• Peres met with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah last weekend to discuss the initiative, which calls for talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to resume four weeks after a cease-fire took effect.

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  • That fire-sale effect was felt in October last year when Beverly Hills, Calif.

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  • Since the cease-fire went into effect last August, that protection has been maintained by UNIFIL forces stationed along the border with Israel.

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  • Last week, both Israel and Gaza's Hamas leadership agreed to a temporary cease-fire that took effect after Israeli forces withdrew from the Palestinian territory.

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  • The cease-fire went into effect April 12 and is part of a six-point peace plan negotiated by U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan.

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  • Mr Olej, of Bearsden, and Mr Starrett, of Port Glasgow, are said to have then poured lighter fluid onto the carpet and lit it causing a fire to take effect in the house.

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  • One senior Mahdi Army commander said the cease-fire is still in effect, and he blames Iraq's security forces for the current impasse.

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  • The cease-fire nominally went into effect April 12.

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  • The retired rower then passed it to the young athletes, who lit part of the outer rim of the torch, setting off a domino effect as fire spread to 205 small metal "petals, " symbolizing the nations taking part.

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  • But the combined effect of the fire-first-ask-questions-later management approach is to increase the severity of job losses in a downturn.

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  • Mr Murphy suggested she had started the fire "with deadly intent and deadly effect".

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  • The only people allowed on the street in the evening, because of a curfew in effect, were police, fire department personnel, and the media.

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  • The aim is to protect workers, but it is likely to have the perverse effect of encouraging firms to fire workers before the costly new rules kick in.

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  • "It had the unanticipated effect of throwing gasoline on the fire, " said Sanford C.

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  • The Northern Ireland Fire Service has said attacks could have an effect on the service they can provide because injured firefighters can not be immediately replaced.

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  • The fighting, which eased at nightfall, was by far the most serious violation of a cease-fire brokered by NATO and the European Union that took effect July 5.

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  • Because the men and women who go to war will tell you that the loved ones they leave behind have a profound effect on their ability to hold up under fire.

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  • The effect of local veto power has recently come under fire after a series of local projects were halted after years of delays.

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  • This exploits the Doppler effect familiar when a siren changes pitch as the fire engine on which it is mounted speeds past you.

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  • To what extent do they depend on each other, when threats produce resolve, when terror engenders courage, when an ultimate challenge to principle has the effect of making principles stronger, forging them by fire?

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  • He says fatality investigations involving firefighters often include statements to the effect of "We didn't think the fire was going to do that" even when all of the available information about risks was there to enable safe decisions.

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  • Chief Fire Officer Dan Stephens said it will try to "minimise the effect of the cuts".

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  • It was designed with a specific purpose in mind, which was to hold Congress's feet to the fire, which is what everybody said at the time would be the effect of the provision.

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  • Henry acknowledges the truth of his childhood lesson as he runs frantically along the margin of the knee- high fire in the yellow- brown grass, flapping his arms to no real effect.

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  • Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law recently held a hearing on three of the bills, aimed at fixing the problem on behalf of state and local governments--which depend on sales taxes to support police, fire, and other crucial services--and calming fears about the negative effect of e-commerce on their tax bases.

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  • They include a labour-contract law that came into effect on January 1st and which many employers fear could make it much harder to fire underperforming workers.

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