| Thus, by taking action on the small incivilities, the bigger and more serious anti-social behaviours should decline as well. |
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| A strong leader must discriminate between right and wrong and all other dualities, and then form his judgment before taking action. |
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| I think we're doing the wrong thing, however, in letting ourselves be stampeded into taking action now. |
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| A recent opinion poll found 81 percent of Londoners back tube workers taking action over safety. |
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| A capable ruler, he is no dummy, though he sometimes waits too long before taking action. |
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| The lesson is that overanalyzing change can immobilize us and prevent us from taking action. |
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| But you don't need to wait for these events to happen before taking action. |
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| They are taking action against a gang of bullies who are terrorising workers at the city's main mail depot. |
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| But he warned pranksters to watch out as the fire service was taking action to cut figures by a further five per cent each year. |
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| Meanwhile, the agency has revealed that it intends taking action to stop queue-jumpers disrupting the flow of A64 traffic. |
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| But cloning proponents counter that not taking action to preserve or restore species is also playing God. |
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| Environment Agency chiefs say they will not be taking action against a controversial landfill site, despite calls for its immediate closedown. |
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| Who could argue with taking action against the regime responsible for such outrages? |
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| In areas where the elderly population already outnumbers other age groups, the authorities have begun taking action. |
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| It is on their behalf, therefore, that he is taking action if he entertains guests and gives them food and drink. |
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| But he says he's principally taking action because he feels he's owed an apology. |
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| Critics of the scheme maintain this would prevent regulators from taking action against a person if a problem arose in a particular case. |
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| The health authorities do not seem to be taking action to stop these activities. |
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| The balancing act required is a delicate dance between playing the waiting game and taking action. |
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| You can urge your Member of Congress to support this bill by taking action here. |
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| We are a very young chapel, new to taking action, and we had one and two day strikes at first before we escalated to all-out. |
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| Several landowners are taking action to monitor, conserve and enhance the blue-eyed grass populations on their ground. |
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| He heads a Commonwealth troika tasked with taking action on the country following controversial elections held in March. |
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| It will work towards creating public awareness, mitigation and taking action when a calamity strikes. |
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| This is a good news story of the European Union taking action where Member States have not, and I am very very pleased to support it. |
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| How many more lives have to be lost before the government will finally stop dithering and start taking action to fight crystal meth? |
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| The Senate taking action today to help struggling homeowners. |
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| Our city fathers should not wait for disease outbreaks before taking action and we believe that carrying out inspections does not need donor funds. |
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| Now Congress is back in session, but is it any closer to taking action? |
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| The inspectors have commended us for those efforts and have given us a couple of useful pointers on how to continue our improvements and we are already taking action on those. |
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| Passionate farmers and gardeners are taking action to help us rediscover this traditional culture, but it's high time we got engaged! |
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| Finally, of course, we have heard a great deal over the last week about the importance of moving beyond talk into taking action. |
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| Some 45 Asian workers at the factory, which produces Indian sweets for restaurants and shops, have been taking action over low pay for several weeks. |
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| When it comes to taking action, we are short of neither trump cards nor allies. |
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| We are taking action to put a stop to this practice, which undermines Canadians' faith in our justice and corrections systems. |
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| The sense of powerlessness felt by local authorities is also linked with their fear of the consequences of taking action. |
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| We're taking action on the environment because Canadians expect and deserve more than just empty talk from politicians. |
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| The council is taking action to stop a leak in Hollies Road. |
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| And for smaller investments, earning an extra half a percentage point of interest might not be sufficiently appealing to justify taking action. |
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| The Council believes that it is time to stop debating how poverty should be measured and start taking action to end poverty in Canada. |
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| Canadians are asking the government to stop turning back the clock and start taking action. |
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| The parliamentary secretary's assurances that the government is taking action to develop proposals to deliver on its commitments rings hollow. |
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| To postpone it would have delayed taking action and accrued delays, without guaranteeing an improved text. |
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| I did not just start taking action and speaking out on this issue a few days ago. |
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| We cannot be resolute in our remarks, but indecisive when it comes to taking action. |
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| Mr. Speaker, I just catalogued a number of the things that we are doing right now. We are taking action on this. |
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| The correspondence between the intention to resign and taking action by looking for work is strong but not perfect. |
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| I am worried that Europe is again in danger of creating an overblown bureaucracy that is incapable of taking action. |
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| The debtors ledger shall be inspected at regular intervals with the aim of taking action to collect debts that are overdue. |
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| However, if we don't have both, reflection is unproductive and taking action does not amount to much. |
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| Would the Commission also consider taking action against those responsible for this debacle? |
