The assembly members were invited to sign the register, in alphabetical order of their parties, designating themselves as unionist, nationalist or other.

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Mrs Marston was 13-years-old when George St Angeli was sentenced to five years in prison and subsequently had to sign the Sex Offenders Register when it was introduced in September 1997.

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Partly for that reason, he is busy courting Chile's young voters, and encouraging the 1m under-24s who did not vote in last year's congressional elections to sign up on the electoral register.

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This classification is typically in the form of requesters asking you to sign up for services, register for events, click to sites, send email or notifications to others, and other actions to pad numbers of registrations or directly spam information.

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Under the current, opt-in system, there are many more people who fail to sign the donor register and fail to inform their family of their wishes, even though they would wish to help others with the gift of their organs, and these people's organs may go pointlessly to waste without their consent.

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In contrast, a marriage happens when the partners exchange spoken words and also sign the register.

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