Those two groups currently hold the two most powerful offices of state under the current constitutional system which reflects a past era, when the Shia were not Lebanon's largest group.
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Have a reason for your prioritization system that reflects the different value of different customers, as well as operational efficiency.
The renewed interest in vouchers reflects dissatisfaction with the public-school system.
Prof Daniel Simons, author of the original invisible gorilla study, explained that this effect is not unique to radiologists and reflects the way our attention system works.
The system of picking the top 30 is very structured, but it almost always reflects the mini manias.
Perhaps the huge total reflects what the country feels it has lost because of the benchmarking system as a whole, though it still seems excessive.
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Despite a complex voting system, party strength in the Senead usually reflects that in the Dail.
The company makes two pieces of the system: a laser diode that shoots a signal at the player, recognizes her motions and reflects them back to the console, at which point they hit a second JDSU part, an optical filter.
The system uses a camera to track body movements and reflects those onscreen.
The panel comprises a High Court Judge, a second judge with immigration expertise and a third expert lay member whose presence reflects the central feature of the Three Wise Men system.
His pattern of accomplishment following these choices--Microsoft's meteoric rise and an eventual settlement that didn't much restrict the company's monopoly on its browser and operating system--reflects Gates' understanding of how and when it's actually a good idea to break the rules.
For some airlines, longer scheduled times for flights reflects the reality of inefficiency in the nation's air travel system, which often can't handle the volume of planes without delay, especially when bad weather hits.
He reflects, with evident exasperation, at the complexity of a tax system over which he used to have considerable influence, warning that the power of vested interests and of the status quo tend to bear down on wannabe reformers.
Unlike previous recessions since the second world war, which were mostly demand-led, this one reflects a credit and investment bust that will take longer to work through the system.
Japan's failure to clean up its banking mess, or to punish those who caused it, partly reflects its system of collective responsibility, under which everybody and nobody is responsible at the same time.
This reflects not only Mr Saleh's lingering personal popularity, and the weight of a patronage system that extends beyond the large bureaucracy and army to tribal leaders and favoured businessmen, but also the widespread fear that the country is simply too fragile to cope with a transfer of power.
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