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  • It seems EchoStar has made a practice out of disobeying court orders and pushing the legal system to the limits.

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  • Mr. Baum has made a practice out of this kind of work since 1988, taking one or two 18th-century houses a year that no one wants and deconstructing them, stripping away all the renovations until the original house is revealed.

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  • The Brazilian had missed all of Saturday morning practice because of a broken gearbox and made a mistake early on his qualifying lap, ending up 15th.

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  • Yahoo and Best Buy recently made headlines by ending their practice of a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), which gave employees the freedom to work on their own time and terms.

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  • The Chicago Merc, for one, has long made it a practice to fine traders who lob gobs of quote bombs but rarely trade.

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  • Franklin is the second-youngest member of a team that's largely made up of swimmers in their early and mid-20s who practice with professional clubs.

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  • Although these appointments do not come within the remit of the Commissioner for Public Appointments, they are being made using a process which takes into account the Commissioners Code of Practice as best practice.

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  • In April, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, a section of which removes regulations that previously made illegal the practice of private companies turning to crowdfunding to solicit investments from the general public.

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  • Dos Santos' attorney filed a motion to revoke the arrests, saying that they had been made to help calm the sentiments of the population, a common practice in Brazil, according to a statement by the Court of Rio Grande do Sul.

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  • At a debate in New York on February 29th, John Kerry argued that the administration had in practice made a peaceful settlement impossible by giving the opposition a power of veto over its terms.

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  • The practice of wearing a jacket and trousers of matching material made by the same firm was still some years away.

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  • For all the mess it made of the US, it is still an unusual British business and British retailer in having made a success of initiatives in parts of the world where retailing culture and practice are very different from the UK (although a recent bashing in South Korea, due to regulatory changes, shows there will always be downs as well as ups).

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  • "Investigations are standard practice following a patient death to determine whether improvements can be made by any of the organisations involved in the care of a patient, " he said.

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  • Pictures of people queuing on the street to join a dental practice have made for embarrassing images for ministers in recent years.

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  • This step has been made absolutely necessary by roughly a decade of under-investment in the uniformed services, a practice that has seriously degraded the maintenance, training, and modernization activities critical to the combat readiness of today's military -- and tomorrow's.

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  • This innovation made it affordable to fence vast areas of land, and led to the practice of animal husbandry on a much larger scale.

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  • James Sinclair, 28, who recently graduated from law school and opened his own civil practice, said when he traded emails with other attorneys, his lack of a disclaimer made him feel inadequate.

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  • As the announcement was being made, a black-led group was putting black empowerment into practice by lining up a takeover bid for some assets of one of South Africa's biggest mining concerns.

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  • In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary, and that's crazy.

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  • Because those in leadership roles have failed to define leadership in an acceptable fashion, society has allowed the practice of leadership to be commoditized, which in turn, has made it all too common for non-leaders to assume leadership positions thus continuing the devolution of leadership as a practice.

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  • Each year the newspaper approaches the legal affairs departments of companies and major law firms, including foreign firms, with a request to vote for two lawyers in each of certain practice areas whose performances during the year have made particularly important contributions to producing successes.

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