The three party leaders urged the newspaper industry to endorse the new dispensation as quickly as possible.

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But they are so conditioned to their former plight, and she is so fouled up in haughty good intentions, that the new dispensation grows even more wretched than the one it displaced.

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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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When Mr Blair was prime minister, such negotiations revolved around epic issues the search for an entirely new political dispensation, how to defang heavily armed groups, war and peace, life and death.

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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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