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The debate on the defence section of the party’s policy review report, Britain in the World, brought to a head the anger felt in sections of the party over Neil Kinnock’s shift away from unilateralism.

The crisis came to a head on 27 June 1961 , when the British Embassy in Baghdad reported the movement of Iraqi troops and tanks from the capital to Basra .

Matters have come to a head with the publication of a new and more detailed insurance group rating system which insurers say will enable them to pinpoint the higher risk models more accurately.

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Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen, many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin’s government to its knees after the October Revolution.

It took a rare combination of management failure, over-ambition and bad luck to bring such a business to its knees. By accident as much as design the Ashleys created a remarkable international brand, tapping a worldwide nostalgia for the English country cottage look. Sales boomed during the mid-1980s.

In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees. The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese, not their disadvantage.

jen o vlas

Littlewoods Cup holders stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road .

Consolation for Bush came with the Indiana result. He won, but only by the skin of his teeth. He held Oklahoma, South Carolina and Nebraska, but other states forecast victory for Clinton by staggering margins.

He was shot getting away with the ransom. And two others got away by the skin of their teeth.

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Finding a personal trainer is like finding a good hairdresser it should be done by word of mouth and looking at the results.

It is important now that we capture these traditions; much is handed down by word of mouth and is in danger of dying out.

It is known, of course, that the books of the Old Testament were composite works from many different sources, and may have been transmitted by word of mouth for hundreds of years before being set down.

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tajně

Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor, in a drab overcoat, let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle, keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless.

One young representative, Colin Mason, a computer systems manager from Streatham, who branded environmental controls as socialism by the back door, was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philosopher Edmund Burke.

The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay, Baudelaire, where he sees Baudelaire's Satanism as an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door.

It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law by the back door.

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