The oil rig would be transported to port for scrapping, while the legs would be left behind to become fish sanctuaries. |
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Council leaders have denied they are downgrading the fight against crime by scrapping a dedicated community safety portfolio. |
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The new man in Bute House has already purged his Cabinet and now he's scrapping his predecessor's policy agenda. |
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The MTA is already scrapping plans to buy new subway cars and buses, and will put several major station-upgrade projects on hold. |
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What's amazing about this story is that the crowd stood and watched the police scrapping with the offender. |
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Why is it that every time the phone rings my dogs start scrapping and making a racket so I can't hear what is being said? |
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That meant big firms going bust, others scrapping investment plans, and others consolidating their operations in their countries of origin. |
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At 6-foot-7 and 250 pounds, the giant enjoys giving his team momentum boosts by scrapping with defenders. |
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One newspaper cartoon had Scottish ballet audiences scrapping in the aisles. |
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The clauses relating to hybrid embryos and saviour siblings are expected to pass but the scrapping of a requirement for a father could fail. |
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He keeps scrapping with his bookies' goons and tries to get a loan, but nothing's working out. |
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Every time the cameras panned into the breakdown, he was there, scrapping for possession. |
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After going 2-0 up, we should now be comfortable for the top six but it now looks as though we will be scrapping all the way. |
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Most importantly, the scrapping of anonymity has no apparent support among parents of children born as a consequence of donated sperm. |
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The B-52Bs replaced the 95th's B-36s and the unit was active until 1966 when its aircraft were flown to Davis-Morithan for storage and scrapping. |
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He has a number of technical limitations, but he makes up for it by scrapping and clawing his way forward. |
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As so many times before, he considered scrapping the annoying little robotic berk. |
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The license allows a business to buy and resell vehicles for wrecking, processing, scrapping, recycling or dismantling. |
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If the referendum delivers a no vote on regional assemblies, then all talk of scrapping councils and mergers would be halted. |
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Inevitably, though, the increased production means everyone will be scrapping for profits as competition heats up. |
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They are just riddled with contradiction and dispute amongst themselves, scrapping as they do to try to gain power. |
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It was always just a matter of how the Republican movement could get itself into a position to begin scrapping the Armalites. |
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The Government has announced it is scrapping the star ratings system for NHS services and is considering a replacement. |
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The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top. |
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Back in 1994 it was only a year away from scrapping its dividend, plunging into heavy losses and defenestrating several chief executives. |
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We could easily have been scrapping for points at the bottom of the table with Carlisle. |
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We are scrapping over the trolley about whether to get white or pink bog roll. |
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There were so many botch-ups by the Opposition when it was in Government, but scrapping the Apprenticeship Act had to be the worst. |
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For example, the pursuit of a scrapping policy does not seem desirable on the Rhine. |
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It would seem difficult to repeat the operation, short of scrapping all the other programmes. |
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David Cameron has given Michael Gove the task of scrapping the Human Rights Act and curtailing the role of the European court of human rights. |
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The policies of scrapping old vessels and funding new ones would be abandoned in view of the increasing scarcity of stocks. |
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The EU has repeatedly tried to implement structural measures aimed at reducing its fishing fleet, including funding for vessel scrapping schemes. |
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The Taiwanese owners would start scrapping a total of 53 tuna fishing boats from next year if a compensation figure can be fixed, the agency said. |
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The scrapping of pounds and ounces in shops in favour of kilograms and grams caused public resentment which the government is unlikely to want to revive. |
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The Fijian army has already gone too far in scrapping democracy and thereby sanctioning the rebels' efforts to strip the Indians of their rights. |
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Those rules should be in line with today's priorities, which amount to scrapping redundant vessels and also to social measures. |
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It is not certain that this momentum will be maintained in the fourth quarter due to the low visibility on the end of vehicle scrapping programs. |
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If Nigeria lose this game they will be out of the competition and England, Sweden and Argentina will be scrapping over two places up for grabs in the second round. |
