The Federal Rules of Evidence make reference to the importance of the oath in our judicial system.

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The Welsh government, in reference to some of these criticisms to the general system, says much of it relates to the former administration and it has already recognised many of the points.

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In his budget speech, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, made passing reference to reviewing the whole system.

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"Our biggest challenges were developing an algorithm which optimally combines the data from GPS and the other sensors, and overcoming the issues of using such low-cost sensors in a system without any absolute location reference, " said Smithson.

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Currently, all loose goods sold with reference to units of quantity have to be weighed and sold using the metric system.

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Though Surface is clearly a tablet device, Sinofsky pointed out that the process of developing Windows 8 (on which Surface's Windows RT operating system is based) started in the summer of 2009, when there was no Apple iPad as a reference point (though it remains unclear if Microsoft began working on its tablet at that time).

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