It established a single authority to regulate the investment industry, the Financial Services Authority.
It established a newly centralized nation-state and launched it on a trajectory of economic expansion and world influence.
In 2005 it established a council to co-ordinate its efforts across state agencies.
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It established a global consortium to develop standards and attract major hardware manufacturers like Qualcomm to include 2.5 in multi band chipsets.
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It established a reliable record of knowledge, aiding the spread of science.
Last year, it established a direct-sales network in Germany allowing investors who are enticed by its advertisements to dial a local telephone number to purchase funds.
It established a basis for human dignity unknown in antiquity.
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One of them was with Ford and the UAW. It established a labor management project in a transmission and chassis plant that improved product quality and work life in the plant.
It's called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. It established a special secret court to approve national security warrants, and in the years since that court has approved 19, 000 of them and rejected just five.
Al-Jazeera admits Web use is lower in the Middle East than in the West, but now that it has established a beachhead, it is anxious to tout the benefits of advertising to what it claims is an affluent audience.
The project believes it has established a cultural solution as well as an opportunity for Aboriginals to collate much of what was once lost.
It also established a non-profit group called the National Centre for the Elimination of Boryokudan (crime syndicates), to advise companies on avoiding the yakuza and rally citizens to complain, as in the recent suits.
Comcast isn't opening up its set-top boxes (UI and all) in the way we'd like, but it has established a reference spec (RDK) for potential hardware partners to build their own versions of its next generation setup.
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Its business, like any marketplace, is a natural monopoly, and so once it is established, it is pretty hard for a newcomer to challenge it.
It has a long-established use as a leisure site for people having fun.
In July 2003, it established and led a multilateral, but overwhelmingly Australian, regional-assistance mission.
Germany now has more than 10 times as many high level licensed coaches as England does and it's established a uniform system for player development.
It did the wrong thing, following a pattern it established when it responded to the Jimmy Ling takeovers.
Sony wants to be a player, it wants to be established, and for that it needs to be seen as a stable and worthy manufacturer.
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"It's the same money management, just another wrapper, and since people will only buy a fund when it has an established track record, being able to move it over to an ETF is a big deal, " he said.
It is a big, long established seafood restaurant that looks like a tourist trap amidst the T-shirt and souvenir shops of the Seattle waterfront.
In one decade, it has established itself as a major event on the world cultural calendar.
Archaeologists first thought the discovery was wharfage, but further investigations established that it was a 15th Century ocean going ship of national significance.
Mr Reid, the group's convener, said it had been established as a focal point on the issues of aid, sustainable development and debt.
It is a well established fact in educational research that children who are younger in their year group at school tend on average to do significantly worse in terms of educational attainment.
It was a well established social convention for women of more humble origins to move through service to older men with power as Jane does, she just does it more on her own terms than most.
The committee is now a firmly established arm of government but it has a stormy history.
On the specific point of a leak inquiry, he said it was a "long-established practice" of the Treasury not to comment on whether a leak inquiry has been established or not.
PlayStation, for example, has been very successful, but it was a late entrant into a well-established market.
But though this will be a source of friction, it need not be the catastrophe some think inevitable as the established superpower and the rising one fight it out for a dwindling resource.
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