Updating isn't the most taxing of activities, you just look for a system update in the About Phone menu and then give your blessing for the download to commence.

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However, due to Sweden's strict royal succession rules -- which at the time did not permit a contender for the throne to marry a commoner -- King Gustav VI Adolph (the current king's grandfather) would not give his blessing to the union.

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Formally, there is no need for the government to give its blessing to new nuclear stations: there is no law banning companies from building them now.

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The prince's father, King Gustaf VI Adolf, refused to give his blessing to a marriage between Bertil and Lilian, so as not to jeopardise the future of the monarchy.

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On average, there are slightly more women to men across the United States, which could give off the sensation of being virtually surrounded by females (a curse or a blessing, depending on how you see it).

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The parent company will still have to give its blessing to any merger involving its dependants.

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Anyone can receive a blessing from the temple elephant, Lakshmi. (After you give her a 100-rupee note, she whacks you gratefully on the head.) But train passengers have a special advantage: You go back at night to Hampi's central Vittala Temple complex, a compound of intricately sculpted halls with rows of pillars and the central stone chariot that gives the train its name.

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But in 2009, with the court's blessing, Mr. Corzine changed state funding practices to try to give other districts more money while still protecting needy children.

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