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  • "This is a classic example of the sort of thing that members of public are complaining to us about, " he said.

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  • "Looking at the prospects for next year I think it's fair to say I'm more worried than other members that these sort of expectations may get built into the wage bargaining, price setting process, " Mr Weale said.

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  • Ms. OLIKER: Well I think what's going to happen now is, sort of bilateral talks, in that the other members are going to try to push the Russians and the Chinese to some sort of statement.

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  • Dr Kobayashi and Dr Maskawa, who were at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation and Kyoto University respectively, described a type of symmetry breaking that predicted two new families of quarks, a sort of subatomic particle whose simplest members are the ingredients of the protons and neutrons that form atomic nuclei.

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  • My high school FFA members were always involved in some sort of activity to improve the community.

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  • For this reason, it seems likely that several G-8 members will seek to fashion some sort of endorsement of this latest initiative.

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  • Instead of block grants, Medicare reform is based on something akin to vouchers, sort of like the health system available for Members of Congress.

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  • Men who depended on their wives' income, as well as their own now are responsible for the total support of their family, and often had to help widowed family members who no longer had any sort of income.

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  • Usually speakers will have a time where individual members, usually new members, have their photograph taken and sort of reenact the swearing-in.

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  • "I think the fact that we've got three years before the move gives us ample time to sort out a lot of the concerns of our members, " he added.

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  • The list, which serves parents in the neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill and environs, is a sort of ask-it-all for thousands of members.

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  • The Western countries have not wanted to engage in any sort of military action in this way, but the members of Congress and Senate do see this as a way of trying to protect people.

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  • He added that he doubted anyone "would support a strike of this sort other than the 12% of the total PCS members" who voted for it, and said ministers were checking the "legality of the strike".

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  • Breeders and would-be breeders pored over stud books while members of the public turned up to investigate what sort of dog would best fit into their family.

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  • Late in the evening, the man had the child in some sort of underground bunker or storm shelter, and SWAT team members were communicating with him through a PVC pipe, CNN affiliate WSFA reported.

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  • Gonzalez, who works on helicopters that bring cargo, supplies and military personnel in and out of Iraq, testified before a House Judiciary Committee panel last month, detailing his situation and urging officials to consider some sort of policy to deal with cases like his, where military members' families could be deported while they're defending their country overseas.

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  • If the American people feel strongly about these issues and they push hard, and they reward or don't reward members of Congress with their votes, if they reject sort of uncompromising positions or sharp partisanship or always looking out for the next election, and they reward folks who are trying to find common ground, then I think you'll see behavior in Congress change.

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  • And ever since then, that's been sort of the mental template - and actually operational template too - for members of the press, for prosecutors and for members of the opposition party to whoever is in office at the time, to find ways to have the real-time reality show drama of high-stakes hearings where you have witnesses under pressure, senators and representatives grandstanding in various ways.

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  • During the campaign, Mitt Romney was sort of ridiculed for saying that he wanted a binder full of women to make decisions on Cabinet members.

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  • Mr. BEUTTLER: And at one point, one of the members grabbed the other man's wig and it came right off, and that sort of stopped everything because everybody burst out in laughter and a sort of civility sort of returned to the House floor.

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  • Some senior members of Kibbutz Sdot Yam have started working on a plan to move the commune toward some sort of privatization scheme.

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  • He said that his members told him that there was over capacity in Northern Ireland and there was the "wrong sort of capacity".

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