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1. The government has put the court in an awkward position, since judges almost never clarify rulings unless it is in the context of a subsequent case.
2. Since Leftwing MPs (Members of Parliament) have thus far failed to agree to the law imposing fines and imprisonment on trade unionists who continue to defend and improve their working conditions, a party meeting is being held on Wednesday.
3. Since then Poland's political make-up has changed fundamentally.
4. Since 1989 the United States has been, in economic and military terms, the most powerful state in the world.
5. The popularity of the German coalition government has dropped sharply since its victory in last October's general elections, an opinion poll indicated Sunday.
6. Since his own landslide victory, Mr. Khatami has struggled against conservative rivals who have jailed his political allies.
7. Since drug legalization – which might work, and which this paper has supported – is unacceptable to either side, the two countries [the USA and Mexico] will need to lower their defences in a different way: by being honest with each other.
8. The State Department told Congress on Friday that China went into reverse on human rights last autumn, backtracking on political reform while continuing «to commit widespread and well-documented human rights abuses» that defied international norms.
9. The report fueled talk that US interest rates may be raised this year while expectations are for lower rates in Europe.
10. In the Protestant Netherlands, bourgeois buyers became important patrons of art, and genre paintings found a solid market, while in Catholic Italy, where church and aristocratic patrons called the tune, attitudes were ambivalent toward pictures outside the mainstream of religious and history painting.
11. Sources in the Administration while saying that no decisions have been made, suggest that the current consensus of senior advisers favor a lower-temperature policy designed to improve the bargaining position of the United States.
12. A high-ranking Transport Ministry official recently stated that while Japan is sympathetic to the plight of European shipbuilders, it is unlikely that the Japanese shipbuilding industry will be able to make further concessions on the matter.
13. Some Americans fear an arms race in space, while others see the military use of the shuttle as a natural consequence of the superiority of U.S. space technology although such superiority may prove temporary.
14. While discussion of a possible link between the krone and Europe's new single currency is at the top of the agenda, analysts expect little more than vaguely worded communiques pledging cooperation between Norway and the EU.
15. But the figures also illustrated that while the company's order backlog remains healthy, fewer customers are purchasing its (Boeing's) most expensive and profitable airplanes.
16. He is reported to have emphasized to the Cabinet that Canada was concerned at the possibility of military action, while Asian members of the Commonwealth were all opposed to the use of force.
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17. While pressing for every kind of financial help to the local authorities, it is evident that only nationalization of all urban land is an essential need.
18. The Foreign Secretary will propose a package of measures de signed to increase the democratic legitimacy of the European Union while curbing the powers of the European Commission.
19. While the US unemployment rate fell back to a 28-year low of 4.3 per cent, the German jobless rate jumped to 10.9 per cent from 10.2 per cent.
20....do not allow France alone to be represented by two “heads of government,” President and his prime minister at the EU summits, for they simply compete to be seen back home as the fanner's best friends,» said a EU official.
21....the riot surpassed those that had preceded it. For here was the most sensational expression of an ugly mood of nihilism and anarchy that has ever gripped a small but significant segment of America's Black minority.
22. As nuclear stations are expensive to build but cheaper to fuel and therefore more suitable for base-load supply, the public utilities association proposes, on grounds of cost if for no other reason, to meet about 70 per cent of the additional capacity requirement (22,000 megawatts) by commissioning 20 new nuclear power stations over the next 10 years.
23. When is an economic slump not a slump? The answer: When the economy in question is Japan's. For what Japanese economic and business leaders are all too ready to define as a “slump” or “slowdown” would be considered a rosy picture in virtually any other industrial country of the West.
24. The Battle of the Budget will be fought on two levels: in the Congress and between private organizations in the nation that support or op pose President's economic program.
The second level is particularly interesting, for its object is to influence public opinion, and whoever wins this campaign could be decisive in the final votes on Capitol Hill.
25. We no longer prefer to confront reality directly, for long ago we learned and accepted the fact that reality has for all practical purposes become unmanageable. Instead we have turned our energies to the proliferation and production of endless amounts of unreality to soothe our tired and fractured egos.
26. Former Attorney General R.C. and U.S. representative G.G. opened a conference on Cuba here last weekend with strong demands for an end to the U. S. economic and political blockade of that island nation.
“We call for an end to the economic blockade of Cuba not only because we believe it is just, not only because we believe it is humane, but also because it is strategically, economically and politically in the interests of the United States.”
27. For most of American history, relations with Europe have been cool.
28. All this proves that all this talk about the so-called greater democracy of secret ballot is so much eye-wash. It is open to abuse and is no substitute for our trade union procedure of full discussion at a meeting and a show of hands, said Mr. M.
29. After lengthy negotiations they substituted a treaty for an unofficial agreement.
30. The mill workers in Scotsville had been out for a year and a half already and they were becoming desperate for food and clothing.