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They spend years trying to get a research program off the ground, scrapping for grant money, and fighting with ornery referees to get their research published. |
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The company also plans to pay artists a higher royalty for songs downloaded online, while scrapping archaic methods for calculating Internet sales. |
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The one-dimensional approach of the Commission's proposals in terms of retraining fishermen and scrapping vessels will destroy fishing communities. |
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Of course, scrapping the need-blind policy is not the sole option. |
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Taking into account the new reality, it is considering scrapping its policy that says the country should be able to fight two major wars simultaneously. |
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It turns out that it was BNP officials he was scrapping with. |
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The practice of disposing of ships out at sea and the rotten scrapping of these in poor regions must be a thing of the past. |
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The negative value of scrap metal means it costs owners to have their cars taken away so cars are dumped instead and the cost of scrapping them falls to the taxpayer. |
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So, faced with the prospect of sinking further under water this year, the shipping lines began idling or scrapping older vessels. |
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Even the small marks left by the scrapping of chair legs had been erased. |
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Abbott says the government is helping by scrapping the carbon and mining taxes. |
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What we are scrapping, and it is not a total scrapping, but it is the elimination of the registry of long guns. |
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Provided that it reflects the economic loss suffered by the owner, aid to scrapping may also be authorised. |
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As well as scrapping the ancient office of Lord Chancellor, the Bill ejects the law lords from the upper chamber and establishes a Judicial Appointments Commission. |
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The number of flood defence committees is also to be drastically reduced, scrapping all local committees and establishing a definitive list of regional committees. |
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Restructuring does not just mean scrapping vessels, but also entails several other things such as tonnage capacity and vessel safety. |
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With the exception of economics, the Humanities and Social Sciences have become so unscholarly that scrapping ALL of their courses would be of net benefit to the world. |
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The aim of measures taken must be to eliminate any risk of accident throughout the foreseeable lifetime of the machinery, including the phases of transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping. |
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A flat tax means scrapping all income tax bands and the various exemptions and loopholes and replacing them with a single low rate. |
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In May 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he was considering scrapping the project. |
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Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti. |
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Ships are generally removed from the fleet through a process known as scrapping. |
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In 1998 almost 700 ships went through the scrapping process at shipbreakers in places like Alang, India and Chittagong, Bangladesh. |
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In 1914 eighteen former Metropolitan Railway carriages were acquired, enabling scrapping of many of the earliest vehicles. |
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How do things stand after the financial crisis and scrapping premium? |
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We too are in favour of the scrapping of needless or redundant laws, but we do have some concerns, partly fed by the way President Barroso came out shooting from the hip in the Financial Times on the subject of deregulation. |
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Renewal activity at the beginning of 2002 was higher than in 1985, the industry's peak scrapping year, when 30 million dwt. were sent to the demolition yards. |
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The tone was set the minute Nick Clegg took his first potshot at his erstwhile boss: everyone against David Cameron, big guns scrapping among themselves, smaller ones largely ignored. |
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However, new legislation and financial necessity have made it imperative to trim off some of the fat, although naturally we won't be scrapping any entitlements already granted. |
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In general, scrapping activity is negatively correlated with developments in freight rates, as high freight rates make it less economically advantageous for owners to sell their vessels to scrapyards. |
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Bartley Gorman Best known of modern bare-knuckle fighters, supreme in world of illegal boxing, scrapping in quarries, at horse fairs, campsites and once down a mineshaft. |
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I thank the government for keeping the free trade growing instead of scrapping it, for not keeping that particular election promise, otherwise we would be in real deep trouble economically in this country. |
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No premium shall be granted in respect of vessels which, as a result of a wreck or other damage suffered, are no longer repairable or for which the repair costs are higher than the amount of the scrapping premium. |
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The flagship achievement was a new movement system, made after scrapping the old one, which was similar to the Assassin's Creed gameplay – with mantling walls, etc. |