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| Yet you continue to attend the debacle on the planet from your seats, without taking action. |
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| This means that licensees do not reactively wait for CNSC ratings and licence renewals before taking action. |
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| A program rated C indicates that the licensee is or will be taking action to correct the deficiencies. |
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| We are moving from talking to taking action and we are moving from empty promises to fulfilled commitments. |
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| To break ground on these projects quickly, we are taking action now to reduce red tape and needless duplication. |
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| But as we can see from this information, taking action just to take action can lead to significant underperformance. |
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| I did not even have time to get out of the door before a man in a white shirt full of shoulder pips and a stern look on his face appeared to warn me off taking action. |
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| What has been missing on this file is the Prime Minister himself, as he is missing tonight, missing in action, not taking action. |
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| Then, we recommit ourselves to taking action to end all forms of violence against women in our society. |
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| The government has to stop blackmailing with power and start taking action. |
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| Transition Coordinators received high praise for returning client calls, as well as for their promptness in taking action on behalf of clients. |
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| In this page you will find downloadable action materials you can use for mobilising, spreading the word and taking action. |
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| To get the bigger picture, consider all the sources above before taking action. |
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| There are even some parents or spouses not taking action soon enough because they misjudge the level of danger that they are in. |
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| It is for that reason that I am pleased to say that our government is taking action to address this stain upon our national history. |
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| This social context heightens the feeling of self-reproach in Italian women, causes them to remain silent and prevents them from taking action. |
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| We are taking action, while the eternal leader of the Bloc Québécois continues to gad about. |
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| We are taking action because we know it is about basic human rights and benefits for all of us. |
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| The essential factor is for the investigators to establish effective and early liaison across jurisdictions prior to taking action. |
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| That was the strong suit I played at first, how taking action to advance women was the smart thing to do, the plain good-business thing to do. |
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| Governments are taking action to protect the land in ways that balance different economic, environmental and social interests. |
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| In addition to this capacity of the state, governments are responsible for taking action when necessary. |
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| The only action, Mr. Speaker, to be blunt about it that the government is taking action on, is covering the minister's butt and that is the fact. |
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| An aircraft manufacturer is taking action to reduce the possibility of loss of aileron control. |
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| The Treaty of Lisbon which entered into force on 1 December 2009 sharpens the European Union's foreign and security policy profile and strengthens Europe's capability of taking action. |
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| We are also taking action to ensure that our seniors can live in dignity. |
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| A common mistake regarding implementation lays in the belief that taking action needs to be done in an official way, by means of a demarche or a political statement. |
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| Evaluating the health status of domesticated birds relative to avian diseases and where practicable, colonization by pathogenic organisms transmissible to humans and always taking action to ensure only healthy birds are used. |
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| Taking a decision on whether a case involves human trafficking or migrant smuggling should never prevent law enforcement officers from taking action. |
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| So we looked at: what did they give to the perceived leaders in Congress for taking action on global warming and what did they give to the people who are probably most likely to be in opposition to action? |
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| It is time for the United States to live up to its historical pledge by taking action against Ethiopia, whose reckless government has, since 2005, been the world's star backslider on democracy. |
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| We have to rely on the experience of those negotiating to return Elian Gonzalez to his father in judging that there was greater risk in protracting the charade than in taking action. |
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| Companies may have some backlog, but they have to start taking action. |
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| We must lose no time in taking action, for peace will benefit everybody. |
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| After 13 long years of inaction and increasing greenhouse gas emissions under the Liberal government, we have come to the point where we are taking action to reduce emissions through decisive measures. |
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| Given the important health, economic, environmental, and social benefits of taking action, we believe Canada cannot afford to let its efforts to date fall by the wayside. |
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| We are looking into the concerns underlying her question. Certainly we will not shrink back from taking action that is justified by a serious consideration of all the facts. |
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| Italy is taking action which is producing some initial results, but the European Union must put great pressure on the countries of origin and transit, because Europe cannot tolerate this depraved traffic in human beings. |
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| It submits that the Commission did not act neutrally and failed to maintain an equal distance between the interests in play, since it did not thoroughly weigh up the legally protected interests prior to taking action. |
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| We also believe that the extent of the misstatement would have been large enough that it would have been likely that the regulators would have been forced into taking action. |
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| In fact, in more than three quarters of the cases examined, the attacker had told a friend, schoolmate or sibling about his or her idea before taking action. |
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| In the broadest sense, the challenge is to encourage competition by letting market forces play out, while ensuring that individual firms with market power are deterred from taking action that undermines competition. |
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| Long-term projections are not forecasts, but are prepared on a 'no-policy change' basis, and as such provide important information of the effects of not taking action. |
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| They set up barriers between the piping plover and the destructive vehicles, they gather the wolf's body, tenderly and sorrowfully, and they protest by writing, by drawing, by speaking, by taking action. |
