The Rule of Three: It is important to structure the presentation in three blocks, around three main ideas.
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But the rule of three isn't just for penning brilliant prose it is also true when it comes to vacationing.
In the process, the military went out of its way to preserve important vestiges of Hussein's rule of more than three decades.
Rule 2111 is composed of three main obligations: reasonable-basis suitability, customer-specific suitability, and quantitative suitability.
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By the time she was 21, Gerda Klein had spent six years living under Nazi rule -- three of them in concentration camps.
But that would rule them out of the first three Celtic League games, with the Scarlets and Ospreys asking for players to be assessed individually.
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John Davis, of the Harvard Business School, is writing a book on the few family firms that do not succumb to the old rule of shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
Sy Harding , editor of Street Smart Report, cites that last Fed tightening cycle as an illustration of a rule of thumb he calls "Three Steps and a Stumble"--the third rate hike kills the bull.
The opener is not expected to bat again in the innings and could be out of action for two to three weeks, which would rule him out of the third and final Test.
Is it any surprise then that there is no Volcker Rule almost three years after passage of Dodd Frank?
For journalists, the old rule of thumb is that you need three examples of something to show a trend.
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"That should not give Intel much ground for optimism, " said Vinje, who said that Jaeger's decision will almost certainly influence the panel of three judges who rule on Intel's appeal.
The suspension was adjusted for China's rough roads, and engine size cut from 3.5 litres to 2.8, to accommodate a rule that limited government cars of over three litres to minister level or above.
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Mr Salmond, however, may be less concerned with Scots law being anglicised which it somehow managed to avoid during three centuries of rule from Westminster than with opening up a row over supposed English oversight of a Scottish institution.
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For purposes of the recapture rule, the three year period starts with the first calendar year you make a payment qualifying as alimony under a decree of divorce or separate maintenance or a written separation agreement (do not start the clock if the payments were made under temporary support orders).
As many as a quarter of its people died, many of disease and starvation in concentration camps, during three decades of Italian invasion and colonial rule that ended with the second world war.
The 45-year-old president inherited power from his father, Hafez, in 2000, after three decades of authoritarian rule.
In 2008, in the first-ever multiparty elections, voters ended three decades of autocratic rule by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
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His successor - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - took over in a coup and has shown little tolerance for opposition during the three decades of his rule.
Also, you say I am wrong in claiming that the 1, 261 violent deaths in the first three months of military rule 55% of the total for the 17 years of military government occurred during what was in effect a civil war.
But a particularly violent one in 1987 turned the tide on three decades of dictatorial rule: The death of a student brought ordinary Koreans into streets and forced then president Chun Doo Hwan to bow to demands for democracy.
There is a rule of thumb that every Wall Street banker supports three downstream jobs.
In the Kurds' self-rule area, people voted for three layers of representation three provincial councils, a Kurdish regional parliament with 111 seats, and a national assembly in Baghdad.
One intriguing possibility is that the judge could rule in favor of Andrx but against the other three generic firms, giving Andrx an extended period as the only generic on the market.
So when one of my favourite employees broke this critical rule three times, I had no choice but to fire her.
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Mr Allawi can rule by decree, provided that all three members of the presidency (a Sunni, a Shia and a Kurd) assent.
Judge Ahmed Refaat was in no doubt about the significance of the moment, as he spoke of the "dark" days of Mubarak's three-decade rule.
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Now, three years after the revision of Rule 23, in the trial of Judge Nixon, this very issue was presented and Senator Kohl captured that problem.
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At the height of its mainframe dominance in the 1980s, the rule of thumb was that IBM accounted for half of industry revenues, two-thirds of the profits and three-quarters of the market cap.
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