We paused to scrutinise tree tops for the green, blue and yellow birds, and were rewarded by several pairs of the tubby ungainly fowl. |
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It insists no one will be inappropriately housed by 2006 and a new inspectorate will scrutinise institutions. |
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He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence. |
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As an artist you will surely agree that it is the job of art continually to scrutinise and interrogate society and our place in it. |
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The committee system, which was designed to be inquisitorial and to scrutinise ministers, was neutered. |
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The insurance company might allow an independent monitor to scrutinise the demutualisation process on behalf of policyholders. |
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I like to say that science is placed permanently in a watchtower, from which it can scrutinise the future. |
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Fourteen members represent London constituencies, the other 11 are London-wide and their job is to scrutinise and monitor the mayor's performance. |
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But at the same time, our hero-worship of fiction allows us to gloss over, or even embrace, certain issues we would do best to scrutinise a little more discerningly. |
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It is difficult to scrutinise somebody else if we as Parliament do not ensure that we are completely beyond reproach ourselves. |
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It is our job as parliamentarians to scrutinise proposed agreements and to hold the line in terms of civil liberties. |
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Where are the reports on these trips that the commissioner, by rights, should have given to the Parliament to scrutinise to ascertain the value of the trips? |
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The Executive undertakes to produce a coherent programme of government which the parliament is duty bound to scrutinise, debate and give assent to. |
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What national parliaments must improve on doing is to scrutinise and check the executive power of the Council. |
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Their literary and theatrical writings, imbued with musicality, closely scrutinise the man of today. |
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The job that only MPs can do is to be jurists: to write, repair and scrutinise our laws. |
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It was therefore deemed necessary to scrutinise cases diagnosed with for example seborrhoea, alopecia and immune-related skin diseases. |
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The process is known as apostille, and staff are not expected to scrutinise the contents of the documents. |
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And mothers are inclined to scrutinise their daughters in the same way they would scrutinise themselves. |
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The same analysis is valid when we scrutinise the relations between a financial partner from the North and a support organisation from the South. |
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But the response to this concern cannot be to disregard the evidence, but rather to scrutinise it with great care. |
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They will also scrutinise all proposals for animal testing to keep it to the minimum absolutely necessary. |
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Patients scrutinise your words and their meaning as though they were under a microscope. |
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However, as we scrutinise the actions of others, we have to turn that same gaze on ourselves. |
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The police command needs to scrutinise its ranks to see if there are some bad eggs that are not prepared to follow procedures of dealing with suspects. |
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We wish to alert judges to the need to scrutinise applications for disclosure of details about informants with very great care. |
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The tribunal is one of the cornerstones of the regime designed to scrutinise the agencies, a regime described by William Hague, the foreign secretary, as one of the best in the world. |
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It is one of the few bodies that we've got to scrutinise the quangocracy so let's give it a chance. |
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But we think the politicians and broadcasters have ducked and dived long enough and just need to get on with it now and ensure the public have the opportunity, however flawed the format, to scrutinise their politicians. |
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However the fact that the amount was stated to be a maximum meant that it was not necessary at the time to scrutinise in detail the method used to calculate the tax credits. |
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Some recent, very large investments seem unrealistic, and host governments should carefully scrutinise investors' capacity to deliver on very ambitious projects. |
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Summit Declarations have a tremendous political value in communicating Allies' views and intentions to third parties, who scrutinise them avidly and dissect the meaning behind every word and punctuation mark. |
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Although the House of Lords may scrutinise the executive through Question Time and through its committees, it cannot bring down the Government. |
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Also in the Statement of Assurance section, I can assure you that we shall closely scrutinise the presentation of the accounts and the implementation of the reform of the Commission's accounting system. |
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The Commission is also confident to succeed in convincing both the European Council and the European Parliament to give up their right to scrutinise the Commission's selection of applicants. |
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The Finance Committee has a particular responsibility to scrutinise in detail draft financial statements and draft financial plans, before their submission to the Board for approval. |
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The primary function of a Departmental Select Committee is to scrutinise and investigate the activities of a particular government department. |
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There they scrutinise Oliver Cromwell's sleeping cap, a plate from the era of Samuel Pepys and a prisoner of war's crystal radio. |
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As part of the latest exam, banks had to scrutinise all their loans and regrade those that had become riskier, which, given the slowing economy, should mean most of them. |
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If we have the right to call back in the way that is envisaged we will be able to delegate much more than we can now, knowing that we have the safety of being able to scrutinise and call back if necessary. |
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This should speed up the time it takes to make laws for Wales, as the National Assembly for Wales will be able to scrutinise and approve Welsh laws itself. |
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The national parliaments must continue their unflagging efforts to scrutinise security and defence policy, both for the greater benefit of the Union and for lasting peace on the whole continent. |
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Trade unions should ask companies to explain changes in the percentage of the workforce covered by collective bargaining agreement over time, especially any decreases, and carefully scrutinise explanations from the company. |
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We should summon up the nerve to scrutinise the ways in which social security systems are funded, for the demographic reality is drawing nearer at ever-increasing speed. |
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This highlights our relative capacity to scrutinise without self-satisfaction the complexity of such a project, without losing sight of the success of such experiences. |
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He has since named one commission to scrutinise the IOR and another to look at the overall management of the Vatican's finances. Now many wonder if Francis was set up perhaps deliberately misinformed about his choice. |
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The principal role of committees in the Scottish Parliament is to take evidence from witnesses, conduct inquiries and scrutinise legislation. |
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Chief executive Brian Cardy confirmed to the ECHO that administrators had been called in to scrutinise the firm's books and lead the hunt for a new owner. |
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Committees of both the House of Commons and House of Lords hold the government to account, scrutinise its work and examine in detail proposals for legislation. |
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It is also designed to increase Members' and EP committees' capacity to scrutinise and oversee the European Commission and other EU executive bodies. |
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