Contributing units will remain under national control and there will not be a standard uniform.

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There are lots of daggers, because they were part of the standard German uniform.

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There is a relaxed, nonhierarchical atmosphere as the seven young managers of the "WebDVD" group, all in the standard winter uniform of khakis and flannel shirts, gather in a windowless conference room near Gates' office.

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The Coleman campaign has maintained that there has been no uniform standard in reviewing and counting rejected absentee ballots.

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As the industry's biggest customers globalise, they want gas supplies of uniform standard, quality and even price everywhere they do business.

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Companies need to stop using a dizzying array of earnings measures, from pro forma and cash to EBIDTA, and focus on a uniform standard that doesn't give a misleading picture of the balance sheet.

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So when a highly prized teenager without enough money to pay for expenses beyond tuition, room and board and books, he and his parents cannot rely on a uniform standard across the 120 Division 1 FBS schools to determine which school offers enough to cover the full cost of attendance.

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The most straightforward way for governments to do that is to devise a uniform international standard.

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There has been a great deal of pushback from the brokerage industry over the issue of creating a uniform fiduciary standard for all advisors.

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The new laws include a statewide gun registry and a uniform licensing standard, altering the current system in which each county or municipality sets its own standard.

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Imposing a uniform fiduciary standard on all investment professionals who provide investment advice is a first step in instilling great trust in and respect for our profession.

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New York's new laws include a statewide gun registry and a uniform licensing standard, altering the current system in which each county or municipality sets its own standard.

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It includes a statewide gun registry and adds a uniform licensing standard across the state, altering the current system, in which each county or municipality sets a standard.

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Approval of the measure is being urged by industry groups and some national corporations, which say the lack of a uniform legal standard on electronic signatures is impeding interstate commerce.

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Equal protection questions raised by the lack of a uniform statewide standard were cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its December decision that finally brought the Florida election dispute to a conclusion, awarding the state's 25 electoral votes to GOP candidate George W. Bush.

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"It's not going to be a matter of years but over the next one or two decades that the standard of living becomes more uniform across the European Union, " and wages in Eastern Europe catch up with the West, says Brian O'Reilly, director and global equities strategy at UBS wealth management.

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"Other jump races have uniform fences with a standard height of 4 foot 6 inches (1.4 meters), " Dene Stansall, horse racing consultant at Animal Aid, told CNN.

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These require companies to make uniform assumptions about investment returns and apply the reporting standard across the entire company.

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