In Islam, the bread-earning role is primarily assigned to man, but if a woman wants to join in this effort by her own volition, she is not forbidden to do so.

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They felt that others warranted a lenient 6.0 on the morality scale when stealing a bike but assigned a highly immoral 3.9 if they took it themselves.

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But he said the land forces could continue their assigned missions if they were cut to their pre-2001 levels of 175, 000 for the Marines and 482, 000 for the Army.

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But putting in the effort to build a team is only effective if the tasks and projects assigned are actually executed.

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Under that law the U.S. Coast Guard has assigned responsibility to BP and Transocean, but a state-court jury, if it were allowed to hear the case, might say Halliburton is liable, too.

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However, if no air marshals are aboard (currently they are assigned to most international flights but only a small percentage of domestic flights), flight attendants and passengers are the first line of defense.

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Objections raised by the panel - the Government Advisory Committee (Gac) - will not be binding on net address regulator Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), but the organisation must produce "well reasoned arguments" if it decides to deny any request.

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