Carriers keep shrinking the size of seats in order to stuff more people into planes.

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Mr Mubarak specifically spoke of advancing the process, started last year, that allows for direct, multi-candidate presidential elections, by altering a rule whereby parties must control 5% of parliamentary seats in order to present a candidate for president.

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The scheming is ultimately aimed, most local party members think, at winning control of Renfrewshire Labour politics in order to secure nominations for Mr Graham's allies in safe Labour seats at Westminster or in the putative Scottish parliament.

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Over time, however, Parliament has shown an impressive flexibility in order to allow both the faithless, and members of faiths other than the established one, to take their seats.

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It is now possible to order a pickup truck with heated and ventilated leather seats, a hi-fi sound system and state of the art navigation, for a level of factory-delivered luxury that pickup owners could only find in the aftermarket just years ago.

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Now, it could be that they are suddenly having a change of heart and they are deeply concerned about their Democratic friends. (Laughter.) They are giving you the best possible advice in order to assure that Nancy Pelosi remains Speaker and Harry Reid remains Leader and that all of you keep your seats.

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Negotiations between the Labour, who hold 30 of the 60 seats in the assembly, and the other three parties are expected to begin soon in order for the Welsh government to win the vote to pass their spending plans on 6 December.

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