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Take the controller and gently apply pressure to the power button.
A really excellent use of television to apply the time necessary to do justice to a good book (in this case, two books).
Enid (Thora Birch) says to her father, as he tells her where she could apply for a job.
A previous poster mentioned the fact that Greer Garson having an adulterous affair didn't work because she was just too likable really doesn't apply here because the fact that their marriage is unhappy is established.
Even if you don't understand it or it doesn't apply to you, understand that it is relevant to some.
Finally, donor countries must apply the lessons learned in restoring the war-ravaged states of the former Yugoslavia.
So its failure to apply international human rights law in its domestic sphere makes little practical difference to the rights available there.
Such regular cycles no longer apply to most peoples’ lives.
With its penchant for constant experimentation and improvement, one might even hope that China will draw lessons and apply them to all of its developing-country lending.
Indeed, the established concept of nuclear deterrence through “mutual assured destruction” (MAD), which kept the peace between the Soviet Union and NATO, may not apply with a ruler like Ahmadinejad, who believes in the sacred merits of martyrdom.
Because the state did not have enough funds to accept all 90,000 individuals who wanted to enroll, it conducted a lottery to select about 30,000 individuals who were given the opportunity to apply for Medicaid.
They invited charities to apply for grants of $25,000 in five broad humanitarian categories, with the application process demanding the kind of information that they had been seeking.
Unless and until it becomes a space where rules and rights apply like they do in the real world, that is unlikely to change.
The current high-stakes conundrum faced by policymakers suggests that they should apply inflation-targeting principles more flexibly in the context of a major economic shock.
After all, when it’s do or die, no laws apply.
Russia, therefore, should apply two fundamental principles that it has already accepted in several declarations.
Madison’s “scheme of representation” included several innovative elements, two of which apply to the eurozone’s current crisis.
Only those with a strong background in intelligence or the Revolutionary Guards, and a low profile in domestic politics, need apply.
With such questions in mind, Results for Development Institute has prepared a study for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), analyzing the buy-down model’s use in other sectors and considering ways to apply it to education.
Through continued global cooperation, other countries, including developed ones, can learn to apply it.
Families apply each September, when children go back to school.
Small cities and towns will allow migrants to apply for the local hukou with no strings attached, and medium-size cities will do the same, with some restrictions.
The challenge is to apply these insights in a world characterized by global economic interdependence, major imbalances, and a worsening growth and employment problem.
More recently, China began to apply the same approach to building a more innovative, knowledge-based economy – one in which the services sectors, together with domestic consumption, drive growth.
Article II-52 states that the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution (including its 12 "social rights") apply only to the actions of the Union, and of member states when they are implementing Union decisions .
If this preferred solution proves unacceptable, an alternative would be to strengthen Article II-52, to state clearly that the twelve "social rights" of Part II apply to the Union, but not to the member states, even when these are implementing Union directives.
Canada approved the North American Free Trade Agreement only after its parliament confirmed that the agreement would not apply to water in its natural state.
Clearly, national interests, and sometimes pure power, play a part in how the US and other Western countries apply values like human rights, the rule of law, democracy, and pluralism.
But such external factors also apply to the UK and Sweden, yet their growth rates are 2-3%.
Only people who “love China” – that is, love the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – need apply.
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