| The logic was that police and prison officers could be freed-up for frontline duties if the job was hived off to a private company. |
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| The paper's staff haven't taken too kindly to the way in which this internet offshoot has been hived off into a separate division. |
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| I hope the FA will look at their rules with a view to strengthening them to prevent their assets being hived off and sold in a property deal. |
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| They were reserved for local and national politicians, while business leaders were hived off to an economic and social committee. |
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| The armed forces lost their permanent seats in parliament, and the police were hived off from the army. |
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| The authority's Building Maintenance Service is to be hived off to the Kier Group. |
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| Parker said he believed the contractor had hived the work off to a sub-contractor who didn't have a demolition license. |
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| Schools are now self-governing and what little is left to strategic planning is being hived off to Education Action Zones. |
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| The most likely outcome is for the worst brokerages to be hived off to asset management firms or handed to larger, better-run securities firms. |
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| If it can generate a return on its investments it could become self-funding, or be hived off as an independent investment company. |
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| The White House recently has hived some honeybees, which have proved a point of contention. |
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| However the bees hived over it have never seemed to thrive, and always appeared less active when compared to the other swarms hived at the same time. |
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| However, in getting the bees hived, one may be charged with trespassing. |
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| Staff at the Teesside works have been told the plant will be hived off. |
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| Sometimes some of these administrative duties were hived off to others. |
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| Much of the road powers are being hived off to Brussels anyway. |
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| The wholesale distributor was hived off from stationer and retailer WH Smith eight years ago. |
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| The construction costs are heavy, with debt now hived off into a separate rail-network entity. |
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| Not only has the Larsen ice shelf hived off and disappeared, but in huge chunks. |
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| During 2006, a number of activities were hived off or discontinued, as a result of which a number of assets became superfluous. |
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| A new Agency for Public Service Human Resources Management has been hived off from Treasury Board. |
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| The government has hived off many of the bad loans into separate vehicles where they can be written off, nursed back to health, or sold. |
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| The retinal screening programme was developed on Tyneside before going nationwide, but could now be hived off to a private company in London. |
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| Our favourite codes, like rugby union and AFL, hived off free-to-air and put on pay TV? What about the growing gap between our rich and poor clubs competing in the same league, propped up by pokie machines? |
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| Fourthly, according to the plan further assets will be hived off. |
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| Laiki's soured assets are being hived off into a so-called bad bank. |
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| Her two brothers were hived off and sent to a boys home. |
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| All of that is being hived off into these little working groups. |
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| The considerable cost of the operation to the State appears to be due chiefly to the imprudent management of the business by Crédit Lyonnais in the years before Stardust was hived off. |
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| Negotiations on the agricultural sector must not be hived off from the main negotiations and must cover all aspects of problems affecting this sector. |
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| In 1999, the federal armament enterprises were hived off from the former Defence Procurement Agency, transferred into limited companies under private law, and concentrated in a group structure. |
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| To reduce this risk, the Commission considers that a larger share of the real estate financing business should be hived off through a separate sale of BerlinHyp and expects Germany to carry out a detailed analysis. |
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| Examples of how to change young people's situation from exclusion to inclusion cannot be hived off to a space of their own, leaving the structures of school intact. |
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| He would have been on firmer ground if he had referred to patients hived off to private hospitals for operations. |
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| It can be revealed he hived off Newcastle's sports retail business to Sports Direct. |
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| Hungary's government has thrice had to bail out state banks that had been hived off from its communist-era central bank, taking with them huge portfolios of bad loans to smokestack industries. |
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| The office faces closure after a range of support functions in several government departments were hived off to the French multi-national firm Steria. |
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| The good component could then be merged with Bank of Cyprus and larger deposits would be hived off, leaving uninsured depositors facing large write-downs. |
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| Lloyds instead hived off the branches under the revived TSB brand. |
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