"Rapid intervention is essential in order to limit damage by chemicals and poisons, " the researchers wrote.

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But Mr Furey believes it is 45sound's audio-matching software which gives it the edge over rivals - meaning no human intervention is needed in order to whip the clips into a listenable state.

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The "war on drugs" refers to a hard-line approach undertaken by the US government since the 1970s, which involves strict law enforcement, and foreign aid and military intervention in countries, in order to stamp out the narcotics trade.

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It was only after a press intervention during the inquest hearing that an order banning officers' names from being revealed was lifted.

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If the motive had been simply to stop the fighting and to save British shipping from harm, the first obvious course would have been to order merchantmen to stay away, and the second to aim the intervention at positions not on the canal but nearer the violated armistice line.

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Therefore, in order to take credit for the recovery, there had to be some major intervention, hard evidence of action, on the part of the administration somewhere near the inflection point.

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