Billy Edmunds said that he had been told on the telephone that he was to work four day shifts at the ExCel Centre, only to find when he checked the system later that he had been allocated three night shifts at a different location which he could not attend.

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By early morning, after all the votes had been counted and 46 parliamentary seats allocated under the proportional-representation system, the GNP had emerged with 133 seats, just four short of a majority.

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The system by which rights of way and easements are allocated by local governments is far from perfect, as you observe in your essay.

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Under the new system, 230 seats in the government will be allocated to the country's 18 provinces -- also called governorates -- based on the number of people registered to vote in each province for the January 30 election.

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There are questions, too, about how capital should be allocated to match these ratings, and whether the system would give regulators too big a role.

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Despite the fact that we rapidly outgrew that accounting system, cursed it daily, constantly looked at wonderful alternatives, and even allocated budget, we never replaced it.

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In social housing, for example, we will extend choice-based lettings - which give council and housing association tenants a new service to identify locations and properties, in place of traditional schemes where tenants were simply allocated a property on the basis of a centrally-imposed points system.

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Governments, the United Nations system as well as other multilateral organizations are urged to increase considerably the resources allocated to programmes aiming at the establishment and strengthening of national legislation, national institutions and related infrastructures which uphold the rule of law and democracy, electoral assistance, human rights awareness through training, teaching and education, popular participation and civil society.

UNESCO: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action