But although it has lost its "quality mark" - a badge that shows the authorities think it is "fit for purpose", it is still being used as the basis for setting some pension payments.
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Yet it also points up just how far even civilian-led Nigeria still has to go before it can assume the leadership role in troubled West Africa that its size and economic potential would seem to fit it for and that outsiders, including America, might wish upon it.
There are a lot of components that have to fit together precisely for it to work.
Cloud may not be a good fit for handling legacy IT solutions either.
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Embrapa had to create the land, in a sense, or make it fit for farming.
Force10 is a good fit for the company as it continues to build out its enterprise offerings.
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If the new tree is a better fit for the leaves, it is taken as the starting point for the next spin.
Earlier this month trustees of the collection announced plans to upgrade and repair the 30-year-old building to make it fit for the 21st Century.
Alitalia said it would cut 2, 700 jobs as part of a three-year rescue plan to drag it out of the red and make it fit for the merger.
"Many older black actors come from the music industry, and that wasn't a fit for the play as it wasn't a musical, " he told The Local newspaper.
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"Our focus would be to ensure that asylum seekers can be integrated into local communities and into housing which is safe, sanitary and fit for purpose, " it said.
The school governors say the funds raised by the sale will help to rebuild the school and make it fit for the 21st century - and that there will be a full consultation in the autumn.
One of the group's leaders, George Eustice, David Cameron's former press secretary, said it would promote a "sensible discussion about how we can radically overhaul the EU and make it fit for purpose in the 21st Century".
It was not the miles of palm-fringed, white sand or the ludicrously blue sea that stunned me the Caribbean is littered with beaches fit for postcards it was the fact that there was virtually no development in any direction and hardly a soul in sight.
It's about time we realised that Britain is for everyone in it and not those who simply fit the historical mould and have the money to pay for it.
The council said it had been acknowledged as no longer fit for purpose and work was required to bring it up to acceptable standards.
In the developing world they do it because that is often the only water fit to drink, and for the poor it is usually a significant expense.
It is, however, important for the helmet to fit well so that it stays in place during a fall, and the polystyrene layer can only be compressed once so helmets should be replaced after an accident.
Whether it is fit for purpose in a modern world (where slavery has been abolished) is another question.
Owners Greenwich Hospital Estates, which wants to modernise the space and build a 104-room hotel, said the revamp would make it "fit for the future".
It was grotty, inconvenient, out of date and barely fit for purpose for the 47m travellers that use it each year.
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IMI's hostile bid for Banca di Roma, apparently because it did not fit its own plans for consolidation in the industry.
It would mean that Congress could mandate the purchase of anything, for any reason it saw fit.
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It's a perfect fit for the interactive generation, for which a quarterly statement just doesn't cut it.
Only consolation (not that this is schadenfreude or anything) is that the PC used for programming it for independent flight apparently threw a hissy fit on the day, so the only good video available is of a guy piloting it.
That the top of the top (the highlighted ones in the box) are both the closest fit AND paid for, raises the possibility that the absolute best fit may not be included in the display box because it was not also paid for.
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And the training does little to fit workers for new jobs, so it should be scrapped.
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The nimbleness and affordability of BRT make it a great fit for other resort and suburban areas.
The school is strong in Web science, big data and artificial intelligence, making it a good fit for the first deployment of Watson in an academic institution.
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