It is necessary, at the outset, to correct some misconceptions about the issue of corruption. |
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There are a number of issues here from what at the outset appears a pretty innocuous question. |
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For investment purposes, what finds favour is the fact that a number of givens are known at the outset. |
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The case set up is that all the shareholders, the joint venturers, made the impugned decisions at the outset. |
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Can I say right at the outset that we have made the report available to your good self. |
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We would also suggest at the outset that the conduct and expression of these language wars cannot be separated from their mass mediation. |
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The study found that women who tested negative were happier at the end of the study than they were at the outset. |
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To avoid making mistakes at the outset, check the color wheel below before you buy paint. |
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One of the things that so excited me at the outset was that this show is about my life! |
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It would seem at the outset that the beast or bestial man can do more harm than the plain bad man, and later that the exact opposite is the case. |
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It is unfortunate that although all utilities were consulted at the outset, unforeseen problems were uncovered. |
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The Respondents at the outset took up a preliminary objection that the Petitioner has no locus standi to make this application. |
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He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted. |
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He insists the military campaign was a priori a result of the intrinsic political failures of republicanism at the outset. |
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An amount could, therefore, be agreed at the outset to reflect the appropriate rate for the period. |
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Many doctors start off caring and being in touch with their essential humanity at the outset of their training or career. |
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Yet one has to recognize at the outset that there are methodological problems with this. |
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The solicitor should make clear at the outset if an estimate, quotation or other indication of cost is not intended to be fixed. |
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The Association were provided with a complete set of the contract documentation at the outset of the development. |
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None is surprising, I think, but it seems useful at the outset of my editorship to fill you in. |
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It is, however, important to note at the outset that the whole argument is predicated on two assumptions. |
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I say at the outset that a biosecurity scare such as foot-and-mouth disease is the most perilous thing that could face this economy. |
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It is worth noting at the outset that scholars have often mistakenly assumed that these are mutually exclusive ways of approaching the gospels. |
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We are using IMF as shorthand for the entire grouping of moral hazard intensifiers we listed at the outset! |
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I suggested at the outset that there are theological overtones to these overtly political and historical questions. |
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There were periods of real heroism as Scotland tried to speed the game up, Gordon Simpson deciding to run a quick one at the outset. |
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Guyon achieves what he has sworn at the outset of the poem, but his victory is not conclusive. |
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Hooper declared at the outset of his book that optical toys could hone visual perception and, consequently, prime social vigilance. |
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We have now been told by our insurer that a shortfall is likely and we were not warned at the outset. |
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With driblets of rust on her hull and at the outset of the anchor cable, she recalled the smirched bathtub of some old hotel. |
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But it is important to recognise at the outset that at least from time to time the book has a strongly polemical edge to it. |
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So transferability between different pension arrangements is not going to be as free and easy as planned at the outset. |
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There is a valid reason for bringing such critical questions to the fore at the outset itself. |
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The result was a campaign misconceived at the outset and badly coordinated not only between civilian and military but between the various levels of command. |
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Most notably, our headwaiter could not understand at the outset that we wanted to order and share half portions of each of several different dishes. |
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The pain will be eased to the extent that the standard is being phased in and, at the outset, only options issued post November 2002 will be expensed. |
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But unless his bluff is obviously called, Trump is unlikely to spoil for international confrontation at the outset of his presidency, if at all. |
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Any point of comparison with 'additional funds' that offer only limited scope for business expansion can therefore be ruled out at the outset. |
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What you said at the outset about privatisation, though, is not something that this House should accept without demur. |
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Non-condensable gases are present in refrigeration systems at the outset of the installation process, with pipes and fittings being full of air. |
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In particular, as noted at the outset of the paper, the province moved from a two-party to a three-party system. |
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These facts have caused the general population to withdraw their collaboration which was so freely given at the outset. |
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There is some evidence, at the outset, that Henry is a man and not some sort of bipedal drone. |
