The Labour Party generally opposed these changes, although after the party became New Labour, the Blair government retained elements of competition and even extended it, allowing private health care providers to bid for NHS work.

As they became increasingly Persianized they settled in the more Indo-Iranian sedentary centers such as Kashgaria, and became detached from the nomadic traditions of fellow Karluks, many of whom retained cultural elements of the Uyghur Khanate.

Gorbachev's policies were designed at dismantling authoritarian elements of the state that were developed by Stalin, while aiming for a return to a supposed ideal Leninist state that retained single-party structure while allowing the democratic election of competing candidates within the Communist Party for political office.

The game exchanged the top-down perspective for side-scrolling ( though the top-down point of view was retained for overworld areas ), and introduced RPG elements ( such as experience points ) not used in The Legend of Zelda.

Some elements of Baltic speech are still retained in the Belarus and Ukraine territory, owing to the sparse indigenous populations and resettlements of refugees from Lithuania.

Jungle's sound was more focused on basslines, often with jazz-like undertones, while 4-beat retained the rave synths, the 4 / 4 kickdrum and happier piano elements.

David Garrick was the first actor-manager to begin to cut back on elements of Tate's adaptation in favour of Shakespeare's original: he retained Tate's major changes, including the happy ending, but removed many of Tate's lines, including Edgar's closing speech.

After the run of Mark Millar, Swamp Thing had also mastered the elements of fire, earth, water and air, the parliaments of each later killed by The Word, implying that he has retained these abilities and has the power once held by the Parliaments.

This record retained some of the modern influences from The Killing Kind, while also reincorporating elements from the band's earlier efforts.

The new logo retained elements of the original, but now the lines extending from either side of ' VH ' wrapped around and formed a ring.

It was decided to add more Mario-like elements, such as horizontal levels ( though many vertically-oriented levels were retained in the final project ).

Chanslor's novel was a serious Western, and though it was turned into a comedy for the movie, the filmmakers retained some of the story's darker elements.

Like other Anglican churches, it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice, notably its Episcopal polity, while rejecting papal authority.

While the band retained their roots in funk and ska, the 1993 album Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe included songs with hard rock, punk, and heavy metal elements.

The basic construction concept from the prototypes was retained, except that the roof was made of ABS plastic, and the lower frame chassis elements were made of steel.

Today, Paramount ( through Republic, which the studio's parent company, Viacom, acquired in 1999 ), in a twist of irony, now owns the original elements to its 1927 – September 1950 output they themselves originally released ( in addition to the April 1962 – 1967 non-Comic King shorts ( except Frog's Legs, starring Little Lulu, which Paramount still owns ) they have retained the rights to and the 1961 Noveltoon, Alvin's Solo Flight, also starring Little Lulu ).

This is one of the characteristic traits of Vespers, one of the liturgical elements which this particular Office has retained in almost all regions and at all times.

This was achieved by using aerials with many more elements, but it retained the simple switching of two of the reflector elements to alter the beam directions very marginally.

There was a blending of cultural elements as some traits of varied origin were retained while others were lost.

In April 1994, Basehead recorded its third studio album, Faith, which retained the musical elements of previous albums, but featured lyrics focusing on religious themes.

In 1980 a short-lived US remake of the same name on NBC retained the comedy, but it toned down the sexual elements of the series.

It retained some adventure game elements such as the inventory and had similarities to other FMV games released around the same time by Sierra.

It retained only a few adventure game elements in the form of an inventory and use of a few puzzle items such as a pizza ( to draw a suspect out of a house ).

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

A paper published at the same time proposed that the original three families should be retained as subfamilies within Xanthorrhoeaceae sensu lato.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed that the original three families should be retained as subfamilies within Amaryllidaceae sensu lato.

The term when adopted into ecclesiastical usage retained much of its original significance.

The original Athlon ( now called Athlon Classic ) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time.

Years later, in 1847, the Chilean government entrusted the young poet Eusebio Lillo with a new text that would replace the anti-Spain poem of Vera y Pintado, and after being analyzed by Andrés Bello, retained the original chorus (" Dulce patria, recibe los votos ...").

However, the term is applied to multidimensional data as well as to univariate data and in situations where a transformation of the data values for some or all dimensions would usually be considered necessary: in the latter cases, the notion of a " central location " is retained in converting an " average " computed for the transformed data back to the original units.

In 1243, the Papal legate William of Modena divided the Prussian lands of the Order's State into four dioceses, whereby the bishops retained the secular rule over about on third of the original territory:

In the Imperial Russian Army, due to the availability of the cossack troops, the dragoons were retained in their original role for much longer.

It is a matter of considerable scholarly debate whether the biblical " Hittites " signified any or all of: 1 ) the original Hattians ; 2 ) their Indo-European conquerors ( Nesili ), who retained the name " Hatti " for Central Anatolia, and are today referred to as the " Hittites " ( the subject of this article ); or 3 ) a Canaanite group who may or may not have been related to either or both of the Anatolian groups, and who also may or may not be identical with the later Neo-Hittite ( Luwian ) polities.

Though the original armiger may have placed particular meaning on a charge, these meanings are not necessarily retained from generation to generation.

It retained the entire technical content of the original version of the standard, but enhanced H. 263 capabilities by adding several annexes which can substantially improve encoding efficiency and provide other capabilities ( such as enhanced robustness against data loss in the transmission channel ).

Its original expression put the maintenance of state and overall intelligence at the edges, and assumed the Internet that connected the edges retained no state and concentrated on speed and simplicity.

When Prohibition was repealed in Ontario in 1926, just 15 breweries remained and only Labatt retained its original management.

The Tuoba Xianbei and Khitans were mostly Buddhists, although they still retained their original Tengriism.

OS / VS2 release 1 was an upgrade of OS / 360 MVT that retained most of the original code and, like MVT, were mainly written in Assembler.

While the original Syriac retained the original description which Mani created, the transformation of the deities through other languages and cultures produced incarnations of the deities not implied in the original Syriac writings.

The only original cast retained for the U. S. version series were Matt Frewer ( Max Headroom / Edison Carter ) and Amanda Pays ( Theora Jones ); a third original cast member, W. Morgan Sheppard, joined the series as " Blank Reg " in later episodes.

Prepared parchment sheets retained their original central fold, so each was ordinarily cut in half, making a quarto volume of the original folio, with the overwritten text running perpendicular to the effaced text.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.