In some places (eastern Slavonia, northern Iraq), they provide a cooling-off period before reintegration into another country.
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Companies that have tried to push the envelope have been chastened with a cooling-off period, another time out for the misbehaved children.
Quite possibly, no compromise will be reached in the 80-day cooling-off period.
Industry guidelines say patients should have a two-week cooling off period after booking procedures and they ban the use of time-limited financial inducements.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Section 203, imposed a five-year rotation and five-year cooling-off period, from a seven-year rotation with a two-year cooling-off period.
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The effect of the president's order is to impose a 60-day cooling off period and give negotiators more time to reach an agreement, according to a White House spokesman.
Mr Bush is not alone in feeling relieved that the dispute is over, for now (the lockout could resume if no new contract agreement is signed during the cooling-off period).
These called for an immediate ceasefire, followed by a cooling-off period and a series of confidence-building measures to bridge the gap between the current violence and a resumption of long-term negotiations.
The European Union currently requires only partner rotation every seven years and a cooling-off period of two years, the U.K. has a five-year-on, five-year-off policy, and Australia has a five-year-on, two-year-off policy.
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The one difference is that this week, a greater percentage of outflows were attributed to local currency funds mainly because emerging market currencies (Brazil, in particular) have suffered in the recent risk-off period.
On a trip to the region last week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell got the two sides to agree to complete seven straight days without violence -- to be followed by a six-week "cooling-off period" when the two sides would begin to implement confidence-building measures.
If Latinos perceive a candidate as anti-immigrant, it can turn them off, period.
The Treasury has tabled two new amendments offering to provide written details of any proposed scheme and a seven-day "cooling-off" period.
Earlier this month, Congress passed a sweeping ethics and lobbying reform bill that would extend this "cooling off" period to two years for senators and Cabinet officials.
Meanwhile, Parliament will debate an abortion bill calling for compulsory counselling - rather than the voluntary counselling offered currently - and a seven-day "cooling off" period, to allow women time for further consideration.
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Care put Harlequins right back into the game as he finished off a period of sustained pressure in the 68th minute, before Simon Shaw's offload set Wasps' Hart clear to put the game beyond reach.
Visiting prop Jacobsen finished off a period of sustained pressure when he was ruled by the video referee to have forced his way over the try line from close range, with Paterson adding the conversion.
It is not easy to pin down exact dates in a hazy age, but Western historians are probably right in marking off the period 1500 to the present as the age of European global predominance.
Substitute Joe Ireland was sent-off in the second period but the students held on to get off to a winning start.
They'll be weaned off over a period of either days or weeks, Buchheit said.
Endometrial tissue builds up during the menstrual cycle, and then breaks down and sheds off during a period.
The number of people taking the whole of the Christmas and New Year period off work in the UK was expected to be higher than last year's figure of about five million, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Many business leaders face some of the same obstacles Sundhage had to deal with when she took over a team that was coming off a stressful period full of strife between players themselves and between players and the head coach at the time.
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Washing took off in the Edo period, which began at the start of the 17th century.
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"He's going to be off for an extended period, " Hull coach Richard Agar told BBC Radio Humberside.
It's not the place to come to make money off making music, period.
These companies are coming off a very difficult period as defaults and delinquency rates are finally rebounding from record levels.
The NYSE has a circuit breaker in place, so the exchange shut off trading for a period of time to quell panic.
Craig Middle, a councillor in Tonypandy, said people had not been given any warning that their water would be off for an extended period but were "getting on with it".
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"They started tilting the ice, and we were scrambling a little bit, " said Rangers forward Derek Stepan, whose point-blank shot early in the third period nicked off the blocker of Ottawa goaltender Robin Lehner.
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