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However, it is important to understand at the outset that malingering can be very difficult to both detect and to prove. |
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While contact was lost with a few of the young women, participants were asked at the outset to make a commitment to this longitudinal study. |
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Thus, in some ways, the performance problems characteristic of third-party government are in fact often designed into programs at the outset. |
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We had positive results but there was a bad feeling in the unit at the outset. |
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So why don't I cauterize this at the outset, and say, 'How 'bout those Yankees?' Because you can practice, as you're walking up. |
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This evening, I would like, at the outset, to point out a fly in the ointment. |
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It is important to note at the outset that the Pragmatic View takes its name from the linguistic trichotomy discussed above, in the Introduction. |
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I liked that turn of phrase very much because it says right at the outset that we are Europeans because we have a home somewhere. |
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I would also caution against rejecting out of hand at the outset any particular proposal or idea, including the idea of one issue per session. |
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She chose the program because, except for three weeks on campus at the outset, she could complete her studies via distance education. |
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The producer receives some monies from the licensing broadcaster and any public assistance at the outset of the project. |
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But we understood at the outset the significant challenges in developing treatments for systemic lupus erythematosus. |
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Lieut. Wilhelm Winter says at the outset that he is fighting for the fatherland, but by 1941 he is fighting for the Fuhrer. |
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It must be stressed at the outset that there are more than exegetical or translational issues involved. |
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The main theme, announced by the soloist at the outset, is highly effective, due largely to its effective use of syncopation. |
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I should like to point out at the outset that this control is not so interventionist as it might appear to be at first sight. |
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The only thing to pay particular attention to at the outset is to configure first the stopwatch which takes on the functions of chief stopwatch. |
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Ms. Joyce Preston: Can I say at the outset that nobody in the process is untainted from influencing somebody else. |
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The species to be considered and the scope and limits of the studies required of the developer must be clearly stated at the outset. |
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These issues are central throughout the marriage but loom especially large at the outset, at midlife, and at retirement. |
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I should say at the outset that I believe in alternative medicine and I use natural products. |
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Thus a respondent at the outset of its case can ask the Tribunal to make a decision based solely on the evidence of the complainant. |
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Knowing your responsibilities at the outset will help you avoid running afoul of the law. |
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Also that properties which are unlikely to pass the test of outstanding universal value are eliminated at the outset. |
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Let us admit at the outset that we do not have the luxury of leaving the dichotomy intact, of choosing one and leaving the other. |
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As I indicated at the outset the Claimant must first pass over this threshold to establish entitlement to compensation. |
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Mr. Speaker, I should mention at the outset that I will be splitting my time with the erstwhile member for Portage-Lisgar. |
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In effect, the plan will have to outline terms and parameters of the annuity contract at the outset of the plan. |
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The authors have made several assumptions that require clarification at the outset of this exercise. |
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Obviously, the relative openness of each individual economy at the outset of integration is an important factor for evaluating these results. |
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I mentioned at the outset that measures in the bill result from consultations with the tax and business community. |
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I want to begin by saying at the outset that this is one of the best budgets that we have seen in this place for a long time. |
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Perhaps greater honesty at the outset might have helped provide a more realistic atmosphere. |
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Ó The method is appropriate in many circumstances, but it assumes that the content of the clusters is known at the outset. |
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It was necessary at the outset of my term to engage an investigating officer. |
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Let me make it clear at the outset that I have no intention of playing Icarus, since that is one of the allusions that have just been made. |
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I think that at the outset of the session we were encouraged by several delegations to try to be innovative in our statements here. |
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We should make clear at the outset that the Advisory Guidelines do not-and cannot-affect the basic legal structure of variation and review. |
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Allow me to emphasize at the outset that we shall continue to bring to your attention core legal issues that warrant appropriate response. |
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It is very important that, at the outset of proceedings of this kind, every possible effort be made to avoid overclaiming. |
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But the real money, Washington believed, lay in the western land investments he had made at the outset of the war. |