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31. For these reasons the dreams of a solution along these lines are empty castles in the clouds.
32. The right of the states to decide voting qualifications is preserved, so long as it is not used for systematic discrimination.
33. As always, growth is bound to be uneven. Mexico is being kept aloft by the strong US economy. South Korea is growing again, Japan is showing some signs of life, but Asia is apt to remain shaky for a while to come.
34. For the first time in their history teachers are threatening a real showdown on their objection to the supervision of school meals, the daily duty that means many of them have to work during their lunch hour.
35. It is considered that Atlantic relations for all their seeming normalcy face a profound crisis.
36. Already, Israeli officials in Europe, in background meetings with correspondents, have bitterly criticized the plan as an attempt to impose conditions on Israel and as European appeasement of Arab oil states.
37. At the same time, the reported compromise reaffirms the desire of leading administration policy-makers to re-direct foreign aid along more conservative lines that would give bilateral aid priority over multilateral aid as a political tool to reward friends of the U.S. wherever possible.
38. “China is bracing for a slower economic growth rate as troubles at home and abroad take their toll on gross domestic product,” officials said yesterday.
39. As other western democracies have condemned and abandoned the death penalty, America has defended it with increasing vigour.
40. It was a grueling process of editorial refinement that either improved and sharpened the story at each successive stage, or distorted it as it passed from hand to hand and mind to mind.
41. Trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange was suspended for a second Monday as brokers and administrators waited for clarifications from the finance ministry of controversial new tax laws.
42. Religious groups in China, including Protestants and Catholics, again experienced interference and repression even as the number of adherents in many churches continued to grow at a rapid pace.
43. As recently as early March of this year, the Prime Minister re buffed one of his top subordinates who strongly urged him to point out to American officials that a lot of their balance-of-payment troubles were of their own making.
44. The incident occurred as MPs were voting in a second round confidence vote for the formation of a new centrist government.
45. “But as media conglomerates evolve into media monoliths, conflict of interest can only become more frequent.”
46. Crude [oil] is gushing from the ground at the rate of 66 m. barrels a day, half as copiously again as in OPEC's prime.
47. There is a flip side to Elizabeth Dole's big-heartedness. Her steely temper and icy glares are almost as legendary in Washington as her acts of charity.
48.Coming as they do in the wake of the fascist outrages at Bologna station and the Paris synagogue, the disclosures are bound to raise the question of how much longer the authorities will turn a blind eye to these open preparations for fascist terrorism in Britain.
49. The Commerce Department is mulling sanctions on offending foreigners, and the vice-president wants to sound concerned. Much as he wishes to be the apostle of orthodox economics and free trade, he cannot afford to seem insensitive to the losers in this system.
50. The latest operation is not quite like those others. First, it is NATO's first unambiguous attack on a sovereign state that stands accused of being vile not to its neighbours but only to its own people. Such behaviour, offensive as it is, has long been considered the prerogative of properly constituted governments.
51. As far as Presidential elections are concerned, they are not very democratic. It's really a monopoly of the two parties, and each year it has been getting more difficult for Independents to get on the ballot in many states.
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52. As far as the mind is concerned racism cannot be done away with by legislation. But acts of racism can. That's where we can pinpoint the question. When racist acts become illegal, that becomes a much firmer basis to remove racism from the minds of people. That's an educational process but we can lay the legal basis for it.
53. Ms. Daly, while widely respected for her scholarship, is considered a perpetual thorn in the side of the college administration, as much for her feminist theories as for her views on Catholicism.
54. In 1973, when most people feared that nothing could stop greedy OPEC members from raising oil prices as much as they chose, the producers affected to accept western cash for their black bullion out of charity.
55. In unexpectedly strong language, the report describes the Guatemalan policy at the height of the war as a policy of genocide.
56. Sociologists are fond of characterising Italy as a place, strong on families but feeble on “civic society”.
57. The full effect on trade of rising costs caused by high wage settlements and a rising exchange rate has yet to be felt in Britain, the bank said. Company profitability in the first six months was the worst recorded and real unemployment is growing twice as fast as official jobless statistics show.
58. Several distinguished economists testifying on Capitol Hill have cast doubts on the administration's predictions. L.K., the Nobel Prize winner, says, “The outlook is not as rosy as far as growth is concerned, as far as inflation is concerned and as far as the balanced budget is concerned.”
59. However, any concession as valuable as this was to the British could not be allowed to evaporate.
60. Both astronauts emphasized that they did not expect any major problems during the maiden flight. As for the technical problems that had delayed the shuttle's launch by almost three years, they remarked that “engineering problems are the name of the game.”
61. In East Asian countries death penalty is applied to drug smugglers and rapists as well as to murderers.
62. The deregulation of the 1990s has created competition between the states in attracting investment from within India as well as from foreign investment.
