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To mollify Lebanon, the Syrian authorities released some Lebanese political prisoners and let local elections proceed without interference.
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It should mean that the imports we desire, the whole point of trade, are protected from the interference of local producers who would benefit from their absence.
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The problem with femtocells until now, Cooper noted, has been interference between local base stations and faraway cellular towers when the two sources broadcast to a phone simultaneously.
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One of the complications with the MicroCell is that in order to avoid interference with local cell towers, it adjusts how strong the signal that it generates in your house is based on how weak your actual cell signal is at the time of initial activation.
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Political interference at a local authority level is blocking plans for affordable housing according to housing bodies in Wales.
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"Councils want to intervene more quickly, but decades of giving schools 'greater freedom' and 'protecting' them from council interference means that local authorities now have very indirect and bureaucratic ways to tackle poor performance, " he said.
BBC: Ofsted warns on 'unacceptable' gaps in school standards
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But outsiders know that help is ineffective without co-operation, or at least non-interference, on the part of local officials and soldiers.
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La Tribune de Geneve suggests voters rejected a full ban because they did not want to force the smaller cantons into changing their local laws, and because of resentment at perceived state interference in people's lives.
BBC: Swiss reject full ban on smoking in public spaces
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For their part Lithuanians see blatant interference in their domestic affairs, particularly in the close ties between Warsaw politicians and the local Polish leadership.
ECONOMIST: Poland and Lithuania
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Down in the rock pools, then, the news seems to be mixed: nature is showing a remarkable resilience in the face of man-made interference, but it is still far from clear what the wider impact will be from small changes to local ecology.
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