At least two other cases pit RIM against so-called non-practicing entities, or NPEs.

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Female health professionals (including registered nurses, pharmacists and dieticians), non-practicing medical scientists , and psychologists all report high satisfaction and feature good pay and strong future growth.

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Although, I am a non-practicing Jew, and abhor the 24-hour fast, I usually fast out of respect for my fellow Jews and to empathize with those suffering in poverty.

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These non-practicing entities, companies with no operations, and contingency lawyers, would acquire patents and then go out and extort rich licenses from large corporations with legal claims, usually in Eastern Texas.

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Can't there be any secular, non-practicing, or liberal Muslims?

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Such non-practicing entities function as invention houses that conduct brainstorming sessions or continue to invest in developing specific technical innovations, with the patents based on those innovations becoming the source of revenue for the entity.

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After logging on and practicing with as many non-recorded sample questions as they want, interviewees then get two questions, the first common to all applicants, and the second selected by the computer from a bank of questions pre-recorded by da Silva.

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