• English appeal courts normally defer to first-instance judgments on meaning.

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  • "If we have any concerns, we will of course ask the national authorities - in the first instance - to look more deeply, " she added.

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  • In the first -- in the instance of your third part, yes.

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  • And while the U.S. received high honors in some areas--first, for instance, in research collaboration between businesses and universities and third in number of patents per capita--it ranked 48th in science and math education, 53rd in the burden of government regulation and 23rd in Internet bandwidth.

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  • Arsenal officials were puzzled by Uefa's stance, having left the pre-match briefing sure that Wenger could send messages to the coaching staff via a third party, in this instance first-team coach Boro Primorac.

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  • At rival Next, for instance, first-half sales in stores fell 1.5%, while its home shopping business saw sales rise 7.8%.

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  • This was not the first instance of central-government meddling in state politics.

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  • For instance, having first-class long-distance fighters or even an aircraft carrier does not ensure dominance of the South China Sea unless logistics and command and control are adequate to the task.

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  • This has not been the first instance of government heavy-handedness--to wit, government's determination to punish innocent and guilty alike in the savings and loan debacle, the multibillion-dollar robbery of Texaco and the astronomically large damage awards meted out against some companies, such as McDonald's, when a customer successfully sued the fast-fooder for selling hot coffee that she spilled on her lap.

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  • The cities of Chongqing, Wuhan and Zhengzhou, for instance, have allowed first-home buyers to borrow more from government-sponsored savings funds.

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  • So in the first instance, there is some -- again, some step that needs to be taken on the Palestinian side, again, to give Israel that confidence coming into the negotiation.

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  • They are -- these are individuals whose lives were lost, and they need to be looked at not as -- at least in the first instance, not as how they affect the overall mission, because to say that the mission continues regardless in some ways might diminish the tragedy that their loss represents, and I wouldn't want to do that.

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  • Carlyle was one of the first firms to go into China, for instance, and the first American firm to raise a yuan-denominated private-equity fund, but it now faces competition from other American firms there, and Chinese ones as well.

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  • In fact they'd hoped to see a bit more of it - during First Minister's Questions for instance.

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  • In the first instance it is crucial for policy-makers to recognize that change is the only permanent feature of the human condition.

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  • There are many theories -- for instance, that the first stars were very large and exploded into black holes, or that gas collapsed into itself, but none of these ideas really fit, said Fulvio Melia, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona, who was not involved with the Chandra study.

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  • Actors are first nominated by an EFP member group -- for instance, the British Film Council in the UK. An international jury of industry experts then selects 10 actors to be presented as Shooting Stars at the Berlin Film Festival.

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  • The primary focus of the anti-ballistic missile effort is, in the first instance, North Korea.

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  • Reports Thursday, for instance, showed U.S. first-time weekly jobless rising 46, 000 to 388, 000 one week after they declined sharply.

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  • For the latter, McDonald prefers three fittings in person and asks in the first instance for clients to bring along a much-loved pair of shoes.

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  • For instance, proto-Elamite was the first writing ever to use syllables.

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  • The private-equity firm Kraft Group, for instance, first got wind of Naked Pizza through its tweets and ended up making two investments.

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  • Before the penalty, Liverpool had the best chances to take the lead - with the former Newcastle man involved in the first instance.

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  • While qualitative materiality is frowned upon by the courts and commentators because it renders the duty to disclose open to wholesale uncertainty about what must be disclosed in the first instance, the problem of disclosure for the Shariah-compliant financial institution is not circumscribed by this concern.

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  • The third class has items that have touched something first class--the "touched" nail described above, for instance.

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  • For instance, Chinese producers of rare-earth minerals first drove down prices to uneconomic levels, and this led to the closing of mines elsewhere.

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  • The situations were markedly different, and the impact on the market was far greater in the first instance, but the effects were the same: headline-driven angst.

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  • Don't wait until January to mail in your next mortgage payment, and pre-pay the estimated state and local taxes for the first quarter, for instance.

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  • Judiciary spokesman Gholamhussein Elham said the court of the first instance must "correct procedural failings and issue a new judgement" - which, he said, "could be the same as the first".

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  • For instance, Intel just recently issued non-convertible debt for the first time in nearly 25 years in order to repurchase stock and take advantage of the opportunity to capture value for shareholders.

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