Add the workers' dependants and the number of refugees nearly doubles.

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New Zealand has recently moved towards such a system: patients get points for such things as their operation's chances of success, the number of dependants affected by the patient's illness, and the time they have already waited.

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His plan doubles the size of the tax exemption for dependants.

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Larger forts, some of which predated the wall, garrisoned the troops and housed their dependants.

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On December 8th he proposed a new allowance for spouses (usually wives) looking after dependants (children, the old and handicapped).

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Sophie Barrett-Brown argued that migrant workers' dependants should not be included in the cap.

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Saudi men earlier had the option of requesting alert messages about their dependants' cross-border movement, but it appears that since last week such notifications are being sent automatically.

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If the help really is temporary, however, the government must promote structural reform among its new dependants and so return them to health.

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The parent company will still have to give its blessing to any merger involving its dependants.

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The bill sets up a limited scheme which will make payments to people with diffuse mesothelioma and dependants of those who have died from it.

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