Elizabeth and her advisers organised expensive gift-giving of elaborate pieces of jewellery and exquisite articles of clothing, seeing to it that the gifts offered to her at the new year were, from year to year, increasingly extravagant, and increasingly matched to particular requirements for Elizabeth's court dress, communicated to the gift-giver well in advance.

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Transmeta's biggest weapon against Intel is its technology, which uses software to take some of the power demands off the chip and automatically adjusts performance to the requirements of particular applications.

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The highly scalable architecture allows the number of flash channel expanders to be increased depending on the performance and capacity requirements of a particular application.

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They are identifying their requirements, looking at their particular role in the swaps market and many are putting in voice recording solutions.

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The Iranians will, no doubt, evolve their own political system to suit their particular social, economic, political, religious requirements.

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"Consultation which did not meet the requirements of the Electoral Commission would be an area of particular vulnerability, " he says.

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The report says that the same argument about social selectivity could apply to the entrance requirements of some faith schools which require pupils and their families to belong to particular religions.

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