.

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  • I'm not kidding when I say that 95 percent of the screen time is taken up by people telling you what, in a properly written script, you would actually be looking at with your own eyes.

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  • We are urging this -- that this be taken up and addressed in a timely fashion, because, as you say, it is risky business to play chicken with the economy.

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  • The Princess Royal is likely to be taken over by King's Health Partners in south London, Queen Mary's would be taken over by a mix of Dartford and Gravesham and Oxleas NHS trusts and the Queen Elizabeth is expected to join up with Lewisham Hospital.

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