It was due to conclude in November 2011, but has been granted a number of extensions by the Irish government.
Like Boy Scout merit badges for professionals, these marks of achievement would show competence in specific skills, and they could be granted by any number of institutions.
Mr Hartshorn's solicitor Geoff Ellis applied for bail and chairman of the bench David Stenton said this would be granted with a number of conditions including a curfew and a ban on using any electronic communication device, except a landline telephone.
The White House is talking about 50, 000 visas, or less than 5 percent of the total number typically granted in a given year.
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GEM's listing committee granted waivers to a number of companies.
The number of patents granted has risen from 900, 000 in 1985 to 1.9m in 2008.
The number of options granted in the previous year is not correlated with share buybacks.
The number of immigrants granted citizenship skyrocketed last year (see chart).
The technology revolution increased the need for people with knowledge of science, mathematics and engineering, but the number of degrees granted in these hard majors is roughly stagnant.
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The number of loans granted to first-time buyers did rise slightly in April compared with March, up 4% to 18, 500, but this was still 36% lower than a year ago, the CML said.
When the Army Times published a report six months ago on the increased number of waivers granted to otherwise ineligible people to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the story sank like a stone.
In the past five years, the number of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to companies based in RDEs (Rapidly Developing Economies) increased at a rate more than three times faster than that of companies in other countries.
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Whereas the number of patents granted increased at less than 1 percent per year from 1930 until 1982, in the two decades after the creation of the Federal Circuit, patent grants nearly tripled, growing at an annual rate of about 5.7 percent.
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The measure is one of a number of new powers granted to councils under the government's national review of licensing.
The number of moral waivers granted to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds grew roughly 65% between 2004 and 2006, rising from 4, 918 in 2003 to 8, 129 in 2006, according to Department of Defense records.
He's widely credited with pioneering the color TV that we're familiar with today (and holding a related patent -- number 2920132 -- granted in December of 1953), while also publishing initial technical papers on transistor radios.
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One's perspective shifts easily, however, when targets change and the defendants themselves are no longer aggressively litigious corporations with an arsenal of filing cabinets spilling over with intellectual property, as was the case when one company used a recently granted patent to go after a number of podcasting networks.
Depending on the circumstances a number of licences need to be granted before a whale can be moved and disposed of, including from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).
In 2010, U.S.-based companies recaptured the lead for the total number of U.S. patents granted after falling behind foreign companies for the previous two years, according to rankings released yesterday by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, a division of Fairview Research, of global companies awarded the most U.S. patents in 2010.
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In a number of cases, the police have been granted permission by the courts to detain suspects beyond the usual four days, in order to continue questioning.
He has been a loyal servant to the British Forces for a significant number of years and has been waiting for his asylum application to be granted since March this year.
Having monitored the number of utility patents (an inexact but objective measure for innovation) granted by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office to countries during this period, it was fascinating to observe that the number of patents of foreign origin over taking those from the U.S. in 2007 for the first time in history.
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University officials granted open access to the building between 08:00 and 22:00 GMT, while a number of high profile speakers and notable academics gave talks.
University officials have granted open access to the building between 08:00 and 22:00 GMT, while a number of high profile speakers and notable academics have given talks at "open lectures".
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