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It is not a positional bargaining document, designed simply to rally the base at the outset of negotiations. |
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Compliance was determined by subtracting the number of capsules returned by the subject at the final visit from the number of capsules dispensed at the outset of the study. |
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However, the Court cannot, by means of an evolutive interpretation, derive from these instruments a right that was not included therein at the outset. |
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The critical point to be made at the outset of this discussion of the new regionalism is the dynamic relationship between developments in different parts of the world. |
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Early in his career he had made the mistake, at the outset of his acquaintance with a lady, of telling her that he loved her and exacting the same avowal in return. |
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But even in this system, if reservation had not been introduced at the outset and only thought of later, one is certain that there would have been resistance. |
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Well, I suppose there's nothing like laying your trivia on the table at the outset so that anyone who's not up for some girlie chat can go put some shelves up in the kitchen. |
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The roles of the kindly professor and Santa Claus were tailor-made for Liam Murphy, whose avuncular presence must have been very reassuring for the children at the outset. |
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Regarding the second question, there are two inarguable points to make at the outset. |
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As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known. |
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So it made sense to give priority to the areas which appeared structurally viable at the outset. |
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John, as mentioned at the outset, had two dogs that were almost drowned by a wild buck kangaroo when it took them on in a small reservoir on his family's property. |
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As I said at the outset of this judgment, the whole purpose of the Limitation Act is to ensure that claims are litigated promptly and that stale claims should be discouraged. |
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This allows us to observe water diffusion that occurs beyond the structural changes, often entailing water influx and outflux, at the outset of the MD calculation. |
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The data collection and analysis are subsequently geared to the illumination or resolution of the research issue or problem that has been identified at the outset. |
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There are some important issues that need to be clarified at the outset. |
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Firms from the Federal Republic are already on their starting blocks, eager to be well placed at the outset to take advantage of this lucrative market. |
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There are nearly four and a half miles within which to regain any pifflingly small distances conceded at the outset. |
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This piece by D'Amico captures the anxiety and frustration that bedeviled the Roman Curia and the curialists at the outset of the Reformation. |
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The facilitator clarified at the outset that the States Parties were not trying to usurp the competences of the Court, nor to upset the latter's functioning. |
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Bud growth is steady and strong at the outset, and rampant in later stages, when swollen, sticky calyxes suddenly grow in every direction from Marley's flowers, giving them a spiky 'meteoroid' appearance. |
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Why were infected animals not quarantined at the outset and emergency vaccinations administered instead of adopting a policy of mass slaughter as we have done? |
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May I say at the outset that a long time ago, Parliament was, in fact, very prescient about this issue. There was a bill that passed second reading in Parliament to ban cigarettes. |
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You did the right thing by refusing to commit the cardinal sin of buckling at the outset of a Commission that, for the good of Europe, must be a strong Commission with strong leadership. |
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The Grundtvig networks have got off to a good start, given that it was decided at the outset to fund a limited number of carefully selected networks. |
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Of course countries must act exceptionally in special cases, but in the last seven years we have also seen that much of what was decided at the outset in a frenzy of activity must now be retracted. |
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I am sure there are many people, like me, who at the outset don't know the intellectual property system and who guard their inventions like the proverbial dog in the manger. |
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Even users who have good intentions at the outset and take up the licence proposed by the administration society or sign the application form which is sent to them do not always continue to act in good faith to the end. |
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It is essential at the outset to distinguish giftedness from talent. |
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Accordingly, it addressed only the sale of those assets, which was the key issue at the outset of the case, but no other matters, such as entitlement to and distribution of proceeds. |
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Mr President, right at the outset I would like to say to Mr Helmer and others that people on this side of the House are not in the business of shackling or hampering the decision-making capabilities of businesses. |
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It is important to agree on the principles at the outset. |
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It is hard to predict at the outset whether years of research will lead to breakthrough innovations with a great market potential or may simply leave a company empty-handed with results that are unlikely to bring revenues. |
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I wish merely to caution you against the whole tone of L'Etoile's suggestion, by calling your attention to its ex parte character at the outset. |
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Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. |
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In 1964, a military junta overthrew President Estenssoro at the outset of his third term. |
