And Conservative MP Peter Bone, who sits on the panel, decried the move as "a stitch-up", claiming it was an attempt by the executive "to ignore Parliament and impose its will on the House".

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The fact that his son recently bumped into Lord Mandelson, Britain's powerful first secretary, on holiday in Corfu, has fuelled speculation about a stitch-up.

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Analyze your logs that ask where customers heard about you, leverage tracking links to find out how people got to your site, and be sure to stitch site visits together with purchase history to ensure you are focusing on the customers who really matter.

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Films featuring Wisdom will be screened on October 31 and November , including favourites such as A Stitch In Time, plus rarities from American TV and an exclusive British premiere.

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But it's been difficult to stitch together a coalition of African countries willing or able to go to war on behalf of Mali's weak civilian government.

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Retailers need to stop thinking of online, in-store and mobile as competing interests and instead stitch together these experiences with coherent services that help consumers navigate the overwhelming amount of information on the web and then channel them to a nearby store for the instant gratification of an in-stock purchase.

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Surrounded by Arsenal and Liverpool team posters on either side of the walls, the blue-shirted workers meticulously cut and stitch pieces of leather.

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She also had to climb up the 80 foot mast on her boat, Pindar, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as hand-stitch her giant mainsail with 1, 500 stitches after it ripped in half.

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