The chairman of the Treasury select committee has taken centre stage at Westminster, managing to extract apology after apology from the four men held responsible, by some, for the entire UK banking crisis.

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At one stage David Moyes had no recognised senior strikers to select as alongside Yakubu.

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In select categories, namely seed and late stage, as well as the mobile and social sectors, investment activity became a bit feverish.

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For a select few, it jumps to the national stage.

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Tory peer Lord Crickhowell, the former Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards, called for major changes to the bill but said he did not support Labour's amendment seeking to refer the bill to a specially formed select committee in advance of its normal committee stage.

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Shrugging aside his disappointment, Contador showed his class by winning both the Tour of Spain and Giro d'Italia, joining a select band of riders to win all three major stage races.

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However, the service only plans to select one team to go forward to the next stage of development, and that one team will likely dominate the electronic-warfare business for decades to come.

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Lord Fowler, who chairs the HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom Select Committee, spoke as peers continued the eleventh day of committee stage debate on the Health and Social Care Bill in the Lords on 7 December 2011.

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Various foreign countries select their presidents in this manner, and some American states already have two-stage balloting in their primaries.

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