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Failing to statistically test for treeness, they reify the evolutionary trajectories assumed at the outset. |
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The committee that was struck at the outset of this project continues to meet as required to assess its results against objectives and to redirect the focus, if necessary. |
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Inevitably those bodies age and uglify under her influence, but if they are outstandingly beautiful at the outset, that process takes longer. |
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The NDP views the bill as far more significant than simply a matter of housekeeping and tidying up on the part of the government, and I want to point out some concerns right at the outset. |
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It is therefore not rare to witness a situation in which a population that was the victim of aggression at the outset internalizes the violence and starts to turn on itself. |
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A number of service provider respondents noted that misinformation often leads claimants to lie about their true story, or to withhold critical information at the outset. |
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I want to comment at the outset that the member for Portage-Lisgar asked a question a few minutes ago and I want to assure her that she should not be personally affronted by comments made on this side of the House. |
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Such sampling errors were, especially at the outset of the harmonisation project, considered to be of secondary importance only, compared to possible bias due to misrepresentation. |
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Researchers explain this practice by saying that, if research subjects were to be fully informed about all aspects of the study at the outset, their behaviour would be influenced. |
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We are informed at the outset that the law of carriers is an extension of the law of bailments. |
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Allow time for small talk at the outset, but not too much. |
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Because surprise attacks, such as the one at Pearl Harbor, might well occur at the outset of future wars, the United States would build an arsenal so large that its ability to retaliate would survive any attack. |
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As with the factional clash investigation noted above, at the outset of the review the Committee had some misgivings about the Service's investigation since the person involved was not clearly linked to the terrorist group. |
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The danger is to expend too much energy at the outset and become physically or psychologically exhausted and neglect your personal and family life. |
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Initially, the stock market rebound was set in motion by the normalisation of market conditions resulting from market participants' fading uncertainty at the outset of the military operations in Iraq. |
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Gentlemen, these are, more or less, the pitfalls that must be avoided when creating judicial power, if, as I said at the outset, we want to ensure that this power does not infringe either political liberty or civil liberty. |
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Intentions for tillage and crop management were discussed between the farmer and science team at the outset of each summer fallow. |
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The principal uses of basic intelligence are to set the scene at the outset of operations and explain relatively unchanging facts such as battlespace terrain and weather. |
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Let me say at the outset that the government readily accepts that allotted day motions ought not to be interfered with by the Speaker, except on the clearest and most certain procedural grounds. |
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Even if our goal at the outset is more gradualist and reformist, does not pursuit of justice imply at least a reduction of privilege, if not its outright eradication? |
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Against this background, the Commission, at the outset of this new term, considered it useful to take stock of the progress achieved since the launch of the policy. |
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But contradictions appeared at the outset. |
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But Turkey might swing behind the idea if Arab countries in the region press it to do so. It is debateable whether a no-fly zone would require a sustained campaign to bomb Colonel Qaddafi's airfields and assets at the outset. |
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Although we are still surmounting the financial and economic crisis at the outset of 2010, the uncertainties surrounding the financial markets have continuously dissipated in recent months. |
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Credit derivatives are instruments whose purpose is to transfer the credit risk in respect of an asset from one counterparty to another, generally in exchange for a premium paid at the outset or by installments. |
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What was the state of trust at the outset of the crisis? |
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As I said at the outset, we are starting to slide back. |
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I asked wide-ranging questions, Mr. Chairperson, because the witness made wide-ranging statements at the outset and cast aspersions on the Auditor General. |
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The main things learned were that the question must be clear at the outset and the dowser must understand what message his or her tools are giving back. |
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Yes, I believe you did after it was corkscrewed out of you, but I got the impression at the outset that you were, just as willing to let it stand there. |
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They were notable for their bawdiness, which seemed quite daring at the outset, and for some of the worst punning names in cinematographic history. |
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Indeed, there is some evidence that, as an uncommon geological feature, it could have been deliberately incorporated into the monument at the outset. |
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Also, at the outset, management must consider the executability and workability of plans to fulfill customer needs while adhering to the commitment to return on investment. |
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Her Excellency also requested the attendees to pray for the mothers, wives, sisters, aunts, daughters and fathers of the brave soldiers at the outset. |
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