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| The Interim Council of Ministers was charged with taking action to democratize the Nepal Army and establishing a special committee to supervise, integrate and rehabilitate Maoist combatants. |
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| However, Teleroute's added value in a mediating role is that we can put pressure on the defaulter by taking action and potentially suspending or terminating the contract with the defaulter. |
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| Being proactive involves taking action and developing interest in all aspects of your 4 business, not just in those aspects that come naturally to you. |
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| That goes to show just how absurd this list of terrorist bodies is, which I believe is very often used as a means of taking action against political undesirables. |
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| To do something simply means to clear away everything that is not essential, everything that fogs our perception, our reasoning, anything which stops us from taking action. |
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| The absence of a central entity to deal with the debt problems painfully exposes the prevalent discord between the various countries and the lack of decisiveness in taking action. |
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| But with the evidence they have, the clear indication is that the graph of violations, which went down with unilateral action and then up again when we stopped taking action, is indicative that we should actually do more. |
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| That is to say, as a nation we would rather err on the side of caution than wait until harsh consequences of dithering idly confront us before taking action to preserve our cherished and fragile marine resources. |
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| Of course, I never want to talk anyone out of selling if they're feeling comfortable in doing so, but I'm inclined to hold off taking action for now. |
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| When that country finally began to retaliate to protect itself and moved into Uganda, resulting in the final ouster of Idi Amin, it was rebuked by a UN resolution for taking action against Uganda. |
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| While the Bloc Québécois can only squawk on the opposition benches with no results, our government is taking action for our youth and our community organizations. |
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| Did they caught by Eliot Ness going around shooting up the shebeens, or did they get caught by finally taking action to get the money that Al Capone was not paying in taxes and putting him in jail for that? |
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| The regulations will include requirements for controlling trespassing and definition of parties responsible for taking action when measures are needed to protect against that. |
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| We must of course force those who are dragging their heels to turn this conference on climate change into a success, as well as show that we are credible when it comes to taking action too. |
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| However, instead of taking action, the Minister of Finance is bumbling around like the cartoon character Mr. Magoo. He cannot see anything wrong because it does not fit his narrow ideological frame. |
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| The bottom line is every day that we delay taking action and not putting in place the measures in this bill we add to the risk of victims going on without adequate compensation. |
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| Please consider taking action to withdraw the current lese majeste charges, and working to secure the release of those already convicted under the lese majeste law. |
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| We will help make Europe a better and safer place to live by taking action on the environment, and by implementing the Tampere agenda and the measures set out in the Food Safety White Paper. |
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| Accordingly, polonium-210 and lead-210 should not be disregarded in monitoring and in taking action to reduce exposures caused by natural radionuclides in drinking water. |
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| But in the early 19th century, the Supreme Court began construing the commerce clause more expansively, using it to prevent states from taking action that is indirectly prejudicial to interstate commerce. |
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| Adaptation means taking action to cope with changing climatic conditions, for example by using scarce water resources more efficiently or ensuring the frail and elderly are properly cared for during heatwaves. |
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| Nothing prevents the competent authority from taking action after the deadline for the receipt of those comments in the absence of a reply from the economic operator. |
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| Canada must prepare for the changes that will come with increased global trade by taking action to enhance the country's trade position and maintain a modern and efficient marine transportation system. |
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| Actions become legal if those taking action are able to prove that under prevailing conditions it was unreasonable to require the employees to continue work. |
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| Our Government is taking action to ensure that communities from coast to coast to coast will benefit from safe, modern and efficient airports now and in the future. |
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| We're taking action which will protect the industry rather than hurt it. |
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| How long can we allow ourselves the luxury of not taking action? |
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| All of us here today, Citizens of the Earth, we support the efforts of the nations who are taking action, in the spirit of a shared sovereignty, to strengthen international environmental governance. |
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| Each of us remains committed to taking action, individually and collectively as appropriate, consistent with our respective domestic circumstances. |
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| In a statement the commission reduced the grounds on which it was taking action against the BNP, stating. |
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| The police and courts are taking action, however, as Rangers fans are being charged, convicted and jailed for sectarian behaviour. |
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| Ironside confronted Billotte, whose own headquarters was nearby and found him apparently incapable of taking action. |
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| Sources told government was mulling over taking action against those who were involved in betting of billion of rupees and the rumourmongers. |
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| Most perniciously, it has misinterpreted its options in order to avoid taking action. |
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| Then, these teams need to wait for the next discovered attack and release of IOCs before taking action once again. |
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| Remember, loan shark debts are not enforceable and by taking action against loan sharks we can, in the long term, reduce rent arrears, evictions and homelessness. |
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| Prior to taking action to initiate industrial democracy, workers would need to educate themselves with technical and managerial knowledge in order to operate industry. |
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| Louis seized on the case, and, despite efforts by the Norman church to prevent the French church from taking action, a new interdict was announced on Henry's possessions. |
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