Under Jewish and Islamic law, animals for slaughter must be healthy and uninjured at the time of death, which rules out driving a bolt into the brain - though some Muslim authorities accept forms of stunning that can be guaranteed not to kill the animal.

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Under this new 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (OVDI) , taxpayers can be more or less guaranteed they will not be prosecuted and they get correct their tax and foreign account transgressions.

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The documents say that due to the nature of open prisons it can never be guaranteed that prisoners do not abscond.

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Matches can then be found in databases in under a second, although 100% accuracy is not yet guaranteed.

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