"MEPs voted in favour of a legally uncertain system that does not not provide any checks and balances against threats to innovation such as software patents, " said spokeswoman Jeanne Tadeusz.

BBC: European Parliament in Strasbourg

Everything about the present income tax system is uncertain, not to mention vague and confusing.

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But it said it was uncertain whether such a system would have protected the Kent helicopter from catastrophic damage given the size of the cable involved.

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The switch to a discretionary system is bound to mean that some claimants with uncertain cases who previously might have received legal aid will no longer do so.

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They welcome Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system precisely because it creates stable, democratic government invulnerable to the uncertain coalitions that "fairer" voting systems have inflicted on countries like Holland.

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While the root cause of the battery overheating remains unknown, the United States federal aviation officials have accepted Boeing's plan to fit all 787s with a revamped battery system and cleared the way for the plane to fly again, although the timing remains uncertain.

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At a time when an introspective France is feeling uncertain about itself in many other respects about Europe, about globalisation, about Islam its judicial system is now under the spotlight too.

ECONOMIST: The French judicial system

'There is concern over the uncertain state of President Yeltsin's health, at the continuing extremely high level of criminal penetration of the financial system and over the impact on Russia of the Asian financial crisis, ' Mr. Goldman said.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy