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As Alastair Norcross has said, “ suppose that Homer is faced with the painful choice between saving Barney from a burning building or saving both Moe and Apu from the building … it is clearly better for Homer to save the larger number, precisely because it is a larger number … Can anyone who really considers the matter seriously honestly claim to believe that it is worse that one person die than that the entire sentient population of the universe be severely mutilated?
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The Court has had three Chief Justices to date, Elizabeth Evatt AC, Alastair Nicholson and Diana Bryant QC ( Formerly Chief Federal Magistrate, appointed to current role in 2004 The Deputy Chief Justice is John Faulks ( appointed as a Judge in 1994 and to his current position in 2004 ).
In Alastair Reynolds ' Revelation Space series of novels the concept of demarchy has been used to flatten hierarchies.
New Labour has been influenced by the political thinking of Anthony Crosland, the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and Peter Mandelson's and Alastair Campbell's media campaigning.
Former resident and past pupil of Aylesbury Grammar School, Alastair Harrison proposed the name to symbolically bridge the gap between the two towns, which has been received most favourably.
* Tony Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, resigns, leaving Blair with none of the three key players he has relied on for the last decade left.
Golfer Alastair Forsyth, who has won Golf Tour competitions as well competing in several Open championships, played much of his golf at Ralston Golf Club and grew up in the area.
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However, based on the results of a forensic test that he carried out in September 2012, Dr. Alastair Ruffell of The Queen's University of Belfast has asserted that he is 90 % positive that the signature is not blood.
Alastair Moock has a song called Cloudsplitter based on the book, it is on his Album Fortune Street
Along with a secret Batcave, high tech Batmobile, and a new technology he created called the Bat-Wave, he has his trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth ( voiced by Alastair Duncan ), who guides both Bruce Wayne and The Batman when needed.
He retired from the position in 1987, although Geoffrey Goodman has speculated that he might have agreed to become " Kinnock's Alastair Campbell " had Labour won the 1992 general election.
Headmistress Millicent Fritton ( Alastair Sim ) has an unorthodox teaching philosophy, letting her students run wild.
He has even had a DVD produced all about him, and like Alastair Down narrates:
" In terms of sheer entertainment value, Massie says " I doubt if any other Scottish lock forward has given so much fun, not even Alastair McHarg.
Other programmes he has presented since 1992 include Alastair Stewart's Sunday for BBC Radio 5 in 1994.
He has also been a regular presence in ITV's national election coverage, co-anchoring their network coverage of the general elections of 2005 ( with Jonathan Dimbleby ), 1997 ( with Dimbleby and Michael Brunson ), 1992 ( with Jon Snow ) and 1987 with Alastair Burnet.
In this role, he has commissioned over 30 new works for the guitar, including pieces by Philip Cashian, Graham Fitkin, Alastair King, Bruce MacCombie, Edward McGuire, John Metcalfe, Howard Skempton, Joby Talbot, Kevin Volans and Errollyn Wallen.
The Chairman of Exploration Logistics is Alastair Morrison OBE, MC a former second-in-command of 22 SAS who has very close links with MI6.
More recently she has performed under the baton of conductors such as Kenneth Schermerhorn, Leif Bjaland, Emil de Cou, Gerhardt Zimmerman, George Hanson, Alastair Neale, Richard Westerfield, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Michael Christie, and William Eddins.
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The new facility is part of the overall redevelopment of OVC and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, said president Alastair Summerlee.
* The Minister for Middle East in the UK Alastair Burt said " We condemn utterly the baseless comments from Iran's Vice-President Rahimi about the Talmud and the Jewish faith, made at a United Nations drugs control event in Tehran this week.
When his Wikipedia entry, which at that time referred to the rumours, was brought up in an interview with Alastair McKay, published in the January 2007 issue of Out magazine, Purefoy said, " I won't say whose it was, but there was a penis in the series that may have been slightly enhanced.
Assistant Chief Constable Alastair Finlay said that there was no sign that the UVF intended to finish the rioting.
Lescaret printed Harry Crosby's next collection of poetry, Red Skeletons, with illustrations by their friend Alastair, as well as other volumes of poetry including Harry Crosby's Painted Shores ( 1927 ), said to be heavily influenced by Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe.
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converted into EAM ; and ( 4 ) EAM admitted Mitchell Appel, Avi T. Aronovitz, Richard Berenger, Howard B. Sirota and R. Alastair Short ( the “ Shareholders ”) as holders of profits interests and Value Line restructured its ownership interests in EAM as described below.
* Hannay, Alastair, “ Basic Despair in the Sickness Unto Death ,” in Kierkegaard Studies-Yearbook, pp. 15 – 32.
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Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.
Alexandria ( Cathair Alastair in Gaelic ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son George Ian Alastair Gordon, Earl of Haddo ( b. 1983 ).
Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.
Alastair Boyd, one of the researchers who uncovered the hoax, argues that the Loch Ness Monster is real, and that although the famous photo was hoaxed, that does not mean that all the photos, eyewitness reports, and footage of the monster were as well.
* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.
The minister ( since 1991 ) is the Reverend Alastair Jessamine.
The minister ( since 1991 ) is the Reverend Alastair Jessamine.
His best-known play is An Inspector Calls ( 1945 ), later made into a film starring Alastair Sim released in 1954.
* In Alastair Reynolds ' Terminal World, the distant-future terrain is criss-crossed with semaphore lines relaying information between the one remaining city, Spearpoint, outlying communities and the airborne community Swarm.
Jay Cocks called the screenplay a " snarling, overwrought and somewhat parochial satire on aristocracy and privileged morality "; he called the film " wretchedly photographed ... as if it were shot under floodlights "; in contrast Cocks praised the performances by Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, and James Villiers, but reserves most of his praise for O ' Toole, saying his performance is of " such intensity that it may trouble sleep as surely as it will haunt memory.
He is thought to be based on Alastair Graham ( whose name was mistakenly substituted for Sebastian's several times in the original manuscript ), Hugh Patrick Lygon and Stephen Tennant.
Alastair John Campbell ( born 25 May 1957 ) is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003.
The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named after the British glass manufacturer Pilkington, which pioneered the technique ( invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington ) in the 1950s.
Alastair Graeme Lynch ( born 19 June 1968 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).
Much of the song is sung in the 1951 film classic Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim.
* Rockhopper IV is the name of a spaceship in Alastair Reynolds's 2005 science fiction novel, Pushing Ice.
According to Emir Rodríguez Monegal and Alastair Reid, Menard is in part " a caricature of Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry … or Miguel de Unamuno and Enrique Larreta ".
Lismore is the home of the highland Clan MacLea, whose chief, is now Niall Livingstone of Bachuil, Baron of the Bachuil, who succeeded his father Alastair Livingstone of Bachuil, who died on 29 February 2008.
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