Its remit, which does not focus on alleged misdemeanours by individuals, is described by the committee as a "useful check on current standards and the effectiveness, or otherwise of the arrangements in place to ensure the highest standards of propriety in public life".
With the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target date rapidly approaching and discussions about the post-MDG development framework taking place at the highest levels, the time to act is now.
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And so we increased our investments in NIH and NSF, and made sure that stem cell research could proceed. (Applause.) And insisted that we place the highest priority on technology and innovation, in government, through our research -- because nobody understands better than this region of the country and how important that is to our economic future.
Assigning a number to all of these factors creates an overall score, and with the right weights in place, our best clients receive the highest scores.
He has made progress already, to the extent that talks at the highest level have been taking place.
The highest profile brother act took place on the gridiron, when siblings Jim and John Harbaugh coached their respective terms to Super Bowl berths.
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Item one for the prosecution: a survey conducted by the influential Makati Business Club that found the highest court had fallen in esteem from first place in 1986 to No. 18, below even the national telephone service.
Carragher says he would like their hard work to end with the highest league position possible and the place in Europe that would bring.
Faced with thousands of others from across the world competing for the top place, she had cruised in as one of the highest performing students.
In most markets economists advocate selling to the highest bidder as a way to place assets in the hands of those who can use them most profitably.
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The interior ministry said Saturday it had lifted the scarlet state of alert, the country's highest security alert level, which was put in place in the Toulouse region following the third shooting on Monday targeting a school.
Children want to get the highest marks in order to secure a place at university.
In a place with one of the highest Internet and mobile penetration rates in the world, there are too many communication channels to keep track of.
While this may seem limiting, it could potentially be a game-changer in this advertising space as the social component could validate, for example, whether a restaruant that paid the highest auction price for results is a place you would actually want to visit.
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Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 against the last-place Toronto Raptors in 2006, the NBA's second-highest single-game total.
But take a look at the place where unemployment is at the highest rate of all.
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The highest point of The Peak has been the place to live ever since the British came here in the 19th Century.
The place where there is perhaps the highest potential for innovation is in the apparel industry, where the barriers to online shopping tend to be particularly high.
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But the highest-stakes action isn't taking place on the gridiron.
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With a rigorous set of lending and investing procedures in place and aggressively monitored at the highest levels of the corporation, it is setting a gold-standard for good governance and financial responsibility that could - if adopted throughout its industry and others - deny our enemies much of the access to funding they rely upon today and, thereby, transform this war.
The drop in the unemployment rate, to its lowest level in three years, has helped move the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest close since May 2008 before the now infamous financial meltdown that took place later that year.
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In terms of the proportion of pupils reaching the highest ability levels in primary reading, Northern Ireland was even more successful, ranked third place in the world.
He helped save Fulham from relegation and a season later guided them to seventh place in the Premier League, their highest ever finish.
Maybe, as Mr Gordon speculates, the highest-productivity applications of computers are already in place, so that the economy is now quite far along the path of diminishing returns.
Of course, the counter to that argument is that services are generally plentiful in the state, too: the schools, for example, consistently place in the top tier in national rankings and the boasts one of the highest state graduation rates in the country.
The Avengers (which is still earning money in theaters) is already the third highest-grossing film of all time pushing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 into 4th place.
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The nation's civilian "high" alert -- the second highest level of warning -- was put in place Tuesday.
Jamaican Errol Kerr also made an impact, securing ninth place in the skicross event -- the highest finish ever by a Caribbean athlete at the Winter Games.
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As the Demographia study shows, the highest rise in prices relative to incomes generally has taken place in wherever strong growth controls have been imposed by local authorities.
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