63. The idea of «the man of feeling» describes America's perception of its role in today's world as well as in the world of 1776.
64. Space station “Freedom”, as it was then called, was to be completed at a cost of $8 bln. As well as asserting America's might as a space-faring superpower, it let researchers monitor the effects of very long-term weightlessness on astronauts.
65. The World Bank has prepared a draft set of «principles of good practice social policy,» which draws on its own experience of social development as well as action plans and declarations drawn up by other bodies.
66. Though George Gallup is most famous as a political pollster, he built a fortune telling manufacturers and film makers, as well as politicians, what people thought.
67. If Cardinal Martini did become pope, he might shake things up quite a bit. For sure, no one else in the Catholic hierarchy has the same grasp of issues, worldly as well as spiritual. He knows the ins and outs of global immigration. He is a diplomat who has deftly handled such tortuous matters as relations between Christians and Jews. He is well-travelled and sophisticated, as popular in the Anglo-Saxon world as in Southern Europe.
68. But if the blunt instrument of bombing succeeds in this, it will owe as much to luck as to precision.
69. On the constitution, the Blair government can justly claim to be radical. Decentralisation of government was overdue. Just as important will be the fulfilment of promises for a Freedom of Information Act, and for greater protection of human rights. But the impetus for reform came as much from political expediency, in particular a desire to fend off Scottish nationalism, as from a coherent vision of a modern constitution.
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70. The gut anti-Americanism of the European left, often as much cultural as ideological, was diluted in Mr Solana's case by his time spent in the USA as a Fulbright scholar in the 1960s.
71. In recent weeks, several heads of government have begun to muse, after the years of belt-tightening needed to qualify for euro, about reducing their high unemployment by increased public spending. Yet, though it would be as wrong to pursue too restrictive a fiscal policy as too tight a monetary policy, should economies slow sharply, more public spending is the last thing Europe needs.
72. Perhaps the European Commission should resign more often. Its decision to do so last week has so far been nothing but a tonic.
73. While Elizabeth Dole was considered warm and friendly by the rank and file at the Labor Department, those who worked more closely with her in the executive suite often saw a woman who could be cool and inaccessible to all but a few trusted aides.
74. For a generation, Italy — to its credit — has educated women on a par with men, forever broadening their horizons beyond the kitchen and crib... But the government has all but ignored the flip side of sending women off to work: the children and household responsibilities they leave behind.
75. The Government has declared war on the unions. They have no alternative but to fight back with every weapon at their disposal.
76. We cannot but recall in this connection the statement made by Mr. Eden in the League of Nations Assembly in 1936.
77. “Everything from the strength of our economy, to the safety of our cities, to the health of our people depends on events not only within our border but half a world away,” the President said.
78. What response the Japanese people will make to that defeat can now be but dimly foreseen.
79. Despite a “difficult year” last year, the bank increased its net profits by 24 per cent and shareholders would have been given a bigger increase than that recently announced but for the Government's restraint rules.
80. In our epoch the peoples and states have but one choice: peaceful coexistence or nuclear war of extermination.
81. In view of profound political upheavals of the late twentieth century, it could be foolish to suggest that any system of classification of political regimes can be anything but provisional.
82. She casts herself as a representative of traditional Christian family values, yet her personal history has been anything but traditional.
83. Once it could be presumed that all American consumers wanted basically the same thing, American producers suddenly had a large stake in knowing what that was.
84. He once had a dozen chiefs and vice presidents reporting directly to him and oversaw a 500-person company. Now his only employee is a personal assistant who left the company with him.
85. Once the negotiators initial (парафировать) the package in Geneva, the participating governments will go over the fine print (the details) to iron out possible minor differences, then sign a revised “final act.”
86. Once thinking and reason have been expunged, it's merely a matter of which belief system one prefers and how that belief system defines the “Higher good.”
87. If the Saudi royal family, in particular, were overthrown, it would send oil markets into turmoil. Once low prices move more production back to the Middle East, even a toppled emirate or two might be enough to cause disarray.
88. For once, “ Britain, France and other European governments feel that they are moving seriously on defence, so they want Washington to let the alliance stand on its laurels and not roil allied relations,” a pro-American ambassador at NATO headquarters said.
89. Informal discussions have begun on a third treaty that could bring both sides down to 2.000 warheads or lower. Once the United States and Russia reach that level, arms reduction talks will have to include the other nuclear powers as well.
90. The morning's debate had produced more passion than reason, more noise than skill. The Secretary of State moved the successful motion on defence costs with a speech well below his best form.
91. In the federal elections they will probably not do quite so well, but nevertheless they are likely to gain seats.
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92. For the French, the biggest beneficiaries of agricultural subsidies, the question concerns not only money but the very character of the EU.
93. This was the very week in which big business started to fire its pro-Euro artillery, with the official launch of the “Britain in Europe” campaign headed by the Chairman of British Airways.
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