| However, an RFL spokesman said ten teams per division was a minimum, not a fixed figure, while the new format was not yet set in stone. |
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| In short, the cutoff date for analog TV may not be set in stone, but consumers are transitioning on their own terms. |
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| There seems to be a few set in stone, undeniable, eternal truths as to what the future will be like. |
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| One consequence of his death is that his personal opinions are now set in stone, unamenable to adaptation. |
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| However, this is not set in stone, as the help the family requires changes all the time. |
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| In fact, it could not change its plan as it was set in stone, dictated by EU directives. |
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| You cannot have a rule, which is set in stone, that in every case you have to have an eyewitness that corroborates. |
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| Rather than being set in stone, the iron trough containing the canal is balanced on top of hundred-foot long, spindly legs. |
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| Our principled position regarding our province's future status is set in stone. |
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| So certainly I don't want any member of the committee to believe that it's set in stone. |
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| We should set in stone rules of professional ethics because we have seen where we end up with excessive deregulation. |
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| Some people want to see a permanently fixed duty, which is set in stone and the same for everyone. |
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| It would be remiss to claim that the last June reforms mean that agricultural policy is now set in stone for ever and a day. |
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| But the tournament is already in its 19th year and some things are set in stone. |
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| Scattered across the rolling European countryside, they were once memorialized, raised to the skies in a Kansas City park, they were set in stone. |
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| Though it is not set in stone just yet, there is every chance that he might finally bid farewell to professional football at the end of the season. |
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| Also set in stone were the cylinder bore diameter, the block's minimum deck height, and the minimum distance from the crank centerline to the sump. |
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| Grades and sats are set in stone, but a last-minute admissions trick is more important than ever. |
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| So while expectations are optimistic, any dates, at least for the time being, should be fungible and are not set in stone. |
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| From what I've learned, the past is set in stone and we can't change it. |
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| The Standard English yard is set in stone in London, and in the Temple was set the standard for life. |
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| Some articles of the Constitution are set in stone and, according to legislators, cannot be altered. |
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| However, the flow is never set in stone and never implemented identically in the concert performance. |
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| Join our young heroes as they try to resolve a conflict which seems to be set in stone. |
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| A Constitution set in stone for all time, incapable of providing the solution to future crises, would be not only a Constitution with something lacking, it would be the negation of the whole history of European integration. |
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| Importantly, this figure is not set in stone and can shift up and down. |
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| An initiative may not have objectives that are set in stone, but will instead have goals that evolve and take on new dimensions as the partners discover new opportunities to work together. |
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| Now that the geographical, cultural, religious and historical identity of the EU is being questioned, the borders of Europe are no longer set in stone. |
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| Political power was monopolised by the Communist party, a red mafia financed by the European tax-payer, whose funds are ensuring that the impossibility of establishing a democratic opposition is being set in stone. |
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| Yet some seem to view the timetable as being set in stone, and believe that the Tribunals should close by 2010, whether or not the principal fugitives have been brought to justice. |
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| It must be kept in mind that a large benefit of the Standard Life Monthly Income Fund is that this structure is not set in stone, as our award-winning portfolio manager, Standard Life Investments Inc. |
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| These values need to be set in stone by company culture. |
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| Devlin thereby sought to emphasise that neither jury equity nor judicial control are set in stone. |
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| The decision won't be set in stone until we release the documents. |
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