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In an effort to improve their collective situations, most of the underground railways in London: the C & SLR, the CLR, the Great Northern & City Railway and the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL, which operated the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ( BS & WR ), the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway ( GNP & BR ), the CCE & HR and the MDR ) began, from 1907, to introduce fare agreements.
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The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.
Such policy involves continuing effort to improve on existing mill equipment, in terms of efficiency and versatility.
# if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems — the sooner the better ; and
As the first part of a 10-year Road Sector Development Program, between 1997 and 2002 the Ethiopian government began a sustained effort to improve its infrastructure of roads.
The NHS for example would distribute baby formula milk fortified with vitamins and minerals in an effort to improve the health of children born in the post war years as well as other supplements such as cod liver oil and malt.
One of the new government's first measures was to introduce secret ballots in an effort to improve the integrity of future elections.
In the late 1970s, the corporation procured new barges, pusher-tugboats, and other equipment in an effort to improve services, but this attempt proved useless because of the warfare that had continued from 1983!
The Spatula featured " reverse camber " with the tips and tails rising above the waist, in an effort to improve the ski's ability to float on the snow.
Unfortunately, results are occasionally wrong, producing a false positive ( the Cochrane Collaboration is a relevant effort to improve the reliability of health care trials ).
President Harding, in an effort to improve U. S. relations with Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean Islands implemented a program of military disengagement.
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is in current use worldwide in the effort to improve patient safety.
In an effort to improve matters, King Æthelred the Unready took Emma of Normandy, sister of Duke Richard II, as his second wife in 1002.
The money went toward behavioral science research, which was supported by foundation officers who aimed to " improve mankind " under an informal, loosely defined human engineering effort.
It prioritizes the encouragement of reforms that improve the trade friendliness and ease of doing business in an effort to advise countries on fostering a suitable investment climate.
The federally mandated project intends to improve security and reduce security costs, and is part of NNSA's overall effort to transform the Cold War era " nuclear weapons " enterprise into a 21st century " nuclear security " enterprise.
In 1983 he was called upon by Democratic Governor Mark White to help improve the quality of the state's public education, and ended up leading the effort (" Select Committee on Public Education ") to reform the school system, which resulted in major legislative changes.
In an effort to further improve trade, Darius built canals, underground waterways and a powerful navy.
Recently, the standards of weight gain are becoming less strict, in an effort to improve the overall health of the wrestlers.
Calhoun labored to raise troops, to provide funds, to speed logistics, to improve the currency, and to regulate commerce to aid the war effort.
The introduction of the Next Generation Touring Car specification, from 2011, started a phased transition from Super 2000 cars in an effort to cut costs and improve the sport.
Since this time a concerted effort has been undertaken to improve emergency medical care in the pre-hospital setting.
Johnson's biographer concludes, " The mission was a temporary exposure to danger calculated to satisfy Johnson's personal and political wishes, but it also represented a genuine effort on his part, however misplaced, to improve the lot of America's fighting men.
An intensely researched population of free-ranging animals was also introduced to the Hortobágy puszta in Hungary ; data on social structure, behavior and diseases gathered from these animals is used to improve the Mongolian conservation effort.
television brand, in an effort to improve mathematics literacy in children.
In office, Kennett immediately instituted a budget-cutting and privatisation program, in an effort to improve the State's economy.
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Many of them, in increasing panic, came running with water in their hats in a ludicrous effort.
Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.
In several significant cases, such as India, a decade of concentrated effort can launch these countries into a stage in which they can carry forward their own economic and social progress with little or no government-to-government assistance.
Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.
Convinced of the wisdom of their own actions, and reassured by the promises of their economic development programs, governments may fail to push outward to win more and more people to the national effort, becoming instead more rigid and inflexible in their policies.
However, to the extent that the monetary authorities, in their effort to ease credit in the next several months, conduct their open market operations in longer-term Government bonds, they will certainly act to accentuate any tendency for long-term interest rates to ease as a result of market forces.
Major to this effort is to get all world powers to withdraw to their own territories, say by 1970.
He kept close tabs on all phases of the military effort, consulted with governors, and selected generals based on their past success ( as well as their state and party ).
Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that " springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake ".
In politics, one may allocute before a legislative body in an effort to influence their position on an issue.
Possibly, the dismantling of their religious structures was an effort to symbolically undo the changes they believed they caused due to their abuse of their spiritual power, and thus make amends with nature.
Arachnophobes will spare no effort to make sure that their whereabouts are spider-free, hence they would have had a reduced risk of being bitten in ancestral environments.
Considerable effort was needed, but by the time the Mac was released the basic concepts had been outlined and some of the low-level protocols on their way to completion.
Commercial advertisers often seek to generate increased consumption of their products or services through " branding ," which involves the repetition of an image or product name in an effort to associate certain qualities with the brand in the minds of consumers.
The New Alchemists were famous for the depth of research effort placed in their projects.
They do carry an inherent risk, however, as they give the offensive team another runner on base, without any effort on their part, who could potentially score a run.
Bellarmine's books bear the stamp of their period ; the effort for literary elegance ( so-called " maraviglia ") had given place to a desire to pile up as much material as possible, to embrace the whole field of human knowledge, and incorporate it into theology.
These anthropologists continue to concern themselves with the distinct ways people in different locales experience and understand their lives, but they often argue that one cannot understand these particular ways of life solely from a local perspective ; they instead combine a focus on the local with an effort to grasp larger political, economic, and cultural frameworks that impact local lived realities.
Program faults caused by incorrect compiler behavior can be very difficult to track down and work around ; therefore, compiler implementors invest significant effort to ensure the correctness of their software.
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