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  • Mr. FREDERICK KAGAN (American Enterprise Institute): What the Baker group is saying is that in the context of this sectarian violence where various groups have taken up arms to gain leverage in the political process.

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  • City have taken up their option to keep Sean Newton, Glenn Rule, Shaun Kelly, Paul Rutherford, Chris Holroyd and Paul McManus at the Deva Stadium.

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  • Two of my grandchildren have taken up bowls, to my delight.

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  • The trial project will be evaluated by the HPA after six months to discover if fuel poverty knowledge among health professionals has increased and if clients have taken up the advice given to alleviate fuel poverty.

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  • Meanwhile, steps have been taken to tighten up the legitimate slaughter of horses in the United Kingdom.

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  • But how much thought would it have taken to come up with a nickname that's more like, I don't know... a nickname?

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  • Real-time peer advice and research that might previously have taken hours to rustle up now take only seconds to locate on user-friendly PDxMD.

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  • The deleveraging of the private sector is nearly complete and governments have taken steps to clean up their own balance-sheets and create the room for economies to breathe.

    ECONOMIST: Finance

  • Although some steps have been taken to free up the labour market, it remains a daunting task to set up a new business in France and take on staff.

    BBC: EU austerity: No quick fix for Spain

  • In both cases, had plans to develop state-owned nature reserves been put out to tender, and the deals been made public, each might have taken longer to wrap up, but the resultant deal would probably have been greeted as a triumph in the search for foreign investment.

    ECONOMIST: Southern Africa

  • At that festival, people started queuing up to have their pictures taken near the paintings, and some even offered to buy them.

    FORBES: Portraits Of Greenspan

  • Although the Suffolk bats appear to have taken up residence, Gunnell says there's never any guarantee that such solutions will work.

    CNN: Architects building dream homes for bats

  • Some 200 Koreans are thought to have taken up the offer.

    ECONOMIST: The Koreas

  • In the past year or so, inventors and start-up companies have taken to Kickstarter to fund production of their inventions and to get their businesses off the ground.

    FORBES: Connect

  • It's hard work when you are that age facing up to what you have done, being taken back to the scene of the crime and in many cases apologising and making amends.

    BBC: Youth justice: A magistrate's view

  • Were it not for their opposition to same-sex marriage, it might have taken much longer for Americans to take up the cause.

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  • Wimdu obviously realizes this, because they seem to have taken to pretty aggressive tactics in an attempt to beef of up their listings.

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  • Local radio stations have taken up the lead and have appealed to people to join search parties on the outskirts of town.

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  • Much of the slack seems to have been taken up by a new photo blog, In Focus, launched in February by Alan Taylor, formerly of Boston.com.

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  • Up to 15, 000 people were believed to have taken part in the riots - with the majority of those aged under 24 and with poor academic records, the report said.

    BBC: Riot report reveals '500,000 forgotten families'

  • Why have exports taken so long to turn up?

    ECONOMIST: British exports: Trading out of trouble | The

  • Initial offers of sanctuary from such countries as Germany, Austria, Norway, Greece, Romania and Turkey, which each offered to take in more than 5, 000 refugees, have yet to be fully taken up.

    ECONOMIST: The great exodus

  • But after a few embarrassing hiccups in the past two years, the Swiss have now taken the lead in facing up to the past, setting up two imposing commissions to dig up the truth.

    ECONOMIST: Nazi gold

  • Few of the 100, 000 refugees housed at Kukes have taken up offers by the United Nations to move further south to camps where conditions are better and facilities are more geared to cope with such numbers.

    CNN: refugees

  • Early in his scribbling career, Croesus was fortunate to have been taken up by one esteemed Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot, a wise Frenchman who taught a course on manufacturing, not financial engineering, and so influenced generations of Harvard M.

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  • The protesting employees have recently taken up a "work-to-rule" action -- in essence, performing only the bare minimum of work required by their contracts in an attempt to slow airline activity and pressure management to pay attention to their grievances.

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  • As I indicated before, Germany has stepped up and taken additional responsibilities in Afghanistan that have freed up resources for us to be able to conduct our operations in Libya.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Chancellor Merkel Press Conference

  • But sources close to Mr Lansley said if a solution was not found, money would have to be taken from elsewhere in the health service to "prop up" PFI hospitals.

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  • Now, one of the things you need to know is that the steps we've taken to shore up the banks and the autos, they have nothing to do with the Recovery Act.

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