However there are still a number of reservations that biometric systems will provide an enhanced passenger experience at airports and maintain high standards of security.

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"I want to maintain the high standards that I set myself last year and build upon them, " he told the club's website.

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The leader of a Somerset council has said the authority will not be able to maintain its high standards due to anticipated spending cuts.

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Missing a host of internationals, Leinster struggled to maintain their high standards and Glasgow, equally shorn of their frontline players, came more and more into the game.

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Goalkeeper Petr Cech has said he wants to stay at Chelsea for another 10 years - providing he can maintain the high standards he has rediscovered in the last month.

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We will maintain our high analytical standards and benefit from the confidence that gives us in our stock-picking, which has been better than most.

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"As this new rule is implemented, it is critical that we maintain the same high standards that have made the American military the most feared and admired fighting force in the world -- particularly the rigorous physical standards for our elite special forces units, " McCain said in a statement.

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As a result of the generations-long failure to maintain the highest educational and work standards, combined with high-minded governmental programs that, in practice, encourage laxity and dependence, we no longer manufacture the kind of highly crafted goods that come out of much less populous nations like Germany and Switzerland.

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But our goal is to maintain the best spirit of No Child Left Behind, which is we want high standards, we want every kid learning, but we also want greater flexibility.

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