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The Danes then stuttered to a 1-1 draw with Norway in their third match, a result which left them scrapping for a lowly fifth place finish in a play-off against Finland. |
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The Mayor's decision to raise bus fares while scrapping the £25 congestion charge for the most polluting vehicles punishes the poor at the expense of the better off. |
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And this funding has been paid for by scrapping traditional productive sectors, changing crops, destroying agricultural produce and deserting areas. |
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The shift in the volume of service and repair work from contractual to independent workshops more than compensated the losses through the both ecologically and economically absurd scrapping premium. |
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In the short term, simple solutions such as scrapping the obligation to open separate bank accounts and pay back interest on upfront payments will lighten the administrative burden for the beneficiaries involved. |
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He warned that the scrapping of the service may impact on the neediest of patients. |
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With Basnett's help, he managed to prevent the unions continuing their path towards isolation when they threatened to withdraw from tripartite bodies, a move which Thatcher later trumped by scrapping many of them. |
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Labor is committed to scrapping them again if it wins power. |
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The cuts suggested by officials include restricting child benefit so it is payable only for the first two children, and scrapping the industrial injuries benefit by passing the costs on to firms. |
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Since most processes lose material due to oxidation of the metal and the scrapping of material that is off specification, the input factor is often greater than one. |
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We are not scrapping the registration of firearms. |
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Four years later came another body-blow as the Brotherhood boycotted the elections to signal its displeasure at the scrapping of proportional voting. |
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In particular, they have shown more diligence in adopting expenditure increasing measures that were intended to be only temporary, than in scrapping them when economic conditions no longer justified them. |
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There was general satisfaction when Mayor Pavel Bem announced this week that they were scrapping the new system of allocating grants and returning to the old one. |
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What is clear is that the scrapping of the MFA cannot be allowed to result in only the Community's market being thrown open to the rest of the world. |
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However, experience shows that permanent support for scrapping does not effectively reduce capacity, as operators simply factor the scrapping premium into future investment decisions. |
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It said Belgium had raised its excide duty levels after scrapping its minimum price system. |
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The Washington and London Naval Treaties imposed the scrapping of some capital ships and limitations on new construction. |
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With the scrapping of the Intertoto Cup there will no longer be spaces reserved in the qualifying rounds for teams qualifying through that route. |
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She said that this was partly due to the government removing red tape and scrapping targets to allow the police to concentrate on crime fighting. |
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After scrapping through his semifinal, John wowed judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry with his showstopper chiffon cake. |
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His eagerness led to him scrapping rest days but after masterminding a derby win over Hibs, Sergio was finally able to give his stars some much-needed time off. |
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In 1971, they succeeded in scrapping a master plan calling for a population of 28,000 by imposing a moratorium on new homes and defeating efforts to widen its access highway. |
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Plaid Cymru are in favour of scrapping the title altogether. |
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Sources say they are considering scrapping the 12-series run planned for next year and replacing it with a Sherlock-style feature-length specials plus a Christmas episode. |
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She has since been sold to Stena Recycling and sent for scrapping. |
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Hundreds of fishermen are taking part in the indefinite strike demanding the lifting of fishing zone restrictions and the scrapping of new maps demarcating fishing sites. |
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Brownism involves scrapping the Regional Assembly which is primarily democratic and giving its function to the Regional Development Agency which is primarily undemocratic. |
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And he denied claims scrapping the subsidy was discriminatory. |
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The AvWorks team will identify salvageable assets and oversee the entire process from scrapping, to quality control, to inventory and asset liquidation, the company said. |
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But the Chhokar family hope his killers will finally be brought to justice following the Lawrence trial verdict and the scrapping of Scotland's double jeopardy laws. |
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Long an antinuke party, the DPP publicly called for scrapping the plan to build the fourth plant, which the Legislative Yuan approved before Chen's election to the presidency. |
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It remained unclear whether the scrapping of the commissioner system would satisfy the Sindhi nationalist parties and others who had supported it. |
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