• And should a hung parliament emerge from the next general election, the Liberal Democrats, who would form part of any coalition, also oppose expansion.

    ECONOMIST: Airport expansion

  • The online entry form includes a number of general questions, which only the judges, whose identity is also a secret, will see.

    BBC: Miss Alderney competition format changes

  • Yet on Monday the three leaders wrote to the governor-general offering to form a Liberal-NDP coalition government.

    ECONOMIST: Canada's prime minister clings on to office, for the moment

  • Since then however the public adoption of social media and mobile technology has grown at such a pace that the general public actually expect some form of engagement via these channels that goes beyond simple broadcast messaging.

    FORBES: Does U.S. Election Campaigning Need To Be 'Stripped'?

  • These partnerships shelter all manner of assets--stock, real estate, cash--with the parents usually remaining in control as general partners while giving the kids assets in the form of limited partnership units.

    FORBES: Partners, But Not With The Irs

  • The carry allows general partners in investment deals to receive compensation in the form of tax-advantaged capital gains, which are taxed at 15 percent, rather than as salary, which would be taxed as ordinary income with a top rate of 35 percent.

    FORBES: Carlyle Group, Bain Capital, And The Tax Treatment Of 'The Carry'

  • We are writing to advise you that Tracinda Corporation has asked the Board of Directors of General Motors Corporation to form a committee to immediately and fully explore, together with management, participating in the Renault-Nissan partnership-alliance.

    FORBES: Tracinda's Letters To GM And Nissan

  • If Arizona can add citizenship requirements, then "each state could impose all manner of its own supplemental requirements beyond the federal form, " Solicitor General Donald B.

    NPR: Must Voters Have To Prove Citizenship To Register?

  • Although classified by the Registrar General for Scotland as a form of religious marriage, humanism is not a religion, but a secular philosophy or belief system.

    BBC: More Scots wedding couples turn to humanist marriages

  • This sort of humility might let Mr Brown appear to participate in the general pain: surrendering his pride might be a better form of kindred suffering than the sleepless overwork that often leaves him looking greyly gaunt.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The bulk of Western credits to the former Soviet Union took the form of so-called balance of payments or general purpose loans with no underlying projects or trade transactions.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • However, the institute did not exist "in this form" by the time in question and the general manager's signature was provided by Mr MacShane himself or someone else "under his authority".

    BBC: Denis MacShane in expenses apology to Rotherham

  • With the Conservatives' General Election victory in 1992, people came to accept the inevitability of some form of constitutional reform which would prevent Tory domination of Scottish politics and the Scottish Office budget on the basis of electoral victory in England.

    BBC: Tough times - then success

  • Morgan, Edison merged his company with the AC purveyor Thomson-Houston to form General Electric.

    FORBES: The warlock of Menlo Park

  • It was among the first general-purpose computers capable of storing programs in rewritable memory, which took the form of mercury delay lines.

    ENGADGET

  • With its NVIDIA ION-based motherboard, the Pulse delivers the best graphics solution available for low-power, small form factor designs" says Drew Henry, general manager of the desktop GPU business unit at NVIDIA. "By adding the GeForce 9800 GT ECO, gamers can enjoy superior performance in a design that saves both energy and space.

    ENGADGET: Maingear introduces eco-friendly, Ion-powered Pulse SFF PC

  • The meetings also helped to improve the general understanding among participants of what can realistically be done, as well as to form the core of a stakeholder network that will ensure that this action plan is carried out successfully.

    UNESCO: Technical Assistance in Cultural Governance

  • For a sober real-world example, take the period just after the indecisive UK general election when, as readers will recall, everyone felt uncertain about who would form the next government and what policies they would follow.

    BBC: Go Figure: Are we related?

  • In general, the goodies have come less in the form of pay rises (too visible), than in over-generous pensions and health care, early retirement and the sort of restrictive practices that were chased out of the private sector years ago.

    ECONOMIST: Labour law in America

  • The limited partnership form of business organization permits a great deal of variance with respect to the rights of the general and limited partners.

    FORBES: Pensions Funds: Funding Unsavory Practices of Venture Capitalists (May 1, 2000)

  • This form of competition does nothing to serve the general interest in holding down costs, inefficiency and waste in the delivery of medical care.

    ECONOMIST: There must be a better way

  • This campaign has been reflected at the United Nations, where the OIC's 56 members plus the Palestinian observer form one of the biggest and most influential lobbying blocs in the UN's 192-member General Assembly.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Under the constitution, it is the governor-general's prerogative to invite a party leader to form a government, with or without an election.

    ECONOMIST: Canada's prime minister clings on to office, for the moment

  • The Anatomy of a Cupcake is one in a growing number of recipe charts, many of which remove the precision and measurements of traditional recipes in favor of expressing their general form.

    FORBES: The Anatomy of A Recipe

  • There is speculation that this might take the form of a promise of a referendum after the next general election - although Mr Cameron has opposed the idea of offering an "in or out" vote.

    BBC: Ed Miliband: PM's EU strategy 'incredibly dangerous'

  • In this election, voters can choose the status quo -- with some lip service to post-revolutionary reality -- in the form of former foreign minister and later Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa or ex-civil aviation minister and briefly prime minister Ahmed Shafik.

    CNN: Old politics joins new in Egypt

  • These successes form part of a trend that has seen a general waning of the influence that al-Qaeda and its offshoots have in a country that, until five years ago, housed more than a dozen jihadist training camps.

    ECONOMIST: The big surprise is that this was a real live election

  • Even if his populist Movement for a Democratic Slovakia does quite well in the general election due in 2002, it is unlikely to find coalition partners to let him form a government.

    ECONOMIST: Slovakia: The arrest of Vladimir Meciar | The

  • Without prejudice to any supplementary voluntary contribution, the States Parties to this Convention undertake to pay into the Fund, at least every two years, a contribution, the amount of which, in the form of a uniform percentage applicable to all States, shall be determined by the General Assembly.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • Once the final results are announced, the Secretary-General calls upon all Iraqi political parties to come together in a spirit of national reconciliation to form an inclusive and fully representative Government that will serve all the Iraqi people.

    UN: Secretary-General

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