No less important, France will have to accept, under the new dispensation, that it will less often be able to set the agenda for the entire club, while Germany, for its part, has rightly gained power in keeping with its population size.

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Wigan chairman Dave Whelan is adamant the authorities will grant dispensation to his new man.

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In Beijing, of course, fireworks are really banned, as they are in Hong Kong, but Shanghai seems to have a special dispensation for the New Year.

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Network Rail had to apply to the government for dispensation not to build lifts or ramps on the new bridge.

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The three-judge panel found "no basis" in the law for such a dispensation and scored the EPA for "the adoption of an entirely new goal" that it simply invented.

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