If police skills are not improved the study warns of increased 'vigilantism' as the public sector and individuals take the law into their own hands.

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This, in turn, has ramped up the importance of fielding quasi-professional squads, which has improved the play if not the sport of the game.

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The ADB predicts disaster if the city's defences are not drastically improved.

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The chief executive of Banco Espirito, Santo Ricardo Salgado, says that if public finances are not dealt with and productivity improved, Portugal can look forward to four years of recession.

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If, however, by 13 December your love life has not improved, St Andrew's may lend a hand to tickle the pagan gods.

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Jerseyites might not have minded if the extra taxes had led to much-improved public services.

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What I like most about this approach is that it recognizes digital health offers enabling technologies that provide improved approaches to solving fundamental problems that exist in many, if not all, functional areas.

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The operation may have been a success, but if the patient was meant to be the U.S. financial markets, its condition was not much improved.

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