• Now 73, he has often said that the pursuit of wealth is no longer the main driving force in his life.

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  • At age 11, Jal and a handful of other child soldiers broke from the main fighting force, escaping from the city of Juba to a town called Waat.

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  • NATO, for its part, insists on forming the main component of any peacekeeping force.

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  • The main object of the international force is to end the violence, by disarming militias on both sides and guarding against attacks from across the border in West Timor, where malcontents are reported to have been gathering.

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  • Ideally, says a report prepared for an upcoming meeting on charities and terrorism under the auspices of the Financial Action Task Force, the world's main anti-money-laundering body, charities should document employees, projects and possible donors, as well as running field audits to ensure that money has not gone astray.

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  • Meanwhile, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) - the main rebel fighting force - condemned the seizure of the UN observers.

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  • It is ironic that competition through innovation by oligopolists may be the main driving force of growth and higher living standards, since oligopolies are often seen as a threat to the public interest and as a target for antitrust action.

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  • The "main force" of 3, 500 - 4, 000 soldiers from a number of NATO nations is expected to be in place within 10 days.

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  • It is the main ally of the West and a force for moderation in the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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  • President Enrique Pena Nieto has made the fight against organised crime one of his main priorities and has announced the creation of a new federal police force to help drive down murder rates.

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  • Calvin Worth, commander of 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, the main assault force.

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  • Mr Yeltsin's decline may well make the main institution of government, the presidency, a force more for instability than for stability.

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  • The Portuguese administration says it has now done much to improve the efficiency of its law enforcement: streamlining the police force, rooting out corrupt officials and arresting the five main triad heads in Macau.

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  • At a conference convened last August by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, Dennis Snower, professor of economics at Birkbeck College in London, suggested that the main force behind income inequality might be changes in the way companies are organised.

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  • Larry Schooler of member station KUT visited the main shelter at the former Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio and sent this report.

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  • But he said the main salary costs were governed by the size of the force, adding that it was not worthwhile for some officers to become a chief constable "because you could be losing money coming from one force going to the other".

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  • One of the main complaints of genuinely rural types is that townies with weekend cottages not only force up the price of property, thus driving out the rural young, but also get away with paying only 50% of the standard council tax, on the grounds that they do not use local services as much as full-time residents.

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  • The main treatment is injections of a chemical to cut levels of testosterone - the driving force of many prostate cancers - but it causes side effects.

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  • The main force behind the project is Rungwe Kingdon, who runs the largest bronze foundry of its kind in Europe, together with his wife, Claude Koenig.

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  • The main thrust of government policy is unlikely to change, though: Mr Erdogan has been the driving force behind the government ever since the general election last year.

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  • The insidious double standard remains, with no sign of abating: the Fed, the main source of so many of our current financial woes, is still seen by most as a force for good in the world, as a prescient and astute regulator dedicated to systemic safety and soundness.

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  • The unit served in the force's main operating base Price, in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province.

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  • Yemen's main airport has re-opened after a protest by air force troops against the sacking of their commander.

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  • The main down side of all this is the fact that you need to buy a new portal for Swap Force.

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  • The main force behind this resolution, which was sponsored on its behalf, is the 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

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  • Until recently, most assumed that the Kremlin would persuade or force Menatep, the firm that represents Yukos's main shareholders, to let go of Yukos while leaving Yukos itself relatively unharmed.

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  • Already the main trade-union federation, which has emerged as an influential political force in the absence of strong opposition parties, has called for strikes and wage increases in certain sectors.

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  • As long as the use of force was not considered imminent, the differences between the Soviet Union and the United States were easily glossed over or obscured by the novelty of those points on which they were in agreement....Now that the main issue is whether to use force, the nuances can no longer be hidden.

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  • Mr. Karzai remains suspicious, too, of the second main pillar of the American war plan: the creation of a 352, 000-strong Afghan army and police force.

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