• "There are signs on the ground of movement, albeit slow and small, " Fawzi said.

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  • Textron petitioned the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island to quash the summons on the ground of the work product privilege.

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  • Our national debate is impoverished to the extent that people are excluded from discussing important social problems on the ground of their racial or partisan profile.

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  • The initial plan was to bar Mr Livingstone, a former leader of the Greater London Council, from standing in the party's primary on the ground of disloyalty.

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  • In the annual drug certification the judging of other countries' commitment against drugs Colombia and Paraguay escaped the United States' condemnation only with waivers, on the ground of American national interest.

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  • Other Antwerp schools banned scarves on the ground of equality but in reality, says Ms Azabar, they wanted to repel pupils from poor backgrounds who might pull them down academic league tables.

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  • Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University have estimated the impact on the ground of emissions from aircraft flying at cruise altitude (about 35, 000 feet), a problem typically ignored by regulations.

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  • European Union legislation "prohibiting discrimination on the ground of religion or belief in the area of employment seems to be toothless across Europe, as we observe a higher rate of unemployment among Muslims, and especially Muslim women of foreign origin, " Perolini said.

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  • As well as cutting the number of time-wasting appeals, such a measure would have allowed the government to seek the swift defeat of the welter of temporary injunctions by local courts that often greet any new tax or privatisation, on the ground of unconstitutionality.

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  • Even so, he says, he was surprised, since he had thought of his lunch with Kawamoto as a social occasion. (Kawamoto has refused, on the ground of confidentiality, to discuss the meal or her sources for the story, except to say that she has multiple sources at Hewlett-Packard.) In any case, on balance Keyworth was pleased.

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  • Both the behavior of the forces on the ground and of their commanders in Cairo indicates that if the Egyptian military is permitted to deploy its forces to the Sinai, those forces will not serve any helpful purpose for Israel.

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  • And despite, or perhaps because of, the serious worsening of the situation on the ground, the dispatch of American observers to monitor the now non-existent ceasefire seems no more of an immediate priority than it was before.

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  • Sunday after dozens of people from two large extended families had taken shelter for the night on the ground floor of the house.

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  • The purpose of this survey is to build more awareness of the on-the-ground realities of Chinese enterprises in the United States, and to provide insight on what it takes for a Chinese enterprise to succeed in the United States.

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  • Police said other people in the house were assaulted on the ground floor of the house.

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  • The disturbance began on the ground floor of the grandstand and then spread to the racecourse itself, police said.

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  • The judge said Mr Coates was a respected man who was trusted to look after a key for the communal living room on the ground floor of the flats.

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  • Or you could hop onto an Internet startup or join a robust tech company and have the potential to become very rich--not to mention getting in on the ground floor of the New Economy.

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  • Or you could hop onto an Internet startup or join a robust tech company and have the potential to get unimaginably rich--not to mention getting in on the ground floor of the New Economy.

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  • By reducing the number of U.N. personnel on the ground, the ability of hostile forces to take hostages or to retaliate is also reduced, and capability to use air power is enhanced, according to U.N. spokesman Lt.

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  • We need to put aside the business model of hate, and focus on the common ground of possibility.

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  • Now that things seem to be moving in the right direction is not the time to pull out according to an artificial time table driven not only by ignorance of the facts on the ground but the exigencies of party politics.

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  • Have someone else put a piece of bread on the ground directly on the other side of the Earth from you.

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  • The mechanism of EMI causing failures seems plausible, logical, and reasonable until you consider the energies involved in portable devices, the lack of on the ground EMI incidences in aircraft, and the lack of EMI incidences in other vehicles.

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  • The car was parked on the ground level of a parking garage near the store.

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  • The free exhibition opens on Saturday on the ground floor of Manchester Town Hall in Albert Square, Manchester.

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  • In the middle of his speech, Obama emphasized the middle ground on the issues of gay marriage, gun ownership, abortion and immigration.

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  • He said that any troop reduction will be made based on conditions on the ground and on the recommendations of U.S. military commanders.

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